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Please don’t go blindly into this, I’m writing this out to explain the benefits of consolidating your multiple accounts into a single login battle.net account. Make sure you read all the FAQs before you get started. At the time of this writing this is only available to US accounts.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=15864256387&sid=1

Here is the blue post on the official announcement. The thought of being able to log in to all of my accounts with a single log in was the big reason I wanted to do this.

Here is where you create your battle.net account:
http://us.battle.net/account/creation/landing.xml

If you don’t already have a battle.net account, go ahead and create one. It will very your email and once you have clicked the link to activate the account you can log in and manage your games. Simply click “Add a world of warcraft account” and you’ll be asked for your log in (and authenticator if applicable). It will also verify you are the only user of this account once you have added your first account.

This is what the main battle.net account screen will look like once you’ve added your accounts.

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From here is where you can start to see the benefits, You can click on Manage Game and it takes you to the WoW Account Admin site and you can edit all your info there. Also there is a new drop down box at the top so you can instantly swap to any account without having to log out and log back in.

When you log in game, you’ll use your new battle.net log in and you’ll be prompted as normal for your authenticator (if you have one) and then you’ll be given a box to select which account you want to log in.

When you log in your battle.net account into the forums, the select character screen will have access to all of your associated accounts:

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So I can log in to forums, account admin, and game with 1 log in and then change / play / post from any of my toons on any account? Finally Blizzard, I give you credit for a great functionality change.

3.1 PTR Testing How to Loot With Multiple Toons

This is preliminary PTR Testing, subject to change but here is how I’m planning on setting up my teams for 3.1 changes.

http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=20099

http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=20134

Here are 2 existing threads that briefly touch on the topic. This thread I will show how I plan to set up my team (which is a 3 shaman team) and it should be easily adaptable for a 5 man team. I run a very simplistic setup. I use Keyclone and 3 WoWs. I don’t do FTL or anything. I simply have a /follow macro and an /assist macro on the 2 slaves. My typical encounter is running in range of a mob, hitting “2″ to get the slaves to assist the main, and then firing off my offensive spells. I then run up and loot on whichever toon. (I always loot on the main unless it is a quest item) I try to keep things as simple as possible.

To set up the new Interact functions:
Open up the Options Window and click on Key Bindings, scroll down to Targeting Functions

http://www.halosrealm.com/images/dual-boxing/3-1-PTR-KeyBindings_sml.jpg
http://www.halosrealm.com/images/dual-boxing/3-1-PTR-KeyBindings.jpg

From the screenshots you can see mine are set to Shift +z to interact with Mouseover, and Alt + Z to interact with target. What this allows me to do is run into range of a mob, kill the mob, and then have my slaves target the mob hit alt+z and the slaves will loot the mob. As far as looting goes, I set free for all looting. With this in mind I could just spam 2 to assist and alt+z and let lag determine who gets the loot/quest item. A better option would be to setup a keymap in KeyClone for each toon to loot. This would allow your main to have binds set to tell a specific slave to loot.

Here is how I accomplished telling my slave to loot. I only used a 2 toon setup here, but easily expanded across 5.

First keymap for the Master

http://www.halosrealm.com/images/dual-boxing/MasterTellsSlaveToLoot.jpg

Second Keymap for Slave(s)

http://www.halosrealm.com/images/dual-boxing/SlaveLoot.jpg

Right click on the Main WoW instance in the keyclone window, and select Load Keymap, load your MasterTellsSlaveToLoot.kcl, and do the same for your slave but load the SlaveLoot.kcl.

Now what I can do is target the corpse, hit Shift + C, which does nothing on the main, but tells the Slave to Alt + Z to interact with the target, thus looting the corpse. I know I’m only using 2 toons in this example, but it scales the same for as many toons as you run. Lets say you want Control + C to tell the 2nd slave to loot. Just load your MasterTellSlaveLoot.kcl, click in the key box, Control + C, then in the hotstring, put in Slave2.Loot. Create a new keymap called Slave2Loot, Use the alt+x for the key, Slave2.Loot for the hotstring, click Add, click save. Load this into your 2nd slave and now Control + C will tell the 2nd Slave to loot the target. Rinse and repeat for each toon you have in your group.

http://www.halosrealm.com/images/dual-boxing/slavelooting.jpg

There are a few different ways you could do this. Simply bind alt+Z to Round Robin and spam it on a corpse until everyone got their item, or you could just blindly let everyone loot everything, lag would determine who gets the loot/quest item first. I’m setting up keymaps because I’d much rather tell tell X toon to loot until he has Y of Z for the quest, then tell the next toon to start looting.

So in practical terms. You can use the Interact With Target to loot, and you can use Interact with Mouseover to gather herbs, mining nodes, realistically ANY interactable unit in the game.