Stupid Newb Question

[Candymountai]

Hello, I'm currently 4 boxing with a paladin as the lead. I've got 2 mages and a priest backing me up.

Is there a way I can make a macro for the priest to quickly target me, toss a heal and go back to targeting my damage target?
Thank you!

[Jusa]

And then if you like how that is going make one for each party member and set them up with their own key like F5 F6 F7 and F8. then add to the macro to cover everthing you will need to do to that toon.

/cast [target=pallyname] heal (leave off the rank so you won't have to rewrite these as you level)
/cast [target=pallyname,Modifier:Alt] Flash Heal
/cast [target=pallyname,Modifier:ctrl Power Word : Shield
/cast [target=pallyname,Modifier:shift] renew

Welcome to Speed and Eficency, Please enjoy the Ride.

[Candymountai]

I thank you so much, I just started 4boxing today, I'm at level 4 and I can already see that I'm going to love it.

[Candymountai]

Mind if I ask another question?

Is there a way to combine the Judgement and Seal in the same button press?

[amalgam]

You can ask all the questions you want; just leave a 5 in the jar on your way out.

[Jusa]

Ask all the questions you want. I'm at work but i have a macro simular to this:

#showtooltip Judgment
/cast judgement
/cast [modifirer:alt] Seal of the Crusader
/cast Seal of rightiousness

what this does is cast judgment and then seal and it does it all on one click since judgement dosen't use the GCD. The modifire part is optional is you want to use a difrent seal then hold alt, ctrl, shift first. What i do is Hold Alt on my way in so i get seal of the crusader, then when i hit it again it will judge crusader on the mob then put up rightiousness on my pally then the next time i press it it will judge rightiousness and put rightiousness back up on my pally.

[Candymountai]

And then if you like how that is going make one for each party member and set them up with their own key like F5 F6 F7 and F8. then add to the macro to cover everthing you will need to do to that toon.

/cast [target=pallyname] heal (leave off the rank so you won't have to rewrite these as you level)
/cast [target=pallyname,Modifier:Alt] Flash Heal
/cast [target=pallyname,Modifier:ctrl Power Word : Shield
/cast [target=pallyname,Modifier:shift] renew

Welcome to Speed and Eficency, Please enjoy the Ride.

the modifiers don't seem to work, any help?

[Jusa]

cut and paste your exact macro in here and i'll let you know what's wrong.

My macro was just off the top of my head it's best if you click the spell out of your spell book and then get rid of the (Rank 2) another problem with having modifires is when wow has them mapped to something else.

Do this: if you are trying to use f5 go into your key settings or bongos etc and bind F5 Alt+F5 Shift+F5 Ctrl+F5 and then unbind it. this makes sure that ctrl+F5 is not bound to something that you don't see like pet bar key 5 or secondary set key 5.

[Candymountai]

/cast [target=Pbuy,Modifier:ctrl] Power Word : Shield
/cast [target=Pbuy,Modifier:shift] renew

when I run it i get the run error "unknown macro option: modifier"

[Jusa]

/cast [target=Pbuy,Modifier:ctrl] Power Word : Shield
/cast [target=Pbuy,Modifier:shift] renew

These should work so it must be thekey binding thing that i edited into my post above. Try that and let me know.

you can also scroll through the Key Binding section and just unbind the whol sections that have the keys like CTRL+f1 CTRL+F2 etc

[Candymountai]

Jusa, those two aren't working. Eh, is there anything wrong that I'm doing wrong?

[Jusa]

Jusa, those two aren't working. Eh, is there anything wrong that I'm doing wrong?

what key is it bound to let's start there. also are you using bongos or bartender or any mod like them?

[Candymountai]

I'm using the key "j" to do this macro, and I am not using bongos or anything of the sort, just Xperl.

[Jusa]

I'm using the key "j" to do this macro, and I am not using bongos or anything of the sort, just Xperl.


ok let's try this add the other line to your macro the plan is to try to see if you have the key bound right


/cast [target=Pbuy] renew
/cast [target=Pbuy,Modifier:ctrl] Power Word : Shield
/cast [target=Pbuy,Modifier:shift] renew

does it cast renew when you just push it?

[Candymountai]

Yeah, all it does is cast renew.

[Jusa]

ok go into your key binding and find something that dosen't have a key bound to it and bind Alt+j then Bind Ctrl+j then click the unbind button at the bottom and try it again.

[Candymountai]

still nothing brother, V_V do you think it may be a problem in the macro?

[Jusa]

/cast [target=Pbuy,Modifier:ctrl] Power Word : Shield
/cast [target=Pbuy,Modifier:shift] renew

when I run it i get the run error "unknown macro option: modifier"

I read your Edit after.

try a lowercase m for modifier.


lol this is hard from work cause all my macros are at home.

[Candymountai]

GAH! Nothing's working man!

[Borogove]

It will only cast renew because square brackets are conditionals. By putting /cast [target=x] heal first, you're locking out everything else. /cast [target=x] heal will always succeed, and in doing so, knock out your GCD. What you want to do is put the ones that will fail first, like this:

/cast [target=x,modifier:shift] heal
/cast [target=x] renew

That way, once the [modifier:shift] conditional fails (if you're not holding shift), it will fall through to /cast [target=x] renew, which will always succeed.

As a side note, this fall-through only works with conditionals in []'s. If a spell itself fails, the whole macro fails (since a recent patch). So for instance:

/cast [target=x] judgement
/cast [target=x] holy light

will fail whenever judgement's cooldown is not up, even though the holy light part might have worked.

[Candymountai]

Yeah Fur, I tried everything that's in this thread too many times to count.

Edit: THANK YOU BORO!!!!!!

[Jusa]

try taking the macro apart and playing with it. I have a macro named test that i use to check a macro and play with it till it does what it's supposed to

start of with no modifier getting it to do what you want

/cast [target=pbuy] renew

if pbuy gets the renew even if your targeting someone else that part works move on to part 2

/cast [modifier:alt] renew

this should only work when you hold alt and press the key it's bound to.

once you get these working try the ctrl mod
/cast [modifier:ctrl] renew

then put them together

/cast [target=pbuy,modifier:alt] renew


other than that i can't help much from work but i'll post my priests key map when i get home in an hour or 2

[Blokus]

Conditions in brackets, like "mod:ctrl" MUST be in lowercase.

This was said above in a post in case you missed it.

[Borogove]

Wait, I think I remember now.

/cast [target=n00b,modifier:none;modifier:alt,modifiter:c trl] heal; renew, bubble

You put the spells in the same order as the modifier.

This won't work either. If more than one conditional is specified within a set of brackets, both will apply. So for instance, "/cast [modifier:ctrl,modifier:shift] renew" will only happen if both control and shift are being held down. To get the other behavior, where it will happen if either is held down, use "/cast [modifier:ctrl] [modifier:shift] renew". There is no way to apply different modifiers to different spells in a single /cast like you're suggesting, you'll need more than one /cast.*

If you're interested in what is and isn't possible with conditionals, wowwiki's page on 2.0 macros is a decent place to start:
Making a Macro (http://www.wowwiki.com/HOWTO:_Make_a_Macro)



*I reserve the right to be completely incorrect when making sweeping generalizations like this. :)

[Jusa]

Here are some of my exact macros.

The reason fot the double renew is CTRL+F? will make my Pally BoP the target and my 4 priests cast renew on them at the same time. I have the same macros on all 4 priests and the pally's one is here too. I know i'll have to remove the purify part when i start fighting UA locks but i'm only 29 atm =p The blamk for shoft on the Pally i can put a spell in later or leave it like it is and he does nothing when i push it.

Priest:
#showtooltip
/cast [target=jusab, modifier:Alt] Flash Heal
/cast [target=jusab, modifier:Ctrl] Renew
/cast [target=jusab, modifier:shift] Heal
/cast [target=jusab] Renew

Pally:
#showtooltip
/cast [target=jusac, modifier:Alt] Flash of Light
/cast [target=jusac, modifier:Ctrl] Blessing of Protection
/cast [target=jusac, modifier:shift]
/cast [target=jusac] Purify


You asked about the Judgment so here you go.

#showtooltip judgement
/cast [noharm] Purify
/cast Judgement;
/cast [modifier:alt] Seal of the Crusader
/cast Seal of Righteousness

And this is how i recover if my Main Dies. Since i use /assist focus or [target=focustarget] i need a new focus on the run sometimes if a heal lands late. Just hold down the correct modifier and it will set your new focus and follow them.

/clearfocus
/focus Jussa
/focus [modifier:lalt] Jusab
/focus [modifier:ctrl] Jusac
/focus [modifier:shift] Jusad
/focus [modifier:ralt] Jusae
/fol focus

Thwn just click on the new focus toon's screen and use it like your new main. If he dies refocus and grind the rest of the wheels off. Giid thing about a Pal 4 Priest team is if 1 person lives it's not a wipe =p Good Luck and Have Fun.

[Candymountai]

Quick question, how would I get flamestrike to work?

[Contents]

the easiest method.... Click on each screen and manually place/cast flamestrike.

I believe there is a way to have it centered on a targeted mob, but I can't recall how to do it.

[marvein]

the easiest method.... Click on each screen and manually place/cast flamestrike.

I believe there is a way to have it centered on a targeted mob, but I can't recall how to do it.

it involves using the [target=focus] modifier but that is all I know. There was another similiar thread here that mentioned it. The suggestion was to use center the mouse on all minions so that they had the target mouse over and then use a macro to cast the spell with the target being the focus.