Target enemy by raid icon? Bonus: My first post and alohas

Alohas as promised by the title, n-boxers!

I'm Brian and I used to 3-box in Lineage 2 - it was the most fun I've ever had in a video game, even on one of the most boring games. So by my incredibly complicated calculations, boxing in WoW would (in scientific terms) own! I've had quite a look around the forums and I love what I've seen. There are some amazing setups here.

Right now I'm trying to figure out the plan I'll take for a 5box PVE group - and my question is this: Is there any way that I could get characters to target based on raid icon? For example: if I have a prot warrior, fire mage, arcane mage, shadow priest, and holy paladin, I would love to be able to throw raid marks on two mobs and hit a button which would fire macros on the mages, making them target the mark to which they are assigned and Polymorph.

I did a bit of googling on the subject, and it seems that it was possible at some point pre-TBC, but has since been removed from the API.

Are there are any workarounds you've used/encountered? If not, how do you handle CC without a lot of manually using each boxed character?

Thanks in advance! =)

Well Aloha back atcha and welcome to the forums :)

As you said and as far as I recall targeting via Raid Icon was removed which is a shame cause that would make things quite interesting. For my setup, I run 5 mages so to handle cc (5 sheeps) I have a '/assist Main /focus macro' on my F8-F12 keys for each mage. I basically target each mob and hit the keys in order from F8-F12 effectively setting each mages focus to a different mob. Then I simply hit the /target Focus /cast CC macro and then its time to focus fire. And for anyone thats interested (I didn't know until recently) you can use a single line macro with a /target someonelses target in it. Like for example '/cast [target="nameofperson'-target] Spell' so for me to assist my main who's name is Skilwin it would be /cast [target=Skilwin-target] Frostbolt. Anyway I'm a little off track but so far the best way I have found is to setup focus macros then cc your focus. Hope this helps in some way.

I think I still have an addon that lets me hotkey assignment of raid icons.

But to target them, I don't know.

Since your party leader is assigning raid icons using a mouse, or by using pressing buttons to assign icons, your remote can do something else and set focus on that party leader's target.

Tank is leader
Mage1 is dps
Mage2 is dps


Let's say there are Mob1, Mob2, and Mob3.
Use Key F6, F7, F8, F9.

Key bindings for Tank
Tank.F6 = Assign Skull. /focus
Tank.F7 = Assign X

Tank.F8 = Assign Square

Tank.F9 = /cast [target=focus] Charge

Key bindings for Mage1

Mage1.F6 = none

Mage1.F7 = /assist Tank. /focus

Mage1.F8 = none
Mage1.F9 = /cast [target=focus] Polymorph

Key bindings for Mage2

Mage2.F6 = none


Mage2.F7 = none


Mage2.F8 = /assist Tank. /focus

Mage2.F9 = /cast [target=focus] Polymorph


Now when you're ready to engage, you press F9
The tank charges Mob1, Mage1 sheeps Mob2, and Mage2, sheeps Mob3

Sorry nope, it's not possible to target something by which raid icon it has on it. The best you can do for sticky targeting is by using focus.

yeah the way I run my two mages is to have a macro on each to assist leader, set focus and I just hit that for each in turn as my leader has cc mob targeted

Once combat starts that I use their standard assist leader macro for nuking down target, and if I need to reapply cc during the fight I just use a macro to target focus, poly, assist leader again

so if we have /assist party1, /focus as macro 1, on mage 1 it would be G1 and on mage 2 it would be G2
/assist party1 as macro 2 would be 1 key for both mages
/target focus, /cast polymorph, /assist party1 as macro 3 would be G4 for mage 1 and G5 for mage 2

Before fight leader targets first cc, press G1, target second cc, press G2, target first kill mob, press 1, pull...if fight goes too long press G4 and G5 as needed and then 1 again

You have to make a major decision now. You can "pilot" via Focus ... or you can use Focus for CC. I chose to "Pilot" via Focus. What this means is that every toon I have sets my Main (a prot pally) as their focus. All spells are then based on focus.

Fireblast for example:

Code:

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#showtooltip Fire Blast /cast [target=focustarget, harm][target=targettarget, harm][harm]Fire Blast

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All of my harmful spells are configured this way.

CC on the other hand, works a little differently:

On my Paladin I have F9-F12 bound to assigning Raid Icons. On each of my 4 alts I have this:

Code:

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#showtooltip Polymorph
/target focustarget
/cleartarget [target=focustarget,noexists]
/stopmacro [nocombat]
/stopcasting
/cast [target=focustarget,harm,nodead,exists] Polymorph

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If I am out of combat, it sets the Target of my Alt to the mob that it will CC. Since it will cast harmful spells at the target of the Focus first, they will ignore this guy. If I am IN combat, and I hit this, it is usually because I got an add - so I hit this button and it marks the target and CC's them with 1 button press.

Thank you all for the fast and useful replies.

Ghallo, your solution sounds very slick. I was thinking of using focus targets for CC. I would have the macros hardcoded to assist the tank by his name (probably not the best idea if I decide to change the tanking character in the future I know). So the polymorph macro would cast on the focus target and all harm spells would cast on the assist tank target.

Thanks again everyone.

Another way you could do it for multiple cc if you use focus as your target (e.g /cast [target=focustarget] pwnageboltofdeath), is to simply use a macro for each of your cc classes something like /target [target=focustarget]. Then when your ready to begin fight you just target each mob you want to cc and have one of your cc classes target it using those macros, after pull you can just hit a mass cc button (meaning one button makes all your mages cast polymorph on their current target), while not affecting your focus fire since all your offensive spells are already macro'd to fire at your /focus's target.

tag to come back when I understand it all a little more :)