Hello all, I'm new here!

[CrazylikE]

Hey guys.

I've been bored for a long time and I've been thinking of multiboxing WoW for some time, and today I finally made the step. I now have 3 WoW accounts and I also bought Pwnboxer. I played WoW since beta up until cata, quit a few weeks in (lot of breaks on the way tho), so I know WoW a little bit, I also dualboxed a warrior and a priest way back, with RaF, but I didnt use any hightech programs like Pwnboxer to do it.

I am going to go to bed after posing this post, so I was hoping to get some advice on here for me to read tomorrow after work. I need to know some cool class setups (going to have 3 characters), and some tips and tricks on multiboxing in general. I watched the "pwnboxer in 5 minutes" video so thats pretty much all I know for now. I was thinking of a easy setup, like 3 of the same classes, but not sure what class. Was thinking 3 mages would be easy, but maybe a bit boring? I dont know and I would like some inupt on this. (Can I sign up to dungeons with the LFG system with 3 mages for example and get a group?)

I hope someone helps me out, with anything really, it would be much appreciated. Now, good night and see ya tomrorrow!

[kasper3577]

I would probably start with 3x Shamans or 3x Druids...being able to heal yourself and not rely on others to keep you alive if you are going to be doing the 3x DPS is a huge bonus for you. You could also do 1x Mage, 1x Lock, and 1x Shaman...also all as dps toons. This gives every group you are in a stam buff, an int buff, and totems. This might force you to lose most of your bonus damage from extra fireball procs or extra Lava Bursts because you will have to make set macros for dpsing, but in the end, everything dies quickly. Also, watch how you spec while leveling...a multiboxer may find that some of the lesser talents work well with a specific group and some of the more commonly taken talents are never used like single players would use them.

And yes, dps is dps, tanks are tanks, and healers are healers...the group composition is of little consequence for lower level dungeons all the way up through heroics at 85. Tim groups with others all the time in the LFD tool and plays the three dps toons with no issues.

Last word of advice, if you don't know how to make all the macros, and use the Jamba addon, I would recommend the three Shamans or three Druids to start. Once you get a little more comfortable with the addons and macros, then do the mixed teams.

[CrazylikE]

Originally Posted by kasper3577

I would probably start with 3x Shamans or 3x Druids...being able to heal yourself and not rely on others to keep you alive if you are going to be doing the 3x DPS is a huge bonus for you. You could also do 1x Mage, 1x Lock, and 1x Shaman...also all as dps toons. This gives every group you are in a stam buff, an int buff, and totems. This might force you to lose most of your bonus damage from extra fireball procs or extra Lava Bursts because you will have to make set macros for dpsing, but in the end, everything dies quickly. Also, watch how you spec while leveling...a multiboxer may find that some of the lesser talents work well with a specific group and some of the more commonly taken talents are never used like single players would use them.

And yes, dps is dps, tanks are tanks, and healers are healers...the group composition is of little consequence for lower level dungeons all the way up through heroics at 85. Tim groups with others all the time in the LFD tool and plays the three dps toons with no issues.

Last word of advice, if you don't know how to make all the macros, and use the Jamba addon, I would recommend the three Shamans or three Druids to start. Once you get a little more comfortable with the addons and macros, then do the mixed teams.

Thanks for replying I guess 3 shamans would be cool to test out. Never played shaman above level 20 or something like that so it will be something new for me. If anyone have any idea about specs or anything let me know please Or handy macro's for that matter. Going to eat and watching an episode of stargate atlantis, and then I'll start setting my multiboxing up, hopefully without too much trouble

[CrazylikE]

Sorry for double posting, but the posts are far from eachother in time. I have now made 3 shamans, I have set up Pwnboxer the way I want for now. I have also installed some addons, like recount, threat meter and some other minor addons, but I have also installed Jamba. Jamba looks very cool, I am currently in the process of setting it up, will probably need to adjust some settings as I go.

My main question now is, how do people do the macros? How do I make my main and my two alts attack at the same time and so on? I have a little bit of a problem wrapping my head around this atm. Currently, I have a macro on both my alts like this

/clearfocus
/focus main
/follow focus

And then I have

/cast [@focustarget] Lightning Bolt

But could I somehow make it so that when I press the key "1" on my main, it would press "CTRL+1" on my alts? Or else, I guess I would have to broadcast everything, which can become a bit messy am I right? Any help at all is highly appreciated, thanks!

[kasper3577]

for your target main and follow macro(focus macro), use:

focus macro:

/focus [mainName, nodead, exists], [alt1name, nodead, exists], [alt2name, nodead, exists], [alt3name, nodead, exists], [alt4name, nodead, exists]
/follow focus

This will focus and follow the highest ranked toon in your group that exists and is not dead.

The other macro you will want is a target my target macro. Basically, the highest ranked toon all your toons are using as a focus will target the same target.

target macro:

/targetfocustarget

These are the only two macros I use to get all of my toons to attack the same targets. Essentially, I click the first one to focus and follow the main, then click the second(normally takes a few clicks) to get all of my toons to target the focus target.

After targetting the focus target, you can use the normal keys that you broadcast(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.) and place different spells in each one for each character. But, when you broadcast the "1" key, all of your games use the "1" key...no matter what spell each game has bound to the "1" key.

Example:
the focus macro is bound to "[" for me
the target macro is bound to "]" for me
(both keys I don't use and I can bind to my extra 2 mouse buttons)

Game one is the shaman:
1 key has nothing in the slot, empty
2 key has lightning bolt
3 key has lava burst

Game two is the lock:
1 key has curse of elements
2 key has shadow bolt
3 key has curse of agony in it

Game three is the mage:
1 key has fire blast
2 key has the fireball spell in it
3 key has the pyroblast spell in it

Now, when I hit the "[" key, my shaman is the top toon alive, so the others focus and follow the shaman.
I manually select targets from the main toon.
Then I hit the "]" key and the alts target the same target the main(shaman) toon has.
From here, if I hit the 1 key, the shaman does nothing because there is no spell in the first slot(nothing is keybound to the 1 key), but the lock will cast curse of elements, and the mage will case fire blast. A macro is not needed for every spell, you just have to drag and drop the spell you want to cast into the same keybinding for each toon(by this I mean keybind 1 thru 0 onto your default bars and then drop the spell you want to use for each toon into the same numbers). I hope this makes a little more sense as I think I am confusing myself trying to find a way to explain it.

If you understand the example above, then you can get a little more advanced into things as you level your toons and make dps macros and healing macros with cast sequences. This will allow you to spam one button for each toon to do their own cast sequence and another for healing sequences, one one for single target cast sequences and another for aoe cast sequences. And, it is as simple as making the macro and dropping it into one of the slots like a normal spell.

[CrazylikE]

Thanks. That explained a little bit I actually figured stuff out just from trying things out by myself aswell. I had some issues with the follow macro after using IWT to loot quest items and such, like there was a delay of sorts. So I figured how to use the strobe follow feature of Jamba and it all works great right now.

As of now though, I'm running with 1 master 2 slaves setup, and I dont ever switch characters. Which means I only have 1 focus macro on each othe slaves and none on my main. I might change this around later though, will have to see, but right now this is very easy and as long as its going good I'm fine with it :P

But I have 1 "issue", and that is the healing. No idea how to set this up in a good way. By this I mean, who heals who, and how etc. I dont know if there is a macro which does something like: "button once, heal target1;if target1 is below 80% hp; button twice, heal target2;if target2 is below 80%....", but if there is, I think that would be what I wanted

One more thing. Is there a macro which does this?

1. Target nearest corpse (OR target focustarget [the first one would be best]
2. IWT

because I dont like having to press 2 keys do get this to work. I guess it would work if IWT had a command for it and not only the keybind, but I've looked around withiout sucess on this matter.

Thanks for helping out

Edit: And one more thing :P I have gotten gather tradeskills on all my characters, mining on main, herbalism on one alt and skinning on the second alt. Skinning is fine as it works with IWT, however herbalism is a bit of a pain. Any wayt to make this a bit simpler? Like, a macro which targets nearest node or something like that.

I have the minimap for the herbalism alt in a zoom window so that I can easily watch for nodes, but I find it a bit hard to actually spot the herbs on the ground with my main, + having to switch to the herbalism alt to gather it is a bit of a pain.

[kasper3577]

Originally Posted by CrazylikE

So I figured how to use the strobe follow feature of Jamba and it all works great right now.

My apologies, I forgot to mention that feature from Jamba, there is another one in Jamba that is a check box to follow after combat, I use that one.

But I have 1 "issue", and that is the healing. No idea how to set this up in a good way. By this I mean, who heals who, and how etc. I dont know if there is a macro which does something like: "button once, heal target1;if target1 is below 80% hp; button twice, heal target2;if target2 is below 80%....", but if there is, I think that would be what I wanted

If I remember correctly, checking health to heal and healing based on querying for health would fall under botting in the terms of service. The idea being you are no longer playing that character so much as it is automatically doing what needs to be done. Something along those lines anyways. I use button 5 and only put a healing macro in the #5 slot on the healer. In the macro, I have:

/cast [target=focustarget]name of healing spell here

You just have to remember that there is a 2-5 second delay as your healer's copy of wow has to query the server to get the information from your mains copy of wow to find out who the focus's target is...meaning, if you have auto cast self on, and you click the person you need to heal on the main toon, and then immediately click the #5 button, the heal will be cast on the healer, not the intended target. There are other ways around this, like:

/cast [target=toonMain, mod=shift]name of healing spell here
/cast [target=toonAlt1, mod=alt]name of healing spell here
/cast [target=self]name of healing spell here

Not sure if the mod is in the right spot, may have it's own set of brackets; you would have to look through macros to find an example of how to use modifier keys in macros.

One more thing. Is there a macro which does this?

1. Target nearest corpse (OR target focustarget [the first one would be best]
2. IWT

because I dont like having to press 2 keys do get this to work. I guess it would work if IWT had a command for it and not only the keybind, but I've looked around withiout sucess on this matter.

Your best bet for achieving this one is with the focustarget. I know it is 2 keys as IWT is a keybind, but you will have more control over which corpse your toons will go to with the focustarget. I am pretty sure there is a way to put IWT into a macro, but I do not know how to do that at this point.

Edit: And one more thing :P I have gotten gather tradeskills on all my characters, mining on main, herbalism on one alt and skinning on the second alt. Skinning is fine as it works with IWT, however herbalism is a bit of a pain. Any way to make this a bit simpler? Like, a macro which targets nearest node or something like that.

I have the minimap for the herbalism alt in a zoom window so that I can easily watch for nodes, but I find it a bit hard to actually spot the herbs on the ground with my main, + having to switch to the herbalism alt to gather it is a bit of a pain.

There is a way to interact with nodes via a keybind and macro, however, blizzard uses this method to flag toons for botting. So I would prefer not to tell you how to do this. I had the same issue and realized the gathering professions will pull your characters out of sync because each time you mine, that toon gets xp, the group does not, each time you herb or skin, the same thing happens. I found a way around this by giving each toon two gathering professions each...2 of the three had mining, two had skinning, and two had herbalism. This way, when I found a mining node while killing mobs or doing quests, whichever miner had the lowest xp mined that node. This helps in balancing the xp while leveling.

And, since you have pwnboxer, you should be able to see all three screens on your monitor at the same time...yes the alts might be small, but you should be able to mine and skin and herb by clicking on their screens with no problems. Might take a little getting used to, but will save you time in the longrun.

[CrazylikE]

Ok, thanks for some clarification. I do have pwnboxer, and I have 2 monitors so my alt windows are quite big, so clicking on nodes etc from my alt windows arent that big of a deal, just a small annoyance :P

Anyway, didnt know you got xp from tradeskills, I guess that is why one of my alts is always a head in levels as it has skinning :/ Oh well.

[Joe410]

ok awsome, I am set up as far as Step 4. Lost after that. Anyone else still up and can help?

[CrazylikE]

Originally Posted by Joe410

ok awsome, I am set up as far as Step 4. Lost after that. Anyone else still up and can help?

What do you mean by step 4? Your links doesnt work