Break follow in Icecrown/The Storm Peaks

Hi,

My toons often break follow when flying around in Icecrown and The Storm Peaks, and also when zoning between the zones. The toons seem to just suddenly disappear. Its not a hardware related issue cause my computer doesn't lag at all when this happens. One example is going from Brunnhildar Village down to the NPC that gives the Bearback quest. Is there any way to avoid this follow break when zoning between areas in these zones?

It's called phasing

It sucks

It's not going away

They're using it much, much more in Cataclysm

The boundaries are always in the same places, so you can learn where they are over time

Things that make you load zones faster will help, to a degree

It's hilarious when you zone into a bunch of 83 elites that are suddenly right on top of you

Not much you can do about phasing. I use Jamba and enable follow strobing when I mount so my toons will keep trying to follow me {sometimes it is just a matter of it taking them a few seconds to "join" the main in a phase.} You can also set up slave movement keys {which you should have for instancing anyway} and push everyone forward through a phase line. I use my arrow keys, then Jamba's follow strobing will kick in again and pull all the slaves back to my main.

Thanks, is there a specific setting in Jamba for follow strobing only when mounted? I use a manual follow/focus/assist macro connected to a mouse button normally.

I've found in Icecrown at least, once every toon has finished with the quest chains, they should all be at the same stage as each other, and generally the phasing is gone.

Or maybe its the section of the zone my dailies are in.

At some points, follow used to break.
But everyone would fly across the magic line.
And Jamba spams raid warnings that follow has broken.
Just press follow a bit, or have strobe follow going.

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Originally Posted by Nemis79

Thanks, is there a specific setting in Jamba for follow strobing only when mounted? I use a manual follow/focus/assist macro connected to a mouse button normally.

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You could always add a "/jamba-follow strobeonme all" to your leader's mount macro and "/jamba-follow strobeoff all" to any spell macro. It's a bit brute force, but should work. Jamba has some conditional strobing logic, but it always seemed to work erratically for me so I haven't messed with it much further.

There's no specific command for only while mounted. I use The following on my main

Numpad- {normal mount macro on slaves}

Code:

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/cast [nomounted, flyable] Headless Horseman's Mount
/cast [nomounted] Headless Horseman's Mount
/dismount
/script VehicleExit()
/jamba-follow strobeonme slave

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End {spread macro on slaves} -

Code:

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/jamba-follow strobeoff slave
/jamba-follow strobeoff all

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Home -

Code:

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SLAVES
/click [nomounted] SmartBuff_KeyButton
/cast [nomounted] Totemic Recall
/focus Kina
/follow focus

MASTER
/jamba-team invite
/click [nomounted] SmartBuff_KeyButton
/jamba-follow strobeoff all

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This way I only follow strobe while mounted/dismounting. Spreading turns off all following, home allows me to have normal following {plus buff refresh and al that fun stuff}.

Great macros, thanks!