Sheeping in Dungeons with Multiple Mages

[dalo199]

Hey Everyone,

Here is how I am doing it-

https://youtu.be/45iYv8L2Yrs

Is there a better way anyone has found yet? As you can see in my video it does the job but gets pretty sloppy. After practicing with it a bit more in the instance I got better but its still not great especially for resheeps.

Thoughts? Ideas?

Cheers

Dalo

[Hardcore Scape]

I would do a /assist round robin to initially select the targets so you don't have to click on other screens, then do the target last target macro to resheep like you did.

this video shows the round robin example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3La1u8VdFao

[Andreauk]

I remember someone here a few years ago using raid icons built into the macros to assign sheep.

So assign raid markers on main, make the slaves have target their own individual raid icon, then sheep.

[The Crowd]

That functionality doesn’t exist anymore as far as I know, it went the way of click macros and smart heal
macros, you used to be able to target unit frames by modifiers back in vannila, same way as you could use decursive or spam a macro that would heal anyone below 70% hp with a lower rank heal, and below 50% with a max rank heal all while not actually having to pick someone. The macro would just search for the person closest to you with low Hp

[Fuzzyboy]

I've had good experiences not using direct assist for my target. So basically this is how I do:

1) All spells are targetted using [target=party1target] - for example /cast [target=party1target] Fireball
2) Target (on mages) is used only for poly, so I basically just assign poly using current target and I'll assign the target manually (I have F1 setup to select mage 1 target, F2 setup to select mage 2 target)
3) Then you can just use /cast polymorph to CC

[Vipeax]

Hey Everyone,

Here is how I am doing it-

https://youtu.be/45iYv8L2Yrs

Is there a better way anyone has found yet? As you can see in my video it does the job but gets pretty sloppy. After practicing with it a bit more in the instance I got better but its still not great especially for resheeps.

Thoughts? Ideas?

Cheers

Dalo
There is this thing called Arcane Explosion...

[dalo199]

There is this thing called Arcane Explosion...

very helpful...

[Drakhoun]

For my mage, i target the intended mob, then cast polymorph. After about 1sec i switch to my dps target and start dps after 1 sec. if i switch target too fast, sometimes the mages would dps the sheeped mob unintentionally. Its not the best way though, but with frost mages the mobs take sometime to reach you. I also use the targetlastarget macro to recast polymorph if it breaks.

[Andreauk]

I found this post and the very bottom one helped me today..

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/13423532704

[EaTCarbS]

very helpful...

pretty sure he is alluding to spellcleave, which is a vastly more effective way of clearing things.

[dalo199]

pretty sure he is alluding to spellcleave, which is a vastly more effective way of clearing things.

Yes I spent hours in SM AE'ing down large packs for good xp... but sometimes a blunt force approach isn't going to work

[Recap]

I've it set up with a button (clickbar) on my warrior. So i just target a mob i want to sheep, dubble click the button and mage1 start casting sheep on it. And its a round robin so i can just keep target mobs and hit it and next mage will sheep (Got 3 mages). Found this way very easy and fast to manage my cc's

I'll try get a vid up on my set up as soon as got time over:)

[Dreadone]

I did it this way with clickbars :

i grabbed the clickbar icons for the spells from wowhead.com

My mages are slot2, slot3 and slot4.

This is an example for slot2 but all three share the same keymap at the end.

You could do a roundrobin assist sheep but i prefer it this way.


https://www.dual-boxing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2210&stc=1

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[MTSkibum]

Thank you DreadOne for the excellent post. I will read and re-read it.

I am a noob, and that is the sort of posts I am looking for here.

[MadMilitia]

With ISBoxer yes, you can target a specific ATG (action target group).

In my setup I have ATGs for:

Stuns
Incaps
Grips (retail)
Interrupts
Taunts

Then I have the designated ATG as the target with round robin selected.

I also have a stagger /focus command that I flip with the mouse wheel to quickly focus 3 or more mobs in a pack I want to CC.

Then I have these hotkeys:

TARGET TAUNT
FOCUS TAUNT
TARGET INTERRUPT
FOCUS INTERRUPT
TARGET INCAP
FOCUS INCAP
TARGET GRIP
FOCUS GRIP
TARGET PURGE
FOCUS PURGE

The above keys are round robin selects.

STUN FOCUS ALL
INCAP FOCUS ALL
PURGE FOCUS ALL

The name on those is as implies. The command is fired off on all of them and because focus can be different targets it's a great way to lock down an entire pack. So those dangerous packs like in Mechagon become very manageable.