Cant cast when blinded/sheeped

[Wide]

Hi,

Had a problem with my slaves not being able to cast when my main was blinded/sheeped. Was told to change my macro a bit, but this one keep swapping targets and its driving me insane.

#showtooltip Lightning Bolt
/assist focus
/cast [target=focustarget,harm,nodead,exists] Lightning Bolt; [harm,nodead] Lightning Bolt

No idea what is wrong.

[elsegundo]

/assist focus and target=focustarget is redundant.

harm = exist, so does nodead = exist. exist is redundant.

lightning bolt is... redundant?? yes.


/cast [target=focustarget, harm, nodead] [harm, nodead] [] Lightning Bolt

this should work. you might have to manually target the mob though. i havent tried it yet, but the logic makes sense to me.


EDIT:
ok just thought about it more. better to use this:
/assist focus
/cast Lightning Bolt

[Wide]

/assist focus
/cast Lightning Bolt

Does that work when playing solo too?

[elsegundo]

/assist focus
/cast Lightning Bolt

Does that work when playing solo too?im not sure. lol. make yourself the focus and see. :P

[Wide]

(i use the same macro on all chars, even the main).

Still the same, its swapping targets (i target my pressing tab, sometimes several times in a row). When i have found a target i like, then i press the macro and it swap to anoter one.

/assist focus
/cast Lightning Bolt

Realy frustrating in AV when i have a bunch of dues following me laughing when im not shooting at targets - seems like im a total dumb :p

[elsegundo]

Is TAB on your "DO NOT PASS" list????

[Wide]

ye

It used to work perfect with:
/cast [target=focustarget] Lightning Bolt

But then the slaves cant attack when my main is being sleeped/blinded.

[elsegundo]

one other thing to remember is lag. even though your main is targeting a mob, your slaves might not have "caught up".

if that is not the case, then i think you might have to try the hotstrings approach. then you can quickly jump on shamanB and make it the focus. then everyone follows B, including A when it gets out of polymorph.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Two things:

1) NEVER, EVER use /assist focus on your main's macro. It WILL switch back to the previous target if you press it when quickly switching targets.
2) Remove the "/assist focus" line from your original macro and it should work OK as long as you retarget with your alts when your main gets nailed.

[Wide]

Two things:

1) NEVER, EVER use /assist focus on your main's macro. It WILL switch back to the previous target if you press it when quickly switching targets.
2) Remove the "/assist focus" line from your original macro and it should work OK as long as you retarget with your alts when your main gets nailed.


Okay, but how do you then switch main (if it dies)? Then the one you switch to, will swap targets too.
Maby it will be a better idea to switch to that Leaderless, Focusless system (Hotstrings).

[caffiend86]

Two things:

1) NEVER, EVER use /assist focus on your main's macro. It WILL switch back to the previous target if you press it when quickly switching targets.
2) Remove the "/assist focus" line from your original macro and it should work OK as long as you retarget with your alts when your main gets nailed.


Okay, but how do you then switch main (if it dies)? Then the one you switch to, will swap targets too.
Maby it will be a better idea to switch to that Leaderless, Focusless system (Hotstrings).

I've had this issue as well, for some reason when your main is CCd for any reason your slaves won't be able to pick up the leader's target. Most of this is paraphrased from one of my other posts, but hopefully this should solve what your trying to do...

Change your /assist focus line to the following...
/a [target=focus,help]; [target=focus,noexists];party1

What it does is assists a helpful focus, if no focus it assists no one, if a hostile focus assist party1 works great for mages for CC as well. The key thing to remember here is whichever toon is your leader at the time won't have a focus

All you need after this is a set of macros that focus your toons by name for passing leader, and when a toon is in charge it does a /clearfocus . Example of these focus passing macros is below

Focus another toon macros (tyia, juggo and potnaie are all toons on one particular account)
/focus [target=tyia,exists,nodead] Tyia
/focus [target=juggo,exists,nodead] juggo
/focus [target=Potniae,exists,nodead] Potniae
/script SetView(3);
/stopmacro [nomounted]
/follow focus

Leader focus, ie on the Tyia/Juggo/Potnaie account for when its selected as leader
/clearfocus
/c ky Set and in Charge

the last line of the above broadcasts in "Ky" channel that only my toons are in...

but overall you can see how this works to have all toons on the same macro set, just pass focus and your good to go...

[Kaynin]

This is what you want.

#showtooltip Lightning Bolt
/target focustarget - (targets your focus target, you could also use /assist focus here, both work the same)
/targetlastenemy - (targets last known enemy, IF no enemy is being targeted yet. Otherwise target will not change)
/cast [harm,exists] Lightning Bolt - (Don't add nodead, it will fail badly on feigning hunters)

The thing is, when your main is blinded etc, NO one in the game can see your main's target for the duration. By changing your macro's like this however you alts will at least target the last known enemy, so as long as you started casting before you got blinded, you alts will keep dpsing.

If you didn't set the target PRIOR to getting blind, change leader. Because there is no way you can send your main's target to your alts any way.

I made a topic about this not long ago.

PS: All the above posts are missing the point. When you are blinded/scattered/confagerated/bucketed(brd boss)/etc etc. Your main will simply lose his/her target to anyone else in the game. You can still target on yoru main, but only the main's client can see the target. That's the problem, and /targetlastenemy is the best way to deal with it. It's not fullproof, but it will work. Just keep in mind to target enemies asap before they have the chance to blind etc. So at all times, your alts will have the targetlastenemy in their buffer.