Interact with target and multiboxing.

August 28th, 2009

I’d like to revisit the rather wonderful “Interact with target” feature Blizzard introduced a while back, and how it impacts (in an incredibly) positive way) on us multiboxers.

I decided that it really was about time that I got it set up. I’ve known about it’s existence for quite a while but never quite got round to using it.

Firstly here is what you need to do.

Create 1 macro that assists your main character.

I use focus so i can switch lead characters on the fly so my assist macro consists of

/assist focus

(If you don’t switch main you can always put /assist mainplayername)

Put that macro on to your bar and make sure you bind a key to it.

Next you need to go in to your keybindings. In the section deailing with targetting you will find an Interact with Target option. Bind an unusued key to this (and remember it).

The final step is to go to the mouse options and turn on “click to move” on your slave characters. This is vital.

So how do you use this? Firstly select a target with your main. This can be an NPC, such as a quest giver, windrider master etc, or it can be a mob or enemy player.

Now hit the key for your assist macro. You will see that all your slaves now have the target selected. Now hit your ”interact with target” key. A number of things will happen. If you are close to the target your characters will turn to face it (how cool is that - I use this when pesky melee are in amongst my characters). If it is friendly your characters will now open the window as if you right clicked on that character. If it is a mob your characters will start to autoattack it. (This is great for melee group multiboxers).

Now if you are far away from the target, your characters will turn to face it and run towards the point where that target was when you hit your interact with target button. In the case of enemy/mobs if it moves away your slaves will just go to the spot it was at- but you can always keep hitting interact with target to keep them on it.

This works for large distances.

The main reason I set this up was for fear recovery, but it’s made my life a lot easier picking quests up, handing them in, looting mobs on my slaves, taking flightpoints.

I should really go over fear recovery. If my grounding totems aren’t out or don’t pulse in time my team can go running off in random different directions, ending up facing all over the place. Before I would have to take my main and run round trying to gather them up. Now I can select a target on my main (say an enemy player or an alterac valley ram) and hit the interact with target key. All my guys are going to head for the same spot (so long as they haven’t got caught up on terrain, objects in between). When they all get closer I can hit my follow key to pull them back together, and if need be go and pick up one straggler instead of a few.

So if you haven’t got interact with target set up do so now. You wont regret it.