ISBoxer One Month In (thoughts and discussion)

[MiRai]

I also enjoy reading these "first impressions" posts; even more so when people are enjoying the playstyle.

With that said, Wubsie hit on most things, but...

I'll add that I do play slightly differently than both of you, whereas I generally like to set up my in-game action bars so that if I need to control a character solo, in either emergency situations or just outside of multiboxing, I can do so with little issue. Then again, if you're fully set up through ISBoxer, like Wubsie, then the end result may actually be the same, and it simply fall to personal preference.

In addition to what Wubsie said about IWT, I do have a video that explains one method of fixing IWT behavior with mixed-class teams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yLdOojjpQE


Finally, there's probably not much footage of people multiboxing Roogug in RFK that is floating around on the internet, so I dove into some archive footage that I had lying around from patch 7.3.5—which is post-scaling, but pre-item-level squish—and I grabbed two different Roogug kills with two different teams, from two different perspectives. While the footage may not necessarily help you since you're running a different comp (and I actually ignored the totems for the most part), it will maybe give you an idea about something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqwAOjIjjTU

[FrostBlayze]

Thanks for the input MiRai. I didn't have time to go over your first link and fix my IWT issue but I'll likely get to that tonight. I did, however, review the second link and it gave me some ideas. It was obvious from those fights that most players, like you, ignored the totems and simply moved away from whatever they were dumping out. I need to give that strategy a go and see how it works.

Wizeowel,

My general strategy is to continually loop through the following steps:

1) Heal lowest health target.
2) If boss is casting something nasty hit 4.
3) If I'm standing in something nasty or something is incoming, then move.
4) If there's a group in front of me, hit 3.
5) If I didn't cast an AOE, spam 1/2.
6) Repeat.

That works pretty well and there is no point where I'm trying to issue a command to the tank/dps when ALT is down. I could map alt-1 through alt-6 for the tank/dps to their primary sequence. That would ensure that they're doing something if healing takes all my attention (unusual but it does happen.... usually right before a wipe).

[Lewsifur]

“My goal is to do everything I need to DURING A FIGHT without ever moving my hands.”

A little commented feature about ISBOXER is that it can use joystick peripherals.

In my case I picked up a a very, very old pc steering wheel and pedals.

I use the pedals only for strafing, or formations.

No windows drivers required as Isboxer takes care of it. The only catch I can see is that I can see, is that it needs to be USB.

You setup the gaming device buttons like hotkeys.

Maybe Mirai can explain better, as I only needed to set it up once.

And yes, I did use the wheel on occasion, to ‘drive’ my team and hammered the yellow button use gse macro, but Im a mouse player.