Healing macro...

I gave up on using more than two accounts at once my connection won't handle it. :(

So I'm duoing two (perhaps too obvious) shamans (or is that Shamen?). I have combat for this low level easily done and I'm having some good fun. However how should I handle healing?

First I tried only healing myself, which works, but what if one character gets all the agro? So I decided I needed a macro to help me.

And not a mouse over one like I see listed elsewhere on this site. :(

Keypress one: Heals self
Keypress two: Heals main/alt unless they have a friendly target then heal that target.

Is that possible? Better yet would be to combine the two, but I don't see how that could be done.

What do others use?

Are you using a modem?

A standard DSL/Cable can handle as many as 10 - 20 accounts no problem.

The limiting factor is your upload BW. If you have 2+ megs UL/DL you could actually handle nearly 40 accounts at once.

I have my healing macros based on focus. My focus usually is my main char aka druid.

So it is like that if I have understood you right:

1. Other chars heal my main-focus and target their last target:

/target focus
/cast Healing Wave
/targetlasttarget

2. Other chars heal themselves.

When I press F1 my first toon executes macro

/target Badhorn
/cast Healing Wave
/targetlasttarget

When I press F2 my 2nd toon executes macro

/target Crazyhorn
/cast Healing Wave
/targetlasttarget


you just change name and also make some focus macros

Put this on your second account's hotbar. Alt+key heals self. Key by itself heals the party leader.

Paladin example:
#show Holy Light
/cast [modifier:alt, target=player] Holy Light; [target=OtherCharacter] Holy Light

@Xzin
I'm on a really awful wireless mesh, its better than the modem alternative (28.8k at best) but if I try and run two instances of WoW all disconnect periodically. Same with other games, only game I have run well with more than two clients is EVE. :?

While we can get normal broadband (DSL) the phone lines round here haven't been upgraded since about 1928 so three houses currently share a single line that would normally supply a single house. And because we have the mesh if you moan to BT you find you're way down the queue for upgrades because you have the awful mesh, its enough to drive you to tears. :(

@Heenan
Just what I'm looking for thanks.

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Originally Posted by Fursphere

I had a friend in that situation years ago.

It took the entire neighborhood to join together and sue the phone company to get them to upgrade the lines.

Worked, but took about 2 years if I remember correctly.

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Thats been done, wireless mesh is one outcome exchange being upgraded was other neither helped me :( And as I wasn't living here then I couldn't mention any concerns. :?

Bottom line is eventually it'll be fixed just not quickly enough, I'm going bald due to this... each time the WiFI flips I pull out some more hair. :(

Healbot is the answer.

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Originally Posted by deltaroy

Healbot is the answer.

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That's what I'm using, HealBot is your friend.

Currently doing a 3-box with hunter as main, mage as backup and paladin as healer. I'm using 3 keyb and 3 mice, and standard follow/assist macro's.

Mainly using the paladin to heal and, when things go hairy, to run in draw all agro with consecration/Righteous Fury.

Okay tried Healbot, unless I'm missing something (which is possible) it works on mouse clicks, which I only have on main machine. I have a mouse on both but swapping to the other mouse in combat, to heal my main with the alt is more than I really want.

I'm going to try a different macro and see if that works.

But the essential idea is this:

ctrl+1 - Both characters heal themselves with lesser heals
ctrl+2 - Main tries to heal her target, alt tries to heal mains target but failing that heals main. (Minor heal)
ctrl+3 - Both characters heal themselves with major heal
ctrl+4 - As 2 but using a Major heal

Plus two other buttons that i can use for the HoT (Gift of Naru?)

Have to be normal buttons not mouse clicks.

Okay just tried this:

/target party2
/cast Healing Wave
/targetlasttarget

All that happens is if I am targeting party2 I heal her if not I heal myself and either way I don't go back to the target I had.