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Xorthos
01-07-2009, 10:49 PM
so ive run searches for various topics regarding healing macros and i know there are a ton out there. however, none seem to help me and its probably because im not very good w macros to begin with. anyhow, I 3 box atm and rotate my priest and druid as healers and so far ive used 1 healing macro w them that simply /targets my tank and does a castsequence. if other group members get in trouble i mouse over to the window and manually heal them. I dont want to do this anymore for obvious reasons and I was hoping for once I could get someone to just lay out their healing macros. I use a g15 keyboard so i'd like to use my g keys, modifiers would probably help too. I'm really just looking for someone to paste their entire healing macro setup so i can easily target other group members etc and heal them from my tank's screen without having to manually do it. Sorry if this wastes any of your time but it would be greatly appreciated and helpful to me! thanks!
Coltimar
01-07-2009, 11:20 PM
so ive run searches for various topics regarding healing macros and i know there are a ton out there. however, none seem to help me and its probably because im not very good w macros to begin with. anyhow, I 3 box atm and rotate my priest and druid as healers and so far ive used 1 healing macro w them that simply /targets my tank and does a castsequence. if other group members get in trouble i mouse over to the window and manually heal them. I dont want to do this anymore for obvious reasons and I was hoping for once I could get someone to just lay out their healing macros. I use a g15 keyboard so i'd like to use my g keys, modifiers would probably help too. I'm really just looking for someone to paste their entire healing macro setup so i can easily target other group members etc and heal them from my tank's screen without having to manually do it. Sorry if this wastes any of your time but it would be greatly appreciated and helpful to me! thanks!I run a dedicated healer, but all 4 of my shaman have this.
G7-G10 are bound to 6-9 on my number pad. They do this:
G7
/cast [target=marlun] Lesser Healing Wave
G8
/cast [target=teetoe] Lesser Healing Wave
G9
/cast [target=jermayne] Lesser Healing Wave
G10
/cast [target=jackea] Lesser Healing Wave
They are all setup to heal my tanks target with Lesser Healing Wave at the press of number 5. My healer has a big healing button (4 different heals based on macro modifiers) bound to a key no other toons use. When grinding I have a dps macro (like my other 3 shaman) set to number 2. When on a boss fight I move the healing button to number 2 so I can spam it.
Hope this helps.
Duese
01-08-2009, 01:43 PM
I've set this up two different ways with my G15. I intially set it up like this:
G7-G11 = /target P1-P5 /cast Flash of Light (Pally) Small heal
G13-G18 = /target P1-P5 /cast Holy Light (Pally) Big heal
I would then go off tanking happily on my main and be able to heal each person in the party with just a single button press. This however, required me to keep my healers window in view to see which party member slot needed healing since they aren't in the same order on everyones screen (fixable with addons though). This setup worked very well for me since it was very easy to use and pally's don't have that many heal spells to work with.
In comes the 3.0 talents and that played havoc on how I was healing. Now, before just spamming FoL and HL were fine... really didn't use Holy Shock or whatnot much at all. But with the new pally talents, it became neccessary for me to use more abilities and I honestly didn't have the real estate on my keyboard to start binding more stuff. So, I came up with a plan:
G1-G5 = /target P1-P5
G7 = FoL current Target
G8 = Holy Light current Target
G9 = Holy Shock current target
G10 = Cast a Seal
G11 = Assist MT and Judge target (15% increased casting speed ftw)
G12 = BACON! (or beacon of light for those outside of the in-crowd)
This got me the functionality I needed and left me with plenty of free G-keys for my other characters. Still had the problem of making sure my healers window was in view for the party slots, but I'm pretty used to that now. I've 2-boxed most of the dungeons and raids out there this way. Raid targeting is definitely hard with this setup since you uhhh, can't target anyone outside the group you are in.
paintje
01-22-2009, 05:04 PM
what is g1-15 and how do i get it
Chranny
01-22-2009, 11:23 PM
what is g1-15 and how do i get itIt's what they called the macro keys on a G15 keyboard.
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