Focus macro problem

[Ripper]

On my shaman team, I bind focus macros to keys so when my main dies, I hit the "next guy in line is now the main" macro. From reading some threads, this looks like what a few other people do also.

When I control a non-main character, and tell everyone to follow (/follow focus), he will follow turn around and follow the main for some reason. I have no idea why. The focus is himself, why he follows someone else is beyond me.

So if I'm controlling the focus, how do I get the focus to ignore the follow focus command?

[Wulfos]

So, I use this method with my 3 shadowpriests, too.

All 3 have this macros:

F1 keybinding: /focus [target=charname1]
F2 keybinding: /focus [target=charname2]
F3 keybinding: /focus [target=charname3]

C keybinding: /follow focus

When I now hit F2, because my main charname1 had died or so, all 3 chars get the new focus charname2. When hitting C again, charname1 and charname3 are following charname2.

charname2 could still have the old focus in following, so just move him a bit to break his following, and now you can hit C as often as you wish, he will no longer follow anyone else.

Really check, if his focus is himself, otherwise I have no idea...

[cnj005]

before you set focus, make sure you clear focus..

Also before you /follow focus make sure you target focus, or maybe remove the target from the follow entirely so there's no confusion:

/cleartarget
/target focus
/follow

With this logic you will ensure you target yourself (or nobody at all) if your the focus and /follow wich will result in no action. If your trying to /follow focus and you have someone else targeted you may be setting an unexpected state because you can't follow yoursef.

[Lokked]

As Wulfos said,

Have ALL characters (main included) set the Main for the /focus

Have some keys (F1, F2, F3, etc for example) change focus on ALL characters, including Main.

F1:
/focus [targetexact={char1}]

F2:
/focus [targetexact={char2}]

etc....

This might make you have to rethink macros on your main account, but it is probably worth it to have the option to control any char as the "Main" at any time.