An Ode to Treants

I am really enjoying multiboxing.  Through using a program called Hotkeynet I have been able to set up everything that I’ve thought about (well, one item is missing… currently the mousewheel is not a button that is broadcast to my slave accounts).  I still have a bit of work to do with making the macros leaderless so that if Owltoid dies then I can easily switch over to Weirdowl or Owlive.

Also, I need a new name for Owlive… any suggestions?

Over the past week I’ve been doing instance runs and just learning the basics of multiboxing.  I’m significantly better at controlling the movement of all three moonkins and am getting better at my spacial awareness for LOS and slave facing the correct direction.

I have tons and tons hotkeyed but one I’m particularly proud of is my entangling roots macro.  Since the moonkins are only 64 right now (hopefully 70 within a week) they don’t have cyclone.  However, I do have entangling roots set up (shift-c) and cyclone will be an easy transition (unmodified c).  What I’m proud of is using Hotkeynet’s toggle function.  I have three windows of WoW up when multiboxing: w1, w2, and w3.  When I push my side mouse button the first time, Hotkeynet tells w1 to set the target to focus.  I then highlight a new enemy and hit my side mouse button a second time.  Now w2 has its focus target set to the second enemy.  I highlight a new enemy (on my main screen) and hit the side mouse button once more which sents a signal to w3 telling it to set the target to its focus.  I now have all my moonkins with a focus target so that anytime I cast roots they switch to their focus target and begin the crowd control.  Then, they go right back to DPSing my kill target.  Effectively what this does is crowd controll three melee (assuming no resists) while I burn down a fourth target.  Usually the moonkins can easily burn down an instance elite before they get more than one hit or spell in.  So, if the pull goes properly I can take out four elites without taking any significant damage.  Of course if the pull is more like 6 elites then I just pull out the treants and have some fun.

Anyway, that’s my contribution to the multiboxing world (I highly doubt I’m the first to come up with it, but it was fun figuring out a solution to my problem instead of using someone elses code!)

Thank you Hotkeynet!