Multi team buff macro

[slongz]

I am doing a new team that has 3-4 buffs I am wanting per party member anyone got any good macros for example
1 button that can do all party members with a
Priest buff
2 Druid buffs
mage buffs
And lastly a pally buff
Thanks

Team will consist of a holy Priest ,Shadow Priest,Pally tank,Druid,Mage

[Ualaa]

If you want to do this without relying on an addon that could break...

I've Create three keybinds within Warcraft.




On the first, I have self cast buffs... things like Water Shield, Inner Fire, Fel Armor, Mage Armor, Moonkin Form etc.
These are made as a simple cast sequence.

With a warlock that only wants one buff, I go:
/castsequence reset=5 Fel Armor,Null

If I have a shammy in the team, who will be going Water Shield very frequently, I go:
/castsequence reset=5 Water Shield,,Flametongue Weapon,Null

In which case the warlock who won't want Fel Armor every 3 minutes, would go:
/castsequence reset=5 ,,,Fel Armor,Null

Because of the Null, once you reach that part in the sequence, its done.
And the reset=5, brings you to the start of the sequence after 5 seconds of not pressing the macro.
So I spam the hotkey, until the last member of the team has finished casting.
Or in the case of shammies who need water shield but nothing else, one press is good.




On the second keybind I go with targetable single target buffs.
Prior to InnerSpace, I was using a target based assist (slaves target the main).

Macro's were like this:
/castsequence [target=targettarget] reset=5 Power Word: Fortitude, Priest Spirit Buff (forget the name), Null

Now that I have an FTL system (InnerSpace), I go something like:
/castsequence reset=5 Mark of the Wild, Thorns, Null




The last macro type is group spells.

I use these for my self buffs, instead of the single target version.
They cost twice the mana, and last twice as long.
But they hit the entire party too.




Friendly toons who are running by can easily be buffed on a keypress.
My party gets most of the group buffs on a different keybind.
And I have the self buffs too.

An addon as suggested above works well too.
But addons can have conflicts, might break on patches, or stop being maintained.
I'm trying to wean addons out of my UI.
At one point I was using a hundred or so, but down to a dozen or so now.

[slongz]

Thanks for the quick replys will try both

[Gadzooks]

I use PallyPower for my Pally, but I have the buffs on my other characters keybound and macro'ed. Everyone has their own style, I'm leaning these days towards having control over more, and relying on addons less.

I'm also used to my team, so i can glance at their bars and see if they need a rebuff.

[slongz]

ended up using the interact with target key and highlight each member with that then hit number 1 or 2 for the buffs on that key sofar works well
Thanks for everyones input

[daviddoran]

ZOMGBuffs or SmartBuffs will automate this for you.


If you want to do this without relying on an addon that could break...
.

WOW, Fur gettin schooled on using built in game solutions rather than potentially breakable addons..... lol j/k fur :)

I juse use zomgbuffs myself.

[Ualaa]

At one point I was using the Mazzle UI compilation.
Which was over 200 addons.

I'm trying to scale back, to use as few as possible.

Some things like DBM for battleground timers are hard to replace.
I cannot get a time until a tower/graveyard caps, without an addon.

Other things like switching gear, I used to use Outfitter.
But the game has an option now.
I still use Outfitter, but only on the Paladin.
And only because I have six keybinds which have actions on the shammies.
But which I want to do nothing on the pally.
So have them bound to Outfits 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8... which are not defined.

Anyway, trying for the fewest addons possible, without losing the functionality I'm used to.

[kenphillips]

I'm running a 4-box (all my resources can handle right now) with 2 pallies, a mage and a lock. I'm wanting the pallies to buff themselves (already figured this part out with a single keybind). However, I'm also wanting the pallies and the mage to cast buffs on all other party members. I'm running into problems with /click, as it's trying to cast all the buffs at once. Any ideas on how I can make this work w/o an addon while still maintaining a single keybind for party member's buffs?

[Ualaa]

Smart Buff would work for one keybind.

You might be able to do this with a single keybind..

Mage:

#show Arcane Intellect
/castsequence [target=player] reset=9 Arcane Intellect, Mage Armor, Null
/castsequence [target=PallyA] reset=9 Arcane Intellect, Null
/castsequence [target=PallyB] reset=9 Arcane Intellect, Null
/castsequence [target=Lock] reset=9 Arcane Intellect, Null

Warlock:

#show Fel Armor
/castsequence [target=player] reset=9 Fel Armor, Null
/castsequence [target=MasterToon] reset=9 See Invisible, Null


Repeat for the Paladins.
Put all of the macro's on one key.
And spam away.
After 9 seconds of not spamming, each will reset to the first spell.

Just need to plug your own toon names into the macros.

[heffner]

I use the SmartBuff addon. One consideration for using simple macros is that you have to pay attention to when your buff falls. I never have to worry when I use SmartBuff.

I have this command in the follow macro for all my toons:

/click [nocombat] SmartBuff_KeyButton

It hasn't really ever broken, and if it does break, it will most likely not be the only addon that breaks [as per usual]. However, it's not perfect and sometimes I have to "reset" it. For example, for some reason my boomkin doesn't cast mark of the wild unless I open the SmartBuff menu and close it again (only once). No clue why.

Regardless, I love this addon and have been using it long before I even multiboxed.

[moosejaw]

I use smartbuff exclusively. With ISboxer auto assist and Smartbuff's "buff target" option you can drive by buff folks with one keypress.

[thinus]

I installed SmartBuff a few weeks ago. Can't live without it now.

[Mokoi]

hmm i may have try it out now that everyone is going from 6 to midnight about it

[Fursphere]

I tried it, and after using ZOMGBuffs for so long, it made my head hurt.

[daviddoran]

I tried it, and after using ZOMGBuffs for so long, it made my head hurt.

but zomgbuffs causes massive headaches with disconnect problems.... I had to disable it on all my alts, or id get repeatedly disconnected every time. It must be a very chatty addon.

[aboron]

WOW, Fur gettin schooled on using built in game solutions rather than potentially breakable addons..... lol j/k fur :)

I use use zomgbuffs myself.

Yeah, I think ZOMGBuffs was the thing that made my team go BOOM and d/c when they were trying to join the raid friday.

I replaced ZOMGBuffs with just pallypower on the paladin and a single button for the others and had no issues joining a similar raid on saturday. All the other addons from friday stayed the same.

This may also be a difference between hardware and software boxing - software boxing with a massive chat flow from multiple clients at the same local IP and internet IP may detect the same as a spammer and get auto-booted.

Overall in 5man mode I loved the way ZOMGBuffs worked and could let each priest be responsible for a different group buff and also top up my self buffs and shields all the time - esp. great to have zoom on the tank keeping up my bone shield. So i'll probably make it an optional addon that is only active in 5man mode.

[daviddoran]

found this: http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?p=292096


Update: Ran with ZOMBBuffs with the PallyPower Comms module disabled and had no disconnects all evening in TotGC 25.

i certainly dont need the pallypower module on my shaman team, and my paladin is the one that doesnt get disconnected anyway. I will try this tonight.

[Fursphere]

Since we've got like 5000 paladins, I would suspect this being the problem.

The reason I stick to the addon - is it monitors whats going on so I don't have too. Often times shaman die and self-rez before I notice - at least the addon tells me they need a buff.