Multi-boxing Healing using ISBoxer

In setting up ISBoxer to run a mixed-class team, I needed the ability to heal my team without actually playing the healer as a primary character. In other words, I'd rather play the tank to ensure that all the aggro is where it should be and control healing from the tank's perspective.

MiRai has several excellent tutorials (here and here) that illustrate how to accomplish this in ISBoxer. Using these as a basis, I then tailored the approach to meet my own needs. So, what are those needs?

Well, they're pretty straight forward.  First and foremost, I wanted to utilize click-to-heal within my active game window. In other words, click on a party member and have the healer cast a spell -- right click on the tank to cast Penance, middle mouse click to cast Power Word: Shield, and, well, you get the idea. Note, this is not limited to the tank -- any member of the party would benefit from this! And, extending further, I wanted distinct sections of the party member's unit frame allocated to the primary healer as well as alternative healers (so in a pinch the Paladin tank can cast Word of Glory or Lay on Hands if the primary healer fell behind).

So what did I need to configure to accomplish this?

A Foray into Multi-boxing

Multi-boxing (the same player playing more than one account at the same time) is a topic that can raise passion in players. I know, from personal experience, that it can really suck when a team of 5 shamans targets you in a battleground... Before you can do anything in defense, you're waiting for the Spirit Healer. So, I get that multi-boxing seems unfair.

That being said -- I'm going to admit something: I'm a new multi-boxer. Hold on before you unleash hell on me -- I'm focusing on PVE content and I'm not intentionally or unintentionally interfering with anyone else's enjoyment of their game. I'm keeping to myself, but myself now has 5 toons instead of one!

My Multi-boxing Team: "The Spice Girls"