PwnBoxer - newbie question about following the chars.

[dawgdawg]

Hello everyone.
Bought the PwnBoxer yesterday and now it's time to play with it for a bit.

Since I'm new in this program, got some problems in the beginning.
So the thing is, I'm running 5 characters (all shamans) in the same time.
Now the newbie question (which maybe isn't a newbie, can't now that yet);
how to keep your four characters to follow your "master" character, to be more precise, how to make them attack (cast a spell lets say) all in the same time AND that they will still be following the master char after they cast something, without needing me to use the macro or something to make them follow again.

I'm happy to get an answer soon and appreciate it. Sorry if the question is dumb or anything but as I said, I'm new in this one and paid for it so..

Cheers!

[Ualaa]

If you do a melee attack or use a channeled spell, either action will break follow. Which means, you'll need to reinitiate follow if you want them to follow.

You could run the addon Jamba, which can be configured to Strobe (auto follow, every second or so), and it can be set to not strobe in combat or when eating/drinking etc. I personally do not like Strobe, but it is an option. You can hotkey to enable or disable strobe, by making a macro for each command.




For the attacking the same target, you need an assist method. The easiest is going to be Focus.

Create a Focus macro per character on the same keybind for each toon. As in, you press Keybind A (Shift F1 maybe), and every toon runs the same macro which makes the toon on Account A their focus. When you do Keybind B, all toons (including account B) makes the account B character their focus.

Ideally, you'd put this on the same keybind (in warcraft) as whatever key you use to switch from one toon to another for your software.

Then make your DPS stuff macros like this:

#show Lightning Bolt
/cast [@FocusTarget] Lightning Bolt

#show Lava Burst
/castsequence [@FocusTarget] reset=8 Flame Shock, Lava Burst

Etc...

#show Lesser Healing Wave
/assist [@Focus]
/cast [Help][Help,@FocusTarget][Help,@FocusTargetTarget] Lesser Healing Wave

[dawgdawg]

Thank you Ualaa, you've given me the answer I needed.

But I'm going to use this for one more question.

So, is it possible to do that when I'm talking to some npc on my master char to talk to the same npc on the slave characters in the same time without needing them to click the buttons (let's say when all my shamans are dead, which is going to happen pretty often I must say when I'll be leveling in a pvp flagged zones, to talk to spirit ress. on my master character and in the same time to talk to spirit ress. on all the characters, and resurrect them all in the same time, but only really pressing resurrect button on the master character) ?

Cheers!

[Ualaa]

You'll want Click to Move enabled.
You can do this in Interface Options - Mouse Options.
Or if you want to toggle it in game:
On - /Console AutoInteract 1
Off - /Console AutoInteract 0

With CTM on, if you Interact With Target (IWT) your character will move to the target the same as if you were to right click on it.
You can set IWT in Keybindings - Targeting Functions; it is a keybind and cannot be macro'd in any way.

Combine this with Jamba, where the slaves will select the same option as the master, for any NPC dialogue or choice. You can configure how this works for quest rewards even, with a lot of options.



In play, you target something on the main.
Have the slaves assist so they have the same target.
Hit your IWT keybind to have them move to the target and open dialogue.
Select whatever, and they pick the same.

If there's a confirmation box, I enable mouse broadcasting and click it with the master, so they all click too.
Example, Do you want to bind here? Or, Are you sure you want to rez, there is a 25% gear deterioration.

[Tim]

I am dubbing Ualaa a new nickname: Multicyclopedia

This guy is stock full of all sorts of good info!


Interact with Target is a great way to have your melee multiboxers work. However, I should say if its your first time multiboxing, I highly suggest you start out with a caster class (eg, Shamans) and do standard /follow and focus type approach. Melee multiboxing I would consider more difficult for those to start out with.

[dawgdawg]

Spirit resurrection was just for an example

And thank you guys, really appreciate your replies and your effort!