Xeneres Multiboxing Guide and Tips

[Xeneres]

Part 2:

DPS rotations and Important Addons:

Combat and Non-Combat Macros (Please see next post for the actual macros)

As for combat and DPS rotations I use my own Gnome Sequencer Macros and I manually trigger interrupts, cooldowns, trinkets and utility spells as needed typically by using round robin. I create a few flavors of these Macros to best suit my needs. They are typically just your basic builder and spender type abilities. Before Gnome Sequencer I used to use cast sequence macros. In past expansions you could use something like:

/castsequence reset =0.5 0,0,Deathstrike

To perform actions similar to gnome sequencer where you can use the 0.5 and 0,0,0 to delay your abilities so you could setup a type of priority system and timers when to refresh debuffs but that has since been removed/disabled by Blizzard. You can still use a combination of timed ISboxer step macros to do this but its best to keep what you send to the game from isboxer to a minimum.

In the past I also tried to multibox by simply sending one keystroke at a time. This could work with some classes but now most classes have procs and varying levels of secondary stats and you are severely limiting your self by not using a type of cast sequence macro or gnome sequencer as you cannot properly account for haste and procs. You will never be able to play your toons combat rotations perfectly while boxing but you can do the best you can with the tools available to you.

I have 3 main combat macros for my DKs. They first is your typical single target macro that uses deathstrike as soon as it is able too. A AoE focused version of the macro that does not use marrowrend at all. The last one is the same as the first but it does not spend runic power


Targeted AoE and Targeted AoE RR

Starting with Patch 7.1 there was a new macro conditionals added to the game that allows you to fire off targeted AoE abilties like death and decay automatically at your characters position or at your mouse cursor.

I do not think that doing it at mouse cursor would be very useful for multiboxers maybe on your leader as would only save you from having to click. I find that seeing the green circle is useful so i can position it properly if im not using the new mcro conditional

The new macro condition has greatly simplified death and decay and makes it as easy to use as consecrate and now I don't have to worry about crimson scourge procs (this resets the CD on DnD and makes it free) but tricky to juggle across 4 toons each with their own random procs.

An example macro that casts a Death and Decay at your toons location is:

/cast [@player] Death and Decay

I still love my manual Targeted AoE Macros and RR variations. They are useful if you are running to engage a boss to drop DnD wehere you will be not where you are currently at. For targeted AoE I use it for things like death and decay. I also use it to loot objects on the ground like treasures or quest objects. With the new shared quest item mechanics in legion you can have all of your toons loot an object by using Jamba Advanced Loot. Without this addon,you will only be able to loot the object/item one at a time as there is some delay in loot objects and NPCs for things like quest items. You may see everyone have loot windows but then you have to spam click each loot window until they all have that object in their inventory. Jamba Advanced loot is very helpful for quests objects that despawn within a few miliseconds of being looted. For objects that don't despawn like treasures you can use round robin mouse broadcasting so you can loot objects one after the other so there is no spamming furiously for 5-10 seconds or swapping to different toons to loot everything.

I have variations such as round robin death and decay. if I want to make a slowing field to kite mobs or to find those annoying rogues that love to sap your leader when doing world quests. When I get a rogue out of stealth using RR DnD it is so satisfying and they better have vanish because I will use any and every CC and CD to make sure that annoying rogue is pulled into my meat grinder and deleted.

Addons

I'm a heavy user of the Addon Vuhdo for my party/raid frames and ElvUI for the rest of my interface. Both give you the option to send your config from one Toon to the other while in-game and you can use broadcasting to make changes to all of your toons UI at the same time. I can use Vuhdo to do so many things it even has its own custom macros, mouse and keyboard bindings that you can setup to execute when you mouse over a toon. By combining this with Repeater Broadcasts you can use this to mouse over a toon to instantly trigger it to use a ability. I use Vuhdo heavily when healing on my paladin.

My Prot/Holy Paladin + 4 DK team is relatively new team, I made it only a few weeks before Legion. I largely got it up and running by trimming my 15-20 boxing config down and adding some of the fine tuning from my old configs in MoP which was the last time I was a 5 man PvE boxer.

Disclaimer:

I learned most of this Info via the Isboxer Wiki, MiRai's videos and personal experiences while multiboxing since WoTLK:

http://isboxer.com/wiki/WoW:Interact_with_Target