How to sequentially cast on your entire party.

[Ghallo]

Alright, with all the discussions about /castsequence and how it affected DPS, I had a realization about how castsequence performs it's fallthrough. Pardon me if this has been said before, but here's what I found:

If you use the below macro:


/castsequence [target=player] reset=15 Renew,,,,
/castsequence [target=party1] reset=15 Renew,,,
/castsequence [target=party2] reset=15 Renew,,
/castsequence [target=party3] reset=15 Renew,
/castsequence [target=party4] reset=15 Renew

Your priest will systematically cast Renew on every member of your party (as long as you wait for the GCD between casts).

You can modify the macro however you see fit (to create a buff macro for example) or to add a pet:


/castsequence [target=player] reset=15 Renew,,,,,
/castsequence [target=party1] reset=15 Renew,,,,
/castsequence [target=party2] reset=15 Renew,,,
/castsequence [target=party2pet] reset=15 Renew,,
/castsequence [target=party3] reset=15 Renew,
/castsequence [target=party4] reset=15 Renew

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the macro :)

[Talos]

as you mentioned "as long as you wait for GCD to finish"
would it perhaps work to add some extra comma's, to prevent an extra keypress from making it to the end of the list.

ie.

/castsequence [target=player] reset=15 Renew,,,,,,,
/castsequence [target=party1] reset=15 Renew,,,,,,
/castsequence [target=party2] reset=15 Renew,,,,,
/castsequence [target=party3] reset=15 Renew,,,,
/castsequence [target=party4] reset=15 Renew,,,

just brainstorming with you at 2am drunk and tired.

[Tonyx]

Don't we have a target=party that does the same thing?

[Ghallo]

Don't we have a target=party that does the same thing?



No ... but feel free to try for yourself.



/targetparty
/cast <spell>


will work... but then your target is changed to whichever party member (not usually a good thing for mboxing). If you try:



/targetparty
/cast <spell>
/targetlasttarget


that will only ever cast on 1 party member over and over.

And finally, it will not include your caster in the rotation and it will not include any pets either.

[heffner]

Apparently something like this should work:

/targetparty /cast Power Word: Fortitude

Never tested it though. I use the add-on Smartbuff for all my buffing needs.

[Bigfish]

Interesting. Will have to play with that when I get home.

[Hachoo]

Not sure you would do anything like this at all when the smartbuff mod exists. You configure it once for each character that can cast buffs, then bind a single key to it, and you can then spam that key and it will auto-buff your entire party as you have it configured. You can make this the same key for all your characters and then just spam that key to rebuff your entire party - way easier and much more foolproof then a macro. You can even configure which buffs you want to allow in-combat in case you need to rebuff only high priority buffs in combat, etc. It even works for self buffs like watershield, etc.

[Frosty]

I can see how this would be a better solution than SmartBuff for a few spells. Water Walking comes to mind. It's not something you always want on (re: SmartBuff), so a macro like this might come in handy for those of us with only 1 Shaman in the group. :)

[Tonuss]

Sorry for bumping an old thread, but I was hoping to confirm that you can use the [target=xxxx] argument with the /castsequence command. For example, for a DPS macro, would using this macro work?

/castsequence [target=party1target] Curse of Agony, Corruption, Immolate, Incinerate

Or would I get an error? The thought had just occurred to me and I'm at work, otherwise I'd test it myself (and will test it anyway tonight). I have a basic /assist partyx macro already, but I have often had problems with it. I don't know why, but there is usually a 1-2 second lag before the party acquires the target after I press the button, and sometimes two of them will randomly NOT acquire the target until I press the key a second time. It does not appear to be a lag issue, because pressing any other macro gets instant results, including macros that use [target=xxxxxxtarget]. Only /assist partyx or /assist name.

[Bigfish]

Sorry for bumping an old thread, but I was hoping to confirm that you can use the [target=xxxx] argument with the /castsequence command. For example, for a DPS macro, would using this macro work?

/castsequence [target=party1target] Curse of Agony, Corruption, Immolate, Incinerate

Or would I get an error? The thought had just occurred to me and I'm at work, otherwise I'd test it myself (and will test it anyway tonight). I have a basic /assist partyx macro already, but I have often had problems with it. I don't know why, but there is usually a 1-2 second lag before the party acquires the target after I press the button, and sometimes two of them will randomly NOT acquire the target until I press the key a second time. It does not appear to be a lag issue, because pressing any other macro gets instant results, including macros that use [target=xxxxxxtarget]. Only /assist partyx or /assist name.

If I recall correctly, it SHOULD work, assuming party1target is a valid call. I've only used it with [target=focus]. Maybe with a [target=focustarget] but I'm not sure on that one. But yes, you can use [target=xxxx] in a castsequence. FYI, the reset option goes AFTER the [target=xxx].

[Tonuss]

Awesome, thanks for the reply!