Complex Party Heal Macro Help

Ok, so I'm new to this whole multiboxing thing and need help with a macro that I think would be extremly useful.

I'm running a Prot Pally main with a Ele Shaman slave. Now I relize healing is not my primary concern but it would be stupid to go into battle without heals at the ready.

These keys will be set to F1-F5

What I want the macro to do is when I press F1 healing wave Party1 If I press ALT F1 Lesser healing wave Party1 CRTL F1 chain Heal Party 1. If Party1 is Dead I want it to heal party2 in the same fashion.

F2-F5 are all basically the same except if Party2-5 dont exsist/are dead I want the heals to defualt back to party1

And yes these are 5 different macros.

I know all the modifiers and stuff I'll need I just cant figure out how to write it so it works. Any help would be awesome.

not sure you can fit it all into one macro, might get to long

If I understand correctly:

Code:

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F1:
/cast [target=party1, nodead] lesser healing wave
/stopmacro
/cast [target=party2,nodead] lesser healing wave
F2:
/cast [target=party1, nodead] lesser healing wave
/stopmacro
/cast [target=party3,nodead] lesser healing wave

etc

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just add your modifiers. It will try to heal party1 first, if dead it goes to the next part.

A point of concern though, unless you are 7ft tall, or use a really small keyboard, hitting ctrl/alt f1 -f5 is going to be extremely difficult to press when you need healing quickly, while still maining DPS or tanking. Have you considered using the num pad?

Everyone always has "party1" in their macros. Isn't party1 the current player? Party 2 is always the leader, at least on my machine it is, and I'm running default keybindings/setup.

Can anyone enlighten me on what everyone else seems to be doing that I'm not?

You make a valid point about the ALT/CRTL F keys. lol I just tried it is kind of a stretch hehe. Numpad maybe an option. Also where would the ALT/CRTL modifiers be added? Cuase I've tried it a few times and it usually cast the last spell in the line no matter what I push OR it doesnt do anything at all.

WARNING: Alt + F4 closes the current window, so instead of healing a party member, you'll probably cause a wipe.

It's a bad idea to combine Alt with any of your F-keys.

LMAO I forgot about ALT F4 too. I'm sure I woulda figured that one out eventually :P

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Originally Posted by 'Aethon',index.php?page=Thread&postID=111905#post1 11905

Everyone always has "party1" in their macros. Isn't party1 the current player? Party 2 is always the leader, at least on my machine it is, and I'm running default keybindings/setup.

Can anyone enlighten me on what everyone else seems to be doing that I'm not?

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party1 is the group leader. I did party1-5 healing macros for a long time before switching back to using focus. Focus targeting just adds a lot more flexibility and feels less like "hard coding" to me.

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Also where would the ALT/CRTL modifiers be added? Cuase I've tried it a few times and it usually cast the last spell in the line no matter what I push OR it doesnt do anything at all.

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Code:

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/cast [modifier:alt, target=party1, nodead] lesser healing wave [modifier:ctrl, target=party1,nodead] Chain Heal
/stopmacro
/cast [modifier:alt, target=party2, nodead] lesser healing wave [modifier:ctrl, target=party2,nodead] Chain Heal

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You might hit the char max, so test it out a bit.

Also if you are 5 boxing and never plan on having others in your group (i.e. while leveling) you can just hardcode names instead of party1-5 etc. Remember your party order is based on when the accounts were created, so your group ordering will never change. (assuming the same leader). I only mention this because when you get to target=player4 (or 5 cant remember), each player will have a different person. Hope that makes sense

Ok this is what I ended up with. Works just like I want it to except I can't get Chain Heal on every Macro cuase its to long. I also did decide to go with the Num Pad instead of the F keys.

Code:

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NP1:
/cast [mod:alt, target=party1,nodead] lesser healing wave; [target=party1,nodead] healing wave
/cast [mod:alt, target=player,nodead] lesser healing wave; [target=player,nodead] healing wave

NP2:
/cast [mod:alt, target=player] lesser healing wave; [mod:ctrl, target=party1] chain heal; [target=player,] healing wave

NP3:
/cast [mod:alt, target=party2,nodead,exists] lesser healing wave; [target=party2,nodead, exists] healing wave
/cast [mod:alt, target=party1,nodead] lesser healing wave; [target=party1,nodead] healing wave

NP4:
/cast [mod:alt, target=party3,nodead,exists] lesser healing wave; [target=party3,nodead, exists] healing wave
/cast [mod:alt, target=party1,nodead] lesser healing wave; [target=party1,nodead] healing wave

NP5:
/cast [mod:alt, target=party4,nodead,exists] lesser healing wave; [target=party4,nodead, exists] healing wave
/cast [mod:alt, target=party1,nodead] lesser healing wave; [target=party1,nodead] healing wave

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As far as why it looks so weird. I don't know if its a mod of mine but /party1 is the first person in the party window (usually group leader) then party 2-4 (there is no 5). Anyway, thanks for everyones help and input.