FAQ  •  Register  •  Login

How to manage melee ?

Moderator: MiRai

<<

diaz06

Posts: 18

Joined: Sun May 10, 2015 12:44 pm

Post Fri Dec 08, 2017 2:39 pm

How to manage melee ?

Hello,

I just created a melee team but how to manage it ? I mean, i spam the IWT key with my DPS key and the toons run in circle or move far away. How to do deal with that please ?

Thanks a lot
<<

bob

User avatar

League of Extraordinary Multiboxers

Posts: 4587

Joined: Sat Feb 15, 2014 11:14 am

Location: In the dining room, with the lead pipe.

Post Fri Dec 08, 2017 2:59 pm

Re: How to manage melee ?

Don't spam the IWT key. As explained on the WIKI about Interact With Target.

Wiki wrote:When combined with Click to Move, Interact with Target will also cause your character to face and move toward your target; This is an important feature for multiboxing, since it means less manual movement when doing the above activities. Your character will automatically stop moving if the action is performed, but will not otherwise change direction or stop moving unless manually interrupted.

Unfortunately, this limitation of the feature causes some undesirable side effects, especially in the cases where your target is moving, or your character otherwise slightly misses the target, because your character will continue running in that direction unless manually interrupted! Using the Interact with Target hotkey again will restart the process, where once again your character may stop moving or miss the target again, and this will continue as many times as you use the hotkey -- potentially making your character run circles around its target.


So, the gist is, don't spam the IWT key, but use it, carefully with an interrupt key, like broadcasting backstep or something to interrupt them and get themt o stop when the target moves. Roving targets are a bitch. Someone to stun or make 'em stuck is always handy.

As for "how to manage melee". The answer is practice.
<<

diaz06

Posts: 18

Joined: Sun May 10, 2015 12:44 pm

Post Sun Dec 10, 2017 4:40 am

Re: How to manage melee ?

Hello,

Okay thanks, i will top spam it with my DPS keys and practice.
<<

Smedbox

Posts: 86

Joined: Mon May 30, 2011 12:41 am

Post Wed Dec 13, 2017 8:31 pm

Re: How to manage melee ?

Multiboxing melee teams is terrible in all MMOs, but at least it's possible to do in WoW because of the Click-To-Move setting.

One problem with Click-To-Move is that it doesn't have a max range. (Though this is both good and bad.) It means that your characters will run far away randomly if they didn't acquire the assist target properly (which happens due to Internet latency if you switch target quickly). You can minimize this by extending the time between selecting a target and then using Assist and then executing the action. This makes melee teams have slow reaction time.

The other problem with Click-To-Move is about characters running in circles. This is because of mob aggro. If the mob is attacking a character that is using Click-To-Move, they will run in circles. You can minimize this by always making sure your leader has acquired aggro (e.g. with a taunt) before you use Click-To-Move on your other characters. This also making melee teams SLOW.

The third problem with Click-To-Move is that I hate when it's enabled on my lead character. :) I think it makes it difficult to mouse-look with the right mouse button. This is a problem for me because I'm using a (proper) FTL setup where I can instantly switch to any character and lead the team from that new character when I want to. So having Click-To-Move enabled for any of my characters makes it annoying to switch to that character and lead the team from there.

The fourth problem with Click-To-Move is that it will only move the character to the location the target had at the moment you triggered Click-To-Move. If the target moves somewhere else, even just a short distance, your character will still just run to the original location and stop there. Since targets often move around a little bit, you have to use Click-To-Move frequently. Because of the problems listed above, this makes melee teams EVEN SLOWER.

(This said, my current main team is a max-level melee team of 5 paladins - one tank, one healer and three dps. But I intend to switch out at least the three melee dps to ranged dps.)

Return to World of Warcraft

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 14 guests