ISBoxer:Lax

This page will describe Lax's configuration for multi-boxing World of Warcraft in detail, with screenshots and video where appropriate. It is under construction.

World of Warcraft

Addons

• Auctioneer
• Cartographer
• Combuctor: This bag mod combines all my bags into one window, and adds a Search box as well as ability to filter by item rarity, and also adds a colored background showing the rarity color of each item. The Search box is invaluable while multi-boxing, because I can enable Repeater and type in the search box to find a specific item on all of my characters. Filtering by item rarity is also extremely useful in many situations, including vendoring, disenchanting, and mailing items to an auction mule. Combining these two features is also very useful -- I will ship cloth and leather to my auction mule by filtering by Common (white) rarity and searching for cloth or leather, for example (so as to not include grey, green, or blue items that happen to have cloth or leather in the name). The colored background for each item in the bag window is great for quickly finding the right type of item without filtering.
• Deadly Boss Mods
• Jamba: Jamba is an addon designed for multi-boxing. ISBoxer provides features that integrate with Jamba to simplify configuration, such as automatically synchronizing the Jamba member list.
• OpenRDX (Brethren Raid Frames): This Unit Frames addon does it all. But most importantly, Click to Cast combined with a sorted party window. My use of this addon will be described in the Healing section of this page.
• Overachiever
• PallyPower
• Quest Helper
• WinterTime

Video settings

I keep all video settings at minimum, except for View Distance. View Distance is up a little bit on my main and possibly one other character, but minimum on the rest. I rarely need to play as the other characters, and when I do, I usually don't need to see that far on that window. If I do for some reason, and I can't switch back, then I simply turn it up as needed. There is no need for pretty graphics when multi-boxing -- performance is paramount.

Hardware

System Specs

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Input Devices

Logitech G15 Keyboard

Logitech G15 Keyboard (yeah my keyboard is dirty, so sue me)
Single Class (Shamans)	Multi-class (Death Knights + others)

The basic premise of my G15 layout is to use the bottom keys for the most commonly used actions, middle for general combat utility, and top for rare usage (usually non-combat). I try to stick to similar actions for each key between character sets, so my AoE key for example will do Death and Decay with my DKs, Hurricane with my druids, and so on -- targeted AoEs. Many of the buttons have alternate functionality if I press CTRL and/or ALT, for example with my Shamans, the DPS key does not have my healer attacking unless I hold CTRL, and if I hold ALT it will cast Chain Lightning (with CTRL+ALT including my healer in the Chain Lightning). Likewise, other keys will do Round Robin unless I hold CTRL.

Gameplay

Movement

(describe usage of auto-follow, and being able to use mouse and/or keyboard to move as a matter of convenience -- hand positioning)

Combat

(reiterate hand positioning, with focus on combat)

Healing

(describe click to cast configuration, and repeater region)