Help with Rift Macros

[swiss]

Hello all,

I recently started multiboxing Rift after I heard it was going F2P, but have had some issues setting up macros. Until now, I did not have a FTL setup. So now I am trying to set up one and have run into an issue with my alts being able to attack what my focus (main) is attacking. Since I primarily enjoy the PVP aspect of MMO's, I am trying to ensure that no matter which character I am on, all of my guys will follow that guy and attack whatever he is targeting. Here is an example of the setup I have tried so far.

focus
targetexact mymain (and so forth for each guy in different slots)
follow

and

#show life leech
cast @focustarget life leech

Now the second macro seemed to work fine before I set up macros to change focus on all of my guys. Before they all would just focus on my main but when he died they were useless. I have read over several FTL guides and also macro compilations but cant understand what I am doing wrong. When I hit my attack key, my main guy attacks but everyone else just sits there like there's no target.

Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated!

-swiss

[Smedbox]

Do your secondary characters have a focus at all? It would show up in its own unit frame on screen.

The first line ("focus") in your first macro seems bogus. Since it's the first line, it will make whatever your current selection is your focus. Don't you mean to first do your "targetexact" and THEN make it your Focus?

My setup don't use Focus. I use the /assist command instead. One macro to follow, another macro to assist. Then I don't need macros for every single ability to add "@focustarget" everywhere.

[swiss]

Do your secondary characters have a focus at all? It would show up in its own unit frame on screen.

The first line ("focus") in your first macro seems bogus. Since it's the first line, it will make whatever your current selection is your focus. Don't you mean to first do your "targetexact" and THEN make it your Focus?

My setup don't use Focus. I use the /assist command instead. One macro to follow, another macro to assist. Then I don't need macros for every single ability to add "@focustarget" everywhere.


Thanks for the quick reply!

Yeah, I didnt think it made sense to do focus first, but I pulled it from another Rift guide. I will try it your way and see if that helps.

As for your setup, do you use alt, shift, ctrl, etc to change master? I am trying to avoid that. I prefer just having it as F1, F2, F3 and so forth to avoid any confusion about who I am switching to. Care to share your config with me? Just the basics how you have your assist/follow set up.

Thanks again for taking the time to reply :)

-swiss

[Smedbox]

I actually do use "focus" on the first line in my Follow macro, but only temporarily inside the macro to be able to switch back to the currently selected target with "target @focus" at the end. And the last line is "clearfocus".

Off the top of my head, my Follow macro is:

focus
targetexact [ctrl] MyChar1
targetexact [shift] MyChar2
targetexact [alt] MyChar3
targetexact [ctrl] [shift] MyChar4
targetexact [ctrl] [alt] MyChar5
follow
target @focus
clearfocus

My Assist macro is:
assist [ctrl] MyChar1
assist [shift] MyChar2
assist [alt] MyChar3
assist [ctrl] [shift] MyChar4
assist [ctrl] [alt] MyChar5

The reason I use Modifiers is to reduce the number of macros on the action bar. Just one Follow macro and just one Assist macro for five chars. Though I actually have ten accounts, so there's two Follow macros and two Assist macros. It'll use the first Follow macro when my "main" is one of the first five chars, and the second Follow macro if my "main" is one of the other five chars.

[swiss]

I actually do use "focus" on the first line in my Follow macro, but only temporarily inside the macro to be able to switch back to the currently selected target with "target @focus" at the end. And the last line is "clearfocus".

Off the top of my head, my Follow macro is:

focus
targetexact [ctrl] MyChar1
targetexact [shift] MyChar2
targetexact [alt] MyChar3
targetexact [ctrl] [shift] MyChar4
targetexact [ctrl] [alt] MyChar5
follow
target @focus
clearfocus

My Assist macro is:
assist [ctrl] MyChar1
assist [shift] MyChar2
assist [alt] MyChar3
assist [ctrl] [shift] MyChar4
assist [ctrl] [alt] MyChar5

The reason I use Modifiers is to reduce the number of macros on the action bar. Just one Follow macro and just one Assist macro for five chars. Though I actually have ten accounts, so there's two Follow macros and two Assist macros. It'll use the first Follow macro when my "main" is one of the first five chars, and the second Follow macro if my "main" is one of the other five chars.

Ahh, yes you are using the one I saw on the isboxer site. I just hate using modifiers for that stuff. I know, I am weird lol.

Your observation about my focus positioning in my first macro turned out to be the culprit. Switched them around and now it works fine! Thank you so much. Sometimes it helps to have a second set of eyes review things :)

-swiss