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07-30-2008, 11:21 AM
I've been living so far (only level 27) with the no focus manifesto, and wanted to get some input on how I could potentially improve just a few things.
I have all my macros on all clones set to target my main and cast off of targettarget. This works great except for the random times that blizzard makes my clones target a pat walking by, a different mob, something that looks at them funny, a rock, themselves, or nothing.
In order to combat this, I have a specific button (bound to e) that targets my main (or the next person in line if he dies) that I hit constantly when casting to make sure my characters get the right target. This seems to have taken care of them targeting the wrong stuff about 95% of the time, even if it's a bit annoying. Is there a better way to do this? I don't want to add "/target main, or clone if he's dead" into all my macros as I see this is very inefficient.
My other quirk: setting focus is laggy.
I have a button that sets focus for a warlock. In essence, it assists my main, sets focus on that target, says "I set my focus to %t", then goes back to targeting my main.
The problem I'm having with this is that I'll target a new mob and tell my warlock to set it as their focus and they'll set the mob I had targeted a few seconds ago. Sometimes I will play this game 2 or 3 times before he sets his focus to the right mob. This is pretty aggravating and I've had to learn to stay calm when I get adds, because getting my warlocks to have their voids pick up the correct adds can take me a try or two. Is there a better way to set focus? Or is this as good as it gets?
Ah, additional bonus question:
When my main dies and I switch quickly to clone-second-in-command, his hotbar is set to have all his spells cast off of targettarget, which obviously doesn't work well for him. To work around this I've copied all my characters spells in the same order to hotbar 2. So now I switch to second-in-command, switch my hotbar to #2 and I can cast spells with all my clones assisting off me. I thought this was kind of a clever way around it, but is there a better way?
I have all my macros on all clones set to target my main and cast off of targettarget. This works great except for the random times that blizzard makes my clones target a pat walking by, a different mob, something that looks at them funny, a rock, themselves, or nothing.
In order to combat this, I have a specific button (bound to e) that targets my main (or the next person in line if he dies) that I hit constantly when casting to make sure my characters get the right target. This seems to have taken care of them targeting the wrong stuff about 95% of the time, even if it's a bit annoying. Is there a better way to do this? I don't want to add "/target main, or clone if he's dead" into all my macros as I see this is very inefficient.
My other quirk: setting focus is laggy.
I have a button that sets focus for a warlock. In essence, it assists my main, sets focus on that target, says "I set my focus to %t", then goes back to targeting my main.
The problem I'm having with this is that I'll target a new mob and tell my warlock to set it as their focus and they'll set the mob I had targeted a few seconds ago. Sometimes I will play this game 2 or 3 times before he sets his focus to the right mob. This is pretty aggravating and I've had to learn to stay calm when I get adds, because getting my warlocks to have their voids pick up the correct adds can take me a try or two. Is there a better way to set focus? Or is this as good as it gets?
Ah, additional bonus question:
When my main dies and I switch quickly to clone-second-in-command, his hotbar is set to have all his spells cast off of targettarget, which obviously doesn't work well for him. To work around this I've copied all my characters spells in the same order to hotbar 2. So now I switch to second-in-command, switch my hotbar to #2 and I can cast spells with all my clones assisting off me. I thought this was kind of a clever way around it, but is there a better way?