Focus Target Hex x 4? (or 3)

[Malgor]

I've searched, but cannot find, how to set up a macro that will do the following:

Press KEY, have shaman 1 set that as their focus.
Press KEY, have shaman 2 set that as their focus.
Press KEY, have shaman 4 set that as their focus.

That should be enough hexes for large packs that I know will be needed to CC in heroics.

My team just hit 85 so am just now starting to work on doing the normal versions of the dungeons. I can't quite understand though why they chose to not allow us to use the dungeon finder tool to be able to choose the 81-82 dungeons, you could pick any dungeon in WotLK.

Anyway, so -

I want a macro that will keep those all focused on their target and cast hex and interrupt their current spell to make sure the target is hexed.

I seached and couldn't locate exactly what I wanted on the forums. Even did a google search with dual-boxing.com as part of the search.

Thanks in advance,

Mal

[Ualaa]

Round-robin, software side should be extremely easy to do this.
Set it to send the key bind, for your /Focus macro to one character at a time.

If you want to do it entirely within game, with something that does not support Round-Robin...
You could give each character their own keybind, and have one macro on each of the toons.

Probably easiest with one macro to set Focus.
And another to cast at your Focus, if you have one.
Something like:

/Stopcasting
/cast [@Focus,Exists,Harm] Hex

[Malgor]

Won't I need to /setfocus or something like that first?

I wasn't too clear I think.

I want to press button 1 for shaman 1 to set that as their focus, press button 2 for shaman 2 to set that as their focus, press button 3 for shaman 3 to set that as their focus, then press button 4 for all three shaman to cast Hex at their focus target, then of course assist me as we kill other things, then when hex cooldown is done I want to recast all hexes by pressing button 4 again, making them /stopcasting and cast hex on their focus.

So your


/Stopcasting
/cast [@Focus,Exists,Harm] Hex

will work perfect for that last part, but I'm not sure how to set up a RR in ISboxer, and thought it would be easier just to have seperate buttons for each shaman. I just got a G110 keyboard so extra keys are not a problem.

[Khatovar]

Why do you need individual buttons for each shaman's focus? I'm guessing you're assisting your main to get your slaves to aquire their targets? I manually target from my slave windows then use 2 buttons

button one -
/script SetRaidTarget("target", 2);
/focus

button two -
/cast [@focus] CC SPELL


First one sets everyone's various targets as focus and slaps a raid marker on the mob so I can easily see who's got what mob and adjust my kill order accordingly. Second one, fairly obvious.

[daanji]

In Isboxer, look under the FTL keymaps for the Example Round Robin key. Make a copy of this and call it Set Focus Round Robin. Set the key combination to whatever you desire, I use F6

This key should have 5 steps. Each step should "Do FTL Assist Me in General Key Map -> self"

Now, add right click on

" actions"
|--->Key Stroke Actions
|-->New World of Warcraft Macro Action

Under this new macro action, set the target to be slot1 for step1, slot2 for step2, ... slot5 for step5.

Choose the desired key combination. I personally use "ctrl+alt+shift+F6"

Check the boss next to "Display as (in step)" and give it a name you want. These are the names I used in order for each step

set focus star
set focus circle
set focus diamond
set focus triangle
set focus moon

Finally, add the following to the macro section for each step


/script SetRaidTarget("target", 1);
/focus target

Change the second argument to be whatever number you want. I personally use 1,2,3,4 and 5 to correspond to each step.
Please review this (http://www.wowwiki.com/API_SetRaidTarget) for more details


Save your configuration in Isboxer and export to inner space. If WoW is currently running, you'll have to reload the ui. From the WoW terminal, simply type on each client.

/reload


Now, to use it simply target any critter with your current character and hit your Round Robin Set Focus key. Select a new critter and press it again. You'll see that it will cycle through the 5 raid icons in use and set the focus of each toon to the currently selected critter in a round-robin fashion.

The raid icons allows you to easily glance at the slave windows and confirm they have the correct focus target. Notice that since we used a specific icon for each character slot or toon, we know which character will CC which mob.

In effect, we've created a 1-button round robin set focus for all the toons with a visual confirmation of the CC target.

Finally, once the focus is set for each toon, hit your CC button which should already be setup on each toon for a whatever key combination you want. I personally use this macro


/stopcasting
/clearfocus [@focus,dead] [@focus,noexists]
/cast [@focus, harm, nodead] Hex


This allows me to quickly set focus and cast x4 Hex simultaneously, It makes the 7-packs in Vortex pinnacle easy to deal with.

[Ualaa]

If you're using IS Boxer, right click on Steps in the bottom left pane.
Add a step, until you have one per shaman (or toon you want to do something).

Then on Step 1, send the keybind to the first toon.
On Step 2, send the keybind to the second toon.

Right click on Actions.
Key Actions > Keystroke Action.
As a target, set the toon you want.
And use the keybind for their Set Focus macro.