[Guide] Dungeons and Dragons Online (DDO) Multi-box Compendium

[RedSorc]

All-in-one Interact Button

One of the most common things you will have to do in DDO is to pull a lever, or open a chest, or talk to an NPC, or any number of things that fundamentally involves interacting with a creature or object. One way to do this in game is to click on the object in the world. This is how most people new to the game interact with the world and it’s generally going to be a frustrating ride if you have to do it this way in your multi-boxing. Instead, most players do it with two keypresses: Select Nearest Object (Q by default, I believe), and Interact With Target (E by default, I believe). I’ve now got some serious muscle memory for hitting QE super quickly from playing the game for years.

That’s going to be frustrating for us again: to a multi-boxer space for keybinds is gold dust. Instead, consider creating an ISBoxer keybind for each character that presses Q with the first step, then E with the second step, then setting the hotkey to execute a step when the hotkey is both pressed or released. It works perfectly. This button is common enough that, again, I’d place it in a very easy to reach location: there will be multiple situations where you’re desperately trying to pick up an item or push a lever in the middle of combat.

Text-Mashing Hotkey

Whether its quest givers on the outside, or key NPCs on the inside of a quest, you are often in conversation in DDO. Sometimes, you need to get through the conversation as quickly as possible because you’ll be talking whilst inside combat. Either way, in order to facilitate ease of use, you are going to want a prominent keybind to help you get through quest text as painlessly as possible, without having to mouseclick each option.

Good news, everyone: There’s a in-game keybind for that. If you look through the keybinding menu in DDO, its really close to the bottom of the whole list. In 99.9% of situations, the correct option in a DDO conversation is to mash the first option, so you will only really need to keybind the selection first conversation option keybind. Simple enough: keybind it in game, then create an ISBoxer keybind that duplicates it to both characters, and you’ll be mashing through text like a pro.

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Honestly, at this stage, you have all the keybinds you need to clear the overwhelming majority of the game. DDO is, at it’s heart, a very simple game that’s very straightforward to box… except the whole “no follow” thing! Most of the other key-binds you might want to set up are dependent on your exact characters. Generally speaking, think very carefully whenever you feel a slight twinge of frustration as you do anything in DDO. If you feel that twinge, there’s probably a way to turn it into an easy keybind. For example, after a few hours of playing, I felt that twinge when I had to turn on “aggressive” mode for hirelings at the start of every dungeon. Simple solution: Make a keybind for it. There’s an option to keybind it in-game somewhere in the enormous list of keybinding options. Better yet, integrate it into your summon hireling keybind and kill two birds with one stone.

Below is a short list of the sort of things that you might consider wanting to keybind:

• Toggle wait/follow hireling, per character
• All hirelings Interact with target, per character
• The Hireling Follow action (different to the previous toggle!)
• Toggle autoattack on/off
• Emergency self-heal button
• Targeted healing, if available
• Search (for the party trap/secret door finder)
• Summon hireling
• Toggle aggressive and passive mode for hirelings
• A long buffing hotkey for the start of dungeons that targets relevant targets then slowly cycles through all the long-duration buffing spells you want to cast. Make use of the “Do not advance to the next step for at least X seconds and only trigger once” option in ISBoxer!
• Any important item switches (i.e. equipping and unequipping weapon sets for breaking certain creatures damage reduction or equipping and unequipped an underwater action/feather-falling item)
• CC-break (if you have acquired a Harper Pin from Harper rep in Eveningstar)
• Any key non-rotational spells you want on command (e.g. greater teleport, dimension door, web, etc)
• Action boosts and other cooldowns.