Why you dead?!

How many times have you heard someone ask, "What?! Why am I dead?!" Well, today's your lucky day. Saveyoursanity over from Livejournal.com and the Wow Ladies community has an answer for you.

Next time that idiot dps or the annoying tank whines because they don't understand why they died, well...

You know what to say!

3.2, Tier 9, and and 10m Ulduar Hard modes, oh my!

As many of you may have heard, 3.2's patch notes have been released, and the PTR has been opened once more for trial. So far I'm relatively pleased with the direction that moonkin are now moving in, though as Graylo mentions in his blog, there's still a few kinks that need to be worked out, and I'm desperately hoping that the 4-piece tier 9 set bonus is just a place holder! Eep!

Anyway, I must say I am pretty excited overall however. Blizzard has made a few good strides toward improving moonkin dps so far with the current patch notes, and I'm pretty eager to see what else is coming.

On another note however... the release of the PTR patch notes and the flood of information regarding 3.2 has started to worry me slightly. As you may remember, my guild worked toward (and succeeded at!) getting the Glory of the Raider achievements completed with 3.0/naxx/eoe/os. However, when 3.1 came out, the ability to complete that meta achievement and get a Plagued Proto Drake was removed, leaving a few of our group shy ONE measly achievement (gonna go when the volcano blows, of all things!) of getting their drakes.

I would absolutely hate to see something like that happen again when 3.2 comes out... I want to see more of my guildmates sporting the Rusted Proto Drake so I am hoping that the patch will be a good while longer in coming.

However, we did get started on our achievement runs last week! We "built" a group of raiders and took them into Ulduar 10 with the desire to work on some hard modes and tackle a few achievements. In about 3 hours, we managed to do Flame Leviathan 2/4 towers, 1/3 Freya's elders, as well as get the Crazy Cat Lady, Stokin the Furnace, Lose Your Illusion, Heartbreaker, and I Could Say That This Cache Was Rare.

Pretty proud of the crew, and we're going in tonight for even more attempts, and I think we're going to try our hands at 3/3 elders, IC hard mode, and possibly the 25 dwarves on Razor. We'll see how it goes!

Multi-Boxing World of Warcraft and Auto Hot Key

Wowza, has it been half an age since I last updated! Among all the other real-life emergencies, events, and activities going on in my days, something had to give and it was the Blog. And for that... I'm sorry!

Recently I've begun a Refer A Friend drive, where I have "referred" a friend to wow and we level toons together. In the spirit of that, I decided I wanted a few horde-side toons as well, so I took advantage of a 10-day trial period to give Multiboxing a shot. Whew, can it be tough! But it's FUN!

Right now I'm running around with a warrior, and a healbot druid tagging along behind her. To make this whole endeavor more simple on me (as well as to save time and frustration!), and minimize the amount of tabbing back and forth between wow applications, I downloaded a program called AutoHotKey (AHK), which allows you to send keystrokes to multiple applications on your machine.

Before you ask, yes this is PERFECTLY legal with Blizzard (as you can see here and here!), so don't worry, I'm not doing or advocating anything against blizzard policy!

The only problem I ran into when choosing to multibox was that I was struggling to control both toons, and downloading AHK managed to solve that... after doing quite a bit of research. You see, AHK doesn't come automatically equipped to handle your wow-playing, and you must then take the time to create a script pertaining to your wow applications that detailes what happens when you push each key! At long last, I found one on Elitist Jerks that worked nearly perfectly... except that it did not include an Alt+key command in the script.

Eventually, I figured out how to add in the alt commands, and so here I give you the perfect AutoHotKey World of Warcraft script for multi-boxing your toons!

;ClonesPush(strKeys)
;{
; global WowWinId1
; global WowWinId2
; global WowWinId3
; global WowWinId4
; global WowWinId5
; IfWinNotActive, ahk_id %WowWinId1%
; ControlSend, , %strKeys%, ahk_id %WowWinId1%
; IfWinNotActive, ahk_id %WowWinId2%
; ControlSend, , %strKeys%, ahk_id %WowWinId2%
; IfWinNotActive, ahk_id %WowWinId3%
; ControlSend, , %strKeys%, ahk_id %WowWinId3%
; IfWinNotActive, ahk_id %WowWinId4%
; ControlSend, , %strKeys%, ahk_id %WowWinId4%
; IfWinNotActive, ahk_id %WowWinId5%
; ControlSend, , %strKeys%, ahk_id %WowWinId5%
;}

;ClonesClick(strKeys)
;{
; IfWinNotActive, ahk_id %WowWinId1%
; ControlClick, , ahk_id %WowWinId1%,, %strKeys%,
; IfWinNotActive, ahk_id %WowWinId2%
; ControlClick, , ahk_id %WowWinId2%,, %strKeys%,
; IfWinNotActive, ahk_id %WowWinId3%
; ControlClick, , ahk_id %WowWinId3%,, %strKeys%,
; IfWinNotActive, ahk_id %WowWinId4%
; ControlClick, , ahk_id %WowWinId4%,, %strKeys%,
; IfWinNotActive, ahk_id %WowWinId5%
; ControlClick, , ahk_id %WowWinId5%,, %strKeys%,
;}

ClonesPush(keys) {

global WowWinId1
global WowWinId2
global WowWinId3
global WowWinId4
global WowWinId5

Loop, 5 {
win := WowWinId%A_Index%
IfWinNotActive, ahk_id %win%
ControlSend, , %keys%, ahk_id %win%
}

}

ClonesClick(button) {

global WowWinId1
global WowWinId2
global WowWinId3
global WowWinId4
global WowWinId5

Loop, 5 {
win := WowWinId%A_Index%
IfWinNotActive, ahk_id %win%
ControlClick, , ahk_id %win%, , %button%,
}

}

;Grab unique window ID's
WinGet, WowWinId, List, World of Warcraft

; *******************************
; *** Only if WoW is in focus ***
; *******************************
#IfWinActive, World of Warcraft

;*** Special Functions ***

; *** Makes clones follow main ***
^-::ClonesPush("{- down}{- up}")

; *** Makes clones assist main ***
^=::ClonesPush("{= down}{= up}")

; *** Makes clones jump with main ***
~Space::ClonesPush("{Space down}{Space up}")

; *** Suspends HotKeys while typing on main ***
~Enter::Suspend, Toggle
~/::Suspend, On
~Escape::Suspend, Off


; *******************
; *** Hotbars 1-0 ***
; *******************
; *** Hotbars 1-0 ***
~1::ClonesPush("{1 down}{1 up}")
~2::ClonesPush("{2 down}{2 up}")
~3::ClonesPush("{3 down}{3 up}")
~4::ClonesPush("{4 down}{4 up}")
~5::ClonesPush("{5 down}{5 up}")
~6::ClonesPush("{6 down}{6 up}")
~7::ClonesPush("{7 down}{7 up}")
~8::ClonesPush("{8 down}{8 up}")
~9::ClonesPush("{9 down}{9 up}")
~0::ClonesPush("{0 down}{0 up}")
~-::ClonesPush("{- down}{- up}")
~=::ClonesPush("{= down}{= up}")



; ***************************
; *** Hotbars Alt(!) 1-0 ***
; ***************************
~!1::ClonesPush("{Alt down}{1 down}{1 up}{Alt up}")
~!2::ClonesPush("{Alt down}{2 down}{2 up}{Alt up}")
~!3::ClonesPush("{Alt down}{3 down}{3 up}{Alt up}")
~!4::ClonesPush("{Alt down}{4 down}{4 up}{Alt up}")
~!5::ClonesPush("{Alt down}{5 down}{5 up}{Alt up}")
~!6::ClonesPush("{Alt down}{6 down}{6 up}{Alt up}")
~!7::ClonesPush("{Alt down}{7 down}{7 up}{Alt up}")
~!8::ClonesPush("{Alt down}{8 down}{8 up}{Alt up}")
~!9::ClonesPush("{Alt down}{9 down}{9 up}{Alt up}")
~!0::ClonesPush("{Alt down}{0 down}{0 up}{Alt up}")

; ***************************
; *** Hotbars SHIFT(+) 1-0 ***
; ***************************
~+1::ClonesPush("{Shift down}{1 down}{1 up}{Shift up}")
~+2::ClonesPush("{Shift down}{2 down}{2 up}{Shift up}")
~+3::ClonesPush("{Shift down}{3 down}{3 up}{Shift up}")
~+4::ClonesPush("{Shift down}{4 down}{4 up}{Shift up}")
~+5::ClonesPush("{Shift down}{5 down}{5 up}{Shift up}")
~+6::ClonesPush("{Shift down}{6 down}{6 up}{Shift up}")
~+7::ClonesPush("{Shift down}{7 down}{7 up}{Shift up}")
~+8::ClonesPush("{Shift down}{8 down}{8 up}{Shift up}")
~+9::ClonesPush("{Shift down}{9 down}{9 up}{Shift up}")
~+0::ClonesPush("{Shift down}{0 down}{0 up}{Shift up}")

; **************************
; *** Hotbars CTRL(^) 1-0 ***
; **************************
~^1::ClonesPush("{Ctrl down}{1 down}{1 up}{Ctrl up}")
~^2::ClonesPush("{Ctrl down}{2 down}{2 up}{Ctrl up}")
~^3::ClonesPush("{Ctrl down}{3 down}{3 up}{Ctrl up}")
~^4::ClonesPush("{Ctrl down}{4 down}{4 up}{Ctrl up}")
~^5::ClonesPush("{Ctrl down}{5 down}{5 up}{Ctrl up}")
~^6::ClonesPush("{Ctrl down}{6 down}{6 up}{Ctrl up}")
~^7::ClonesPush("{Ctrl down}{7 down}{7 up}{Ctrl up}")
~^8::ClonesPush("{Ctrl down}{8 down}{8 up}{Ctrl up}")
~^9::ClonesPush("{Ctrl down}{9 down}{9 up}{Ctrl up}")
~^0::ClonesPush("{Ctrl down}{0 down}{0 up}{Ctrl up}")

; *** Move clones ***
~Up::ClonesPush("{Up down}")
~Up Up::ClonesPush("{Up up}")
~Down::ClonesPush("{Down down}")
~Down Up::ClonesPush("{Down up}")
~Left::ClonesPush("{Left down}")
~Left Up::ClonesPush("{Left up}")
~Right::ClonesPush("{Right down}")
~Right Up::ClonesPush("{Right up}")

; Quest Turn ins
~[::ClonesPush("{[ down}{[ up}")
~]::ClonesPush("{] down}{] up}")

; Healing
~H::ClonesPush("{H down}{H up}")
~+H::ClonesPush("{Shift down}{H down}{H up}{Shift up}")

; Buff Weapon
~V::ClonesPush("{V down}{V up}")

; Totems
~F1::ClonesPush("{F1 down}{F1 up}")
~F2::ClonesPush("{F2 down}{F2 up}")
~F3::ClonesPush("{F3 down}{F3 up}")
~F4::ClonesPush("{F4 down}{F4 up}")

; Attacks
~t::ClonesPush("{t down}{t up}")

; Formation
~Delete::ClonesPush("{Delete down}{Delete up}")
; Misc
~\::ClonesPush("{\ down}{\ up}")

; Clicks
;~XButton2::ClonesClick("X2")
;~XButton1::ClonesClick("X1")
^x::ClonesClick("X2")

Voila! Enjoy, and feel free to ask if you have any questions!