Need Serious Macro help

[Terbulous]

Ok, so to start off, ive got a priest as my main, and 2 locks as my clones... im not very far, (i just leveled to 10) and ive run into some major roadblocks already, and it happens to because i have limited to no knowledge of macro making what so ever.

the macros i do have i stole from the multiboxer beginner macro post.

which are as follows:


****** This is what I call the "Big Button". I hit this a lot:

/target focus
/follow
/assist
/stopcasting


Ok this works well, i can get this one to work...except I come up with a problem, somehow i dont know why, but if a mob targets one of my guys before i target them, i just end up with my clones targeting me through the mob thats beating the hell out of me. or vice versa



****** Place this macro on all secondary toons to accept quests/rez/etc:

/script AcceptGroup();
/script AcceptQuest();
/script AcceptTrade();
/script RetrieveCorpse();


Love this macro, great macro for beginners



/cast [nodead, harm] Shadowbolt


Ok on this macro, i had to remove the target = focus thing, it just wasnt doing anything when i pressed the macro, my locks would just stand there like idiots



/cast [harm, nodead] Smite
/cast [target=mouseover, noharm, nodead] Lesser Heal
/cast [target=mouseover, noharm, dead] Ressurection


Ok for this one, the cast of smite works great, my only problem is that the rest of the macro doesnt work, i cant seem to get the mouseover parts to work... no clue why here either, it would help out for healing my locks, and i would really like to be able to get this to work and figure out how to make alt modifiers for renew or shield


Basically, im at your mercy, i dont understand how to make the macros, is there anyone that can point me in the right direction and help me understand for myself what everything does where i can make my own. Or link me some usefull macros for a priest and lock combo? Yes i know there is a macro codex, but i really dont know what any of that is or does.

Also, on a side note, my N52 should be arriving tomorrow, so maybe that will help some.

Thanks in advance.

[Gallo]

Ok, there are 2 ways to do targetting when multiboxing:

1) Have a key on all the alt toons that says "/assist toon1" where toon1 is your main. This way, you run around and click on a mob with you main, tap this key, then hit '2' or whatever your DPS spell is on all the characters. The problem with this is that if the main ever dies, your whole group is toast.

2) The whole "focus" targetting system. What many people do is they have F1-F5 keys dedicated to macros that say:
/target toon1;
/focus

This is generally considered the best way to do things. I use this setup.

So when I log in, and have keyclone all set up, I tap F1 and all my toons now have their focus set as my main.

Then, all you have to do is macro all your DPS spells like this:

/cast [target=focustarget] Fireball

This makes it so that whatever your main is targetting, the alts will cast straight to that without having to /assist first.

The beauty of this strategy is that if your main dies, just hit F2 and click over to another screen to begin controlling the 2nd character as your "main".

As far as healing goes, what you want to do on the priest is use the numberpad on the right of the keyboard. I'd simply do this:
- Set the 1 key to "/target toon1" which is yourself
- Set the 2 key to "/target toon2" which is the 1st lock
- Set the 3 key to "/target toon3" which is the 2nd lock
- Set the 4 key to Renew (no macro needed)
- Set the 5 key to Flash Heal (no macro needed)
- Set the 6 key to Greater Heal (no macro needed)

This method, makes it so that when you want to heal, all you do is tap whatever target you need (1,2,or 3) then cast the appropriate heal spell (4,5, or 6).

[Tigahawk]

i just use

/assist <main characters name>
/stopcasting
/cast <big fireball of doom>

and have one for each spell.

[Los]

Focus is a character or mob you set with the /focus command.

If you referen a friendly target as being focus you can not shoot firebals, since he's friendly. Focus has a friend, which is called the focustarget this represents the target of the person you have focused.

So if i focus my tank, and let my casters or whatever do something like this:

/cast [target=focustarget] fireball

they will fire that fireball on the target of the focus.

Also nice is this for example:

/cast [target=party1target] fireball

This will make your party fire at the partyleaders target.

[Gallo]

i just use

/assist <main characters name>
/stopcasting
/cast <big fireball of doom>

and have one for each spell.

So if your main character dies, its GG for all of them eh?