Multiboxing Tips: What was the one thing that really helped you move from a good multiboxer to a great one?

[luxlunae]

I just wanted to ask, what was the one thing you started doing (or mastered doing) that really helped you "step up" your multiboxing game? (It doesn't have to be good to great, I'd accept "mediocre" to "ok" as well ).

For me it was either when I really got comfortable interrupting on round robin to the point where it's automatic or when I finally started using Ualaa's (apologies if I'm misattributing) tremor and thunderstorm totem rotations in pvp.

[valkry]

Healing and moving at the same time with spirit walker's grace

[Sam DeathWalker]

When I invented focus fire on June 27th, 2001.

[Alge]

Setting up Click Healing so I could DPS with one hand and heal with the other.

[Khatovar]

My multiboxing game is always stepped up when I have to play something that's not WoW. That's when I'm forced to think of new ways to do things, and that always results in my picking up some neat new tricks.

[Truelle]

Switching to ISBoxer really helped me out although I am still not using it to nearly its full potential.

When I invented focus fire on June 27th, 2001.

Sam I am not sure if you remember this but I do. On the Sullen Zek PTR I was multiboxing three Mages with their pets and saw you coming out of the Dark Elf area. This was before you were boxing. Needless to say my Mages chewed you up pretty quickly lol. We use to play Age of Empires together too back in the original AoE/RoR days I went by Pacman23

[kate]

I don't think I'm a "great" multi-boxer by any means, but I think being constantly willing to try different ways of doing things has helped me get pretty good!

[JackBurton]

Its tough to only name one or lay some kind of turning point.

-moving from numpad side of the keypad to AWSD and its modifiers
-When overhauling my profile i cant stand it when i don't have my movement control setup right.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Switching to ISBoxer really helped me out although I am still not using it to nearly its full potential.



Sam I am not sure if you remember this but I do. On the Sullen Zek PTR I was multiboxing three Mages with their pets and saw you coming out of the Dark Elf area. This was before you were boxing. Needless to say my Mages chewed you up pretty quickly lol. We use to play Age of Empires together too back in the original AoE/RoR days I went by Pacman23

I remember your name pacman23, from aoe lol ... good old days.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The obvious answer for probably everyone here is, becoming a member of the dual-boxing.com community. We have such a rarity among the interwebs here, it's hard to imagine having evolved the sport of multiboxing as far as it has without all the helpful developers, mods and generally damned fine folks around here.

As for specific things I learned, my biggest hurdle was wrapping my head around FTL setups. Without EZmode FTL like ISBoxer+WoW gives you, it really takes some understanding to make everything work well regardless of which character is leading and which ones are dead.

Second place probably goes to understanding the goal of minimizing micromanagement for everything but edge cases. This sounds awfully vague but I suspect most folks who've ever cleared a heroic/expert dungeon "solo" or won a BG will understand what this means completely. The hard part in communicating this to new folks is that there is no one-page answer that explains how to execute this. It depends so much on your keyboard setup, your hardware, your GUI layout, and probably most importantly, which game you're playing. (sorta reinforcing what Khatovar said about non-WoW experience)