Can someone help with a macro for my locks?

[shivetya]

I want to be able to set their pets on different targets... is there an easy way to give each lock its own target? Perhaps both start on one and then I could move the second to a new target?

I play with one lock as the main session, another lock on a small window with a priest in a third window

[simpletom]

1 on your number pad is telling warlock 1
/petattack

2 on your number pad is telling warlock 2
/assist warlock1
/petattack

you just change your targets with the lock

idont know if theres any one button that tells both pets to attack somthing different, maybe if they were tanking then it could have somthing to do with the targets target. your probably better off getting some info from one of the pros about this.

[Slats]

Someones posted on this before, heres a rough guide - redo the keys as you wish or combine functions into modifier keys

Numpad 1: Warlock 1 Focus
Numpad 2: Warlock 2 Focus
Warlock 3: Warlock 3 Focus
Numpad 4: Warlock 1 PetAttack(); target=focus

etc etc etc

Correct macro syntax would be:

/petattack [target=focus]

Try that see how you.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I never found a satisfying method for this. I just bound the "[" key to straight /petattack (no assist first) and then just target something different with each one before the fight starts. Sic the pets using "[" and then start blowing stuff up.

[Hippieman]

Seeing as we're on the topic of warlock macroes (I don't mean to hog your thread, Shivetya, but I think you'll find this interesting aswell), I tried to make a macro so that my locks (two in total) would fear the target of my main (paladin) without loosing their actual target. I tried numerous cominations such as /cast [target=targetparty1] Fear or /cast [target=targetgrandhippie] Fear, but neither seemed to work.

Any ideas?

[Djarid]

try target=party1target


you can chain target but its in the form "target's target" not "target of target"

I use focustargettarget which is the target of my focus' target for emergency heals.. it will heal the party member that is being attacked by the target of the the main (focus)

hope that makes sense!

[Hippieman]

so basicly I just put the party1 and target in the opposite places of what they should've been :P Typical me.

Ty

[shivetya]

Looks like I am going to reduce my attack icons to two or three...

first would be a sequence attack, like corruption,a curse,shadowbolt etc...


but I have questions. Is there a way to force reset a sequence? I figure on the following...


1=wand alt:shadowbolt
2=Sequence combat/reset
3=soul drain alt:life tap

4...9 kind of open (chars are in teens)

0=summon vw alt:summon imp ctrl:succ (not high enough yet)
-=health stone alt:use it
==water alt:food

got to figure on how to get fear right. as I may want to fear an add after dotting it... perhaps put it in a sequence that immolates,corrupts,fears?

My priest is on my number pad, basically 1,4,7 = him 2,5,8=party1, 3,6,9=party3 (currently shield,renew,heal)



clear=accept macro (on a mac here)
* = skin target

[Djarid]

My priest is on my number pad, basically 1,4,7 = him 2,5,8=party1, 3,6,9=party3 (currently shield,renew,heal)


I do something very similar for my three shammies


Frizhn Jerzi Gurnzi

Gurnzi 7 8 9

Jerzi 4 5 6

Frizhn 1 2 3

0 = focustargettarget (all chars) for emergency heals

tried it out last night 3x21 shammies got jumped by a 28 treant in Stonetalon and that healing flexibility totally saved the day (killed the treant with searing totem attrition :) )

[shivetya]

Looks like I will reconfigure my layout to have the Priest as the main and both 'locks as support

[Lost Ninja]

I use two macros at the moment on my level 22 lock (non-dualed atm):

/castsequence reset=combat/target Immolate,Searing Pain

Thats for the two slow dots (slow to cast)

/castsequence reset=combat/target Corruption,Curse of Agony

And thats for the instants, I hit the two instants and either then hit fear if my pet is on another target, or hit the target with the two slow cast DoTs. I tend to use the other curses more sparingly, I want to kill quick not let them hang around for long. : )

However I'm not happy with my fear macro:

#showtooltip
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/cast [target=focus]Fear

Is what I have but it never seems to want to recast fear on my focus without preselecting it, which slows things down somewhat. Essentially on first click I want it to set that target as my focus then fear it, on subsequent clicks I want it to retarget my first target and fear. Ideally with a modifier I'd like it to fear a target on mouseover.

[Blokus]

I have this Macro for 3-boxing Priest (main) plus 2 Warlocks:

/assist party1
/stopmacro [modifier:alt]
/petattack

I have this single macro assigned to 3 different keys. For purposes of illustration lets say I'm using keys 1, 2 and 3.

Key 1 - Activates the macro on Warlock 1, does nothing on Warlock 2

Key 2 - Activates the macro on Warlock 2, does nothing on Warlock 1

Key 3 - Activates the macro on both Warlocks AND is mapped to my middle mouse button.

This allows me to individually direct a pet to whatever target I select with my priest. By pressing my middle mouse button, I send both pets to the same target, which is handy and quick.

By including the /stopmacro command, I can predesignate different targets to the pets before the action begins by holding down ALT and pressing 1 or 2. I then press CTRL-1 (the normal key on the petbar for petattack) to send the pets in to battle.

[l0de]

I just have a macro on each warlock that's a petattack, and I have one key that's petattack for all four locks, one key that's petattack for voidwalker one, one for voidwalker two, and one for felhunter.

[Hippieman]

Quick question: Could you possibly make a quick macro that'd do the following:

1st: Target the target of my main box.
2nd: Cast Fear.
3rd: Target it's previous target.

Or would I have to macro all three? Or just the 1st and 2nd?

[cepheus]

Quick question: Could you possibly make a quick macro that'd do the following:

1st: Target the target of my main box.
2nd: Cast Fear.
3rd: Target it's previous target.

Or would I have to macro all three? Or just the 1st and 2nd?

/assist main (or focus if you use that)
/cast Fear
/targetlasttarget

or as I would have done for this particular macro:

/cast [target=focustarget] Fear

[shivetya]

Quick question: Could you possibly make a quick macro that'd do the following:

1st: Target the target of my main box.
2nd: Cast Fear.
3rd: Target it's previous target.

Or would I have to macro all three? Or just the 1st and 2nd?

/assist main (or focus if you use that)
/cast Fear
/targetlasttarget

or as I would have done for this particular macro:

/cast [target=focustarget] Fear

Can you go more into setting focus versus target for combats and the benefits? I see focus referenced a lot for mob of choice but don't understand why people like it.

I would assume it has a lot to do with modifiers used in the macros themselves.

[cepheus]

Using focus has several benefits. It makes it possible for your followers to assist you even if you're not in party, and it makes switching leader very easy (you just switch focus to your new leader, and everything should work)