21.10.2009 von vorticone.

Some people asked me how I play five characters at once, and the answer is not that easy. So I am posting this screenshot of my dual screen setup.

Basically it is two 22″ screens next to each other, with a spanning desktop. The left monitor runs a maximized WoW for my main character. The right monitor is split into 4 windows, each running a copy of WoW. I am using a program called Maximizer to remove the window borders and title bars, so it all fits nicely.

To control the characters on the secondary windows I am mainly using a program called HotKeyNet, which sends predefined keypresses to one or more windows. For example, if I press my follow key/macro, all characters but the one in the active window get the keypress that is assigned to a follow macro. If I press my dps button, all characters start casting, and so on and on. Really, lots of macros and fine tuning.

More ingame screenshots, maybe during a fight or so, later. Now, I am off for lunch. Lunch > WoW!

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21.10.2009 von vorticone.

Just for the record, this is the current team. I switched around a bit on the professions and specs, and this is what I will try now for the next few levels:

Lord Kreizenn - Bloodelf Paladin, Protection specced, gathers ore and herbs

Ikatiar the Venom - Bloodelf Priest, Holy spec (might switch to Discipline), Enchanting and Tailoring

Lady Mirenilla - Troll Mage, Arcane spec (maybe Fire soonish), Skinning and later Inscription

Lady Nevederia - Orc Warlock, Destruction spec, Tailoring and Jewelcrafting

Dagarn the Destroyer - Tauren Shaman, Elemental spec, Leatherworking and Alchemy

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21.10.2009 von vorticone.

After some pretty fun leveling and setting up all the macros and hotkeys I need for my multiboxing and joining my two toon teams and my single shaman together, I went late this night into the Ragefire Chasm beneath Orgrimmar.

With only a single deaths on the side of my team I think we successfully rocked that place! Just poor little mage Mirenilla was a little bit too enthusiastic and overaggroed an opposed warlock, and before we could save her, she fell.

I still have to work out a lot of macros and tweak my settings a bit. And I guess I should install some kind of aggro warning or threat meter so I can see when someone of my casters has aggro. Oh, and maybe a dps meter since I am curious how good my cast sequences are.

I will post a screenshot tomorrow since I just realized I do not have a ftp program installed since I installed Win7.

Anyways, good night for now. It’s late enough already! *cough*

Edit: Here’s the screenshot, as promised.

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