Day 1 as a Multiboxer

[Kalyse]

I played for 4 hours yesterday. The first three hours was pure config and setup, followed by 1 hour of gaming...

During this time I had several problems which I hope you could resolve.

I am using Jamba... and I am using the [F1] /focus Toon1, [F2] /focus Toon2... etc method

1. Even though I am using Jamba, I am still leaving my toons behind quite often. Even though it says "Stopped following" I sometimes miss it or just don't pay attention. And even though I have the toolbar up with the Green colors when they are following... again I miss it. Is there anything more obvious I can use? Something which PERMA STAYS on top and just screams out at me?

2. How exactly do I get the quest manager to work in Jamba. Some times I click on a Quest on my main and even though I have selected Share quests, not all the other Toons get the quest. I just ran for 4 minutes only to find out that one of my guys didn't pick up the quest after completing it and handing it in, so I had to do him manually.

3. When handing in quests, how am I supposed to do this? I have set up a Macro on my "J" key which is Interact With Target. I was using that because the automatic quest hand in with team wasn't working correctly. So I was finding I hand to get the people right on top of the quest hand in guy and then press J.. Again some people would not get the quest completion if they were just a little bit too far away from the handin guy. Is there a way to run them to him?

4. When looting corpses... what is the correct way? I know I have asked this before, but It takes such a long time for the action to load up and then click on the items I want to loot (if any.. mostly at my level they are all junk).

5. AHHH This one is annoying. How do I get my toons (which are shamans) to face the correct way. Often when they are running behind me, I will lightening a mob and he will run behind me. I can turn around easily, but my followers don't turn around and just keep getting... "You need to be facing your target" tooltip popup. How can I get them to face easily? Manually turning using my Right and Left keys is a big sluggish? Wouldn't you agree?

6. Currently, I have a macro which I press.. but I don't quite know what it does... but when I want to attack something, I run up to it on my master, then press T, which has this macro,

/follow focus 
/assist focus 
/startattack [target=focustarget, harm] [] 
/cleartarget [modifier:alt]

Then I press my Macro for lightening, which is just /cast lightening.

If I don't press the T button, my toons don't attack, I guess because they aren't targetting what my main is attacking. How should I resolve this, create a single macro which is...

/assist focus
/cast lightening

Why do I need the /startattack? Is this a melee macro?

7. What addons exist for visually being able to monitor all of my toons easily?

Thanks very much. Hopefully someone will be able to answer a few of these questions if not all of them.

[adz4u28]

1) get used to the warning from jamba or make your jamba display team larger so u notice it more. make sure you have `auto-follow` after combat enabled in jamba and follow strobing.

2) cant help you on 2 i dont bother using the jamba quest stuff.

3) to hand in quests you should have an /assist master macro somewhere. and then interact with target hotkey. so you push the assist macro so your slaves get your target and then push your assist key so your chars will interact with target. ensure you have click to move enabled within warcraft options.

4) i set loot to free for all. and loot on the master `open loot window at mouse cursor` auto loot everything enabled.

5) get used to it. attack from range :0)

6) wierd macro :s

the steps for you to take to get your attack working correctly, is always ensure your slaves have you set as their focus using something like -
/clearfocus
/focus toonname
/cleartarget
/assist focus

have that bind to one key, and then use:

#showtooltip
/cast Lightning Bolt


7) jamba and some nice unitframes. uhm... maybe xperl unitframes.

hope this has been some help for you!

[EaTCarbS]

Originally Posted by Kalyse

I played for 4 hours yesterday. The first three hours was pure config and setup, followed by 1 hour of gaming...

Welcome!

1. Even though I am using Jamba, I am still leaving my toons behind quite often. Even though it says "Stopped following" I sometimes miss it or just don't pay attention. And even though I have the toolbar up with the Green colors when they are following... again I miss it. Is there anything more obvious I can use? Something which PERMA STAYS on top and just screams out at me?

If you are losing follow often, it could be due to your system being bogged down, or your internet connection is being lowsy.

2. How exactly do I get the quest manager to work in Jamba. Some times I click on a Quest on my main and even though I have selected Share quests, not all the other Toons get the quest. I just ran for 4 minutes only to find out that one of my guys didn't pick up the quest after completing it and handing it in, so I had to do him manually.

I use interact with target, and look to see that everyone has opened dialogue. I think the basic quest mirroring is default in Jamba (not sure, haven't messed with it in a while )

3. When handing in quests, how am I supposed to do this? I have set up a Macro on my "J" key which is Interact With Target. I was using that because the automatic quest hand in with team wasn't working correctly. So I was finding I hand to get the people right on top of the quest hand in guy and then press J.. Again some people would not get the quest completion if they were just a little bit too far away from the handin guy. Is there a way to run them to him?

See above.

4. When looting corpses... what is the correct way? I know I have asked this before, but It takes such a long time for the action to load up and then click on the items I want to loot (if any.. mostly at my level they are all junk).

I usually set the loot to group loot, and set all my followers to pass on loot. Its great for trying to get my 'needy' and 'greedy' achievements, and it makes disenchanting things a cinch.

5. AHHH This one is annoying. How do I get my toons (which are shamans) to face the correct way. Often when they are running behind me, I will lightening a mob and he will run behind me. I can turn around easily, but my followers don't turn around and just keep getting... "You need to be facing your target" tooltip popup. How can I get them to face easily? Manually turning using my Right and Left keys is a big sluggish? Wouldn't you agree?

While using the arrow keys when playing only one toon is a bit silly, it is actually very powerful when multiboxing. In pvp, people would run through me thinking I wouldn't hit them, but they were in for a suprise

6. Currently, I have a macro which I press.. but I don't quite know what it does... but when I want to attack something, I run up to it on my master, then press T, which has this macro,

This macro just starts auto attack, and will clear your target if you press it while holding the alt key.

If I don't press the T button, my toons don't attack, I guess because they aren't targetting what my main is attacking. How should I resolve this, create a single macro which is...

/assist focus
/cast lightening

Yes! If you are using a focus based setup, an even better macro would be:
/cast [target=focustarget] Lightning Bolt

7. What addons exist for visually being able to monitor all of my toons easily?

I find that a unit frames addon is very helpful (x-perl or pitbull)

[Paws]

instead of using target=XYZ in your macros, you can use @XYZ shorter is better, especially later on if they breach the character limit

[Tim]

A quick note, for looting corpses, I use FFA and then make whoever is leading the group at the time do all of the corpse looting. For crappy pick-up quests, I usually just skip those.

[Kalyse]

Okay so I have more questions...

Day Two As a Multiboxer
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I'm running a Shaman team..
1. How do I manage my heals? Like for example, from my main I see that someone needs healing. So I select him and I want only one person to heal that toon. How should I do that? I'm just a little confused how I can keep up DPS and heal on demand.

2. What are some good things that I should do with dockable clickmapping with pwnboxer? Maybe some examples of how I can put it to use would be useful.

I am REALLLY REALLY struggling to keep up DPS and heal my team.. so tips on this would be useful. It seems like my targetting is awful. I am using /focus as my boxing system.

[Janus]

Originally Posted by Kalyse

Okay so I have more questions...

I am REALLLY REALLY struggling to keep up DPS and heal my team.. so tips on this would be useful. It seems like my targetting is awful. I am using /focus as my boxing system.

The best way to do this is to assign one healer for your team. I don't know how far along in the leveling you're in but it's very helpful that you get in the habit of DPSing and healing early on. Your healer should have its own set of healing macros that you will need to configure. The best and by far easiest way is to have him /target and /cast (healing spell here) the toon that needs healing. Each toon needs to have a macro for it. I have those assigned to my numpad buttons. Ex: num7, num8, num9, num+, and my tank heal rotation is num-
This way you'll be able to keep your DPS and heals up since you will have a dedicated healer

You really don't need a focus system to box. If you're uncomfortable with it, then I highly suggest you just do the follow and assist. I just made a guide on this, take a look and see if it's helpful

Multiboxing 101: Macros, part 1

It would be helpful to know where you're in leveling wise so we can help you tailor your macros accordingly

Regarding your toons facing away sometimes and you wanting them to face the mob again, this is what I do:
- The num0 button is bound to the /assist macro
- The num. button is bound to interact with target
- Whenever a toon is facing away from the mob, i hit num0 then num.
- This makes all toons run towards the mob
- I then click the back button (S in game); for my slaves I have it bound to the down arrow to interrupt the movement and go back to DPSing

[Kalyse]

Thanks Janus.

I am level 34 at Scarlet Monastary.

I don't know which one is best though.

[Janus]

Originally Posted by Kalyse

I don't know which one is best though.

Which what is best ?

I saw you say you had a shaman team. Is it all shammies ? And how many on your team?

[Kalyse]

Originally Posted by Janus

Which what is best ?

I saw you say you had a shaman team. Is it all shammies ? And how many on your team?

I mean which SM instance is best. Armoury, Cath, Graveyard or Library. I think I like the Cath the best for AoE with my mage.

Its a four man team since I am boosting with my mage. But some times I leave them all to park while my mage boosts. When I get a patrol come around and take on the four, they all wipe. I can't do anything even against a single mob. I just struggle overall.


What makes things worse is that I've never really played Shaman before. So I don't know how I should be DPSing or what Totems to use.