How to keep facing the target while multiboxing

How to keep facing the target while multiboxing.

April 24th, 2009

I’ve noticed from my weblogs that there seems to be a fair amount of interest in keeping your alts facing the target whilst multiboxing and realised that I haven’t put too much information on here to answer that question.

This post should remedy that.

When setting up a fight it’s generally quite easy to get all your team facing the same way. You tend to follow the tank, drop the group off of follow and pull the mobs iwth your tank. However things can sometimes get messy and there are many situations where you may find your team facing a different direction from and you need to get them back on target quickly.

Lets say that my tank gets knocked back through my team so they are now facing the wrong way.

The two approaches I might take, are - run my paladin back through my team so he’s back in front of them, or if there is a bit of room between my alts and the tank I’ll tap my follow key they will turn to follow the tank, and I quickly tap the key I use to break follow (in my case I use my back arrow key to do this).

Another situation I mainly got when I was out questing was when a mob attacked and my team stopped right on top of the tank. Essentially the shaman are unable to cast as the mob was technically behind them, despite the tank being more or less in front of them.

Tapping your follow key wouldn’t help in this case.

I mentioned earlier that my break follow is my back arrow key. I chose that key specifically for the above situation. (all my other arrow keys are on my do not pass list).

I turn my tank to face my alts and press my down arrow key. The net effect is that the tank and my shaman back away from each other and the mob is now nicely positioned to be blasted into oblivion. This works regardless of if the mob is beating on the tank or one of my shaman.

These simple techniques are all I’ve had to use for a caster team.

Melee teams are a different matter, given that you want them to be in melee range and can’t tap follow as they are right on top of the tank. I haven’t done too much with my melee team but have resorted to running my tank forward a few paces (providing he has aggro) and then tapping follow to bring my team back in.

However, Patch 3.1 introduced some nice functionality that might just help with this. I’ve yet to play with this feature but the basics are.

1. In your key bindings there is a new option to bind a key for interact with unit. (something like that). You would set this on all your characters.

2. Enable click to move in your mouse options within wow (this is important).

3. You target the mob with your tank and would click interact with target. This causes the alts to run the alts towards the target if they are out of range. (turning if needed). In this case Interact with target means beat it to a pulp .