1x Paladin, 4x Shaman questions

[Kalros]

Hey all. Been dabbling with Multiboxing for a few months now, and after RAF-ing a bunch of teams to 60+, I've decided to go with the 1x Prot Pally and 4x Elemental Shaman combo. So now I'm just wondering if you guys could help me out with macros, hotkeys and a bit of strategy. Here's what I have right now:

-68 Pally, 4x 62 Shamen. The Palading "aggro" macro is as follows:

/startattack
/castrandom consecration, avenger's shield, holy shield, hammer of the righteous, hand of reckoning

I have that tied to both my #2 and #4 key. On the shamen, I have a simple, 2-spell macro on the #2 key:

/assist party1
/castrandom earth shock (I have them staggered, 3 of the shamen cast a different shock), lightning bolt

And the #4 key on the Shamen is an /assist and Chain Lightning spell.

So I drop my totems, pull with Avenger's Shield, then spam #2 and #4 on all characters. No croud control, obviously, and I just AOE them down. I also have some healing macros tied to 6-8 that all seem to work really well, so I wont bother with that.

My main question is, do these macros seem ok? Is there a better way of doing things? I'm all ears and would love any and all suggestions (besides "why are you doing it like THAT, dumb@$$!). Anything constructive would be welcome. Thanks again!

Kalros - 80 Hunter
Uther Son!

PS - I'm wondering if there is a way to see when the cooldown of a spell is up. Specifically Chain Lightning on the Shamen. I'd love some way of seeing an indicator on my Paladin when CL is ready to go!

[sojolly]

This will get you to 80. Once you hit heroics, you will need to work out some more complicated tricks for the different encounters. Enjoy the journey.

Sojólly

[Sam DeathWalker]

Run into group of mobs, drop consecration to get agro on the pally. Use fire nova totem and thunderstorm (with glyph if you don't like knockback effect) for aoe ....

Chain Heal while waiting for refreashes or then use your shocks to kill whats still up by /targetenemy on Pal and /assist Pal on the shaman (or hand tag with Pal if you can't one shot with 4 shocks)

Macaroon shows cooldowns kinda but only on your character.

[Khatovar]

PAB is nice for tracking cooldowns, I used it extensivly on my hunter/pal team. Though for normal spells, I'd be more prone to suggest working out a good /click macro or cast sequence. PAB was more useful for the longer cooldown spells, like TS.

Sam, why would sit around spamming chain heal while "waitng for refreashes" or using shocks? Shamans do have 2 other spells that they should be spamming. If you're just using shocks and long cooldowns to dps...well, I'll leave that to someone else. Along with just about everythign else you said.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Well I said shocks casue the OP was using shocks, I just use shocks for killing a single that might have added during the pbaoe. i dont use shocks in my regular pbaoe.

For aoe ya your spells are fire nova totem and thunderstorm, the question then becomes what to do while waiting for refreash. I notice that the Pally consecrate is so powerfull that you can just basically wait and wait for consecrate to kill everything, and just heal while doing so ....

Im not sure but I would just do a chain heal while consecrate ticks instead of doing a chain lightning ....., but thats mainly because the mobs I kill are to high for the shaman to really hit them, but it works.

I wonder if chain lightning is better in that the mobs die sooner or that chain heal is more mana efficient as consecate will kill the mobs anyway. I supppose as the number of mobs increases heal is better whereas if there are like 3 - 5 mobs chain lightning is better. I ususally pull larger groups.

Whats the spell besides chain lightning that the shaman should be spamming in an pbaoe situation?

After rereading the OP its not clear that he is aoeing mobs... I would think that its better to do so then to kill one at a time.

If you are going to aoe then letting consecrate do its job while healing is not that bad of an idea at all.

[Sajuuk]

Hey Sam...

Magma totem.


To the OP: Whatever you use is just fine. It's all a learning experience. I myself generally make one macro and leave it there until I find I need to change it for some reason. (If it wasn't working right in one situation, if targeting wasn't quite right, etc.)

[Sam DeathWalker]

Humm well ya magma totem, looks better post 3.0.9.

[HelmoAlkou]

I have close to the same set up for pre-heroic 80's. Now I'm using one Shaman (resto) for healing. But, for chain heals I only used 2 of the 4 Shaman at a time using mod:shift so I didn't completely drop dps to heal.

[Marious]

Pally, 3 shaman, 1 priest:

Buttons 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
Pally Attack NA Stun NA Taunt Macro Macro Judge Pull
Shamanx3 NA DPS NA Totems TS NA NA NA NA NA
Priest NA wand Healing PoM AOE heal NA NA NA NA NA

So that’s mine, pull with 0, Consecrate/DS with 6, HoR/SoR with 8 and judge with 9.
Shaman do a castrandom of FS, LvB, CL, LB while some say that CL is kind of mana waster I always pull big groups 3 or more or at least try and I always aoe nuke them down, normally they cant get near the shaman sometimes the shaman pull agro but its rare and when you start heroics well that is going to be a different story and you might have to tweak your macros but for the most part at your level what you have should work for you. You will build on those base macros later on as you get more spells in the 70’s. Have fun I don’t have a shaman on the Priest account, well I take that back the shaman is stuck at 60 so it don’t do a whole lot of good. But what I like to do which I think you do already with the assist is you always attack your tanks target I like to have [target=party1-target] for my macros and the shaman never actually select a target other than the tanks by accident.