How do you heal when you have Pal, Mage x 3, Priest?

[Smokar]

I'm currently boosting 3 mages and a priest with my 70 paladin. Right now there's no healing necessary but it's something I'm eventually going to need.

I'm new to mulitboxing with macros (usually two box w/o macros) and my macro skills are crap. I'm using two I got from this forum.

Group invite n stuff macro:

/script AcceptGroup();
/script AcceptQuest();
/script AcceptTrade();
/script RetrieveCorpse();




Targeting n follow macro

/target focus
/follow
/assist
/stopcasting


My target macro is set to Z. V is just hotkeyed directly to Frostbolt / Smite and blank on my Pally.

So, I'm always on my paladin's screen but I can't figure out how to make my priest heal. I mean I could just remove the assist macro from the priest and set him always on the pally but if a mage needs healing I wouldn't know what to do.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Draz]

I think what you are looking for is the targetstarget macro. Its the one where it will target whatever the mob is targeting. So the priest will heal whatever the mob has targeted. So you dont have to jump around on the heals. So you can have multiple buttons for the priest, for each type of heal...Renew ect...

As far as the correct macro syntax, sorry cant help you there :( But I atleast pointed you in the right direction!

[Smokar]

Oh yea!! I forgot about that. That's so incredibly simple. I love it. Thanks.



Edit: I'll be able to find it from here.

[Heenan]

This is just an example of what I would do...

Bind Priest bars to keypad keys as follows:
keypad 7, 8, 9 - renew, flash, greater heal mage 1
keypad 4, 5, 6 - renew, flash, greater heal mage 2
keypad 1, 2, 3 - renew, flash, greater heal mage 3
keypad 0, . (period), enter - renew, flash, greater heal pally

You get the idea. You can make the keys/bars anything you want really.

Use macros like:
#showtooltip
/cast [target=mage1] Flash Heal
/cast [target=pally] Renew

You could add some modifiers as well to save some space, although it may be hard to reach unless you do a left-alt + keypad.

I use the keypad because most of my normal keys are used on all toons for something.

[Sarduci]

[target=focustargettarget]

That's taken care of all my healing so far.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Multiboxing_Macros

[ElectronDF]

I don't like targeting people. I don't like having to think or know who to heal. I just let the macros do it for me. I focus my main and then use:
/cast [target=focus-target] DPSSpell for DPS
/cast [target=focus-target-target] HealSpell for Healing
The healing is done to whoever the focus' mob is beating on. No worrying about who is main. No worry about different setups. No worrying about who has aggro.

For my priest in seperate classes groups, I use:
/cast [target=TankName, nocombat] Power Word: Shield
/castsequence [target=focus-target-target, combat] reset=14 Renew, Flash Heal, Flash Heal, Power Word: Shield
It heals small, then larger, then a holy crap stop hitting my guy spell. Just mash it as much as you need it (tiny mobs, just once, larger, twice, etc).

[Draz]

I don't like targeting people. I don't like having to think or know who to heal. I just let the macros do it for me. I focus my main and then use:
/cast [target=focus-target] DPSSpell for DPS
/cast [target=focus-target-target] HealSpell for Healing
The healing is done to whoever the focus' mob is beating on. No worrying about who is main. No worry about different setups. No worrying about who has aggro.

For my priest in seperate classes groups, I use:
/cast [target=TankName, nocombat] Power Word: Shield
/castsequence [target=focus-target-target, combat] reset=14 Renew, Flash Heal, Flash Heal, Power Word: Shield
It heals small, then larger, then a holy crap stop hitting my guy spell. Just mash it as much as you need it (tiny mobs, just once, larger, twice, etc).Thats definetly the way to go as far as setting up macros. Just smash buttons and forget it!

[caffiend86]

I use the exact same setup with Pally, 3 mages and Holy Priest. The way I do it is with Character specific healing macros using a Logitech G11 Keyboard ('http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/keyboards/keyboard/devices/285&cl=us,en') in conjunction with the Bindpad mod ('http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info6385-BindPad-GUItosetkeybindingsforspellitemmacro.html') allowing me to have a little block of 6 keys grouped together one for each of my toons and one for group heals like prayer of healing. The 2 Tank heals are also on the main bar for the priest.

Each of these uses Ctrl and Alt as modifiers which are really easy to use with the pair of extra buttons attached to my mouse...

Little Tank Heal Macro
Flash Heals normally, alt press for power word shield on the tank. I have a separate macro for renew tied to the same button as holy shield, but that one's hardly rocket science...
/stopmacro [mod:shift]
/tar [target=focus,help];party1
/stopcasting [mod:alt]
/cast [target=party1,nocombat,dead] Resurrection
/cast [mod:ctrl/alt] Power Word: Shield
/cast [target=focus,help][target=party1] Flash Heal

Main Tank Heal Macro
Bread and butter Healing Macro alt press activates trinkets and casts circle of healing on the priest instead for quick heals on the party.
#showtooltip
/stopmacro [mod:shift]
/tar [target=focus,help];party1
/stopcasting [mod:alt/ctrl]
/cast [mod:alt/ctrl, target=player] Circle of Healing
/use [mod:alt/ctrl] 13
/use [mod:alt/ctrl] 14
/cast [target=focus,help] [target=party1] Greater Heal


DPS Heals
Healing macro for DPS toons, does a cast sequence of power word shield, renew and flash heals normally, straight flash heals on ctrl press and greater heal on alt press
/stopmacro [mod:shift]
/tar [target=Neeva,help][target=Darnoc,help];Party3
/cast [nocombat,dead] Resurrection; [mod:ctrl] Flash Heal; [mod:alt] Greater Heal
/castsequence reset=10 Power Word: Shield,Renew,Flash Heal,Flash Heal,Flash HealThe big heal and little heal are tied to 2 buttons on the main bar that no other toon uses since I'm spamming them all the time. I also have straight Prayer of Healing bound so I can do that when needed. Most of the party heals come down either Circle or Prayer of healing for my group, but I do frequently use the character specific....

Obviously this setup is somewhat complicated, but it works really well for my purposes...

[Steph]

You do not want to use focustarget on the tank for healing. For tanking and dps you already need to do variable targetting.

I concur with a number of people who suggested to go for fixed target healing macros on the healer. For my setup, I use the unitIDs party1, party2, party3, party4 and party5 as healing targets. Using one of the extended action bars and keybinds for it that I do not use for anything else. you get "Heal Party1" buttons - and so on and so forth.

[ElectronDF]

My warrior in my mixed group never ever targets anyone except the mob to kill. If the healer gets a mob on it for whatever reason, I reach over and push fade. Or I run the tank up to the mob and do my attack macro that has sunder at the start. Or I send the hunter's pet at it. Or I just bubble the healer and wait it out. I have done everything up to DM and never had a problem. But hey, everyone has different stories.

With my shammies, they are built to take hits. I would want each of them to take equal number of hits. It makes healing totems and chain heals easy for me. But hey, for beginners, it should be really easy to make 5 different macros to heal 5 different people that won't work if you change your group line up.

[Syro]

I think you guys are making it too complicated :p

I use the numpad for all my healing purposes.

Keys, + {plus}, 9, 6, 3, . {period} are keybounds set to macros. In the macro I have it target party1, party2, etc respectively to the keys, and also have it do /stopcasting in case I need to start a heal right away. Then I use the other keys for my abilities.

Numpad 7 is Heal, 4 is Lesser Heal, 5 is Flash heal, 1 is Renew, and 2 is Shield. I don't use 8 or 0 since I don't have any other heals as my PvE team is only 24.

I do plan on getting an Xkeys pro since I'll run out soon enough.

[olipcs]

I'm using a similar setup (pala,priest,mage,warlock,shaman) which is based on assists, so every toon has targeted the mob, which should be focused damaged.
(I'm using this method, to use focus for cc)

For healing I simple use the following makro:


/cast [mod:shift,target=targettarget,help,nodead][mod:shift,help][mod:shift,target=self]Flash Heal;
[target=targettarget,help,nodead][help][target=self] Greater Heal

which casts Greater Heal (no modifier) or Flash Heal (modifier:shift) in the following order:

1. on the targets-target if its freindly (which should normaly be the tank)
2. on the target if its friendly (mostly used out of fight)
3. on self, if there is no target, the target-target and the target is an enemy

As I'm wirting I'm thinking of adding perhaps:

[mod:ctrl,target=focus,help]Flash Heal;[mod:alt,target=focus,help]Greater Heal

to the statement, so that I could set my Tank or another Toon as focus target of my healer, to have a fast way to heal them.
(I'm using my shamie to heal, so there is no cc use for his focus target)
(Couse there are moments, you want to heal your tank, but the current target isn't targeting him, for example cause another toon draws aggro, the target heals another target or flees...)

so the resulting macro woud be:


/cast [mod:shift,target=targettarget,help,nodead][mod:shift,help][mod:shift,target=self]Flash Heal;
[target=targettarget,help,nodead][help][target=self]Greater Heal;
[mod:ctrl,target=focus,help]Flash Heal;[mod:alt,target=focus,help]Greater Heal


..honestly my toons are only lvl60 so no opinion if this works in lvl70 dungeons...

CYA

PS: sry, for the language, its not my native one...

[Gadaí]

Similar to Syro I just use numpad pass throughs to the healer/DPS . I use 0, ., 1, 2, 3 for DPS/counters and then 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,/, *, -, + for healing. I typically set them to:

4 /cast [target=player] Greater Heal
5 /target player1
6 /target player2
7 /target player3
8 /target player4
/ /cast [target=player] Circle of Healing
* /cast Renew
- /cast Greater Heal
+ /cast [target = player1] Greater Heal

So to heal any character I simply hit 5-8 and then either * or - depending on the type of heal needed. I use + to allow me to heal the MT while keeping another party member targeted. I reserved 9 to use for any 'specials' I'll require for particular boss fights.

[Syro]

Gadai, you playing a four man team? If you're running five, don't forget to add your priest in case you need to heal him. :D

[FabFive]

I run the same team but do things differently, I run everything off my priest, all my key binds are saved for mages/pally, all my healing is done with clique and grid. My priest picks the targets and everyone assists him, even the pally.

[Memn]

I made a large post on this topic a couple days ago in a thread on Priest Healing:

priest healing ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=10435')

Basically, I have two buttons setup for combat spamming, one for passive healing, one for boss fight, or heroic trash healing.

I also have two buttons for each party member for explicit healing. Abolish disease is setup similarly.

Circle of healing has its own button. Also, make sure you have Fade mapped near circle of healing.

[Simulacra]

I use voicecontrol for the heals - all macros are bound to the numpad, so I say "mage one heal, mage two heal, pally heal" and the priest heals - nice and no lag at all. For renew I say "mage one renew" etc etc etc. If I want heal everyone I say 'heal all" - nice. Greater heal is "mage one big heal" etc etc lol.
The mages and lock are tied to the command "Attack" which sends out firebolts and shadowbolt, usually this is enough to one shot mobs. I can also say "Scorch" which scorches :) and also dots from the lock and priest. For the pally there is no voice control and I just use the xkeys pro.
It's so much easier using voice for heals as the micromanagement for a
multiclass group is enough to make you head spin combined the
micromangement required for a palladin, if I didn't use voice I'd be even worse than I am now lol. I found that longer voice command work a lot better.

[Simulacra]

I run the same team but do things differently, I run everything off my priest, all my key binds are saved for mages/pally, all my healing is done with clique and grid. My priest picks the targets and everyone assists him, even the pally.Does that work well? I thought of doing that but it seems a bit strange, how do you handle mobs moving behind your pally?

[Gadaí]

Gadai, you playing a four man team? If you're running five, don't forget to add your priest in case you need to heal him. :DAh - the macro on 4 targets the priest herself (the [target=player] switch does it) and then the Unit ID's Party1/Party2/Party3/Party4 ignore the player - effectively counting as 1st below her on the Group display (Party1), etc :D

[FabFive]

I run the same team but do things differently, I run everything off my priest, all my key binds are saved for mages/pally, all my healing is done with clique and grid. My priest picks the targets and everyone assists him, even the pally.Does that work well? I thought of doing that but it seems a bit strange, how do you handle mobs moving behind your pally?I have my arrow keys only bound on the pally, so he can move freely using them. It works well enough, i have keybinds that put him on follow to my priest, so position team move pally out, throw my shield, press follow to get my pally where i want him, then just AOE everything :)

[Exanth]

I see a lot of much more complex macros than what I use.

I have a pally, 2 mages (1 fire and 1 frost), a warlock, and a priest.

99% of the time I simply press "2" or "3".

2 is attack for all but the priest (castsequence macros cycling through dots or offensive spells - there is even the mage elemental summon in there) and the priest castsequence for healing (renew, heal, heal, heal)
3 is attack for all (in fact the warlock, pally, and fire mage just have the same macro in both spots) though the priest attack is only mind blast (long cooldown = less mana blown, but still some DPS)

Pally uses a castsequence for consecrate/holy shield on 2/3

So start the fight by hitting 2 (after the pull) then spam 3 non-stop until I need a heal, then I tap 2 once and go back to hammering my 3 key. For bosses I move the priest attack macro off 3 to an empty spot to conserve mana.

The priest is only healing the tank. Or the whole group (key 5 for me).

The tilde ~ key I bound to strafe on them all - so I tap that to stop follow before most fights.

Oh - and this is obviously for PvE - PvP would require much more complex stuff in terms of heals, etc.

My take on it is to stay simple - be a good tank and it all works.

Just hit 64 and so far I've cleared all the original instances, and Ramps, BF, UB, and SP. I even managed to down Nazan/Vaz in Hellfire Ramparts - that's the toughest fight I've had yet multiboxing.

[Pure Hairy]

My team uses a holy pally for heals, my macros goes as follows: (doing this from work, might be some errors)

Numpad 9 (Fire Mage 1) /cast [target=pureundead] [modifier:lalt] Holy Light; [modifier:rctrl] Blessing of Protection; [modifier:rctrl] Clense; Flash of Light

Numpad 6 (Shadow Priest) /cast [target=purehorde] [modifier:lalt] Holy Light; [modifier:rctrl] Blessing of Protection; [modifier:rctrl] Clense; Flash of Light

Numpad 3 (Fire Mage 2) /cast [target=pureforsaken] [modifier:lalt] Holy Light; [modifier:rctrl] Blessing of Protection; [modifier:rctrl] Clense; Flash of Light

Numpad . (period) (Holy Pally) /cast [target=purebubble] [modifier:lalt] Holy Light; [modifier:rctrl] Blessing of Protection; [modifier:rctrl] Clense; Flash of Light

Numpad 0 (Prot Warrior) /cast [target=purezerker] [modifier:lalt] Holy Light; [modifier:rctrl] Blessing of Protection; [modifier:rctrl] Clense; Flash of Light

It's a lil complex, but all the healing uses only 5 keys. Also I have the mages/priest cast remove curse/dispel magic if any along with each heal. This keeps the group pretty clean.

Go Horde, Pure