How to setup CC-ing

[Leovindica]

I was wondering how to setup CC-ing with multiple cc-ers. Do you set a macro on each cc-er and target each mob individualy (focus) to CC? I have no exprience with this at all.

[Pallarfo]

I have my CC spells bound to numpad 7 and 8 (hex on 7, bind elemental on 8 for the shammies)
I do select the target for the CC manually on each char, and walk them into range.
With the tank I select the mob who's going down at first.
Then I press numpad7 to hex those 4 mobs at the same time.
Spam assist button, make sure the dpsers are all targetting the same non-CCed mob, and kill it asap.
Works pretty good so far, annoying big groups in fe VP HC go down in one go.

[EaTCarbS]

use focus to designate your CC targets

/cast [@focus] polymorph

[Protlover]

I've done it 2 diffent ways
Set focus manually by alt tabbing, then use

/stopcasting
/clearfocus [modifier:shift][target=focus,dead][target=focus,noexists]
/cast [target=focus] Polymorph
/party Sheeping %f

Or

Tank
Numpad7:Nothing
Numpad8:Nothing

Mage1
Numpad7:
/assist TankName
/stopcasting
/clearfocus [modifier:shift][target=focus,dead][target=focus,noexists]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/script SetRaidTarget("focus", 1)
/cast [target=focus] Polymorph
/p Sheeping %f
Numpad8: Nothing

Shaman
Numpad7: Nothing

Numpad8:

/assist TankName
/stopcasting
/clearfocus [modifier:shift][target=focus,dead][target=focus,noexists]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/script SetRaidTarget("focus", 5)
/cast [target=focus] Polymorph
/party Hexing %f

How to use

Be 40+ yards away from mobs
on tank select first sheep target,
Hit Numpad7 on Mage
On tank, select second sheep target,
Hit Numpad8 on Shaman
Manually set focus on tank to the target to be hexed(my resto shaman isnt hit capped so chance of breaking)
Move to 30 yards on tank
Tap forward on close so all toons are on top of eachother
Hit Numpad7
Hit Numpad8
Move forward a bit on Tank

Now just keep an eye on your focus target, Hex should last 60 secs, sheep 50 secs so hard to decide which target to have on focus but my resto shaman isnt hit capped so I focus that one.

[Ualaa]

It is probably easiest to have your slaves assist the master.
And have a key for each of them, to set that target as their Focus and to raid mark the target in the same macro.

Then another key, which goes to all toons to do their CC on their Focus.
Something like:

#show
/stopcasting
/cast [@Focus,Exists,Harm] Whatever

That should interrupt any casting, prioritizing the Focus over DPS.
Not sure if you can include conditions into Stopcasting, such that it only stops if you have a Focus.
The second line will cast the CC at your Focus, but only if you have a Focus and it is hostile.
Pretty much aside from the stop casting, without a Focus your Sheep/Banish/Shackle etc won't fire off.

[Littleburst]

Char1:

Alt 1
/cast focus
/script SetRaidTarget("target", 1)

Shift X
/cast [@focus] Hex

Char2:

alt 2
/assist mainchar
/focus
/script SetRaidTarget("target", 2)


Shift X
/cast [@focus] Hex

Char3:
alt 3:
/assist mainchar
/focus
/script SetRaidTarget("target", 3)

Shift X
/cast [@focus] Hex

Char4:

alt 4:
/assist mainchar
/focus
/script SetRaidTarget("target", 4)

Shift X
/cast [@focus] Hex

So while on mainchar, i cycle through 4 mobs, pressing alt 1- 4. Each character marks his/her focus target. Which is AWESOME. Since it's very easy to see who's CCing what, if they might be out of range due to a NPC standing a bit to the back. When you cycle to fast and the slaves didn't pick up the new target, you'll notice that 2 chars have the same focus, since a marked mob will get a new mark.

[Leovindica]

Great stuff:) Thanks for the instructions, will implement this and see how it goes:)

[Multibocks]

I use focus for my setup so most methods aren't smooth for my team. I basically have one key that makes one dps assist my tank and once I have all the mobs targeted I press a CC key. Now if something breaks early I'm screwed because my dps have all assisted the tank for dpsing the first mob down. I guess I could try some previous target macros for a resist. Honestly though there are only a few packs in heroics that require CC. Those healing mobs in VP come to mind, but if you have good interrupts you should be able to power through it.

[Dorffo]

Char1:

Alt 1
/cast focus
/script SetRaidTarget("target", 1)

Shift X
/cast [@focus] Hex

Char2:

alt 2
/assist mainchar
/focus
/script SetRaidTarget("target", 2)


Shift X
/cast [@focus] Hex

Char3:
alt 3:
/assist mainchar
/focus
/script SetRaidTarget("target", 3)

Shift X
/cast [@focus] Hex

Char4:

alt 4:
/assist mainchar
/focus
/script SetRaidTarget("target", 4)

Shift X
/cast [@focus] Hex

So while on mainchar, i cycle through 4 mobs, pressing alt 1- 4. Each character marks his/her focus target. Which is AWESOME. Since it's very easy to see who's CCing what, if they might be out of range due to a NPC standing a bit to the back. When you cycle to fast and the slaves didn't pick up the new target, you'll notice that 2 chars have the same focus, since a marked mob will get a new mark.


^^ this is almost exactly how I run my CC as well

[JackBurton]

One of the things I just realized is that its best to add a /stopattack in there. I use hungering cold a lot. One of the problem scenarios i was facing was i kept breaking CC to get to a more dangerous target. /stopattack placed in the mix stopped that.

[Leovindica]

Littleburst, I'm trying to implement this but I'm having probs to get it to work, what is your setup? Buttons/keybindings etc? I must be missing something simple:(

[Dorffo]

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[Leovindica]

Char1:

Alt 1
/cast focus
/script SetRaidTarget("target", 1)

Shift X
/cast [@focus] Hex

Char2:

alt 2
/assist mainchar
/focus
/script SetRaidTarget("target", 2)


Shift X
/cast [@focus] Hex

Char3:
alt 3:
/assist mainchar
/focus
/script SetRaidTarget("target", 3)

Shift X
/cast [@focus] Hex

Char4:

alt 4:
/assist mainchar
/focus
/script SetRaidTarget("target", 4)

Shift X
/cast [@focus] Hex

So while on mainchar, i cycle through 4 mobs, pressing alt 1- 4. Each character marks his/her focus target. Which is AWESOME. Since it's very easy to see who's CCing what, if they might be out of range due to a NPC standing a bit to the back. When you cycle to fast and the slaves didn't pick up the new target, you'll notice that 2 chars have the same focus, since a marked mob will get a new mark.

I get what you describe here but this is what it does for me.

I target a mob, press alt 1, nothing happens. I switch to the char and press alt 1, then it works.. Seems like the alt 1 press isn't send to the slave. When I've done that for multiple chars I want to shift X for the cast (poly/root/hex..), it isn't send to the others, when I set repeater 'on' and press shift X, then it works.. But that's not how I want it to work obviously:(

[Leovindica]

@Leovindica

for my setup there are three keys involved per shaman:
each shaman has a focus macro keybound to numpad delete.

/assist leader
/focuseach shaman has a hex keybind (ctrl-v)

/cast [@focus,exists,nodead][] hex;and a bind elemental keybind (shift-v)

/cast [@focus,exists,nodead][] bind elementalin isboxer I setup 4 mapped keys (f9, f10, f11, f12) which are each 1 step and consist of two actions:

f9:
step-
--actions:
num del -> sham 1
alt+num 1 -> self (raid target icon)

f10:
step-
--actions:
num del -> sham 2
alt+num 2 -> self (raid target icon)

f11:
step-
--actions:
num del -> sham 3
alt+num 3 -> self (raid target icon)

f12:
step-
--actions:
num del -> sham 4
alt+num 4 -> self (raid target icon)


Prep for pulls in PvE then looks something like: Target NPC1, tap f9, target npc2, hit f10. target npc3 hit f11 etc.

On pull ctrl-v or shift-v tosses out the binds/hexs

This setup also looks quite nice, I'm still a beginner concerning IS, could you show me a screenie of your ISB setup of one of the F9/10/11/12 steps pls? A visual always helps me understand better:)

[Littleburst]

I get what you describe here but this is what it does for me.

I target a mob, press alt 1, nothing happens. I switch to the char and press alt 1, then it works.. Seems like the alt 1 press isn't send to the slave. When I've done that for multiple chars I want to shift X for the cast (poly/root/hex..), it isn't send to the others, when I set repeater 'on' and press shift X, then it works.. But that's not how I want it to work obviously:(

Did you add the binds to the ISboxer keymaps? Seems like that's the problem. You can also active broadcast all for a second to test it, then add the keymap later on.

[Leovindica]

I did it:)

Read your and Dorffo's post a few times and took a long look at the ISB suite and then it sank in:) Killed my two first bosses MBing ever:) Thaks for your input ppl, I love this website and its members:)

Leo

[Dorffo]

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[Littleburst]

Gratz with the kills! :D

[Leovindica]

Ramparts and Bloodfurnace with my all druid team, check:)

[Shania]

I have my CC spells bound to numpad 7 and 8 (hex on 7, bind elemental on 8 for the shammies)
I do select the target for the CC manually on each char, and walk them into range.
With the tank I select the mob who's going down at first.
Then I press numpad7 to hex those 4 mobs at the same time.
Spam assist button, make sure the dpsers are all targetting the same non-CCed mob, and kill it asap.
Works pretty good so far, annoying big groups in fe VP HC go down in one go.
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I am trying too CC 3 mobs at once, 4 mages in total only 3 ccing.
new to this so rest of this thread has lost me so i tried the one I am quoting which seems easiest to me.

What i did was all mages have keybind set too numberpad 1 thats what I selected for sheeping

I manually moved them up into position, selected on each one their target too cc and when i press numpad1 only that mage i am on will sheep others do not. what am i doing ?

All this focus, and so forth is very new to me so thats why I tried too cc the way that poster said he did.

[Leovindica]

What Littleburst said:
Did you add the binds to the ISboxer keymaps?

[Shania]

Im sorry im new and confused.

Can someone please walk me through step by step how I set up mages too cc all at the same time?

So mage1, mage2, mage3 all cc separate targets all at the same time by pressing just 1 button example numpad 1 and the 3 mages all cc at once. :/

[Leovindica]

Im sorry im new and confused.

Can someone please walk me through step by step how I set up mages too cc all at the same time?

So mage1, mage2, mage3 all cc separate targets all at the same time by pressing just 1 button example numpad 1 and the 3 mages all cc at once. :/

Are you using ISboxer? If so, you can go to IS chat (link found left lower corner). They can help walk through making Keymaps etc.

Leo

[Shania]

Sorry i am using isboxer and jamba and was hoping for a forum hold my hand post then though a chatbox as I then cannot keep it for future reference.

[Leovindica]

This http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=26231 should help you on your way, for further assistance I'd have to direct you to the ISB chat for there are very skilled and helpfull ppl.

Leo

[Shania]

Thx Leo I been reading that for quite some time tonight and I will have a play around when servers are back up and see if what i think i understood and created does work lol

cheers