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Spin
02-21-2009, 10:49 PM
I'm sure I've seen it somewhere, but I can't find it.

Is there a way to set the group loot to free-for-all inside a macro?

ie

/invite 2b
/loot free-for-all

Julgas
02-21-2009, 10:56 PM
Use Jamba addon

Coltimar
02-21-2009, 10:59 PM
Use Jamba addonFor serious. Save a macro space and have some flexibility to boot.

GizmoxLoW
02-22-2009, 12:52 AM
just add
/ffa to your macro


but yeah get jamba you dont know what your missing!

Spin
02-22-2009, 12:08 PM
just add
/ffa to your macro


but yeah get jamba you dont know what your missing!

Thanks. I'll check Jamba out, but I'm trying to avoid add-ons that are specific to mboxing. I still raid a bit, just dual boxing to mess around when i'm waiting for a raid to start or while I'm killing time.

daviddoran
02-22-2009, 05:12 PM
Avoiding addons specific to boxing? Are you a masochist? Just disable stuff when you are raiding.

Anyway, as said before Jamba is your friend. It does a lot of other stuff too, but I especially like it, as I can have one ingame macro that invites any team I have configured, so I can swap out a toon, make a quick edit and jamba, and my macros work.

Moorea
02-23-2009, 06:42 AM
I use jamba even for solo just for the auto-sell, auto-repair and auto-buy features

Tehtsuo
02-23-2009, 09:43 AM
Yeah, just hit the "Enter Solo Mode" button and you're good to go. Although happily the auto-sell, auto-buy, and auto-repair functions still work in Solo mode! Yay!

Spin
02-23-2009, 05:58 PM
Avoiding addons specific to boxing? Are you a masochist? Just disable stuff when you are raiding.

Anyway, as said before Jamba is your friend. It does a lot of other stuff too, but I especially like it, as I can have one ingame macro that invites any team I have configured, so I can swap out a toon, make a quick edit and jamba, and my macros work.

Eh, I hate relying on add-ons. I have the uncanny luck to get attached to add-ons where the authors suddenly go missing or on some sort of soul searching mission and they quit wow. I absolutely hate that feeling of not being able to play properly without "Add-on X". I especially am wary of add-ons that are too bloated with features. If I can do someting in a macro, thats good enough.

Also, I'm just dual-boxing--nothing overly complex. Mostly I want to be able to turn the box on and go.

I'll check Jamba out at some point. It sounds interesting.

elsegundo
02-23-2009, 07:18 PM
relying on macros and placing its icon in an actionbar key is kinda like relying on addons that has the macros already made for you, in a simple button. erm... wow. same thing.

i use jamba solo as well. its awesome.



/script acceptgroup()

Spin
02-24-2009, 01:23 PM
relying on macros and placing its icon in an actionbar key is kinda like relying on addons that has the macros already made for you, in a simple button. erm... wow. same thing.

i use jamba solo as well. its awesome.



/script acceptgroup()
You can give a man a fish and he'll be fed for a day. Teach a man to fish and pretty soon he'll be bitching about the weather, bragging about the ones that got away and full of stories chock-full of derring-do....

I'm of the opinion that if you know how to do something manually, then fixing it is easy enough should something change. Relying on a macro that you've written yourself is nothing like relying on an add-on(that someone else created) that performs a bunch of different tasks for you. There is a much much greater chance that Blizzard will change something that will break an add-on on any given patch that comes out than Blizzard will change the ability to invite people into a group via macros and changing the loot priority.

I've been playing wow since dec 04--just like millions of other people. In that time, I've seen the default interface change from a clunky, featureless craptastic interface to one that is not so bad. Years ago, wow was not a lot of fun unless you had a lot of addons that changed the interface around. Every single patch that came out would break the addons, rendering 3 or 4 days of scrambling about to make changes, waiting on people to fix addons queing up to download them... bleh. After years of putting up with this, I feel that I am best served by using add-ons that serve a very specific purpose, have a large number of people supporting/developing them, and are used commonly by huge numbers of people. Everything else that I do, I use macros that I've either created myself, or I've seen on various forums and they work well for me.

I'm not knocking Jamba. I'm sure that it's an awesome addon. I just haven't had the time to read up on it and make up my mind if I want to use it.

elsegundo
02-24-2009, 02:22 PM
relying on macros and placing its icon in an actionbar key is kinda like relying on addons that has the macros already made for you, in a simple button. erm... wow. same thing.

i use jamba solo as well. its awesome.



/script acceptgroup()
You can give a man a fish and he'll be fed for a day. Teach a man to fish and pretty soon he'll be bitching about the weather, bragging about the ones that got away and full of stories chock-full of derring-do....

I'm of the opinion that if you know how to do something manually, then fixing it is easy enough should something change. Relying on a macro that you've written yourself is nothing like relying on an add-on(that someone else created) that performs a bunch of different tasks for you. There is a much much greater chance that Blizzard will change something that will break an add-on on any given patch that comes out than Blizzard will change the ability to invite people into a group via macros and changing the loot priority.

I've been playing wow since dec 04--just like millions of other people. In that time, I've seen the default interface change from a clunky, featureless craptastic interface to one that is not so bad. Years ago, wow was not a lot of fun unless you had a lot of addons that changed the interface around. Every single patch that came out would break the addons, rendering 3 or 4 days of scrambling about to make changes, waiting on people to fix addons queing up to download them... bleh. After years of putting up with this, I feel that I am best served by using add-ons that serve a very specific purpose, have a large number of people supporting/developing them, and are used commonly by huge numbers of people. Everything else that I do, I use macros that I've either created myself, or I've seen on various forums and they work well for me.

I'm not knocking Jamba. I'm sure that it's an awesome addon. I just haven't had the time to read up on it and make up my mind if I want to use it.fair enough. its there when you do decide to use it, but yea, hope those macros work out for you. as for me, i pull up a macro and go wtf is this? omg i wrote that?? imma dumbass. yea stuff like that. besides, i need room for more important macro stuffs, like attacks. for me if an addon can do something one of my macros is doing, then i use the addon and drop the macro for sake of macro space. yea we all have our own priorities. anyway... see you around!