Hex bugged?

[magwo]

This works:
/cast [target=focus] Lightning Bolt

This does not work:
/cast [target=focus] Hex

Instead it tries to cast Hex on your current target.

What? Is this just a bug that the spell ignores the target information, or is this some sinister scheme to nerf us multiboxers? :)
I reported this on the EU forums, no answers yet.

[pengwynman]

This works:
/cast [target=focus] Lightning Bolt

This does not work:
/cast [target=focus] Hex

Instead it tries to cast Hex on your current target.

What? Is this just a bug that the spell ignores the target information, or is this some sinister scheme to nerf us multiboxers? :)
I reported this on the EU forums, no answers yet.i saw a post like this a week or so ago, similar problem with a hex macro. they were able to get around it by doing something like this:

/target focus
/cast Hex
/targetlasttarget

i dunno, anyone else having issues with it? mebbe bugged?

[GizmoxLoW]

im having the same issue

/cast [target=focus] hex does not work it only hex's my current target

[pinotnoir]

Yep it doesnt work. I will test the suggestion below to see if that works. Could this be a stealth multiboxer nerf? Hmmm.

[pinotnoir]

This works:
/cast [target=focus] Lightning Bolt

This does not work:
/cast [target=focus] Hex

Instead it tries to cast Hex on your current target.

What? Is this just a bug that the spell ignores the target information, or is this some sinister scheme to nerf us multiboxers? :)
I reported this on the EU forums, no answers yet.i saw a post like this a week or so ago, similar problem with a hex macro. they were able to get around it by doing something like this:

/target focus
/cast Hex
/targetlasttarget

i dunno, anyone else having issues with it? mebbe bugged?


FYI this doesnt work. Tested just now.

[Harem]

FYI this doesnt work. Tested just now.

What does it do? I don't know how it couldn't work. Where is the break down? Does it not change your target to your focus? or does it do that and not cast? or just not go back to last target?

More people than multiboxers use focus for casting and solo shammies out there, I'm sure, need this to work.

[Kaynin]

Yeah I posted about this as well a while ago, it got locked and told to continue discussing in an unrelated thread. *shrug*

Think Fur was tired tbh.



Well, I think it's sucky it doesn't work though. :<

Hex seems to ignore focus alltogether. It just goes on your target.

[Fuzzyboy]

This works:
/cast [target=focus] Lightning Bolt

This does not work:
/cast [target=focus] Hex

Instead it tries to cast Hex on your current target.

What? Is this just a bug that the spell ignores the target information, or is this some sinister scheme to nerf us multiboxers? :)
I reported this on the EU forums, no answers yet.i saw a post like this a week or so ago, similar problem with a hex macro. they were able to get around it by doing something like this:

/target focus
/cast Hex
/targetlasttarget

i dunno, anyone else having issues with it? mebbe bugged?


FYI this doesnt work. Tested just now.Hmm, that's odd. When casting hex in that case, the current target would actually be what you casted hex on. I'll try it when euro-servers get back up (to be honest I entirely forgot about hex since I hit 80 - havent used it once!)

[Zappy]

This works:
/cast [target=focus] Lightning Bolt

This does not work:
/cast [target=focus] Hex

Instead it tries to cast Hex on your current target.

What? Is this just a bug that the spell ignores the target information, or is this some sinister scheme to nerf us multiboxers? :)
I reported this on the EU forums, no answers yet.i saw a post like this a week or so ago, similar problem with a hex macro. they were able to get around it by doing something like this:

/target focus
/cast Hex
/targetlasttarget

i dunno, anyone else having issues with it? mebbe bugged?


FYI this doesnt work. Tested just now.

On my 5 box setup, i use F6-F10 to set up hex targets so that each shammy would have it's own focused target including putting a raid symbol on them so i know which ones will be targetted for hex. Once I pull the mobs, I press "h" which does the following macro:



/target focus
/cast Hex
/targetlasttarget

I used it to get to the 1st boss in heroic UT Pinnacle last night and had no issues with it. Before this post, I was about to give up on hex, as I noticed the [target=focus] didn't work for hex.

[pinotnoir]

This works:
/cast [target=focus] Lightning Bolt

This does not work:
/cast [target=focus] Hex

Instead it tries to cast Hex on your current target.

What? Is this just a bug that the spell ignores the target information, or is this some sinister scheme to nerf us multiboxers? :)
I reported this on the EU forums, no answers yet.i saw a post like this a week or so ago, similar problem with a hex macro. they were able to get around it by doing something like this:

/target focus
/cast Hex
/targetlasttarget

i dunno, anyone else having issues with it? mebbe bugged?


FYI this doesnt work. Tested just now.

On my 5 box setup, i use F6-F10 to set up hex targets so that each shammy would have it's own focused target including putting a raid symbol on them so i know which ones will be targetted for hex. Once I pull the mobs, I press "h" which does the following macro:



/target focus
/cast Hex
/targetlasttarget

I used it to get to the 1st boss in heroic UT Pinnacle last night and had no issues with it. Before this post, I was about to give up on hex, as I noticed the [target=focus] didn't work for hex.


I use focus to set my main's. Everything I do is based on focus. When I tried the above macro it just does nothing when I press it. Maybe this only works if you use /assist for your group instead of setting a character as your focus.

[Zappy]

Ahh. That makes perfect sense. I'm using the FTL system, and my F6-F10 set each one of my shamans focus to the target i want hexed. Since you're already using focus, i'm not sure how you hex more than one mob.

[Maxion]

Ahh. That makes perfect sense. I'm using the FTL system, and my F6-F10 set each one of my shamans focus to the target i want hexed. Since you're already using focus, i'm not sure how you hex more than one mob.

I also use focus to tell my characters which one is the leader, which means their regular target is free to use for hex. Much like I've been planning all along, this just proves my planning was correct in not changing to the FTL system :)

[Hachoo]

Ahh. That makes perfect sense. I'm using the FTL system, and my F6-F10 set each one of my shamans focus to the target i want hexed. Since you're already using focus, i'm not sure how you hex more than one mob.

I also use focus to tell my characters which one is the leader, which means their regular target is free to use for hex. Much like I've been planning all along, this just proves my planning was correct in not changing to the FTL system :)I do the same thing and am happy that I won't have issues with Hex either. A lot of people that argue against using focus on your main and focustarget for harmful spells don't understand that /target and /focus work almost the exact same. Personally I like using /target for CC better than /focus because then with X-Perl I can see each of my shaman's targets who they will be hexing, etc :)

[pinotnoir]

You guys are confusing me. I DO NOT USE FLT setup. Instead I set focus on each character and the macro for hex does not work. Currently I cannot figure out how to get hex to work so I dont use it. I am pretty frustrated with the spell.

[GizmoxLoW]

You guys are confusing me. I DO NOT USE FLT setup. Instead I set focus on each character and the macro for hex does not work. Currently I cannot figure out how to get hex to work so I dont use it. I am pretty frustrated with the spell.The normal focus macro
/cast [target=focus] name of spell doesnt work for hex as in /cast [target=focus] hex

however

/target [target=focus]
/cast hex
/targetlasttarget
does work cause the first line will have you target whatever your focus is no matter what then will cast hex on that target

but this macro wont work for you if you use /focus to assign your clones a leader which i used toso i switched to the alternate FTL setup as in
/assist [target=nameofmain,exists,nodead][target=clone1,exists,nodead] and so on

[pinotnoir]

You guys are confusing me. I DO NOT USE FLT setup. Instead I set focus on each character and the macro for hex does not work. Currently I cannot figure out how to get hex to work so I dont use it. I am pretty frustrated with the spell.The normal focus macro
/cast [target=focus] name of spell doesnt work for hex as in /cast [target=focus] hex

however

/target [target=focus]
/cast hex
/targetlasttarget
does work cause the first line will have you target whatever your focus is no matter what then will cast hex on that target

but this macro wont work for you if you use /focus to assign your clones a leader which i used toso i switched to the alternate FTL setup as in
/assist [target=nameofmain,exists,nodead][target=clone1,exists,nodead] and so on

So if I assign focus as leader the macro above is worthless. This macro only works if I use the FLT setup. Is this correct?

[pengwynman]

You guys are confusing me. I DO NOT USE FLT setup. Instead I set focus on each character and the macro for hex does not work. Currently I cannot figure out how to get hex to work so I dont use it. I am pretty frustrated with the spell.The normal focus macro
/cast [target=focus] name of spell doesnt work for hex as in /cast [target=focus] hex

however

/target [target=focus]
/cast hex
/targetlasttarget
does work cause the first line will have you target whatever your focus is no matter what then will cast hex on that target

but this macro wont work for you if you use /focus to assign your clones a leader which i used toso i switched to the alternate FTL setup as in
/assist [target=nameofmain,exists,nodead][target=clone1,exists,nodead] and so on

So if I assign focus as leader the macro above is worthless. This macro only works if I use the FLT setup. Is this correct?if your focus is leader, just do this:

/assist [target=focus, exists]
/cast Hex

of course, this isn't quite the same as using the focus target system. you would need to set up some sort of round robin thing so that each of your clones have a different hex target. i have a focus leader system, but i don't have shams, therefore no hex. i do want to set up something for cyclone though, just haven't taken the time to do it :whistling:

[GizmoxLoW]

You guys are confusing me. I DO NOT USE FLT setup. Instead I set focus on each character and the macro for hex does not work. Currently I cannot figure out how to get hex to work so I dont use it. I am pretty frustrated with the spell.The normal focus macro
/cast [target=focus] name of spell doesnt work for hex as in /cast [target=focus] hex

however

/target [target=focus]
/cast hex
/targetlasttarget
does work cause the first line will have you target whatever your focus is no matter what then will cast hex on that target

but this macro wont work for you if you use /focus to assign your clones a leader which i used toso i switched to the alternate FTL setup as in
/assist [target=nameofmain,exists,nodead][target=clone1,exists,nodead] and so on

So if I assign focus as leader the macro above is worthless. This macro only works if I use the FLT setup. Is this correct?Yup thats correct, cause if you use /focus to set yor leader and you use that macro it will try to hex your leader.... i spent all day yesterday setting up new macros that included what i typed earlier

[Hachoo]

I don't have Hex yet, but I am running tank + 4 shamans, and here is what I intend to do (and what I would already do if my shamans had a CC).

First off, I use focus on my clones to focus my leader. When they cast a harmful spell they use [target=focustarget], so say for Lightning Bolt I do:

/cast [target=focustarget] Lightning Bolt

where focustarget is my tank's target.

So, this leaves my actual /target on all 4 clones open - they NEVER target anything when I'm in combat at this point.

So for hex, heres what I do. I have a button on each shaman that does:

/assist focus

This automatically makes all 4 shamans target what my tank is targetting. I use this if I need to use an item on a corpse on all 5 shamans at the same time or something. In this case it would be useful for hex. What will be more useful though is to have 1 key on each shaman that is a different keybinding on each shaman that will assist my focus, such as '6' on shaman 1, '7' on shaman 2, etc. So I could target a mob, hit 6, shaman1 will target mob, target mob 2, hit 7, shaman2 will target mob, etc.

Then I just copy my hex spell to a key binding on the shamans and voila - if the shaman has a target (because i hit my assist button for that shaman) that shaman will cast hex on the mob it is targetting, otherwise it won't be able to cast anything. I will also make a panic hex button that tries to hex everything:

shaman1:
/targetenemy
/cast Hex

shaman2:
/targetenemy
/targetenemy
/cast Hex

shaman3:
/targetenemy1
/cast Hex

shaman4:
/targetenemy1
/targetenemy1
/cast Hex

Will try to hex 4 targets in front of my group by "tabbing" X number of times so that each shaman targets something else (will overlap if <4 targets exist in front of me).

I will fine tune this once I get a chance to test more with it but this is similar to how I do my seduce and spell lock macros on my warlocks and it works great.

[pinotnoir]

I don't have Hex yet, but I am running tank + 4 shamans, and here is what I intend to do (and what I would already do if my shamans had a CC).

First off, I use focus on my clones to focus my leader. When they cast a harmful spell they use [target=focustarget], so say for Lightning Bolt I do:

/cast [target=focustarget] Lightning Bolt

where focustarget is my tank's target.

So, this leaves my actual /target on all 4 clones open - they NEVER target anything when I'm in combat at this point.

So for hex, heres what I do. I have a button on each shaman that does:

/assist focus

This automatically makes all 4 shamans target what my tank is targetting. I use this if I need to use an item on a corpse on all 5 shamans at the same time or something. In this case it would be useful for hex. What will be more useful though is to have 1 key on each shaman that is a different keybinding on each shaman that will assist my focus, such as '6' on shaman 1, '7' on shaman 2, etc. So I could target a mob, hit 6, shaman1 will target mob, target mob 2, hit 7, shaman2 will target mob, etc.

Then I just copy my hex spell to a key binding on the shamans and voila - if the shaman has a target (because i hit my assist button for that shaman) that shaman will cast hex on the mob it is targetting, otherwise it won't be able to cast anything. I will also make a panic hex button that tries to hex everything:

shaman1:
/targetenemy
/cast Hex

shaman2:
/targetenemy
/targetenemy
/cast Hex

shaman3:
/targetenemy1
/cast Hex

shaman4:
/targetenemy1
/targetenemy1
/cast Hex

Will try to hex 4 targets in front of my group by "tabbing" X number of times so that each shaman targets something else (will overlap if <4 targets exist in front of me).

I will fine tune this once I get a chance to test more with it but this is similar to how I do my seduce and spell lock macros on my warlocks and it works great.

Interesting.. If I did this and just bound the hex macro on the same key I can use keyclone to round robin hex if I only wanted to hex one thing. If I wanted to hex multiple things I can use the above setup. When I get some time I will test it out.. Thanks!