GTAoE Abilities

[Plexar]

So in my pursuit of the ultimate profile I'm trying to understand the best way to do Ground Target Area of Effect (GTAoE) abilities? Especially with the way the camera works in SWTOR how are you guys handling this in order to use your GTAoE's or are you just forgetting them all together?

[CheeseCake]

Im only dual boxing but for now im just ignoring the Target area abilities, does not seem to be a camera lock position keybinding like in world of warcraft so my view is always in random places.
Would be nice for my troopers as they have good target area abilities. Ive stopped playing these as i cant seem to get the vanguard tank and commando healer to work right, still new to boxing this game so playing two dps sages is easy :/

Again only two boxing so im just using target area abilities from my main character


(Not sure if there are other 2 boxers playing this, everyone seems to be 4 boxing it, would like to know what group people have had the most success with?)

[pox67]

Im only dual boxing but for now im just ignoring the Target area abilities, does not seem to be a camera lock position keybinding like in world of warcraft so my view is always in random places.
Would be nice for my troopers as they have good target area abilities. Ive stopped playing these as i cant seem to get the vanguard tank and commando healer to work right, still new to boxing this game so playing two dps sages is easy :/

Again only two boxing so im just using target area abilities from my main character


(Not sure if there are other 2 boxers playing this, everyone seems to be 4 boxing it, would like to know what group people have had the most success with?)

I am running a Shadow/Sage duo for my first run through. Working very well and having a Tank/Healer from the same base class means a lot of the abilities are synchronised which makes things easy.
God I love the Sage Armor ability, that alone keeps the tank alive most of the time.

On to the GTAoE - I only use them as openers when I can synchronise the two chars together.

[Treason]

I use a method thats best described as "Chaotic". If you periodically, like once every 3-4 minutes, ensure that your "alts" all have their cameras facing directly down onto the characters head, then you can be 100% certain that clicking in the center of the screen will fire an ability at the feet of the caster. (For abilities that allow this.)

Then I make a clickbar/keymaps that allow me to click the button and then click the center of the screen on the main screen. The first click after pressing the clickbar gets passed through to all toons so all of my Sorcerors will cast "Lightning Storm" at their feet.

It works fine for me for Trash mobs and the like where I can bring my whole team into the middle of the fray. Obviously I don't use this method against any Bosses in Bossfights. Just for Trashmob cleanup that may swarm my DPS/Healers.

Sent from my iPhone so forgive any errors!

[Riiker]

I have two monitors and manually target these abilities in every window

[CheeseCake]

Been messing with my two troopers yesterday one is vanguard the other commando at 41 made them both dps and for there target area abilities i either start off on the main then quickly shift to alt window and use there's, only as an opener, after that its just normal rotation, or in some cases use a target area on main and the alt uses a target aoe ability so far that alone is enough to clear groups. Heroic missions i just stick to cc one and single target another, my companion is a bit poor at holding aggro.

In the end i just try to avoid spec into talents with GTAoE if i can.

Also been trying to get a sith warrior/sorcerer to work, wish you could get rid of the red text in the middle, makes it annoying when you want things on spam


Oh, wanted to add, anyone have problems questing on ilum with follow. Become next to impossible to quest now.
Alt on follow, either jogs then walks then runs then walks etc then breaks follow. When your mounted its the same, takes a long time for them to catch up i end up moving them manually.