[target=targettarget] macro help

[edwinyee82]

Hello everyone,

I have 2 macro questions regarding [target=targettarget].

1 - how do you handle macros/toons that are out of range of when they are [target=targettarget]? (other than moving forward/closer)

2 - how about when you want to heal a target but this target has yourself targeted?

I was in AV testing out macros when another player had me targeted and wanted a heal. When I cast heal, it was healing me. Do you guys/gals use a modifier such as alt or is there a way around it?

Hoping there is a way around it because my macro already consist of "[modifier:alt] dispel <character name>"

Thanks in advance.

[Velassra]

I'm new at this myself, but this is how I have it set up and it works well enough for me:

/cleartarget

/assist focus (this assumes your main toon is the focus.)

/cast [target=target, help, exist][target=focus]Nameofyourheal(w/e rankitis)

[Kel]

/cast [help][target=targettarget,help] Healing Spell

This will heal your target if it's friendly, or heal your target's target if you have an enemy selected.

As far as I know there's no way for the macro to check if your target's target ios yourself. So you couldn't make a macro that heals your target's target (regardless of whether your target is friendly or not), but then won't heal you if you are your target's target. If that made any sense....

[Zzyzxx71]

there's no way to do a distance check regardless of if you use the focus or the targettarget nonfocus method that i'm aware of or lord knows I'd be using it.

[edwinyee82]

Thanks for your replies. I will definitely try out your macros.

I ran across some macros that looked something like /cast [help][target=targettarget,help][] <healing spell>.

Do you know what the [] means or does?

[Djarid]

[] returns the macro to the default action as if no options were specified.

Normally a macro with options will do nothing if none options of the options are met. by adding [] to the end of the option list it says ok... so nothing else has matched lets behave as if no options were present so a heal will heal your target if it can otherwise it will heal the caster.


/cast [target=focustargettarget, help][] Heal;


/cast [target=focustargettarget,help] Heal; Heal

both of the above are identical but the form saves 2 characters... a saving of 15 characters when the spell is Summon Voidwalker

[ElectronDF]

I don't change targets at all if I can help it (on my alts). I use /cast [target=focus-target] DPS for damage and /cast [target=focus-target-target] Heal for my heals.

I didn't always let me heal a friendly person cause they would be targeting a mob. So I put in a /cast [help] Heal in along with my normal heal, so in case I target a friendly, it works, it it is a mob, it goes to the next one (heal focus's target-target).