2 - Dual Box - The first days

Well, I decided on the name Maser and Slavue. Maser is the lock and Slavue is his healing pally.

I purchased Keyclone a while ago so decided to use that to clone my keyboard onto the second wow screen.

They key with multi-boxing is to try decide which toon will be the main controlling one, for me I picked the lock, odd I hear you say, why not pick the melee one?, well the lock will actually be the tank when I get Mr Voidy and the tank should always be the control toon.

Here's a list of addons i've been trying and how I rate them 1=very good, 5=bad.

Addons

Jamba - 1 - Very good, it has a strobing follow function, turn it on and then you dont have to worry about the other guy stopping follow, if he gets stuck and too far away you get rw type messages. It has many functions but the ones i use are... Follow, Quest clone, auto Sell grays.

TourGuide - 1 - A fellow multi-boxer did some special multi-box leveling files that only direct you to do kill quest, no collection quests which are a big pain.

QuestGuru - 2 - I've ready you need this one to use TourGuide properly

TomTom - 2 - Again the TourGuide needs it, it puts quest helper type guides on the screen.

LightHeaded - 5 - Not needed for boxing, but i think it will be usful 60+ as it links directly to wowhead for item details.

Macro's

These are still in progress, but basically I have put macros on the button bar for each toon that in theroy complement each other.

I have 1 macro for grouping, i use the Jamba group for this, you pre-set members and then :-

/jamba-group invite

each member with Jamba installed will auto accept, the group leader will be set and loot will be set to whatever you have configured, in my case FFA.

I also enable the Jamba auto follow :-

/jamba-follow strobeonme all

The above is only done on the main toon.

I have mapped the /jamba-follow on the main toon to a /focus maser on the slave toon. As I will always be putting him on follow and always want maser to be the focus (for other macro usage) i've just used the same button.

My attack macro's still need work but button number 1 on each is :-

Main
/petattack
/attack

Slave
/target focustarget
/attack

Then button number 2 is

Main - Shaddow Bolt --- Need to replace this with a castsequence to include more so i can just hammer on one button ;)

Slave -
/attack
/castsequence reset=target Seal of Righteousness, Judgement of Light

I've tried some different macros for healing, the basic one is

/target focus
/cast Holy Light

but i'm playing with...

/script if UnitHealth("paryt1") < 60 then CastSpellByName"Holy Light" elseif UnitHealth("parytpet1") < 60 then CastSpellByName"Holy Light" elseif UnitHealth("player") < 60 then CastSpellByName"Holy Light" end

i've not actually tried it yet in game, and if the UnitHealth returns a figure instead of a percentage i will have to use UnitMaxHealth and word out the percentage but basically it will check the 3 people in my group and heal any under 60% health (one at a time for each click).

Or thats the theroy anyway, i'll be trying it in game today at some point.

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Sooo, while i was getting keyclone and some macros setup and tested i hit lvl 5 without even trying, while I was trying to get round an issue with Slavue targeting dead people I hit lvl 10, currently they are both level 14 and my played time is 3 hours, i know not that good, but about 2 hours of that is me writing macro's and setting up addons :)

I will take some screen shots next time i'm in so i can show you all the way i've got the screen setup, i actually run both screens at 800x600 in window mode so i can see them both at the same time.

Anyway, its going fine and i'm enjoying it.... just need to work on the combat and healing macros a bit.