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[Wubsie]

Hello and welcome!

For starters, Id like to be able to activate abilities on a background toon with out alt tabing. Preferably with buttons on my main screen. Can this be done with macros? Is 3rd party software necessary? What would be the "easiest" and "most legal"(if that's a thing) way about doing this. I have read and watched some youtube guides on this, but they all seem to be taking it to a whole other level. Id just like to be able to activate another toons abilities with out al tabing. I don't need movement, mouse, looting or anything like that being done.

You can not really control the spells of another character through macros or addons. This is not something the Blizzard addon API allows for and naturally it would be bad if you could just make macro to control someone else's character.


While old school multiboxing setups did not require software and relied on hardware instead, essentially all multiboxing nowadays is done with the assistance of software as long as the game in question allows for it. All multiboxing software allow you to send keystrokes to all, or specified ones of your game clients. This is sort of the core function behind it all.


There's plenty of software out there, but generally only a few are in use nowadays. If you are willing to pay for software, ISBoxer is the best option. It's the most feature rich, has the biggest community of users and is one of the few that still has active development. As you're just dipping your toes in, you might be unwilling to go this route, which is understandable. It's not required by any means, but something to keepin mind if you ever plan on diving deeper and getting the max out of your experience. I would advice against paying for any other software though, as as far as I know the other paid options are either our of development (even if they still accept your money) or just do not measure up,or offer a price significantly lower enough.

A fairly common free alternative is Hotkeynet. The current version is about 12 years old at this point, but still functional. It requires scripting to set up but is fairly easy to learn. I do feel like I should point out that there is currently an issue where some users are reporting having been banned for botting while multiboxing using hotkeynet. Seems like a false flag, but something to keep in mind definitely.

Autohotkey is somewhat commonly used as well, although finding active support for it (in the specific context of multiboxing) might be hard as it's a bit niche. Personally I have no experience with it, so I can't comment much further than that.

[pak]

How safe is ISBoxer? Are there features in the program that can get you banned?

Im not looking to even duplicate keystrokes. I'm just trying to reduce the amount of al tab I'm doing.