What do you do when your "main" dies?

[Ripper]

How do you control your other characters when your main dies? All of mine run off /assist, follow, etc. Wish I could add some IF THEN logic to my macros. Maybe /assist backuptank if main is dead, etc. My setup works fine, until I'm dead, then well, it gets ugly.

[laeelin]

My group is 1 paladin + 4 priests.

I use focus to find my main..

If my main dies, it's just one hoykey click to change to a new main...

my spells work like this:

#showtooltip
/cast [target=focustarget, exists, nodead, help] Renew()
/cast [target=focustargettarget, exists, nodead, help] Renew()
This macro first tried to heal my focuses target, then if that isnt an ally or is dead, it then heals my focus targets target. (aka it heals whoever my focuses target is beating on)
This is my generic heal button.


#showtooltip
/cast [target=focustarget, exists, nodead, harm] Smite()
Hits the focuses target with smith.

/follow focus
Follows the focus

I buff like this:

Priest 1
#showtooltip
/castsequence [target=focustarget, exists, nodead, help] reset=10 Power Word: Fortitude(),,,

Priest 2
#showtooltip
/castsequence [target=focustarget, exists, nodead, help] reset=10 ,Power Word: Fortitude(),,

Priest 3
#showtooltip
/castsequence [target=focustarget, exists, nodead, help] reset=10,,Power Word: Fortitude(),

Priest 4
#showtooltip
/castsequence [target=focustarget, exists, nodead, help] reset=10 ,,,Power Word: Fortitude()

Target Player 1, click hotkey, target player 2, hit hotkey, ect... on each hit the castsequence makes one (and only one) buff so I can quickly buff the entier group.

I use focus for everything except CC.

For CC I just use the normal target for that...
For example my Warlock group uses the numberpad:

3 rows of three keys.
7 8 9
4 5 6
1 2 3

One column per clone, top row assists the focus, middle row makes the pet attack the target (used for voidwalker offtanking) bottom row fears the target.

Numberpad 7 = /assist focus
Numberpad 4 = /petattack
Numberpad 1 = /cast Fear()

Numberpad 8 = /assist focus
Numberpad 5 = /petattack
Numberpad 2 = /cast Fear()

Numberpad 9 = /assist focus
Numberpad 6 = /petattack
Numberpad 3 = /cast Fear()

ps: I got this from someone here, don't remember who, but I love the setup. The only problem is wanding. To work arround that my wand macros actually target the focuses target, then shoot.

[Xzin]

In short, get creative with /focus and movement keys and keybinds such that you can shift to a new leader instantly.

Xkeys helps for this as do the new 6 alt/ctrl/etc toggles.

[Pulphero]

so last night my main died... thought I had things undercontrol but not...

my main died and I am not quite sure how to deal with that...
I want to be able to switch my main when my current one dies... so I have my macros set up to follow who ever is not dead... seems to work, but what doesnt work is the moving.

I am only using Multi-Box server and client... and I am not broadcasting the a, w, s, d keys to move... so my thought was when my main when down I would just switch to another screen... but that dont work...

So am I clear to hear here... that you move your main through the awsd keys and your alts through shift-awsd or alt-awsd... etc... ?

is there another way?

[laeelin]

I don't pass A, S, W, D, only the active window gets that... I do pass the arrow keys so I can move the clones around.

When I die, I just make the clone I'm changing to into the group leader, and hit the "make group leader the focus" button and instantly all my clones are now using the new main.

(this is from memory, hope I have it right)
The hotkey is:
/focus [target=party1] target

[Ryan]

I go through some grief counseling.


Seriously though, I'm three boxing on one machine, which I think makes my method easier. But for controls I use an N52, and I make use of the Red shift function to switch keymaps on the fly. When Ryanone dies, I bring Ryantwo's screen to front and hit Redshift which leaves everything else the same, but the Big Button now reads /follow Ryantwo /assist Ryantwo. And I can Blueshift it for Ryanthree. But I can see how that would become less convenient the more characters you have.