Introduction + 5 Man Team!

[Arveinruz]

Just tested it - unfortunately, no XP anymore :-(

[Xyl41]

Temporal quest was nerfed, I tried it when leveling my latest team and received no exp. They did drop loot, but gave no exp. This was ~10 days ago.

[Esquire]

Thank you all so much for the information, tips, and all things of the sort to-date.

I'm going to spend considerable time doing ISBoxer, UI and Macro maintenance tomorrow and was hoping I might have a few friends here from the thread/DB community that would like to join me in Discord while I screenshare it and we talk about all things Multibox and Classic!

I'm a voice actor/commentator so I can promise at the very least silky smooth tones

Drop me your Discord tags or add me @ Esquire#1210 (Case sensitive)

[Tazeon]

Hi,
I'm using a very similar setup. WMMLS
I use Shaman because my main focus beside of farming gear for my toons is farming DME and therefore a shaman makes boss encounter trivial.


1. Talents
My mages are fire specced, because I'm not raiding now. As soon as I have more time for raiding with my 3 casters (MML) I change to a raid specc.

Fire has advantages in instances:
more damage
Blast Wave and Flamestrike for better aoe
Combustion for boss fights
(long casting range)


There are 3 possible playstyles as multibox firemage
only casting fireball - https://classicdb.ch/?talent#oi0Vc0MZxg0ubcut0h
only casting scorch - https://classicdb.ch/?talent#oi0VZVgMufcut0h
stack 5x scorch, then fireball - https://classicdb.ch/?talent#oi0VZxgMufcut0h

all have their small advantages, I prefer only casting fireball. I'm lazy and dont use FireBlast to finish mobs.
main advantage is 5 free talent points in fire tree which I can use for 3/3 Improved Arcane Explosion and 2/3 Arcane Meditation.


2. Level Area
Because my warrior was allready lev60 I wasn't in hurry after lev 50 to level my team, therefore I started to farm gear for my team.
It took me long enough to level them.

Here are some key items which I farmed. (Tankgear not included because I allready had it.)

BRD
Arena - Ban'thok Sash,
Arena - Cyclopean Band (only got one and gave up),
Arena - Savage Gladiator Chain (I had it before).
Golem Lord Argelmach - Omnicast Boots
Quest: Love Potion for Manacle Cufs
Quest: MC Attunement

LBRS
Highlord Omokk - Skyshroud Leggings
Quartermaster Zigris - Hands of Power (I didnt' farm him)
UBRS Key
Recipe: Greater Fire Protection Potion - for use (or gold)
(Pattern: Robe of the Archmage - only as a side objectiv by farming Recipe:GFPP)


DME (I think you can start with lev 58)
DM Key
Alzzin - Whipvine Cord (Healer)
Alzzin - Ring of Demonic Guile 2x (Healer)

Quest: Onyxia Attunement Quest
(also do BWL Attunement Quest if you allready do a full UBRS run).


3. Buying Gear
I bought following Items from a DMN Tribute Hunter:
Mindsurge Robe (Healer)
3x Rod of the Ogre magi

I made 2x Robe of the Archmage for my Mages. I bought the pattern, because they were cheap in the AH.

also get you diremaul class books and then your trinkets "Royal Seal of Eldre'Thalas"

[Esquire]

Does anyone know what this utility that Isabellae (twitch.tv/Isabellae) is using here in this screenshot to handle which character is sheeping or banishing as well as controlling between frost and firebolt and seemingly much more?

Looks like a complex ISBoxer setup?

[Otasi]

Absolutely. Instead of sending keypresses in your mapped keys, send macros instead. This way you can leave your normal UI intact.

Define them in Game Helpers, make a new macro set "Mage" and put your mage toon in the "Enable macros for ... these highlighted characters". This way you can make a macro set for each class, each using the same macro internal keybinds.

"Frostbolt" ctrl-shift-alt-1 /cast [nochanneling,nodead] Frostbolt
"Frost Nova" ctrl-shift-alt-2 /cast [nochanneling,nodead] Frost Nova
"Cone of Cold" ctrl-shift-alt-3 /cast [nochanneling,nodead] Cone of Cold
"Arcane Explosion" ctrl-shift-alt-4 /cast [nochanneling,nodead] Arcane Explosion
"Evocation" ctrl-shift-alt-5 /cast Evocation
"Polymorph" ctrl-shift-alt-6 /cast [nochanneling,nodead] Polymorph
"Decurse" ctrl-shift-alt-7 /stopcasting [@mouseover,help,nodead] /cast [@mouseover,help,nodead] Remove Lesser Curse
"Blizzard" ctrl-shift-alt-8 /cast Blizzard
"Counterspell" ctrl-shift-alt-9 /stopcasting [harm,nodead] /cast [harm,nodead] Counterspell
etc

Then the mapped key for regular DPS has 1 action: Named WoW Macro "Frostbolt"
The mapped key for AOE DPS has 3 actions: Named WoW Macro "Frost Nova", Named WoW Macro "Cone of Cold", Named WoW Macro "Arcane Explosion"
etc

For the decurse macro to work, you will need to have identical party unitframes across all your toons (e.g sort alphabetically), and use ISBoxer's sync cursor action in a press/release key map. For blizzard to work, you can use ISBoxer's Next Click with VFX action, as demonstrated by MiRai in https://youtu.be/PsAIukHgWgo

Hi, I'm new to this and saw your macro setup. I setup the Game Helper macros, but didn't know if I should have /click button name selected and put in the skill name.

Also I'm alittle confused on the section after the game helper setup. Mainly the mapped keys and how to set that up in Keys Maps.

And also how it translate to in-game. I mean I don't want to spam ctrl-shift-alt-1 for frost bolt, hurting my hands. Is there something I need to do in wow client itself to make it easier to perform frostbolt with a single key press?

[Wizeowel]

Hi, I'm new to this and saw your macro setup. I setup the Game Helper macros, but didn't know if I should have /click button name selected and put in the skill name.

Also I'm alittle confused on the section after the game helper setup. Mainly the mapped keys and how to set that up in Keys Maps.

And also how it translate to in-game. I mean I don't want to spam ctrl-shift-alt-1 for frost bolt, hurting my hands. Is there something I need to do in wow client itself to make it easier to perform frostbolt with a single key press?

No, you don't need to fill anything in /click button name.

For mapped keys, you could watch some of Mirai's videos on setting up ISBoxer. Especially the ones that explain the Pro Setup.
https://youtu.be/iqHaH4gbrmo

It's not the idea to spam ctrl-alt-shift-1 yourself. The idea is to make a mapped key with a keybind of your choice that calls this macro. The reason to use ctrl-alt-shift combo is so that the macro binding does not interfere with other bindings you may have.

Usually you will have a "DPS" mapped key for all your toons, and if you use the advanced target groups then each class can have a different set of actions for their DPS, and again a different set of actions for AOE, etc.