It does take a lot of practise and a lot of prep, for example starting small and building up. Making a follow, heal and careplan macro on the alts and just using them for those 3 tasks to begin with. Slowly over time you adjust the macros and get used to doing the tasks you are set up for more easily and eventually add another task and set up the macros and get used to doing that too, adjusting and editing and getting more comfortable until you eventually add another and so on.
I cant really count of the wasted hours of changing all of my desktops, skillbars, macros, stanzas to try out an idea only to end up changing it all back the next day or having a better idea to try. Really I am no better than any decent gamer like yourself, Talk and I am pretty sure if you got the sudden urge to play 4, 7, 9 toons at once (hypothetically) you would probably be able to run rings around me and teach me some new tricks in no time.
The most helpful tricks for seamlessly switching between clients were things TI mentioned years ago when I was on the other side of a similar argument. At the time I didnt think it possible to run more than 4 or 5 toons and control them all manually but I was wrong. Its not only possible to run a full team yourself manually, its actually pretty easy once you get used to it. If I had put in the time and effort all those years ago and gotten as good as Yaka, Nit and company, I might have actually been able to give them a decent fight.
I cant really count of the wasted hours of changing all of my desktops, skillbars, macros, stanzas to try out an idea only to end up changing it all back the next day or having a better idea to try. Really I am no better than any decent gamer like yourself, Talk and I am pretty sure if you got the sudden urge to play 4, 7, 9 toons at once (hypothetically) you would probably be able to run rings around me and teach me some new tricks in no time.
The most helpful tricks for seamlessly switching between clients were things TI mentioned years ago when I was on the other side of a similar argument. At the time I didnt think it possible to run more than 4 or 5 toons and control them all manually but I was wrong. Its not only possible to run a full team yourself manually, its actually pretty easy once you get used to it. If I had put in the time and effort all those years ago and gotten as good as Yaka, Nit and company, I might have actually been able to give them a decent fight.
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