random question (macro maybe)

[Garm]

Hey gang, was having a blast last night leveling up 3 mages and a priest to lvl 10. Didn't get melee hit by a mob the whole time right? So the first time i do i have like 3 defense skill lol and my "main" gets pwnd by an add before my nooblike skills can react. Same when i joined a WSG for kicks, though the teammates i'm sure weren't as happy for me as i was =P.

My problem was when my main went down, my assisting mages kind of took a smoke break, and i didn't know how to cope. Any idea what i'm talking about? I'm sure i'm missing something simple, i just don't know what lol. I've been reading the macro section to see if I can find myself an answer but maybe i don't know what my question is. Any ideas or point me in the right direction? Off to try focus, see if that's it.

[Gigatron]

You'll want to start making use of /focus. Example:

Key 1 - /focus priest
Key 2 - /focus mage1
Key 3 - /focus mage2
Key 4 - /focus mage3

Then, your casting macro's will now look like this:

/cast [target=focustarget] fireball

and of course your follow will now be /follow focus

So, when your main dies, you quickly hit keys 3-4 which ever of your mages you jump on to use as your new temp "main". Then, when your priest alive again, hit 1.

[Garm]

Ahhh slick, tyvm works like a charm! Been reading the macro building links, cool stuff. I have to admit i didn't know there was that much too it. I'm trying to make one button to spam MB/smite while MB is on cooldown. Tried the one in the macro thread but it only casts one smite not several.

[Garm]

ok, the only thing i could figure out to have one button for MB and smite was

/castsequence reset=combat/target Mind Blast, Smite, Smite

and maybe add another smite, lol till MB coolsdown? or is there a better way =p

[Otlecs]

Better to use "reset=8" (or whatever your MB cooldown is if you've got talents invested there).

My (lowbie!) DD sequence looks like this:
[code:1]#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=8 Mind Blast, Smite, Smite, Smite, Smite, Smite[/code:1]
There's at least one two many Smites in there, but it doesn't matter because it goes back to MB after 8 seconds.

I prefer to use focus for CC / fixed cross-healing. I haven't bothered to solve that one yet, but I will, and whatever solution I use (the mod posted on this forum, a working variant of the multi-char follow macro, whatever) won't use focus. It's too valuable for that.

Still, if it works for you that's great :)

[Ughmahedhurtz]

No clue if the following works. I'll see if I can test this tonight.

/target dondiego
/focus dondiego
/stopmacro [target=focus, nodead]
/cleartarget [target=target, dead]
/clearfocus [target=focus, dead]
/target donbartolo
/focus donbartolo
/stopmacro [target=focus, nodead]
/cleartarget [target=target, dead]
/clearfocus [target=focus, dead]
/target doncastillo
/focus doncastillo
/stopmacro [target=focus, nodead]
/cleartarget [target=target, dead]
/clearfocus [target=focus, dead]
/target donrafael
/focus donrafael
/stopmacro [target=focus, nodead]
/cleartarget [target=target, dead]
/clearfocus [target=focus, dead]

If this does work, should simplify things greatly for me. ;)

[Morganti]

Monkey got this working...

Something like /focus yourguy#1;/stopmacro [target=focus, exists, nodead]

and repeat that for each guy (all in the same macro)