Beginning Macro Help... 3xSpriest...

[Xy]

Hey, i finally got my parts in for my computer and started to look at the macros and keyclone need.

I have a lot of newbie questions so beware and use caution!

Ive read over the macro and keyclone sections but im still not getting it. Or im just confusing myself more...

Can someone tell me some macros i would need for 3x shadow priests?!


It would also help if someone could show me step by step on vent or something to help me create these macros and get set up.

Thanks
Xy

[Lokked]

You will need to be familiar with the workings of a Shadow Priest.

All of your "Alts" attacking macros will include the line:
/cast [target=party1target] "insert spell name here"

And that's basically it for macros.

You can make them any way you like.

Good luck with getting anyone who posts here to give you a vent walkthrough. Perhaps if they were remunerated.....

[Wulfos]

Hi,
I have 3 shadow priests, too.

My macro system is quite nice, but I'm still working on it.

You have to be in group with the 3 chars. Just invite them with a macro on your first char (don't forgett to change the groupsettings to free 4 all, it makes looting a lot of easier!):

/inv char2
/inv char3

Then you need the "Accept"-macro on all 3 chars:

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

With this, you can accept the groupinvite, accept questsharings, and a lot of more things.

Now I have these macros (They only work if you are in group with your chars!):

/focus char1

/focus char2

/focus char3

Replace char1, char2, char3 with the names of your chars. With these macros you choose your main char. If he dies, you can immediately choose another main char, and continue playing in his window.
Also for looting quests you can choose the character, who has to loot the next 60 items, so you dont have to switsch from the mainchar-window to the altchar-window to loot, and back to the mainchar-window.

Now here are my dmg macros:

/cast [target=focustarget] attack

Replace attack with every dmpspell. All chars now fire mindblast or whatever on the target of your main.

For heal/dispell/buff macros use this:

/cast [target=player] buff

Replace buff with the spell you want to cast on yourselve. Here I'm thinking of improving it. You have 3 chars, you have Shift, Ctrl and Alt. 3 chars, 3 modifier. So if you just want to heal one of your char without switching to his window, you could press Ctrl+4 to only heal your second char.
It would look like this:

/stopmacro [modifier:ctrl]
/stopmacro [modifier:alt]
/cast [target=player] buff

Now a important part is the following. Just use this line:

/follow char

And all chars are following your main char. (Also if you change your main char, it always works!)
Dont forget to press your following-macro again after mindflay (or how it is called in english *g*)

If you don't know how to set up macros, or you want to build your own macros, see this page (http://www.wowwiki.com/Making_a_macro#How_do_I_make_a_macro.3F), its quite nice.
Also you have to use keybindings. I prefer TrinityBars (http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7810-TrinityBars2.0.html), because you can easily set up keybindings with just one click.
The rest of multiboxing should be described enough in the stickies.

Here are my keybindings I'm using at the moment (notice I'm currently only Lvl 29):
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/3444/keybindingsqj3.png
C is my following macro,
# is my invite macro,
. (the big blue +) is my accept macro,
F1-F3 are my focus macros.
(F4 to target the mainchartarget with all chars, usefull if someone looks at you but has your toon in his target, so press F4, and this toon will target him, so he notices, that you look at him, too *g*)

I hope I could help you a bit, and my english wasn't too bad *g*

Merry Chrismas to you and all multiboxing people, in 7 hours I get my 8800 gtx :D

[Jusa]

Wulfos has alot of good advice. So i'll just build a little on that.

Cahange the invite macro on your main and it will save you a macro. Push it once for an invite then again for them to accept group.

/script AcceptGroup();
/script AcceptQuest();
/script AcceptTrade();
/script RetrieveCorpse();
/script RepopMe();
/inv jusab
/inv jusac
/inv jusad
/inv jusae

Here is my focus macro. It also serves as a follow macro to save space. It allows you to swap mains quickly when one dies/MC and alows you to pick who you want your main to be.

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

Shared healing gives you the fastest heals and powerful renews. But to be quick about healing it's best to have a key for each toon, and then one that you can use to target anyone else you may group with.

#showtooltip
/cast [target=jussa, modifier:Alt] Flash Heal
/cast [target=jussa, modifier:Ctrl] Power Word: Shield
/cast [target=jussa, modifier:shift] Heal
/cast [target=jussa] Renew

#showtooltip
/assist focus
/cast [modifier:alt] Flash Heal
/cast Renew

What good is 3 fears at the same time? you will want to cycle them.
Play with this till you get it working for 3 guys cause i use it for 4/5. each is diferent for each toon, change the coma to fit when you want to fear.

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=30 , Psychic Scream, , ,

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=30 , , Psychic Scream, ,

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=30 , , , Psychic Scream,

Try to package as many spells as you can to the same key. Mainly to save macro space, but it helps to eep things close at hand too.

#showtooltip
/cast [target=focustarget, modifier:shift] Vampiric Embrace
/cast [target=focustarget, modifier:ctrl] Vampiric Touch
/cast [target=focustarget, modifier:Alt] Devouring Plague
/cast [target=focustarget] Shadow Word: Pain

Welcome and good luck.

[Wulfos]

Thanks a lot Jusa, I think it will help me, too. very good ideas!

The fear problem is already solved by keyclone, which has a round-robin function in it, which will send special keys only to one client each press.

[Xy]

Wow, im amazed by how much help this has been and how nice yall are compared to other forums putting newbies down!

I appreciate it! Thanks!

[Jusa]

Well we've had alot of help from this site too. As you start writing your macros and tweeking them more you can do more with your toons and that makes playing them more fun and less tedious. And this site is more fun to troll than my guild forums.

[keyclone]

that is the secret ingredient of these boards, Xy.

sort of a pay-it-forward mindset. basically, give what you have received. if people were helpful and friendly, then the hope is that you'd do the same in the future to other noobies coming in. in the end, we all benefit from a solid community of great people.

and yes, these forums are much better then most i have seen.

http://www.kirupa.com/forum/images/smilies/xmas_smilie.gif

[muplayer2007]

download this:
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7199-1.54.html

Auto accept invite, stick on follow

[AndyB]

download this:
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7199-1.54.html

Auto accept invite, stick on follow

Agreed. TwoBoxToolkit is a must in my mind. Relaying chat is also nice...

[Tonuss]

I am running a group with a priest, paladin and mage and for buffing I've tried two approaches. One is using the /targetparty function. Each time you run the macro the character will target the next person in the group, apparently using themselves as a start point. So the macros could be:

Priest
/targetparty
/cast Power Word: Fortitude

Mage
/targetparty
/cast Arcane Intellect

Paladin
/targetparty
/cast Blessing of Wisdom


Bind them to the same key (shift-F12 in my case) and just press it X number of times and your group is buffed.

However, I was having some problems with it, it may be that if you take too long between keypresses it resets it or something. It worked fine when I had the mage and priest doing it, but when I added the paladin for some reason it stopped working. Since I run one main character and have the rest work from that character, I did the following. I created a macro to make the party leader the focus of the other characters.

/target party1
/focus


Then I created the following macros and bound them as before:

Priest
/cast [target=focustarget] Power Word: Fortitude

Mage
/cast [target=focustarget] Arcane Intellect

Paladin
/cast [target=focustarget] Blessing of Wisdom

So what I do is select each party member in turn with the mouse, then press shift-F12 and each party member gets buffed in turn.

This won't work for every setup, but since it's primarily a caster group those are the buffs I'd be using the most. My group is also of a low level and being powerleveled by a 70 shaman, so I can be lazy with the focus command... at some point I'll need to add more macros to allow me to recover when the primary character is killed.

[Nepida]

Paladins buff based on class, not group. So Priests and Mages can buff once and hit everyone, but Paladins need to buff for each class in the group (ex, 3 times with pally, mage, priest in the party)

[Tonuss]

Sorry, I should have clarified. My group is low-level (currently 18) and thus the priest and mage do not have group versions of their buffs, just the single-target ones.

[Nepida]

Ah, and I didn't read it carefully enough. I wasn't aware of the /targetparty command so thanks for that :D. Though I don't see how it would be different from paladin to priest (I have both and single target should be the same).

My only guess is you need to make sure all the keybindings are set up properly on your paladin, I'm still learning a lot myself though.

[Otlecs]

Just to pick up on the party buff key binding discussion, I can't recommend SmartBuff (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/2071/) highly enough.

It really is indispensible, especially with encounter-specific buffs that you can enable on the fly, and its reminders. Once installed, you can bind a key to "trigger" SmartBuff from the regular binding menu - just keep spamming that until all your characters have all the buffs they need.

Saves a few bindings, and that's all before I even talk about SmartDebuff that comes bundled with it ;)