healing other then the tank

[blindbudsmoker]

so been reading and cant find this macro. is it possible to set up a target of target macro that would cast if it wasnt on a certain target. so it would be a button on your healers bars that is the same as your dps mash button. it would be some thing like if the targets not targeting your tank it would cast some thing on what ever the target was. would be some thing like

/cast [target=focustargettarget,help] Riptide
/cast [target=focustarget,help] Riptide

but some where have it to only cast if its not targeting a certain player. like where the "help" is, have (notplayersname).

[Drommon]

so been reading and cant find this macro. is it possible to set up a target of target macro that would cast if it wasnt on a certain target. so it would be a button on your healers bars that is the same as your dps mash button. it would be some thing like if the targets not targeting your tank it would cast some thing on what ever the target was. would be some thing like

/cast [target=focustargettarget,help] Riptide
/cast [target=focustarget,help] Riptide

but some where have it to only cast if its not targeting a certain player. like where the "help" is, have (notplayersname).


If you have a dedicated healer then put this on their spam button

/cast [target=targettarget] {whatever heal spell you use}

And target the mob all the time. What this does is heal whoever the mob is targetting at the time.

I know this doesn't exactly answer your question. But it is rather difficult trying to decipher your writing.

[Jubber]

I may be totally off here but I think what he is trying to do is have a macro that casts say lesser heal on the tank if he is the focustargettarget, otherwise cast riptide if the focustargettarget is someone else. That's what it sounds like to me anyways.

I don't know how you would achive this though.

[-silencer-]

If you have a dedicated healer then put this on their spam button

/cast [target=targetstarget] {whatever heal spell you use}

And target the mob all the time. What this does is heal whoever the mob is targetting at the time.

I know this doesn't exactly answer your question. But it is rather difficult trying to decipher your writing.

I believe the correct form is:

/cast [target=targettarget] {heal spell}

(no 's' in the "targettarget")

[Drommon]

I believe the correct form is:

/cast [target=targettarget] {heal spell}

(no 's' in the "targettarget")


Oops my bad, I will edit that. Thanks!

[blindbudsmoker]

Stop smoking bud and learn how to form a complete sentence.

All kidding aside - wtf did you just say?


Yea sorry, don't spend much time trying to sound educated. Very sorry its hard to read. I will try to explain again. I would have dedicated buttons/macros to heal tank or other members. What i am looking for is a way to set it up so it will not cast on the tank, only if the mob targets others. This way it could be on my dps mash button. So if you are pressing the dps button constantly if the mob changes target it would instantly send a heal towards them. Hope this makes more sense.

[Zzyzxx71]

I believe what you're looking for is something like this...

/cast [harm] [target=focustarget, harm] PewPewPew; [target=focustarget, help] [] HealHealHeal

Assuming your healer has your driver targetted..

If your driver has a mob targetted, he'll pew pew

If your driver has a member of your team targetted, he'll heal.

If he's solo and you have a mob targetted, pew pew, if you have a player targetted, he'll heal.

Edit to your requirements if you use focus, which it appears you do.
I've used a variant of that in the past to heal individual members of my team without using 5 seperate macros. Works like a charm.

[blindbudsmoker]

I believe what you're looking for is something like this...

/cast [harm] [target=focustarget, harm] PewPewPew; [target=focustarget, help] [] HealHealHeal

Assuming your healer has your driver targetted..

If your driver has a mob targetted, he'll pew pew

If your driver has a member of your team targetted, he'll heal.

If he's solo and you have a mob targetted, pew pew, if you have a player targetted, he'll heal.

Edit to your requirements if you use focus, which it appears you do.
I've used a variant of that in the past to heal individual members of my team without using 5 seperate macros. Works like a charm.


Nah. So if you are fighting a mob and all things are normal, dps is dpsing, tank is tanking, and healer is healing. The mob will have the tank targeted. At this point the macro should do nothing at all, but if the mob changes taget the macro would turn on. So how you put {harm} in a macro to make it cast if it can damage. Sort of like that but a way to exclude a player. If the tank is the target then it does not cast. So you would have it to where a druid would toss a renew on whoever just was targeted.

[Zzyzxx71]

Well - [target=targettargettarget] would be your tanks targets target... which is the target of the mob.

[blindbudsmoker]

Well - [target=targettargettarget] would be your tanks targets target... which is the target of the mob.

correct, is thier a way to make the tank not be able to be cast on? i guess another way to ask is, is thier a way to exclude a player froma macro? ty for your time.

[Babysir]

I think I understand what you mean. In short what you want is a situational macro. Let's say you have a mob and your tank is tanking away, but then mob switches targets and does some damage to your dps toon/s. What you want is a macro that will only cast a heal if the mob targets anyone but the tank. So if the mob switches from your tank to your dps then the heal would kick off, but it will never fire if the mob is still targetting the tank. In the end it should only work if the target is someone other than the tank, is that what you are asking?

If so, I don't think thats possible. I don't believe wow has that sort of thing built in to the macro system.

[Ualaa]

I don't think this will work.

Basically, we can use conditionals where the spell functions one way if the target is friendly [help], but differently if it is hostile [harm].

Unfortunately, the tank is friendly, so any condition I can think of which falls through and heals another party member, would also heal the tank if you happened to be targeting the tank instead of a different friendly.

We cannot use [Focus] as a conditional in a macro.
"/Cast [Help] Renew; [Harm] Mindblast" works fine.
I don't think we can do a macro like this, "/Cast [Focus] Null; [Help] Heal Spell; [Harm] Nuke".

If [Focus] is not an argument, then it won't work.

If your tank is your focus, and you can use focus as an argument, then you could accomplish this via a castsequence and the null command.

/castsequence [Focus] ,Null
/castsequence [Help] Heal Spell
/castsequence [Harm] DPS Spell.

I'm pretty sure the above won't work, but that's about the only way I could see to do it, using the macro logic we have access to.

[blindbudsmoker]

I think I understand what you mean. In short what you want is a situational macro. Let's say you have a mob and your tank is tanking away, but then mob switches targets and does some damage to your dps toon/s. What you want is a macro that will only cast a heal if the mob targets anyone but the tank. So if the mob switches from your tank to your dps then the heal would kick off, but it will never fire if the mob is still targetting the tank. In the end it should only work if the target is someone other than the tank, is that what you are asking?

If so, I don't think thats possible. I don't believe wow has that sort of thing built in to the macro system.

yes, this is what i was after. from the post below it doesnt sound possible though.