Another targetted AOE thread

howdy,

So just recently ive been playing around with casters for the first time ever in my wow career. Ive always played melee so this is new for me.

So. Presumably casters want to be...away from the mobs youre fighting. Got it.

So how are you guys going about casting spells with a targetting reticle? I have it working with a simple mouse repeater region in ISboxer so getting it to work is not the hard part. But my non mains are all staring at the ground so they cast at their feet. So basically they have to be up near the tank for it to be effective.

All of this has been fine so far but im fearful when I get to northrend and start harder dungeons that being too close is going to turn into trouble, so im looking for alternate solutions that somebody might be employing.

How are you aiming targetting AOES? OR will it not matter even in 80 heroics if my casters are right up near my tank and i shouldnt worry about it?

Thanks for any thoughts.

My way certainly isn't the best, but i have a setview script I occasionally press so all casters point at the same direction. Then I click the AOE button,click the "repeat once" button and i can now point to the spot. This is fairly accurate if you don't spread out your toons and helps with Icrcrown group quests, but does take 4-5 seconds to action.

You either bring them near you tank as you say, though in a lot of cases that is indeed a bad idea, or you change their camera angle to where you can target their stuff by the tank, or do like most of us do and just use the other spells that do not need such targeting.

Create a keymap that sends the AoE DPS key to your toon. Click the "Send Next Click" option. Now when you hit that key, and click on your main, that click location will be sent to that toon and the toon will use the spell. When you hit the keymap hotkey you should see the reticule appear on the slave.

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=25491

That thread describes how to "sync" your camera positions. Then you just need to line up your toons as well as possible. It'll never be perfect.

Then, I use the manual camera view settings as that thread describes to make sure they're all looking the same way/angle and as long as you aren't at max range, it usually works good enough to be viable.

Thanks Ugh, ironically I posted a couple times in that thread but more about the mechanics of the pass through and not the aiming.

RE: Maxion, I see you have mages and locks you play. What do you use then? I guess for locks you could seed. Mages dont have anything as good as blizzard though I thought.

My lock is my solo toon that I raid with, and the boxing lock team I havent set anything up for aoe yet.
My mage team is in the same situation, in fact they don't even have blizzard yet, but I'll prolly spam a lot of arcane explosion on them still like I have already.
The team my 80 mage is in, I just bring the whole team in to the tank and spam their aoe's that do not need targeting, which the mage's case is arcane explosion.

If I absolutely need to cast aoe from afar like in the lava pit type place in HoL to save the time of letting the tank kill them all by itself, I just mouse over to the mage's (just the one mage in my multiclass team that is) window and cast blizzard manually. Since I use it so rarely as that, I get by just fine without a setup for it.

If you want a similarly castable aoe for the lock, at least for stationary situations (not quite as flexible as the mage's arcane explosion) you can do a /cast [nochanneling] hellfire macro on the lock. (or however the syntax goes)

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Originally Posted by Redbeard

Thanks Ugh, ironically I posted a couple times in that thread but more about the mechanics of the pass through and not the aiming.

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I've had pretty good results as long as I have time to "line up" the alt train behind me before casting and I'm not too far from the tank. It's never been perfect but with the radius of most AoEs, it's usually close enough for government work.

The biggest problem is having your main's camera line up with your alts while doing this. I've gotten very used to having all 4 alts looking the same way at the same angle so I just sorta know where on my main screen to click for AoE targeting. I've not found any programmatic way to do it that didn't seem prone to an account ban.

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Originally Posted by Ughmahedhurtz

I've had pretty good results as long as I have time to "line up" the alt train behind me before casting and I'm not too far from the tank. It's never been perfect but with the radius of most AoEs, it's usually close enough for government work.

The biggest problem is having your main's camera line up with your alts while doing this. I've gotten very used to having all 4 alts looking the same way at the same angle so I just sorta know where on my main screen to click for AoE targeting. I've not found any programmatic way to do it that didn't seem prone to an account ban.

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There was an addon in our macros and addons forum that could do something about it, but I'm not sure if it still works, or how legal it was.
Anything an addon can do is generally legal until blizzard decides to break it right?

Probably not technically.. i.e. the TOS doesnt state "if you can do it its legal" they lay out whats legal and then sculpt their macros / add on API to reflect that but its not necessarily a 1 to 1 correlation.