sheeping different targets

is there a way to effectively sheep different targets? I am playing 3 mages so what i did was run up to a group, but didnt agro yet. i singlely targeted a different mob on each character. I hit '4' which is my Polymorph button then I hit '2' which is my macro:
/assist [main character]
/cast fireball(rank 2)

the problem is that the /assist [main character] does not always work the first time. usually it says "you have no target" until i hit it a second time. so the problem here was that instead of having no target they fireballed the mob they just sheeped... :/ any ideas would be helpful

I´m not an expert on the area, and have in truth never boxed mages, but I was thinking a little about it the other day since shamans will have hex in the x-pac :)

What if you wrote a cast sequence macro with commas the same way that shamans do for totems?
Something like this:
/assist [target=focus, exists]
/castsequence [nomodifier] reset=8 Polymorph,,,

Polymorph,,, on your first mage
,Polymorph,, on your second and so on

Would targeting a mob and pressing the button once, and targeting another mob and pressing it again work?
It´s the only thing I managed to come up with at least ;P

if i read this correctly you use the Assist method instead of the Focus method to designate the leader?

in this case make a macro on each char that does

/assist [mainchar]
/focus target

and put this on different key's on each char (ie. F1 on the first char, F2 on the second, etc)

next make a macro on each char for sheeping

/cast [target=focus,harm,nodead][target=party1target,harm,nodead]
/cast sheep

and put it on the sheep button


run up to the mob group
select 1st mob, press F1 (take into account the normal server delay, might press this several times to make sure the character has the right mob focussed)
select 2nd mob, press F2 (take into account the normal server delay, might press this several times to make sure the character has the right mob focussed)
select 3rd mob, press F3 (take into account the normal server delay, might press this several times to make sure the character has the right mob focussed)

now all 3 toons have a different mob focussed
next press your normal /assist [charname] macro to make sure they all target the same target you do, to avoid them breaking sheep on the 1st cast, again take note of the server lag

press the sheep macro, and they will each focus another mob, while they all are targeting the mob you target, so when pressing 2, they dont break sheep

this also makes it easy to Resheep, just press the sheep macro, as long as their focus target is still alive, they will sheep that, if the focus target is dead they will sheep YOUR target instead



NOTE: For people using the focus method of assigning the master target, replace focus with target, and target with focus in the example above

I just got out-smarted ; P
Oh well. I have barely started :)

I use the focus macros as mentioned above to do sheeping. its nice. Makes it easy, I also put my macro on my main when button is pushed to add raid target on the sheeps so I can set up kill sequence.

So for your main, change in the keyboard layout with the above example to:

F1 - Add Moon raid target
F2 - add star raid target
F3 - add Square

This works really nice too :P

so pushing F1 on main will assist, focus target to first toon to sheep and add moon target all in one push. MMMMMM SHEEPILICIOUS!

Yay! I had setup a macro like this but it wasn't perfect. Thanks to your version I'm now rocking the quad sheep action more reliably!