I decided to try dual-boxing again. (I tried once back in BC then left the game)

First few days - literally lots of headaches. I need to finish a paladin and shaman I was leveling with my son before he lost interest.

My intuition told me to play the paladin tank and slave the ele shaman. I just had a lot of problems. Between getting software to work, getting Jamba set up correctly, goofing with macros and keybinds, I was about to give up. The final straw was that half the time when the caster would run up behind me, it'd get turned around, faced the wrong way, etc. By the time I got it fixed fight was basically over anyway.

Then I saw one of the posts here talking about how to solve the problem. Its in the stickies. That didn't seem to work well for me.

Then I decided to try playing the caster and use the tank as the slave. I use IWT and assist. To my astonishment this is actually easier and more reliable so far. Its basically like controlling a hunter pet only with more pet abilities and better aggro control.

Is this how many of you do it? (those who control a tank among their team) Is this going to stop working for me at some point?

Why can't I get ranged classes to turn around and run toward a hostile target with IWT? That's what the sticky says works best for situations where team members get turned around or jumped or whatever.

I'd like to get that part figured out - I might take a pair of hunters to the bg or something.

Anyway, just also wanted to say this is an excellent community of players and this site has amazingly helpful guides, stickies, and forum members. Helped me out considerably. Things have come a long way since I tried this back in BC.