Macro issue: [target=focustarget] not working for Mind Flay

[target=focustarget] not working for Mind Flay

I'm dualboxing a pair of priests (single system, keyclone, two WoW windows running on seperate monitors, macaroon)

In general the secondary character focuses the leader and all my macros are like this:

Character 1:
/cast Smite

Character 2:
/cast [target=focustarget] Smite


This works as expected for everything except Mind Flay. When /cast [target=focustarget] Mind Flay is used I normally get a "You do not have a target" error but very rarely it will work and once it mindflayed a completely different target. This happens even if the lead character is standing there, not casting, with a mob targetted; all other macros work but mind flay fails. The button does correctly change colour based on range to the focus target.

I've worked around this by using "/target focustarget /cast Mind Flay", but I'm wondering why I had this issue in the firstplace; is this some sort of odd behavior caused by Mind Flay being a channeled spell?

I'm wondering if mind flay might have the same issues with this as wanding does, but it should work just as well as arcane missiles does for mages, which as far as i can remember from my mages, it does.

I'd guess that there's a tiny mistake in the macro somewhere, try cutting and pasting them directly from wow into a post rather than retyping them by hand. Also, how do you set focus and what other macros are you using?

I've also experienced problems from time to time on mindflay. Adding a [nochannelling:MindFlay] helps somewhat.

I think you need a target to cast channeled spells, so i think you may need the macro to look something like this.



/assist focus

/cast mind flay



but im not sure how this will work in with your targetless setup :)

I have the same issue with castsequence macro with target=player1target it get all the way to mind flay and stops working. but if i use a assist macro first it wil work all the way thru.

I guess the question is... does this not work when you are starting a fight against a new target and you are just experiencing lag from your main getting a new target and your alt knowing he has a new target
or is the problem exist when you main has had the target for several seconds and you alt still doesn't fire?

i personally would use something like this.
main
/castsequence [nochanneling] smite,mind flay,mind flay,...
alt
/castsequence [target=focus-target,exists,nochanneling] smite,mind flay,mind flay,....

then spam the heck out of the button.
if it's just a lag issue this spaming of the button will get you past the lag.