Need Help with Healing.

[WhiteDragon]

Not sure where to put this so i picked General.

I have made my decision to 5 box 4 sham ele 1 pally. How do I heal? Use chain heal all the time and then watch my guys and just click heal when i see one go low hp? I can do the attacking np but don't know how to set up the healing. I'll be setting up pwnboxer to run FTL..do i just set up chain heal in a macro that already has a target preprogramed?

How does Tim do it? I never see his stuff really dieing.

[WhiteDragon]

ANSWERING my own question...I got Tim to comment on this in his Live Feed.

This link below will play a 5 min vid and at about the first min into it he answers my question and so I'm posting the link here for others to hear it.

Multiboxing in World of Warcraft on Justin.tv

[Tim]

Wow watching myself is really creepy.

So yea, to start things out, just make each shaman have 5 macros for healing. Each macro targets a specific person:

/cast [target=Someguy1] Lesser Healing Wave

Put that on each guy, then bind the same heal key on each (Eg, F12) and then hit F12 and watch all your shamans heal the same guy!

In the end, once you start doing harder things, you could make 1 Shaman resto and multibox the rest as elemental and have that single resto heal.

Also, create another macro on each shaman that does this

/cast [target=player] Chain Heal

Which causes them all to chain heal themselves which will spread to the others. Sort of an "OH CRAP" heal.

[Ualaa]

If you are going with the one macro per toon route.
As in five macros on every shaman in a five box group.

You can configure Jamba to annouce when a toon falls below a threshold of health.
The annoucement could even be to this effect: "Alanna is hurt, press F12".
Naturally, change that to the keybind for that toon being healed by all the shaman.

You won't want to "Push to Characters", as each will have their own "Press <KEY>" announcement.

[Tim]

Actually Ualaa brings up a good point, and that really is, recognizing the current health state and then the heal of your shamans.

I myself use Healbot simply because it providers a very clear and easy to view indicator of health. For how my brain is wired, the healbot bar allows me a much better reaction time to heal, which is immensely helpful.

[Lindline]

So, what you can do is set Jamba to tell you how to press buttons. Just a series of warnings that say "Press F4", "Press 2", etc.

[WhiteDragon]

Thanks for all the responses guys.

I didn't see them till now. For some reason I didn't get any notifications of new posts for this thread. ;(

[WhiteDragon]

Question on how to use Key Broadcasting a bit better to help with my healing.
(pwnboxer)

I am a mouse (now:razer lachesis; Soon: razer Naga) and left-hand-only-key-board user. So, using other keys, num-pad or F-keys, slows me down.

Is there a way to get individual-re-positionable-re-sizeable icons/buttons that I can click on in-game to broadcast a single key?
(this is my suggested addition to pwnboxer too )

My idea was to put the key next to or even over the face of my toons. So, I look over and go "OH CRAP" that toon needs a heal. Then I can just click on the button/icon and it will broadcast the key as if I had pushed it with my hand. This way I also don't have to think about what key to push. All that text that flashes up on the screen, I seam to block it out so I don't end up seeing the warnings. I miss stuff all the time in DeadlyBossMod bc of that.

[Tim]

Originally Posted by WhiteDragon

My idea was to put the key next to or even over the face of my toons. So, I look over and go "OH CRAP" that toon needs a heal. Then I can just click on the button/icon and it will broadcast the key as if I had pushed it with my hand. This way I also don't have to think about what key to push. All that text that flashes up on the screen, I seam to block it out so I don't end up seeing the warnings. I miss stuff all the time in DeadlyBossMod bc of that.

W..T..F.. you got me keylogged?

I've been working on this exact thing for a while and I dare say its almost done! I wrote a thread in these forums to give a sneak peak of it

[WhiteDragon]

Yeah, I got you Keylogged. I uploaded it to one of your live streams and it swam up the stream to find a mate on your comp. lol

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So, I looked over you're post you have of it. Are those buttonts going to be able to break off as individual buttons that i can put ontop of each my party memebers faces on the left had side? It would be fantastic if they could.