Spam:
/click MultiBarRightButton1
/click MultiBarRightButton2
/click MultiBarRightButton3
/click MultiBarRightButton4

1st:
/castsequence reset=target Mutilate,Mutilate,Rupture,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

2nd:
/castsequence reset=target Hunger for Blood,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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3rd:
/castsequence reset=target Mutilate,MutilateMutilate,Mutilate,Slice and dice,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

4th:
/castsequence reset=target shiv,shiv,Slice and dice,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Dead Skadi:

Making fun of AFK Gurb:

After UP I went to VH, I’ve cleared this place many times so it wasn’t any big deal, until I broke kill time records on Xevozz and Cyanigosia

28 second Xevozz kill, didn’t have to heal, healer didn’t do any DPS, the 381 dps on the meter is from trash (magma totem is OP rite?)

38 second Cyanigosa Kill – I doubt these are huge kills or anything, but it’s awesome to see how I’m shattering old records and improving even on stuff I farm mindlessly.

We went to BT as a guild saturday night, cleared up to Ilidari Council, was good times
SS from standing in front of Bloodboil:

Yes, gurb is notorious for leghumping.

I also figured out I can skip some h-UK and h-DTK trash packs, so that has made farming those instances a little more tolerable.

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.

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.

Raid Buffed:

• 40,397 HP
• 32,997 Armor
• 39.86% Dodge
• Post DR avoidance  47%
• Total Mitigation 84%
• Damage Taken 15.62%

See more for total gear and enchant list.

Gear

Titanium Earthguard Chain

2x Titanium Bar
4x Dragon’s Eye
6x Eternal Life
6x Eternal Earth
1x Frozen Orb

Titanium Earthguard Ring

2x Titanium Bar
4x Dragon’s Eye
4x Eternal Life
4x Eternal Earth
1x Frozen Orb

Trollwoven Spaulders

10x Heavy Borean Leather
6x Eternal Fire
6x Eternal Shadow
1x Frozen Orb

Trollwoven Girdle

10x Heavy Borean Leather
5x Eternal Fire
5x Eternal Shadow
1x Frozen Orb

Durable Nerubhide Cape

2x Artic Fur
40x Nerubian Chitin
1x Frozen Orb

Totals

Titanium Earthguard Chain
Titanium Earthguard Ring
Trollwoven Spaulders
Trollwoven Girdle
Durable Nerubhide Cape

4x Titanium Bar
8x Dragon’s Eye
10x Eternal Life
10x Eternal Earth
11x Eternal Fire
11x Eternal Shadow
20x Heavy Borean Leather
2x Artic Fur
40x Nerubian Chitin
5x Frozen Orb

Enchants

Enchant Boots – Greater Fortitude

Lesser Cosmic Essence (3)
Infinite Dust (3)

Enchant Chest – Powerful Stats

Dream Shard (4)
Abyss Crystal (4)

Enchant Cloak – Major Agility

Infinite Dust (8)
Greater Cosmic Essence (2)
Dream Shard (2)

Enchant Weapon – Mongoose

Void Crystal (6)
Large Prismatic Shard (10)
Greater Planar Essence (8)
Arcane Dust (40)

Enchant Gloves – Major Agility

Greater Cosmic Essence (4)
Dream Shard (1)

Looking at the heals you can see my goto heal is Rejuvenation. This is mainly because I’m using the Idol of Awakening. The 2 piece T7 is 5% off Lifebloom cost, but IMO with the SP Coefficient nerf you’re much better spamming Rejuvenation and saving LB for a tank (where the bloom has a chance of not being 100% overheal). My next two that I cast most often is Regrowth and Lifebloom.I will most often Regrowth a non-tank to get them healed and let a hot tick on them so if they continue to take damage, I have a hot on them, and I can swiftmend on top of it. The Glyph of Swiftmend lets me Swiftmend without having to recast another hot. So I can Swiftmend whenever I want and not worry that I’ve wasted a hot. Lifebloom is my next goto spell. I rotate between the Idol of Awakening and Idol of Lush Moss. If you aren’t running Idol of Awakening, you should be running Idol of Lush Moss IMO. I wouldn’t let your idol dominate what you’re primary heal is, but it is definitely something to be aware of. Lifebloom is a great spell, but I feel the bloom is mostly wasted because it is dependent on the person NOT being at full health when it blooms. I tend to roll LB stacks with Rejuv and it tends to be able to provide great single target healing and if the person gets hit a few times and the hots fall behind, I can swiftmend easily and keep the 3x LB rolling.

So we’ve established my 3 main keys I bind to my entire keyboard when I /faceroll. Now lets look at spells I don’t use that often, mainly Healing Touch. That entire fight I used it ONCE. I am of the mindset that if you’re using HT more than 5 times in a single fight, you’re doing something wrong (or you’re dreamstate and being the hippy non-conformist of druid healing). You can see I used 1 Healing touch and it only hit for 8k. Not a big deal but look at the Ovh% (over heal), its not there. That entire 8k went into someone and not 1 hp was overheal. This is because I use Nature’s Swiftness + Healing Touch as my “Oh shit” Button. (yes, the macro is actually called “oh shit”). When I panic this is the first thing I hit, when NS is down the macro just casts Healing Touch. Once NS is down I’m usually throwing a quick rejuv and spamming nourish (See the 79% Ovh on 3 nourishs, ouch). Tranquility is another one I don’t use that much. Who really can on a 5 minute CD? I use it for oh shit group heals. Finally we come to Wild Growth. I used to spam the shit out of WG and not care. Now with a 6 second CD I still throw it around without much regard but its hardly my go to “hot someone up fast” spell anymore, I’d rather LB or Rejuv someone.

So now that I’ve explained my logic, lets look and see where I went wrong. (Wrong is relative, I don’t know that I was actually wrong we did down the boss, but there were things I could have done better.) 79% Ovh on 3 nourishs is pretty harsh, first I should be using it more, and using it wisely as it is a quick and powerful heal. As stated above, it’s one of my panic spells and like many Druids I’m simply not used to having it and haven’t quite figured out it’s place in my rotation. Next is regrowth, 9 casts with a 4195 average isn’t bad, but it could have been used better. My 41% Regrowth Ovh tells me that I’m using it instead of a rejuv or LB (on a target that is near full / full on the initial cast). It’s really hard to find something wrong when the boss died, but hopefully these couple of things will show you the logic and reasoning of seeing what you did, and why you did it, and understanding that will allow you to make smarter decisions when /facerolling.

Now for the same fight, lets look at “Who heals whom?”

The only reason i want to mention this is to show where my heals go. You can see I heal myself a lot, (10% lols). I had a good teacher force me to lrn2hotmyself, it took me a while but I caught on eventually. You can see I didn’t heal Kallyn, this is because Kallyn didn’t pay the healer toll so no heals 4 Kallyn, let this be a lesson to everyone. You can see I healed everyone else in the raid. This is where Uriah may yell at me, but I don’t stick to my assignments. I hot everyone because I have decent regen and can afford it. You’re mileage may vary and you may or may not get yelled at or looked at in a bad way from others due to your Ovh or your own assignments dying. My personal view on assignments is that as long as you’re assignments are alive and you have the mana / regen to handle it, go nuts healing. If you’re assignments die because you’re oom, then you strayed too far out of your assignments. Now if they get insta-gibbed cause of some freak accident, heal away not much you could have done about that. Scroll down and this is where I’m really going to get myself in trouble and you can actually see how far I was straying from my assignments (I’m usually assigned melee, I think because I’m one of the few that doesn’t have melee on my no-heal list). Who is healed by whom? is where you can see exactly who got my heals. Scroll down and look at all rogues, all warriors. These percentages I healed them are lower than anyone else, I healed people who weren’t my assignment more than people who were, Oops. There are reasons for this as anyone could imagine, healer overwhelmed, range issues, etc.

Now that we’ve seen (and hopefully learned something / gained some insight) WWS, here are some general thoughts. A lot of this are my personal opinions / observations. WWS is great, topping meters is great, but healing meters don’t mean anything unless something went wrong. Healing meters should be used to judge Overheal (and how to improve / lower), make sure people aren’t straying too far out of healing assignments, and to identify who’s sucking healer mana away from who should be getting heals. Overheal is a widely discussed topic on many healer forums. My personal opinion is you’re overheal is going to be truly governed by your class, spec, spells, and attention span. The less I pay attention, my oveheal % goes up. Mainly because I’m trying to spam heals to make sure no ones dying as I wait for Matlock to solve the case, pull the cat off the ceiling fan, or anything else that I may be doing. It’s a good thing I don’t watch TV during raids, or more people would die. :_X Class and spec are going to be the next big contributors to Overheal. I think some classes are going to be high on overheal by design. My point on overheal is, as long as you’re not oom, overheal shouldn’t be an issue unless people are dying. Then you want to look at spell casts to see where you can improve. (whether you need improvement on timing or recognition on healing priority)

I realize this is a giant wall of text, but hopefully this will show you my logic for figuring out how I did on a fight / raid and how I can find where I can / need to improve. We don’t live and die by WWS, after all, as long as the boss is dead we win right? Feel free to laugh at me or yell at me for not staying within my healing assignments.

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

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