Heal main target's focus on mouseover?

[rbaldwin7]

I found this macro in the codex and found it extremely useful ( Thanks Vyndree! )


Heal Main or Main's Target (Vyndree):

#showtooltip
/target party1
/target focus
/cast [target=targettarget,help,nodead,exists] Healing Wave; [target=target,help,nodead,exists] Healing Wave

I was thinking about it and it would be much simpler if this could be done with focus instead of target, since that would allow the main to keep the same target. I've tried many combinations but could not get this to work. I was thinking something along the lines of having your toons use macros that look like this:


Main:
/focus [target=mouseover]


Healer:
/cast [target=focusfocus,help,nodead,exists] Healing Wave
or
/target focus
/cast [target=targetfocus,help,nodead,exists] Healing Wave

If you assign these two macros to the same key they work but it seems that the macro on the healer is always one step and heals the last focus of the main due to maybe the speed at which the key is pressed vs the speed at which blizzard changes focus.
Any ideas?

[thinus]

It is probably due to the targeting lag. You can try a double key press with castsequences. First hit of the key focuses, 2nd hit heals. Then it just becomes a timing issue with how quickly you can hit the key twice. Its ugly I know, maybe someone else has something more elegant. What you actually need is a [target=focusmouseover]

[Chorizotarian]

Focus isn't shared like target. You can't get access to another char's focus.

[rbaldwin7]

I had a feeling that might be the case after all of my unfruitful attempts.

Might there be a way to get around that though by re-targeting your previous target?
And also some way to account for the slight delay between accounts.

[thinus]

/targetlastarget

if I remember correctly.

[Chorizotarian]

I'm not quite clear what you are trying to do. Specify a clone target via mousover on your main? Specify a clone target without changing your main's target? There are a couple of systems that leave focus free (I use this ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=39052&highlight=page+switching#post39052')), so you could bind a hotkey to set focus on your healer and use a healing macro that checks focus first. Don't know if that would meet your needs though.

[thinus]

I'm not quite clear what you are trying to do. Specify a clone target via mousover on your main? Specify a clone target without changing your main's target? There are a couple of systems that leave focus free (I use this ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=39052&highlight=page+switching#post39052')), so you could bind a hotkey to set focus on your healer and use a healing macro that checks focus first. Don't know if that would meet your needs though.

He wants to heal the target his main is mousing over.

[Djarid]

no hope... mouseover is local.

Perhaps an addon could pass the information over the addon channel but you will still likely hit the protected function limitation for targeting if in combat

[rbaldwin7]

Ok here is my idea, I've been at this for a while now and it has all but halted my leveling.

Main targets a player in the party > healer heals main's target > main goes back to original target

i was hoping this could all happen using 1 key ( different macros on main/healer obv. ). it seems this is impossible using focus, but maybe using target=mouseover and castsequence and /targetlasttarget this might be able to be done quickly without having to click around and again for repetitiveness, using only 1 key.

something like this for the main:

/target [target=mouseover]
/(some sort of delay? or blank click of same button here)
/targetlasttarget

meanwhile the healer uses:

/target Jaheed
/target focus
/(some sort of delay? or blank click of same button here, this is to counteract the delay lag )
/cast [target=targettarget,help,nodead,exists] Healing Wave; [target=target,help,nodead,exists] Healing Wave

[Chorizotarian]

Why not just target the old-fashioned way and then retarget with "/targetlasttarget" if you want? That way you wouldn't need a delay. I think you would quickly get dissatisfied with whatever delay you choose because it's either going to be unreliable (a short delay will fail when your ping gets long) or it will add unnecessary delay to your healing process.


Ok here is my idea, I've been at this for a while now and it has all but halted my leveling.

IMO level 13 is too early to be hung up on niceties like this. Get back to leveling! :P

[Danin]

Trust me, I've tried healing from a clone by using my main's target, it's a bad idea (especially if your main is tanking, which it usually is in this situation). You have to switch targets, wait for the target to get passed through server lag to your clone, and start healing before you switch back to your original target. This tends to lead to extremely hit-and-miss tanking and healing, which are two things you really don't want happening in any situation. And yes, passing mouseover to your clone via an addon is functionally impossible since targetting is protected in combat.

Best bet, just free up five keys somewhere, assign one to each group member, and make some modifier-laden healing macros.

[rbaldwin7]

Thanks for the help everyone, I am going to end up making the 5 keys ( one for each char ) for healing. As soon as I get my 99$ Sale X-keys pro that is!! WOOOOOOO! hah

[Djarid]

I would use 6 keys and have the first one heal focustargettarget

It is what I spend most of my time spamming ;)