Macro Thread

[Ragecrow]

Please post helpful Macro's for other dual/multi box people. I see quite a few questions so this may help people (including me!!!)

I two box so I have my healer on the second box.

/cast [target=party1target] Shadow Word: Pain
/follow Party1

/cast [target=party1] Renew
/follow Party1

This is the basic template for most of my macro's. You can use a characters name instead of Party1 but I prefer the generic party1 so it will work with whoever I have as the main character.

[Ellay]

If the main player dies, is there a macro that switches it to the secondary player to assist from?

[Ragecrow]

being I am only two boxing atm, I havent needed it but Ill take a look and see what I can come up with. I wonder if I cannot use modifiers to switch the /assist and /target to other party members...

[Micah]

This is the macro I use when my primary character dies and I need to switch to another one. I target someone else with the main character then press this macro on all other characters to switch to the main characters target.
[code:1]/focus focustarget[/code:1]

[Ragecrow]

I found a macro I just cannot figure out. Setup is Rogue on main box and priest on second box. My macro for most actions is this

[code:1]/cast [target=party1target] Shadow Word: Pain
/follow Party1[/code:1]

[code:1]/cast [target=party1] Renew
/follow Party1[/code:1]

What does not work is any form of shoot wand. If I put it into the above macro, it shoots it once.

[code:1]/cast [target=party1target] shoot[/code:1]

If I just put /Cast shoot it obviously wont target anything. Anyone have a way to target and shoot wand where the wand actually shoots until the mob dies? If I need to change all of my macros to /focus, I cna do that. I just want to be able to shoot the mob after I pain it with the priest. No reason to waste mana mindblasting.

Thanks!!

[Micah]

Auto-shoot goes based on your current target. Using the [target] option doesn't change your target, it just tells Auto-shoot where to start at then every shot after that will be at your target (whoever that is).
[code:1]/target party1target
/cast Shoot[/code:1]
That will change your target first then shoot at it, repeating until your target changes again.

[Steph]

After looking at my screens a bit puzzled after logging in and no chars responding, I realized it is because I extensively use the 'party1' style of macros, and my chars were not yet partied.

So, I have the following macro now on my primary char:

[code:1]/invite Alaire
/invite Blaire
/invite Dlaire
/invite Elaire
/script SetLootMethod("freeforall")
[/code:1]

This showed clearly that I dont want to hit [accept] on each screen, so I added a macro on the clients. This has grown to a general accept and is very handy indeed:

[code:1]/script AcceptGroup{}
/script AcceptQuest{}
/script AcceptTrade{}
/script RetrieveCorpse{}[/code:1]

Partying up is just one button, accepting trades or shared quests is done with the same button! :wink:

[jah76de]

This is a repost from another thread:


This is really a macro that helps anyone with a healer and up to 3 other boxes(or pets).

cast [modifier:shift, target=player1]renew; [modifier:alt, target=player2]renew; [modifier:ctrl, target=player3]renew; [target=player4]renew

What this will do is make it so you don't have to specifically target anyone in your party to heal them.

Let's say your hotkey for renew is 5. If you click alt+5 then a certain toon gets renewed.

If you click ctrl+5 then a certain toon gets renewed.

If you click shift+5 then a certain toon gets renewed.

If you just click 5 then a certain toon gets renewed.

This is also nice because since you never have to target the toon, the healer will never lose their current target(if they are helping attack a mob).

Of course, you can substitute any spell for renew to be cast. The shift and ctrl modifiers are tricky though. Make sure they are not bound to anything already. Also, shift needs to be enabled as a modifier(you can find out how to do this on the WoW UI and macros official forum in one of the stickies I believe)[/b]

[Micah]

[code:1]/script AcceptGroup{}
/script AcceptQuest{}
/script AcceptTrade{}[/code:1]
I'm adding this to my action bars when I get home tonight.

[Ellay]

Has anyone noticed quicker target assisting by using focustarget instead of assist?
When I tab through enemies quickly, my assists will sometimes be a target or two behind. Anyone found a nice way to get past this?

[Micah]

There isn't anything you can do about that other then getting a faster internet connection. When you change targets on the first player the message is sent to the server and then the server will send an update down to your client letting you know what/who they have targeted. However long that takes is how long you have to wait after changing targets before you can assist or focustarget or party1target or whatever you do.

I have simply taken up targeting the next creep before the first is dead (not too early, just a second or so).

[Ukon]

on the priest:
[code:1]MACRO 16777220 "Embrace" Ability_Creature_Cursed_01
/assist party1
/cast vampiric embrace
END
MACRO 16777223 "follow" Ability_Creature_Disease_05
/target party1
/follow
END
MACRO 16777217 "mind blast" Ability_Creature_Disease_03
/assist party1
/cast mind blast
END
MACRO 16777219 "Mind flay" Ability_Creature_Disease_03
/assist party1
/cast mind flay
END
MACRO 16777222 "renew" Ability_Creature_Poison_02
/target ukon
/cast renew
END
MACRO 16777221 "renew" Ability_Creature_Poison_05
/assist party1
/cast renew
END
MACRO 16777218 "SWP" INV_Misc_QuestionMark
/assist party1
/cast shadow word: pain
END
[/code:1]

[Steph]

I found this a handy addition for the invite/accept macro pair:
[code:1]/script SetLootMethod("freeforall")[/code:1]

http://www.wowwiki.com/API_SetLootMethod

[Sindal]

This may all be old school but I'm running a four box in pvp and tend to use the focus targeting to allow me to switch control quickly.

For example
I have four macro's set up.
/target Sindal
/focus

And then one for each of the other toons

Then I can duplicate all my attack macro's

/cast [target=focustarget] Fireball

Now if in pvp the main goes down I just switch the focus and keep plugging

[Kyosakana]

[code:1]/script AcceptGroup{}
/script AcceptQuest{}
/script AcceptTrade{}[/code:1]


Someone give Steph a medal. This is the first macro I didn't stick in the character specific slot.

[shockbeta]

I'm playing two druids, and these are some of my macros I use. I use MacroTalk addon, it's an addon that gives you more options to add chat into macros. The name I gave the macro is in qoutes

[code:1]
"Assist"
/assist Focus
/optgroup [target=focus,exists] Assisting %f, Everyone fight as one!!!

"Focus"
/focus target
/optgroup [target=focus,exists] I got your back %f.

"Follow"
/follow Focus
/optgroup [target=focus,exists] I don't know about you, but I'm following %f

"HealFocus"
#showtooltip Healing Touch
/cast [modifier:ctrl,target=focus] Healing Touch; [target=target,help,nomodifier] Healing Touch; [target=player] Healing Touch;

"MotW"
#showtooltip Mark of the Wild
/cast [modifier:ctrl, target=focus] Mark of the Wild; [target=target,help,nomodifier] Mark of the Wild;[target=player] Mark of the Wild;

"Rejuv Focus"
#showtooltip Rejuvenation
/cast [modifier:ctrl, target=focus] Rejuvenation; [target=target,help,nomodifier] Rejuvenation; [target=player] Rejuvenation;

"Thorns"
#showtooltip Thorns
/cast [modifier:ctrl, target=focus] Thorns; [target=target,help,nomodifier] Thorns; [target=player] Thorns;
[/code:1]

The basic idea is ctrl + hotkey or clicking performs it on your focus. If you just press or click the hotkey and you have a friendly unit targeted you perform the action on that target. Finally, if you press or click the hotkey and you either don't have anyone targeted, or have an enemy targeted you'll perform the action on your self. Since I use the nomodifer option for the middle case, you can still perform the action on yourself by pressing a modifier. The modifer needs to not be part of the macro.. I.e. alt-1 is the hotkey, you should press shift-alt-1 and it would always cast it on yourself. or shift-1 hotkey, pressing alt-shift-1 would always cast it on yourself.

I decided to make the macros like that as with only playing 2 characters there is a possibilty I will end up in a group, and I wanted to have macros that supported other people. I use multibox and nostromo gamepad. I tend to leave broadcasting on at all times, so when I need an aciton done on just one I either use my mouse or the gamepad for my support character. I don't add the /assist focus before each attack. I decided to just make an assist focus macro, that way my main is able to bring the next mob in while my support character finishes off the first, then start attacking what my main is after it's dead.

[Steph]

[code:1]/script AcceptGroup{}
/script AcceptQuest{}
/script AcceptTrade{}[/code:1]


Someone give Steph a medal. This is the first macro I didn't stick in the character specific slot.

/bows

I recently added the following to my accept macro.
[code:1]/script RetrieveCorpse{}[/code:1]

This way I can walk the party into the wipe location and accept the res for all at the same time. This is very handy if there are mobs in aggro range.