Keybinds setup for 3 shaman?

[pinotnoir]

Anyone have any suggestions on keybinds for 3 shamans? I have the default keybinds right now but it would be sweet if someone had some good bind suggestions. I tried the search feature here and it shows me many threads unrelated and when I click back in my browser the search page is deleted. So I have been typing the search in over and over which is getting old.

THanks for the help!

[Los]

easy, [pick spell i like] -> add key ?

to help a bit more, you will need to bind something to lightning bolts and shocks, ow dont forget some optional healing/cleansing, after that some totem sets, and voila!

[birdbarrett]

I just started 3 boxing shammies, which makes me far from an expert. But this is basically what I've done.

Main toon casts Lightning Bolt. That button I pressed activates the macro
/assist party1(my main toon)
/cast Lightning Bolt
This has them all casting lightning bolt on the same target. I actually use a macro floating around here (it's on a sticky) that allows Lightning Bolt to be cast on the original target you picked, but that above one will work for the basics.

I did pretty much the same thing with the Heal. Bound that to a key.

For totems, I basically have four buttons set away which bind to the four "schools" of nature magic. One toon will pop down Earthbind, another pops down Stoneskin, and one other might pop down strength of Earth..and so on. You can do whichever appeals to your playstyle.

For shocks, since I'm still in the levelling stage, I have each toon doing one of the shocks that I want him too, and they'll all do their respective shock with the same keybind. For example, I hit E and two shammies do Flame Shock, and one does Earth Shock. Or whatever you'd prefer.

And that's it for the basic way to go. As you gather more totems, you might want to have different hotkeys set up for different situations. For instance, I might want three searing totems set up, or maybe three magmas.

[binkiebink]

/cast [target=party1target] -spell name-

[Diamndzngunz]

I only have a /target key and a /assist key.

So its like this.

Shift R target my main.
Shift E assist my main
E to cast lightning bolt.

[pinotnoir]

how do you manage healing your toons? I find it hard to make them target the person taking damage and all healing at the same time. I was thinking of making a healing macro with like heal spell name and just make 3 buttons bound so if one is in trouble I just hit the heal him button.

Another thing I am wondering about is how do you control the others if your main dies? I had to unbind the wsad movement on the two followers. This is all new. So far I have them to lvl 8. Some of the lowbie collection quest suck. Not sure if I can skip them or what. My only shaman toon was level 25 so I dont know much about shamans.

[binkiebink]

main character targets the one that needs to be healed
lets say healing wave in is button 4 on all the characters
have the main use the actual spell
have the alts use a macro with this in it instead of the actual spell
[code:1] /cast [target=party1target] healing wave[/code:1]
press 4 and the alts targets wont change but they will cast on the main's target
or an alternative have
all the alts have slot 4 empty start to cast a detrimental spell hit your pause button have the main heal the one that needs healing and walk away clean

first one works better for me in instances because if i need to heal in an instance i need the charac ters full health

[perseph]

For healing i use F1 - F4
F1 = /target main /cast chainheal
F2 = /target toon1 /cast chainheal
F3 = /target toon2 /cast chainheal
F4 = /selftarget /cast chainheal

outdoor pve this bindings works, bur sometimes i wish i could only take 1 shaman for healing :>

[Xocide]

I only have a /target key and a /assist key.

So its like this.

Shift R target my main.
Shift E assist my main
E to cast lightning bolt.

im sorry but thats very .... obnoxious. the fact that you need to press 3 keys to just start attacking.
My macro for lighting bolt on my 2x shami:
/target Zeoko
/assist
/cast (Lighting bolt rank 1)

it makes it so you an just press 1 button and attack

lighting bolt is on "Q" so when i press Q i start to cast lighting bolt and so does my alt.

for healing macros. just do:
/target Zeoko
/cast ("heal") and put this macro on a button not used my your main.

i have "C" blank on my main and on my alt i have that macro on "C", so when i press "C" my main does nothing, and my alt heals me.

of course though you have more exp duel boxing then me. i just started yesterday :P

[Squiggoth]

I wonder if there's a simple addon you can install on the one Shaman as a hybrid dps/healer that will select the "tank", check his health, cast 1 spell if he's below 50% health, lets say, and then select focus (the mob you're DPSing) and cast lightning bolt if he's ABOVE 50%.

[Nepida]

Squiggoth you cannot do those type of conditionals anymore.

[Jusa]

I wonder if there's a simple addon you can install on the one Shaman as a hybrid dps/healer that will select the "tank", check his health, cast 1 spell if he's below 50% health, lets say, and then select focus (the mob you're DPSing) and cast lightning bolt if he's ABOVE 50%.

Just think if it could turn on your computer, log you in, play the game for you and then send you a detailed e-mail about all the cool things "you" did today while you actualy played PS3.

[Squiggoth]

:roll: Was just trying to help, no need to troll. I realize what I said was automation, but what I meant was more of a "splitter".

So you'd only have to send the one keystroke (with KC or AHK) but it would handle it differently based on factors.

You know, I was just saying how open and inviting this community is....hmph.

[Contents]

Technically couldn't you use the "/cast [target=targettarget] Healing Wave" that should have all of your toons heal the member that the mob is beating on.

And we are rather inviting, just whenever anything close to botting comes up we get a bit touchy.

[Nepida]

Technically couldn't you use the "/cast [target=targettarget] Healing Wave" that should have all of your toons heal the member that the mob is beating on.

And we are rather inviting, just whenever anything close to botting comes up we get a bit touchy.

targettarget only works if there is 1 mob and 0 aoe damage being done.

[marvein]

Technically couldn't you use the "/cast [target=targettarget] Healing Wave" that should have all of your toons heal the member that the mob is beating on.

And we are rather inviting, just whenever anything close to botting comes up we get a bit touchy.

targettarget only works if there is 1 mob and 0 aoe damage being done.

targettarget works if there is only one mob but it relies on the fact that all your shamans have the same target, such as you wont be able to use that to heal a shaman getting beat on by a stray mob. However ,the aoe damage is easy to deal with though. just use [modifier:alt] Chain Heal so if you need to heal multiples do a chain otherwise just do one.

My current setup for heals is quite ugly but it works.

I have 5 macros on each shaman arranged in a way so they each correspond to a different party member and so I dont waste mana on heavy overhealing.

The macros are arranged based on the party layout on my main (for logic help) and then matched on all sub characters (because party1 changes on each character since party1 is yourself from each perspective)

For example if I press shift+1 that will cause shamans 1-3 to cast a lesser healing wave on shaman 1 (so one self cast and two alt casts) if I press that button again shamans 1,4, and 5 will cast lesser healing wave on shaman 1. This remains true all the way to shaman number 5, where each press of the button(macro) will cause 1 shaman and 2 alts to cast heals on the first shaman. All the cast sequences reset after combat though because after trying it without that I had some severe syncing issues (like sometimes no one would cast a spell lol). This also helps spread out the agro and mana use. Hopefuly that made more sense than if I had just pasted all 25 macros into the message body :) Heals are about the only things I care about for this purpose, shamans all cast their shocks/bolts and most totems in one keystroke since there is little reason currently to stagger them. (non-stacking totems are just bound to different keys so they get alternated evenly)


*edit* by request here are the healing macros from one shaman. The changes between each one is simply the location of the question mark, with the exception of the /castsequence becoming a /cast when the spell would be a self cast (such as shaman 3 will be /cast [target=self] when shift+3 is pressed and so on.

MACRO 10 "Heal 2" INV_Misc_QuestionMark
/castsequence reset=combat [target=pewpewwz] Healing Wave,
END
MACRO 11 "Heal 3" INV_Misc_QuestionMark
/castsequence reset=combat [target=Pewpewws] ,Healing Wave
END
MACRO 12 "Heal 4" INV_Misc_QuestionMark
/castsequence reset=combat [target=Pewwpews] Healing Wave,
END
MACRO 13 "Heal 5" INV_Misc_QuestionMark
/castsequence reset=combat [target=Pewwpewz] ,Healing Wave
END
MACRO 9 "Heal Main" INV_Misc_QuestionMark
/cast [target=Pewpewss] Healing Wave
END

the following are my only current totem macros.
MACRO 7 "Earthbin" INV_Misc_QuestionMark
#show Earthbind totem
/castsequence reset=reset ,Earthbind Totem,,,
END

MACRO 8 "Stoneskin" INV_Misc_QuestionMark
#show Stoneskin Totem
/castsequence reset=combat Stoneskin Totem,,,,
END

what i usually do is hit my stoneclaw totem key which will do 5x stoneclaws then hit these two macros so the stoneclaws get replaced in turn. its a slight waste of mana when I need all 3 but being able to do 5 stoneclaws is more helpful to counter said sacrifice.

*edit2* upon getting some more experience in RFC (ie wiping a lot on 3packs lol) ive decided to change my healing macro to use faster, smaller heals. after all my hp is so low at this level that 1 rank 3 lesser heal is pretty much half my hp but its 2.5s cast. so for now ill be changing all these to rank 2 heals to cut off .5 seconds off the cast but when all 3 go it will still be plenty of healing. I will of course need to change this as I go so its an inconvenience but beats wiping due to slow and mana wasting heals.

[Nepida]

Ah, chain heal. Forgot about that since I don't have it yet :)

[marvein]

Ah, chain heal. Forgot about that since I don't have it yet :)

most of these macros will be altered as I level and get new spells and new ranks of spells. for example I will likely favor chain heal over healing wave instead and use full rank healing waves less often. In addition I will have another keybind that will cast rank 1 lessers in order to proc ancestral fortitude on a target of my choice. I also have the same keys bound on all characters so if I wish for an "aoe" heal i just hit 3 then F1 so all shamans cast highest rank heal on themselves. I dont use this much so I will likely relocate this to a less used key in order to free up the 'home' keys.

*edit* post macro change to rank 2 heals.. OMG YES! it works beautifuly
*edit3* still wiping quite a bit on 3packs though, atm its a lvl issue since im 12/13 and the 3packs are 14-15 and im wearing gimp leather lol. But still having fun since I can rez :D

*edit4* dinged 14 and the instance practically became ez-mode. getting better ranks of earth shock and especially LB made this place laughable. Can burn down 3packs easily and the 3pack+minion with a bit of effort and have been able to kill the first boss 3 times in a row now. Even the elementals are not a problem now (even got an add a few times)

I also found (silly me for not noticing) but even if my main dies all the assist macros still work as long as I dont release spirit. so I can click on mobs with my mouse and hit assist macros and keep killing stuff. also the downranking heals worked wonders for this 2-3 2s casts for 80hp beats 2-3 2.5s heals for 130hp so far. Sometimes the sequences get out of sync though so Im not sure what is going on there but it hasnt killed me...much >.>

[binkiebink]

why do you need a target for aoe damage?

[Contents]

as for having to heal when there is more than one mob.... I drop stoneclaw totems, generally keeps extra mobs off of my guys.

Since all my macros are based off off focus I use:

#showtooltip
/cast [target=focustargettarget,help,nodead,exists] Healing Wave; [target=target,help,nodead,exists] Healing Wave; [target=player] Healing Wave
*I modified Vyndree's shaman healing macro to use focus.*

which for me pretty much covers all bases. as long as my focus has a target, which he always should, all of my toons heal the guy being beaten on, if my focus doesn't have a target then they heal themselves. Also if my focus targets a group member they heal that member. So far it's working beautifully for me, 2 bars from 40 with no issues.

[Xocide]

ahh ic what you mean. im only duel boxing so i haven't had that trouble yet

[marvein]

#showtooltip

What is the purpose of this in a macro? Do you really need a "tool tip" (if it just displays the basic tooltip....). Does it do something else...?

it gives you a visual notice of what spell you are casting, it is especially handy when one macro can cast multiple different spells because the tooltip will change depending on what is being cast giving you visual notification of what you are doing. It is certainly not required so if you are short on char space you can drop it. I just use it for cosmetic reasons :)