5 Mage Sheep

Spent a couple hours pouring through posts on here before posting.

When I got my new machine I didn't have my old sheep set up with my G110 keyboard anymore so thought I could do it from memory and older posts.

I was somewhat right and somewhat wrong.

I used this thread here http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthrea...t=34218&page=2 to combine what people are doing for what I wanted to do.

1. I want to have the four slaves assist the main mage for all DPS. Done.

2. I want each slave to be able to assist the main mage and set focus on the target and assign it a raid mark. Semi done.

3. I want each slave to cast polymorph on their respective focus targets. Done.

4. I want each slave to /stopcasting and recast sheep whenever I deem necessary. Done.

Okay so I have it almost all complete as you can see, except for two of my mages do not complete #2.

I have ISBOXER set to use G1 = slot 2, G2 = slot 3, G7 = slot 4, and G8 = slot 5 as my slaves who assist my main. I have my macros set to ALT-5 (slot 2), ALT-6 (slot 3), ALT-7 (slot 4) and ALT-8 (slot 5) all in ISBoxer and on the corresponding action bar. I set up each toons Right Action Button to have ALT-1 for button 1 and so on all through button 8.

G1 works fine. Party member 2 (slot 2) assists my main and sets that as focus and casts the correct raid mark.
G2 does nothing. I can manually switch to that screen and click ALT-6 or click the action bar with the macro on it and it assists the main, sets the focus and casts the raid mark.
G7 same as G2.
G8 works fine like G1.

So since I can manually do it I figure it's got to be something I did wrong in ISBoxer. But I can't find an error. I have deleted G2 and G7 and copied G1 and pasted it, and changed the G key and the ALT all to the correct ones multiple times, but I can't make G2 and G7 work.

I'll keep puzzling with it, but if anyone has any suggestions I'm open for them! :D

Thanks as always you swell group of boxers!

Mal

Oh and here are my two macros:

Focus/Mark Macro
Placed on ALT-5, 6, 7, or 8 depending upon the toon)
/assist Bôxie
/focus
/script SetRaidTarget("target", 2)

Polymorph Macro
Placed on the 9 button on all toons
/stopcasting
/cast [@focus,exists,nodead][] Polymorph

This is copypaste from my other post elsewhere, hope this helps.

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For crowd controlling I have these macros.

For focusing:

Main mage (Shift+F1) (this is binded only to main window)
#showtooltip polymorph
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/script SetRaidTarget("focus", 1)

Slave mage 1 (Shift+F2) (this is binded only to slave 1 window)
/assist Beeq
#showtooltip polymorph
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/script SetRaidTarget("focus", 2)

Slave mage 2 (Shift+F3) (this is binded only to slave 2 window)
/assist Beeq
#showtooltip polymorph
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/script SetRaidTarget("focus", 3)

Slave mage 3 (Shift+F4) (this is binded only to slave 3 window)
/assist Beeq
#showtooltip polymorph
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/script SetRaidTarget("focus", 4)

Slave mage 4 (Shift+F5) (this is binded only to slave 4 window)
/assist Beeq
#showtooltip polymorph
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/script SetRaidTarget("focus", 5)

For sheeping:

Sheep (L) (this is FTL DPS key, binded to all windows)
/cast [target=focus]Polymorph
/stopmacro [nogroup]

For clearing focus frames:

Clearfocus (O) (this is FTL DPS key, binded to all windows)
/clearfocus

How it works?
Main mage selects any mob.
key push: Shift+F1 (The mob is now focused by main mage, and the mob have mark Star above)

Main mage selects any other mob.
key push: Shift+F2 (Slave mage 1 assists Main mage. The mob is now focused by Slave mage 1, and the mob have mark Circle above)

and so on..

when you have 5 marks on mobs, you can simply press your sheep macro (I have it on 'L'-key) and all focused mobs will turn into fluffy sheeps. Now when you nuke any target, the focused mobs will stay in focus, and pressing sheep-key will resheep them.

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Also in raids, remember to promote your slaves, or they can't mark anything unpromoted.

Thanks runtu I'll play with that tomorrow and see if I can get it working.

You have your focus/marks set up on Shift-F1, F2, F3, F4, F5 and I want to set these up to my G1, G2, G7 and G8 keys. I am assuming you set your keybindings for a castbar where F1 - F5 are bound to a different button for each one?

I see you use the FTL assist section in ISBoxer? I have mine set up in general - should it be moved?

From your main mage window you can pick a target and just press Shift-F2 for example and the slot 2 mage then makes it focused and marked?

If I think of more questions I'll post them.

Tbh my ISBoxer settings are like "clicking anything and hope it works" :D I never cared to read the manual, so my all spells are under FTL DPS.

Sheep Mark 1
Hotkey Shift+F1
Step -> Actions ->
Do FTL Assist me in General Key Map -> self
Shift+F1 -> 1

Sheep Mark 2
Hotkey Shift+F2
Step -> Actions ->
Do FTL Assist me in General Key Map -> self
Shift+F2 -> 2

and so on.. I use only main mage's window and select mobs and slaves assist.

However, sometimes if I'm fast doing that, the assist doesn't always work, and this happens:
Main mage targets mob.
Key push: Shift+F1 (Selected mob is focused and marked with star by main mage)
Main mage targets another mob.
Key push: Shift+F2 (Assist is slow, so slave mage 1 didn't notice mob change, so star marked mob is now also targeted,focused and marked with circle by slave mage 1. Need to remark. Using clearfocus-macro to unfocus everything on all toons)

So I usually keep a short 1sec pause after selecting new mob, so the assist will work.

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Originally Posted by Malgor

From your main mage window you can pick a target and just press Shift-F2 for example and the slot 2 mage then makes it focused and marked?

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Yeah this exactly. Works like a charm once set up.

Thanks. I'll get to that Wednesday when I'm off work.

I've been using the northshire abbey area to test this out. Tons of sheepable non-aggressive mobs all together.

Okay, I got to it and put in your set up and I like it a lot.

However I am still having the problem of slot 3 and 4 not doing anything when I hit Shift-F3 or Shift-F4. However if I go to their respective window, I can click it with my mouse and each one will assist my main, set the target as focus and mark it with their corresponding mark.

I talked to Lax in chat and he didn't know why. I'm baffled!

Is there a way to simply get a toon to use a raid target icon as a target?

I have been scouring macro pages to work out if this is possible and have only found the string GetRaidTargetIndex which simply returns the number of the actual icon.

If this was possible, all the main would have to do is mark up the mobs then each slave would have the macro:

/cast "generic cc spell" [target=RaidTarget1] etc.

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Originally Posted by Noids

Is there a way to simply get a toon to use a raid target icon as a target?

I have been scouring macro pages to work out if this is possible and have only found the string GetRaidTargetIndex which simply returns the number of the actual icon.

If this was possible, all the main would have to do is mark up the mobs then each slave would have the macro:

/cast "generic cc spell" [target=RaidTarget1] etc.

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That would be great if it worked that way, but as of now I don't think you can target a raid icon, which is essentially what you are suggesting?

Raid icons are visual references for you.

I don't believe you can target the skull or the blue square.
I searched for how to do this at one point, asking the wow macro forum and here, etc.
The resounding answer was no, this could not be done.