what's going wrong with my focus macro?

Hi there,

new 5 boxer here. My team of paladin, priest, 3x mages put rfc on farm status last night. Good feeling to finally be leveling in an instance where I can get a break from the constant /w HAXX!!

I promise I'll get a screenie up soon, although my UI is embarrassingly 'stock-standard WoW'. Running keyclone on 2 PCs, my main on one with a 20in widescreen and the clones on a 17in widescreen using maximizer function in keyclone.

Anyhow on to my problem, I'm using focus for CC so far and /assist main macros for all my offensive spells. The problem I'm having is that occasionally my sheeps just don't happen when I expect them to. This is not always the same problem, sometimes it goes off without a hitch. When I do have problems, it isnt always the same outcome. So its proving hard to figure out by myself. Hopefully someone will be able to spot the flaws in my macros.

I set up keybinds for num-1, num-2, num-3. On my main, I just assigned these in WoW keybinds to raid target icons (moon, triangle, diamond).

On my mages I assigned them to a button on the right action bar, same position, with each mage respectively using one of the num buttons, and placed an identical macro there for all mages.

/assist main
/focus

The mages then got another macro to cast the spell:

/cast [target=focus] polymorph

I should also mention that I put the following in my /follow macro:

/clear focus
/follow main

Now, I ran out and tested this (maybe a bit too quickly as I was eager to get to rfc) outside falcon lodge on some mobs way too low for me, and all seemed ok. However, when it really counted in rfc, on the first pull of a group of 5 orcs and a voidwalker. I either stood there hopelessly with my tank in the middle of a group while my mages all got "you dont have a target" messages. Or in one case, all 3 of them cast sheep on the same mob :/ another variant is that one of the mages just doesnt get a /focus target while the other 2 do. Luckily I'm now high enough and quick enough on my pally taunt Iwin button to survive one missed CC, but I need to get this sorted before I move on to WC.

Thanks in advance for any help.

*edit* - forgot to mention that I figured out that at least some of the failures happen this way: I click the num-1 button, pally sets raid icon, mage doesnt even target the mob. So I know it hasnt set a /focus. No idea why, but I've just been watching the other screen closely when setting CC targets now and it just means another 2 presses to make sure its set. This has eliminated 75% of the failures, but not all.

hmm the only problem I can see atm is potentially lag.. :S basically I am trying to use a similar thing for my team (freeing up focus for targeting) what i have noticed is that when assigning the focus it helps to doubletap it.. i know this could get annoying but try it and see what happens..

The reason I think it might just be that is that sometimes when I'm casting away it takes a sec for my clones to react to the command i gave them.. often choosing the new target to attack after they have begun casting a spell on the previous target.. I put this down to some lag problems.. even tho the macro is executed line by line.. the /cast command seems often to arrive prior to the targeting command :S the same might be true for the /focus coming before the /target/assist

anyways hope that helps.. I might have missed something silly mind you.. gl!

Edit.. also i would remove the clearfocus from your follow macro.. trust me it will get annoying.. as a mage you will be moving alot.. if you blink you have to reassign focuses etc.. if at all put the /clearfocus command at the start of the focus macro.. thus clearing any focus prior to applying a new one