Unable to give characters in my team different keymaps.

[jebnarf]

Hello, i'm new here and i'm sure i'm just making a noob mistake, but I would appreciate any assistance :]
I am running WoW with a monk tank and 4 disc priests for PvE and i would like my keymaps for DPS to only apply to the priests.
In ISboxer I tried to remove the team from the DPS keymap and just add each priest character individually, but doing this the keymaps stopped working for all of the priests.
In the individual mapped keys i wanted separated i also tried selecting "All (withoutcurrent)" for the round-robin keys so they wouldn't go to my tank but doing this he was still only using those abilities once every five presses.

I did make sure I was exporting to ISBoxer. Could someone help me figure this out?

[luxlunae]

Why do you want your pve rotations to only apply to the priests? Doesn't your tank have a rotation too?

The usual way that people handle dps on a mixed team is that isboxer sends 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 (or 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, these rotations are called 2-step macros) to every member of the team and they execute a castsequence.


For just starting out you might want to put something like Holy fire on 1 and smite on 2 for the priests

and then for the brewmaster, a macro on 1 that spends chi and a macro on 2 that expends it. I haven't touched my brewmaster for a couple of months but this was my four step macro before

Code:


!if (character in "Monk Brew") /castsequence reset=combat Keg Smash, Keg Smash, Expel Harm
Code:


!if (character in "Monk Brew") /castsequence reset=target Tiger Palm, Guard, chi wave, chi wave, null
Code:


!if (character in "Monk Brew") /castsequence Breath of Fire, Blackout Kick
Code:


!if (character in "Monk Brew") /cast Jab

You could start with something simpler like keg smash, breath of fire, keg smash, blackout kick.



What key are you trying to do round robin among your disc priests? I don' t think I have a clear reason why you would want your tank to be getting no keypresses.

[jebnarf]

Thank you so much luxlunae, this was very helpful.

For the round robin i wanted something that would use mass dispell or psychic scream on the priests without taking a step to my brewmaster because whenever i want those abilities to be used i don't want to have to wait to skip the brewmaster's keypress. I'd rather have one click use psychic scream when i need it every time.
I will keep working on the macros though, your advice was very helpful and i have some new ideas that might work.

Looking over what I originally said I really it sounded dumb wanting the tank completely off the key maps, what I really meant to ask is how do I set different keymaps on the tank?
Is it possible to have certain mapped keys blacklisted from certain characters? Or do i need to create a completely separate keymap for each character that I want different?

I am trying to make it work the interface just takes some getting used to, I will look back through the wiki again to try and gain some more understanding but if someone thinks they could offer a simple explanation for this again I would much appreciate that :]

[luxlunae]

Well the simplest thing is the default. You press "1" and all of your characters assist and then press "1". In that situation you put your primary dps rotation macro on one for all of the characters (in game macros).


1, Priest:
/castsequence Smite, Holy Fire, Smite, Smite

1, Tank:

/castsequence reset=2 keg smash, breath of fire, jab, keg smash, blackout kick, jab


The way to modify who gets what keypresses is through using action target groups http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/30333-Action-Target-Groups http://isboxer.com/wiki/Action_Target_Group

So you could make an action target group called "Dps" and add all your priests to it, and then go to key 1 and change the target: window all to target: Group (all of) Dps from the dropdown menu


So the primary way to make your round robin psychic scream is going to be to add a new key that is round robin and deals with only a Priests target group, alternately, you can actually create a Wow Macro Action that handles spells based on the character ATG for each character.

For me, I have class specific ATGs, and also an ATG called "Silencers"

So I send Ctrl Num 0, round robin, to a group titled "silencers"

and then this is my isboxer macro


/stopcasting
/6 Shh!
!if (character in "Shaman") /cast wind shear
!if (character in "Druid Balance") /cast solar beam
!if (character in "Mages") /cast counterspell
!if (character in "Paladin")/cast rebuke
!if (character in "Hunters")/cast Silencing Shot
!if (character in "Druid Bear") /cast Skull Bash(Bear Form)
!if (character in "Monk Brew") /cast Spear Hand Strike
!if (character in "Monk Mist") /cast Spear Hand Strike
!if (character in "Warlock") /cast Spell Lock

/6 is my private multiboxing channel, I just don't want my team spamming the group if I'm in a raid, but I do like to be sure that my silence commands are going through. This is handy for debugging.

That's just an example of how to use ATGs, I suggest looking at the two links I provided as well.

[jebnarf]

THANK YOU! With your help, things now appear to be working according to my wishes.