Multi boxing program

[soozquu]

I am RAFing my self (for the shiny new mount and a level 80 monk come MOP), but am getting frustrated tabbing back between the two screens

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[piekid]

I've been dual boxing for the last month, and this is what I'm doing. I tried out several free options and I found HotkeyNet to be the easiest to use. I'm not exactly stupid with computers, and it's actually the only one I got to even work for me, who knows why. The site even gives you a script that is written specifically for playing two WOW accounts on one machine. All this program does is capture what keybind you use while one window of WOW is open and then sends it to the other window. You can probably imagine my glee when using it for the first time and I hit my Faerie Fire button on my druid and my priest automatically bubbled the druid. It was awesome.

I also suggest the WOW addon Jamba (it's on Curse), which does a whole TON of things involving quest and toon interaction in-game. I find it very handy, but no matter what, you'll still be tabbing back and forth for things like looting quest items

[soozquu]

I did some Googling, and found hotkeynet. I tried to set it up, using the scripts given, and failed hard. I got as far as copying the script into a text document and trying to load it into the program. It loaded, but with what looked like a ton of errors. I am not very computer proficient (at least when it comes to writing software/understanding technical aspects of them). I read through the wiki and it was like reading a foreign language. Lol I think I need a multi boxing for dummies guide.

[soozquu]

Now that I've had some coffee and lunch in me, I decided to try Hotkeynet again. Here is what I've managed to do so far:

I went to the quick start guide for WOW, copied the page into a word document, (this page: http://www.hotkeynet.com/wow/wow-sample-two-on-one.html ) saved it, then opened hotkeynet and loaded that page as "load script". What happened is I got 63 errors. The summary reads:

Finished loading hotkey file.
63 errors were found
0 definitions were loaded
0 keys will be used as modifiers

Command line: AutoExec
Unable to find command AutoExec

Scrolling up and looking at each line, there is the same error: text was found outside <> symbols; that's not allowed.

Do you by chance have any idea where I went wrong? I don't know if it matters or not, but I did not have either of my wow windows open.

Thanks.

[piekid]

Hmmm, that's odd, because when I copy that page exactly, I get:

Finished loading hotkey file.
No errors were found
60 definitions were loaded
1 key will be used as a modifier

Command line: AutoExec
Unable to find command AutoExec

Maybe it's a silly question, but when you say word document, what do you mean exactly? What program did you use? The script needs to be saved as a text document, with .txt as the file type. Typically created with Notepad. That is the only reason I can see that the file would have things outside the <>s.

[soozquu]

Hmm... $20 is totally doable. Will this program make the second character use their abilities when the first character uses theirs? (Meaning Char 1 pushes lightening bolt at a target, Char 2 pushes stab.) Do I have to have the abilities on each toon bound to the same buttons? (The ones I want to use together I mean.)

[sarayana]

I've no clue about multiboxing, but I thought I'd point out that, as of right now, Blizz won't allow insta-80 Monks come Mists. Source: http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/08/09/scroll-of-resurrection-rewards-not-allowed-for-monks-new-pandar/

[piekid]

You can't use SoR with them, but they *will* be able to receive granted levels from RaF.

[sarayana]

Ah right, my bad. In my sleep-deprived moments, I always mix those two up. >_<

[soozquu]

They will not allow SOR monks, but there was a blue post stating that Monks would be eligible for all RAF benefits.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6293820089#2

[shedevilrkg]

I also recently starting dualboxing because I RaFed myself for the mount. Since I didn't want to triple exp to go to waste, I did some research and decided to go with ISBoxer for my multiboxing software. It is a paid program ($15 for 3 months), but it's really easy to get it set up especially for just the basics. You can try it out for free for seven days if you wanted to get a feel for what it's like first. If you want, you can add me to realid at shedevil85rkg at gmail dot com and I can talk to you more about it :)