Warcrack multiboxing: Mac style
I fooled around with dualboxing on Windows some months ago and found the whole thing a little too clunky to be worth the effort. But with the Recruit-A-Friend programme running and the ease of soloing most <60 content with a paladin I figured I’d take another look.
This is a good article on how to dualbox using a Mac. The voice control stuff is hopeless — I can’t get it to recognise “define a keyboard command”, let alone actually create any! — but the Warcrack client differentiates between numeric keypad keys and the regular set of number keys, so it’s quite practical to tell your slave character to use the keypad, which gives you ten frequent-use macros to work with.
This is more than enough for the “solo an instance with a high-level character and have a lowbie follow for loot and quests” scheme, and also for the “have a higher-level healer follow and throw the odd heal” scenario too.
Hell, it’s probably enough for “have my 70 mage follow my 70 paladin and chuck out arcane missiles as needed”. Provided you can get your basic set of actions in to the ten keys, it should be golden.
Running the primary character in windowed+maximized mode you can use Spaces to quickly switch between client sessions. I turned down all the graphic knobs and turned off the sound effects on the slave client to minimize resource use.
The question, I guess, is whether I think this is worth shelling out for a full second set of WoW keys (base, TBC, WotLK) plus the price of transferring the L70 paladin to the second account. Maybe not right now, but it bears consideration…
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