Pwnboxer Focusless Targetless Leaderless FTL 101 Tutorial

[dozydoris]

This is for a 5 boxing team just drop off toons if your team is smaller.

Ok I finally got my head around this system and it is working for me, I thought I would try and explain how to make it work with pwnbuster using laymans terms. The benefit of FTL is you don't have the hassle of making a focus on each toon for assisting or following.

The follow macro is the same for all toons so any can be a 'Master'. There is no seperate 'assist' button its built into each ability via a macro. This means if any of your team dies you can hot switch to any of the other 4 and use exactly the same keybinds and it will all work, the remaining alive ones will follow and kill your targets.


1. To keep your head from exploding trying to get to grips with it lets make some constants that are not going to change.

These are my toons: gimp1, gimp2, gimp3, gimp4, gimp5.

These toons will each run in a unique 'game' setting within pwnbuster per screenshot. so lets say:

Toon Game
gimp1 = game1
gimp2 = game2
gimp3 = game3
gimp4 = game4
gimp5 = game5



2. Now we need a key combo unique to each gimp dont worry about why yet just take my word for it that you do, it will become clearer later.

Toon Game Key Combo
gimp1 = game1 = CTRL
gimp2 = game2 = ALT
gimp3 = game3 = SHIFT
gimp4 = game4 = ALT+CTRL
gimp5 = game5 = ALT+SHIFT

3. Last part of the puzzle is we need to use seperate keys for the master and slaves, lets use 1-5 as master only and 6-0 as slave only. You can use more than this of course I'm just keeping it simple. So whatever game number you play your keys are allways going to be the same. The key map is:

master key Slave key
1............=...........6
2............=...........7
3............=...........8
4............=...........9
5............=...........0


Ok to explain a bit why we need key combo and key maps as this is the part that takes some getting to grips with.

Because we are not using any focus on any toon we need another way to tell the rest of the team which is the active game screen we are playing.

Lets have another example. I have a single quickbar onto which i have a simple macro so that when '5' is pressed all my toons follow the toon on the game which I pressed the key on. So lets say I am currently playing GAME4 and i press '5' I want all the other games to wake up and understand they need to follow GIMP4 from GAME4.

The way this is done is with a nifty macro which does this:


/target[if key combo sent from pwnboxer = CTRL+5 then my target is GIMP1 and PRESS 0]
[if key combo sent from pwnboxer = ALT+5 then my target is GIMP2 and PRESS 0]
[if key combo sent from pwnboxer = SHIFT+5 then my target is GIMP3 and PRESS 0]
[if key combo sent from pwnboxer = ALT+CTRL+5 then my target is GIMP4 and PRESS 0]
[if key combo sent from pwnboxer = ALT+SHIFT+5 then my target is GIMP5 and PRESS 0]
/follow
/targetlasttarget

So i press '5' on GAME4(or any other it doesnt matter) pwnbuster then sends ALT+CTRL+0 to all the other games, sitting on the '0' button (because we are on the slaves now from the keymap) is the above macro and it see's that ALT+CTRL has been sent and goes a-hah this means GIMP4 on GAME4 has sent this so i will target him! The actual macro syntax is below, make sure the /target is all on one line or it wont work.

/stopmacro [nomod]
/tar [mod:ctrl,target=GIMP1][mod:alt,target=GIMP2][mod:shift,target=GIMP3][mod:alt,mod:ctrl,target=GIMP4][mod:alt,mod:shift,target=GIMP5]
/f
/targetlasttarget


Now when you come to set this up in pwnboxer each line in my example actually becomes 4 lines of code, this is because we need to tell each game number individually while ignoring the game currently being played. Time for another example:

Current Master - Slaves who need to know
1......................2,3,4,5
2......................1,3,4,5
3......................1,2,4,5
4......................1,2,3,5
5......................1,2,3,4


If Im playing game5 as master and press '5' then pwnboxer needs to send ALT+CTRL+0 to slaves 1,2,3,4. Conversely if I'm playing game 3 as master and press '5' pwnbuster needs to send SHIFT+0 to slaves 1,2,4,5.



and thats it!

Couple of things to check:

1.make sure none of the key combo's are currently used by wow, go into interface > key bindings to check or it wont work.
2. In pwnboxer make sure all you key combos are in the 'Broadcast only these keys' List.



hope this helps!

dozydoris

[Tim]

Whoa! This is awesome!

Can you maybe include your PB Config file, link it to a download site (make sure to edit out your username) so people can get a peek at what you're doing?

Congrats man, this is awesome!

[EaTCarbS]

Very nice work.

[Miguel045]

I really want to set this up but i got lost on the instructions.... lol

can some one explain?

as i understand i have to make a macro:
/target[if key combo sent from pwnboxer = CTRL+5 then my target is GIMP1 and PRESS 0]
[if key combo sent from pwnboxer = ALT+5 then my target is GIMP2 and PRESS 0]
[if key combo sent from pwnboxer = SHIFT+5 then my target is GIMP3 and PRESS 0]
[if key combo sent from pwnboxer = ALT+CTRL+5 then my target is GIMP4 and PRESS 0]
[if key combo sent from pwnboxer = ALT+SHIFT+5 then my target is GIMP5 and PRESS 0]
/follow
/targetlasttarget
and link it to the number 5 on all my toons...

But i got lost after that....

Help Please?

[Tim]

I don't even bother with FTL, since it is sort of a misnomer, isn't as powerful, and more complicated to setup. That is my opinion of course.

Just use /focus and simple /assist focus macros.

Eg:

/focus MAIN1
/assist focus
/cast Lightning Bolt

and if MAIN1 dies and you want to make MAIN2 be the new leader, simply do one macro:

/focus MAIN2

BAM now you have a whole new leader because the /assist focus will now target MAIN2's target.

BAM BAM BAM

You win!

[Miguel045]

Uhmmm,

I think it would be really usefull.... i use PwnBoxer for pvp in WoW, and i die a lot especially since i'm new at multiboxing.. currently, it takes me a few seconds to change from one leader to another and enable focus and follow for the new main (by that time my new main is now at 50% HP) and somehow my targeting system is not the best.... My bigest problem right now is that i have to click aditional keys everytime i attack in mele because sometimes my alts start runing away from the current target and for whatever reason i lose control of my toons also i have to click aditional key to assist my main every time i aquire a new target...
I was hoping this so called FTL would make my life easier...

I'm currently using 3 DK's
i have "click to move" anabled and "interact with target" keybinded in all my toons which i click when i acquire a target so my other toons will assist... Also i have the focus and follow macros, then i keybinded macros for attack, Example:

for my main the macro is:

/castsequence [reset=combat] Death Strike, Death Strike, Death Strike, Icy Touch

and for my alts:

/assist <main_toon>, <alt1>
/castsequence [reset=combat] Death Strike, Death Strike, Death Strike, Icy Touch

I don't know if there's a better way to pvp, but my guess is that there is since other ppl seem to be really in control of all their toon, my guess was that they were using FTL, or maybe my macros are wrong!!!!

Any advise will really be appreciated.

Thank you

[Tim]

I say FTL is a misnomer, because it requires focus, it requires a leader, and it requires a target.

To switch leaders involves really 2 keystrokes: 1 to move your main focus window, another to set your focus.

I can do both in a fraction of the second. How fast can you press 2 keys?

But really, it is super easy. The key is that each toon has 3 macros (for 3 toons). The first toon has a /clearfocus, then a /focus Main2, and a /focus Main3. The second toon has /focus Main1, /clearfocus, and /focus Main3, etc.

So when you hit buttonA, they all focus Main1, and buttonB, they Main2, etc.

Then you simply press that 1 macro and control that window: BAM, you now have a new leader in a fraction of a second that controls your whole group. Nothing needs to be added to any macros for this to happen since you have a focus leader. But if you want, your macros could have /cast [target=focustarget] blahspell in it.

[Drarkan]

Ok I have been thinking this through and I will try it on my laptop.

I will set F1 through to F5 as my change main window buttons, and remap those F buttons in pwnboxer with Shift+F1-F5.

In each game I have on my action bars macros to set follow and assist depending on what key I press, the toons will follow and assist that toon accordingly. At least make them focus, then I'll have in my DPS rotations /assist focus so they will always assist my focus. Not sure exactly how I'll be setting this up since its a bit different and in my mind, less confusing as the earlier posted method. Hell perhaps its more confusing

Anyway I'll post my specs in the near future, probably tonight.

[Drarkan]

Ok so even on my laptop pwnboxer running 5 wows is quite harsh, probably need to defrag and clean up some files....

However, I was in the middle of setting it all up, and I think its a little more clear than this method above.

Step 1: Create your team obviously

Step 2: Avoid from going AFK while setting this up, as its quite time consuming

Step 3: In pwnboxer check "enable fast game switch" and
Set Game 1 "F1"
Set Game 2 "F2"
Set Game 3 "F3"
Set Game 4 "F4"
Set Game 5 "F5"

Step 4: Set up your teams in Jamba, fastest way I find is add your lead toon to all the slaves, then add the rest to the main, and Push Settings. Then BAM you have your teams sync'd with all your accounts.

Step 5: Make the following macros (I default the Icons for all as the ? one, you can change this later)

Macro 1 CTM IWT: I have taken this out as you have jamba to handle all that, not sure why I thought I needed it :p

Macro 2 DPS: Line 1 - /target focustarget "basically just setting your target as assist, without using assist."
Line 2 - /castsequence etc... "now from this line you just put whatever spell rotation you use etc.. including cooldowns if you want etc..."

Macro 3 FOLLOW: Line 1 - /follow focus "follows your focus toon"

Macro 4 FTL1: Line 1 - /focus toona "this will set your first account as the focus however change toona to the name of your first account toon. Also use /clearfocus on your first toon so that you don't focus yourself, since its not required.

                    Line 2 - /follow focus

Macro 5 FTL2: Line 1 - /focus toonb "this will set your second account as the focus however change toonb to the name of your second account toon. Also use /clearfocus on your second toon so that you don't focus yourself, since its not required.

                    Line 2 - /follow focus

Macro 6 FTL3: Line 1 - /focus toonc "this will set your third account as the focus however change toonc to the name of your third account toon. Also use /clearfocus on your third toon so that you don't focus yourself, since its not required.

                    Line 2 - /follow focus

Macro 7 FTL4: Line 1 - /focus toond "this will set your fourth account as the focus however change toond to the name of your fourth account toon. Also use /clearfocus on your fourth toon so that you don't focus yourself, since its not required.

                    Line 2 - /follow focus

Macro 8 FTL5: Line 1 - /focus toone "this will set your fifth account as the focus however change toone to the name of your fifth account toon. Also use /clearfocus on your fifth toon so that you don't focus yourself, since its not required.

                    Line 2 - /follow focus

Macro 9 PROC: Line 1 - "now just put in this macro your standard cooldown stuff you want such as a paladin's concecrate, a mages mirror image etc... and your trinket use's. I like to use this especially when i'm using a long macro that takes up a lot of room and have barely enough room for these in my main dps macro"

Ok that wraps up the macros, dont' worry about placing them just yet, thats the next step.

Step 6: Now place the previous macros in the following order on all your character's action bars. I am using the standard action bar names as bartender or other bar addons will have different names.

Bottomleft1: CTM IWT
Bottomleft2: FTL1 (remember on the focus toon use /clearfocus)
Bottomleft3: FTL2 (remember on the focus toon use /clearfocus)
Bottomleft4: FTL3 (remember on the focus toon use /clearfocus)
Bottomleft5: FTL4 (remember on the focus toon use /clearfocus)
Bottomleft6: FTL5 (remember on the focus toon use /clearfocus)
Primary Action Bar 1 Button 1: FOLLOW
Primary Action Bar 1 Button 2: DPS
Primary Action Bar 1 Button 3: PROC
Primary Action Bar 1 Button 4: Any AOE spell and use the mouse broadcasting

Ok now that you have placed the macro buttons on all your characters bars across your 5 accounts, you may now move to the next step.

Step 7: Binding the action bars to keys

So since the primary action bar is already bound to the 1-= keys, we don't have to worry about that. However the Bottom left bar isn't bound. I will map out how I will do it.

Bottomleft1: ` (this is the key next to the 1 key however you can choose another if you are more comfortable with it.
Bottomleft2: F1
Bottomleft3: F2
Bottomleft4: F3
Bottomleft5: F4
Bottomleft6: F5

Now when you press the key appropriately this will send the modifier to pwnboxer to change windows, and in game set the following toon that gets sent to the front as the current focus.

Step 8: Open Jamba config. /jamba

Now make sure that you have checked off the following options in the Jamba-Team-Core:Team window.
"When Focus Changes, Set Master to the Focus"
"When Master changes, promote Master to party leader"
"Auto activate click-to-move on Slaves and deactivate on Master"

Step 9: In pwnboxer make sure to add the 1234567890-= keys as well as the ` key.

I will be testing this now on my desktop, much faster to run than my laptop, and I'll make a video on how I did this too and link it to here if this works.

[Chamassa]

This sounds a lot easier then the first setup, Its amazing how jamba supports this so easily to be honest!

One thing to watch out for.
The fast switch keys in pwnboxer work like this:

In your case, F1-F5, pressing F5 will swap your main window with window 5.
Now if you first press F2, then F5, this means the order of windows is now 5-1-3-4-2
If you would happen to press F5 again, The order is back to 2-1-3-4-5... but: Your games have focus on nr5.

This is somethign i would see as an issue personally, there needs to be a macro key to change whatever is going on quickly, or pwnboxer needs a fast switch reset, or both