Need help troubshooting a serious issue

[HaoleBoi]

I'm using the latest version of Jamba and Pwnboxer. I 5 box on 1 PC, what happens from time to time is my all 5 toons just mysterious go autorun. This has been frustrating and mostly harmless until this happened on the upper level of the Dire Maul and 3 of my guys went over the ledge. This seems to happen when I switch follow modes. I mainly have 2. 1 is basic where all 4 follow master. The second is a chain follow, where 5 follows 4, 4 follows 3, 3 follows 2 and so on. Now if I'm running in follow mode 1 and I switch to mode 2 without stopping mostly it works perfectly, but sometimes they all run off in the direction they were facing. And nothing I do seems to break this autorun. I can sometimes stop them by holding thier backward movement broadcast but as soon as I release the key they continue running. My slaves have an autorun binding but it is not broadcast so they only use it when they are master.

I'm not sure if this is pwnboxer somehow sticking a movement key broadcast (Numpad 8) for slaves and some other spread out keymappings. Some kind of Jamba bug (Jamba only has follows assigned not actual movements). Or even a key sticking on my keyboard (1st Gen G-15 keyboard), hard to believe its a stuck key, I have never had anything spammed while in text editor, firefox or anything else.

Has anyone experienced anything like this, I don't know how to really narrow it down without crippling my teams movement or my own playstyle. Also I can't reproduce the problem all the time, it seems to happen randomly but randomly under the follow switches.

[Poyzon]

If you disable Jamba, do you still have the problem? There are have been several reports of problems with following and Jamba lately. If you're using 'strobe follow' with Jamba, you may want to disable this as it's helped others.

[TheMuffinMan]

Originally Posted by Poyzon

If you disable Jamba, do you still have the problem? There are have been several reports of problems with following and Jamba lately. If you're using 'strobe follow' with Jamba, you may want to disable this as it's helped others.

I have never liked Jamba's follow system much...

I use this addon instead:
KeepFollowing - Addons - Curse

[Ualaa]

I've found two follow/movement related bugs.
Both are software agnostic (occur with HKN, IS:B, KC, PB, etc)

First, if you are running a melee team, and spamming your Interact With Target key.
If you tell the team to IWT, as the mob dies, they'll frequently all run in random directions.
The fix.. either don't spam the key (PvE, once the team engages the target you don't need to spam IWT), or if you do spam the key (PvP in particular) be quick on your /Follow macro.
I've put /Follow on a thumb mouse button, for easy access.



If you use Jamba Strobe follow.
And then switch to a new toon/master.
When toons get into combat (especially melee, as opposed to ranged/casting), they have a tendency to want to /follow the original Strobe target.

My fix for this, is to not use Strobe.
But instead to manually hit your /Follow key often.

Jafula knows of this issue.
So I would expect this to be resolved at some point.

[Heartspark]

Why not try to just broadcast the follow key you have assigned and ignore Jamba altogether for that feature?

Its a good habit to get used to imo

[Tim]

Originally Posted by Heartspark

Why not try to just broadcast the follow key you have assigned and ignore Jamba altogether for that feature?

Its a good habit to get used to imo

Exactly what I do since theres so many things in-game to WoW that can cause your characters to stop follow, not to mention WoW itself can lag and otherwise miss keystrokes.

If your characters ever run astray, simply do this: Hit your movement keys to move them up/down/left/right at the same time, then hit the follow mode (if applicable). This will stop the "runaways" dead in their track and basically make the issue never happen anymore.