Having probs with focus and then assist, any suggestions?

Hello all!

I've put my 4xsham 1xpally (all 70) team on hold and have started a new 4x hunter 1x priest team with the intent on doing a lot of BGs. Yay!

Anyway, my problem is that I've started to use /focus on my new team and I am having problems. Here is my setup:

Hunter1 (main controlled)
Hunter2 (tagalong)
Hunter3 (tagalong)
Hunter4 (tagalong)

I have a macro that does "/target Hunterx;/focus" on all my guys. Sure enough, this sets my focus. Awesome.

But when I click on a target with Hunter1, who is focused to himself, and do my "/target focus" and "/assist" macro, there is a about a 10% chance he ends up just having himself focused. And since he has himself focused now, he won't attack. And since my 2-4 guys have him on assist, they won't attack either. So I click on a mob, click my "/target focus;/assist" macro, and my guys end up just targeting Hunter1. This happens about 10% of the time, but ends up being a HUGE sore and has already resulted in wipes :(

Is there a way I can get around this?

Thanks all!

try

/cast [target=focustarget,noexists] "Hunterspell"

Hey there,

The problem is this occurs when not casting. I'm simply doing an /assist.

So if I have a focus set to myself, and then I target /focus and assist, it simply targets myself.

Any idea yet? Or am I describing the problem in a bad way?

I had similar issues with my original focus macros; the solution is sort-of simple: Remove /assist from JUST your Main's macro, leave it in everyone else's. The only problem with this is that should you change mains/focus mid-battle you'll run into the same /assist = targeting self issue.

The reason this happens, assuming I'm reading it right, and you're mid-fight, is because the MOB you're attacking has YOU targeted; /assist works on MOBS too. Mob targeting you = /assist with mob targeted = you targeting you. Got me killed a few times when I was starting out lol; once I removed /assist from my Main's macro though I had no more issues and my alts always targeted the right mob assuming I compensated for the Focus Update lag.

Edit: If this is out of combat then that's either normal if your main doesn't have a target, or if it does, you're either not waiting for Focus to update, or there's something wrong with your macros lol; post 'em if you can

Hi Evilseed,

Are you doing "/assist" or are you doing "/assist focus". Once your followers have your main as the focus then "/assist focus" will force them to attack the mob you are attacking (if you are). I find that sometimes my followers don't register the proper target especially if I switch target then quickly press the assist keybind again they sometimes still pick up the previous target, it's annoying as hell but I've learned to delay myself for a half second or so. Also, using Xperl UI helps a lot because it shows me each follower's target so that I don't have to look on the other screen (and 2 are covered by 2 others ATM until I get my upgrades). So you might want to have your "assist macro" to be something like:

/target focus
/assist focus

That way your followers will target you then assist you if you have a target and should force them to assist you even if they haven't properly targeted you.


One other thing is that I've changed from using /assist to "/target focustarget" because my casters would sometimes get into melee combat but it's affected by the target delay sometimes so I'm always watching my Xperl party targets to make sure they are correct.

I've also split up my "assist/targeting" macro from the "follow" macro so that I could stop my followers from getting too close by tapping the down arrow (WASD not mapped on the followers), once the hostile is dead or if I need to move my team in combat then I press the follow button.

HTH, if I missed what you were saying I apologize.