Healing and the Like


Every new boxer has questions about how to manage healing without wasting mana on simply spamming heals all the time, or how to let their healer join in DPSing when they don't need heals.

There used to be a time when it was all about more buttons. More than a few people had reserved their entire number pad or slews of modifiers {or both!} to a collection of healing macros.

Now we have tons of options. You could, of course, stick with individual buttons or make your healer the master, but some programs have some very nice features that allow you to heal with ease.

ISBoxer has VideoFX

Or you can use Repeater Regions or Click Regions
ISBoxer Repeater - ISBoxer Click
HotKeyNet Mouseover Regions - HotKeyNet Clicks



By making use of setups like these, you can free up your healer to only heal when needed and do something else {or nothing else} when healing isn't required.

But you're not restricted to simply using those setups for healing. You can set up anything you'd want to use party targets for, such as casting various Hands from Paladin slaves, Death Coils from DKs, single-target buffs, etc. I even use these setups for things like rezzing, curing and setting up CC. While it may take some time to set up, it can save you a lot of headaches down the road and make a lot of things more manageable when you have fewer buttons to think about.



Round Robin

Round Robin is a bit like multi-step macros. The first time you press your key, it does A, the next time, it does B and so on. However, while a multi-step setup has every one of your toons doing something, a Round Robin is for one toon at a time.

This sort of thing is used for any kind of situation where you want something done one at a time instead of all at once. For example, spell interrupts. If you need to interrupt a spell cast on a mob or an enemy player, you don't want everyone to do it at once because then everyone will have their interrupt on cooldown and most of those casts would be wasted. It's better to stagger who does it so you always have someone with their interrupt off cooldown.

But, it can be used for all sorts of things. You can use it to stagger totems or heals, rezzes, cures, taunts...

RR in ISBoxer
RR in HotKeyNet
RR in Keyclone - It's about halfway down.



Mouse Management


The very first thing to understand is that multiboxing is about 95% key broadcasting. It is simply not efficient to depend on your mouse while trying to multibox. But that is not to say that you should just forget about ever being able to use your mouse. Most programs out there have a means of allowing you to send your mouse to all of your screens, and this can be a great boon to your gaming.


UI Use

New multiboxers always ask about setting up their User Interface so it looks the same on all of their toons. This can be one area where mouse broadcasting can be very useful. Programs like ISBoxer and HotKeyNet have options to set your mouse broadcasting to always on, which will keep duplicating your mouse clicks as long as it is toggled on.

ISBoxer and Repeater

HotKeyNet Version -

For HKN, I added two Hotkey definitions so that if my Scroll Lock is on while using my mouse, it will broadcast my left and right mouse button clicks to every window. If Scroll Lock is off, mouse actions only go to my main window. {Keep in mind, my normal broadcasting uses Caps Lock, not Scroll Lock like the default script. Adjust the below code accordingly.}

Code:
<Hotkey ScrollLockOn LButton>  
	<SendLabel w1, w2, w3, w4, w5>
		<Clickmouse %TriggerMainKey%>
		<RestoreMousePos>

<Hotkey ScrollLockOn RButton>  
	<SendLabel w1, w2, w3, w4, w5>
		<Clickmouse %TriggerMainKey%>
		<RestoreMousePos>
If you don't have an always on option in your program or don't want to use it, you can still use the copy and paste option from here.



Popup Use

Another common use for mouse broadcasting is for various popup options. Jamba will take care of many of your needs for things like quest dialogues and purchasing, but sometimes you run across things Jamba doesn't handle. Purchase confirmations for example. Every program out there should have the ability to pass a single mouse click so you can broadcast your mouse for these. While not terribly exciting or game-changing, it will save you from having to swap screens all the time.


AOE Use

Who doesn't love AOE? Being able to use your AOE damage and healing spells is vital to certain classes and many of those spells require you to manually place your targeting on the ground. Using your program's mouse broadcasting will make this as easy for a multiboxer as it is for a solo player.

HotKeyNet AOE
ISBoxer AOE
Keyclone AOE

Every one uses the same style macro

Code:
/script SetView(4); SetView(4)
/cast AOE SPELL
The only difference between the 3 is how you set up sending the mouse click to place the targeting rectule on the ground.

Understanding the SetView stuff - about halfway down the page under Part 2 - Camera Angles