WoW multiboxing

[Parkbandit]

I'm looking to make a good 3's multibox team. I'm doing reading about it.. but I don't understand how exactly it works. I assumed that you would have 3 of the same class, same spec and you basically control 1 toon, and through software, the other two would do the same exact thing. Now I'm reading that you can have any class as a "master" and then the slaves could be anything else. How does that work?

Right now, I'm thinking about having 3 druids or 3 shaman (since I have 3 accounts) for DPS and off healing when needed.

Has anyone done this before and can offer some insight or tips?

[Nieninque]

Try this (http://tinyurl.com/y8vp6fh)

[Nieninque]

http://vimeo.com/6066389

[Parkbandit]

Try this (http://tinyurl.com/y8vp6fh)


THANKS!!

(but since there's many different pieces of software you could use, I was looking for some guidance from someone that may have already done this before and could recommend something in particular)

Jackass

[Guarrin]

they don't necessarily have to be the same class, although I believe its easier. Most I ever ran was 2 accounts on 1 PC (warrior and shaman healbot). I just had totems/heal macroed and would alt-tab over real quick. Back in the day, mages + shadowpriests were pretty common.

the app just enters the same key on all three windows/pcs, however you're setup. Some guys have 2 'slaves' on one pc, and the master on another. Keep the attacks for your main mapped on 1-7, and then on your bot have whatever heal spells macroed to 8-0. There are probably easier/better ways to do it now. It's been a few years.

oh and I think this is the site and app that my friend used to run his group of ten.

http://www.dual-boxing.com/

[HelloKitty]

My bf. quad-boxed shamans back in BC. It was insane. He did pretty well in arenas as long as the other team didn't target the "leader" of his pack and totally owned in BGs. A lot of totem love. But shamans have changed since then.

I'll ask him about any advice he may have. You're going to have tons of fun.

[faloon]

I used to use keyclone.

No need for alt tabbing between characters. You just setup keys to do certain functions.

Example:

2 mages

You want Mage 1 "controlling character" to cast frostfire. Map a key on the controlling characters settings, ill use '8'

You want Mage 2 "slave character" to cast frostfire also. You map the same key to '8' but on the slave character screen. Once both keys are mapped any time you are on the controlling character screen and hit 8 both characters will cast frostfire.

Now if you want Mage 1 to cast frostfire with the '8' key and Mage 2 to cast fireblast, just map the slave characters '8' key to do fireblast.

Hope that helps.

[Itachi]

BUT MOM IM MULTIBOXING

[Kyra231]

Ditto on using keyclone. Easy to use & works great. I worked a paladin/priest combo to 60 with raf & keyclone. I'd recommend using the same classes though, I hear it's much easier...I was going for the 2 classes I wanted with the limited play time I have.

[Monotonous]

I ran four shamans on one system using Keyclone. I'd highly recommend this for your first attempt to learn the ins-and-outs -- you probably don't want to mix classes or try anything overly complex just yet because it does take some learning and macro work. When I was playing with it I just used 3 trial accounts and my main account to see what it was like without needing to drop any money.

Shamans are the best for this because they have the best group support mechanics, can heal (which is huge), can ressurrect (which is VERY huge while leveling), and have the highest ranged burst damage in the game.

I leveled them to cap and dominated PvP. They did very well in arena if I had a solid healer helping, even when they were still in blue and green gear. Where they really shined was battlegrounds though, where 6-minute AB/EOS wins were the norm. They could kill most groups of players within seconds using chain lightning with elemental mastery and other trinkets/buffs. No healer could heal through my target because they'd be instantly dead.

I ran 4 instances of the game in windowed mode on the same computer, all with the lowest graphics settings. You'll need to have a decent video card and system RAM (at the time I had an 8800 GTX and 8gb RAM). Keyclone lets you set this up and save the layout. You do NOT want to replicate movement or mouse clicks to all the windows -- You control one character(Leader), and the other 3 are in follow mode. Every character's hotbar has a key which will /target the party leader, then /follow. You end up mashing this a lot if they get split up or stunned.

All hotbar attack abilities are macros to first assist the Leader to target their target, then use the spell. One useful macro that comes to mind is a self-target Chain Heal, giving you 4 chain heals that will fully heal up the party.

I set up their totems so that everything is covered, with the most important being Tremor Totem because fear bomb can wreck your group. Dropping 4x Grounding Totem was huge for keeping them alive -- it gives you a large window of survival versus casters, and takes other things like counterspell. 4x Fire Nova Totem was incredible for cleaning up rogues and warriors.

I had a macro set up which could at any time set any of the four characters as Leader, so if the leader died they weren't just sitting there stupid -- they could instantly start following a new leader and you just play from the next window over.

It takes some adjustment in play style, and you need to understand how to make macros, but it will be the most fun you ever have in Warcraft once you get the hang of it.

[Nieninque]

Strange how that works...the most fun I had in Warcraft was playing with fun people...rather than playing alone.

That's not to say it doesnt look fun, because it does.

[HelloKitty]

Yeah, warcraft is a social game.

He wasn't alone though; there were a group of us which always played together. We hopped in with the quad-shams for BGs although it was mainly him on the offense and the rest of us defending. Once in a while he even brought them to our raids.

[Tordane]

I always found this easy to use.

http://www.lavishsoft.com/joomla/

[Parkbandit]

I ran four shamans on one system using Keyclone. I'd highly recommend this for your first attempt to learn the ins-and-outs -- you probably don't want to mix classes or try anything overly complex just yet because it does take some learning and macro work. When I was playing with it I just used 3 trial accounts and my main account to see what it was like without needing to drop any money.

Shamans are the best for this because they have the best group support mechanics, can heal (which is huge), can ressurrect (which is VERY huge while leveling), and have the highest ranged burst damage in the game.

I leveled them to cap and dominated PvP. They did very well in arena if I had a solid healer helping, even when they were still in blue and green gear. Where they really shined was battlegrounds though, where 6-minute AB/EOS wins were the norm. They could kill most groups of players within seconds using chain lightning with elemental mastery and other trinkets/buffs. No healer could heal through my target because they'd be instantly dead.

I ran 4 instances of the game in windowed mode on the same computer, all with the lowest graphics settings. You'll need to have a decent video card and system RAM (at the time I had an 8800 GTX and 8gb RAM). Keyclone lets you set this up and save the layout. You do NOT want to replicate movement or mouse clicks to all the windows -- You control one character(Leader), and the other 3 are in follow mode. Every character's hotbar has a key which will /target the party leader, then /follow. You end up mashing this a lot if they get split up or stunned.

All hotbar attack abilities are macros to first assist the Leader to target their target, then use the spell. One useful macro that comes to mind is a self-target Chain Heal, giving you 4 chain heals that will fully heal up the party.

I set up their totems so that everything is covered, with the most important being Tremor Totem because fear bomb can wreck your group. Dropping 4x Grounding Totem was huge for keeping them alive -- it gives you a large window of survival versus casters, and takes other things like counterspell. 4x Fire Nova Totem was incredible for cleaning up rogues and warriors.

I had a macro set up which could at any time set any of the four characters as Leader, so if the leader died they weren't just sitting there stupid -- they could instantly start following a new leader and you just play from the next window over.

It takes some adjustment in play style, and you need to understand how to make macros, but it will be the most fun you ever have in Warcraft once you get the hang of it.

I ended up buying GameCommanderPro, which is more than I actually need for a 3 shaman group. It took some time to set up.. but now I think I'm running smoothly. The great part about this program.. I don't have to macro anything... it's built in. Once it's set up properly, it auto follows, auto targets my main's target.. and the only thing I have to do is tell it what keys I want to send to all 3 games. It takes some getting used to.. as far as typing chat and such, but I think I have it down.

I'm going to use them for pvp.. so now I need to figure out what professions I need to level up on them. In a perfect world, I would make each engineers.. but MAN that's a shitload of money. I think what I'll do is make each one a gatherer (skinner, herbs and miner) and then figure out which one will be the LW, Alch? and enchanter.

[TheEschaton]

Engineering/alchemy tend to be the "PVP" professions, so make your gatherer your main (the one who you're running) and make him mining/herbalism, and he can gather the mats for the other two.