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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.

Sorry for the lack of posts. I got really busy with the raiding guild the druid is in. I’ve backed off raiding for now so I can work more on the multiboxing teams. I also rerolled a new team of 1 druid and 3 shaman on the horde side of Madoran. My plan for them is to level and gift up a 4th shaman to instance with. I also transferred my Blood Elf Rogue to Blood Furnace, my first real crack at a PvP server. Also, my DK Fröstlust, I did some solo leveling on him to get some more experience playing the class so he is up to 71 now. Should make instances MUCH easier. More updates soon.

Current Outland Dungeon Master Progress:

Here is my team:
Nimmen – 80 Resto Druid
Lewlsfear – 65 Shadow Preist
Menage – 73 Elemental Shaman
Nymin – 64 Balance Druid
Fröstlust – 65 Unholy Death Knight

I hate this place. The first boss took 3 tries but I got him. I pretty much moved in and out of range to catch heals when I needed them and that seemed to work well. Died a couple times to trash, I had no real recovery method if my tank or healer got possessed. I ended up making a macro on the tank that tried to target one of the possessors so I could find them quickly and shut them down.
First boss

Second Boss

Current Outland Dungeon Master Progress:

Here is my team:
Nimmen – 80 Resto Druid
Lewlsfear – 65 Shadow Preist
Menage – 73 Elemental Shaman
Nymin – 64 Balance Druid
Fröstlust – 65 Unholy Death Knight

Cleared Mana Tombs! No problems at all. I thought the last boss was going to be tough but turned out to be nothing major.
First boss

Second Boss

Third Boss

Here is my team:
Nimmen – 80 Resto Druid
Lewlsfear – 64 Shadow Preist
Menage – 73 Elemental Shaman
Nymin – 63 Balance Druid
Fröstlust – 64 Unholy Death Knight

Cleared The Underbog! Only had 1 death due to not paying attention. I ended up aggroing The Black Stalker before I was ready so the preist didn’t make it. I’m still swapping around spells. I’m not very good with a Shadow Priest. I also realized when I dinged on the 3 lowbies, and went to train, I hadn’t trained Mind Flay at all. Oh well, should see a nice boost next instance. Planning on doing some questing in Zangarmarsh. The lowbies are just over their current levels so I want to get another level maybe before I head into Mana Tombs.

First boss

Second Boss

Third Boss

Fourth Boss