I cannot get this Mage marco to work.

I must be bad @ writing marco for groups. I can get marcos to work for solo play but when I try to modifer them for my team, all hell break loose.

I am using this when I solo my mage
/cast [mod:shift] Frostbolt
/cast Fireball.
I have this bind to 1 on the keyboard. Cast Fireball when and hit 1 and Frostbolt when I hit Shift + 1

Change this to my grp
/cast [target=party1target,mod:shift] Frostbolt
/cast [target=party1target] Fireball
This work fine until my tank dies and the mage with stand their doing nothing and dies, even after I promote another toon to become the partyleader

So I change this to
/cast [target=party1target,mod:shift][] Frostbolt
/cast [target=party1target][] Fireball

also try this combo.
/cast [target=party1target,mod:shift][] Frostbolt; Fireball
/cast [target=party1target,mod:shift][] Frostbolt; [nomod] Fireball
/cast [target=party1target,mod:shift][] Frostbolt; [target=party1target,nomod] Fireball
/cast [target=party1target,mod:shift][] Frostbolt; [target=party1target,nomod] [] Fireball

This should let me cast a fireball or frostbolt is I switch over to the Mage windows and target the mob. But it is not working. It will only cast Frostbolt, or do nothing.

Those [target=party...] macros seem to give a lot of trouble, try following the links in my sig for a focus based system that is a bit easier to use.

Try:

/cast [target=party1target,mod:shift][mod:shift] Frostbolt
/cast [target=party1target][] Fireball

Thks for all your reply. I am moving away from the focus base macro so I can save focus for the cc

I have change the marco to
/cast [target=party1target,mod:shift][mod:shift] Frostbolt
/cast [target=party1target][] Fireball

Now I can toggle between the Fireball and Frostbolt but my mage will not cast either spell

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Originally Posted by 'species6729',index.php?page=Thread&postID=189001# post189001

Thks for all your reply. I am moving away from the focus base macro so I can save focus for the cc

I have change the marco to
/cast [target=party1target,mod:shift][mod:shift] Frostbolt
/cast [target=party1target][] Fireball

Now I can toggle between the Fireball and Frostbolt but my mage will not cast either spell

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Hmm, not sure why this one wouldn't work. At work, so I can't fiddle.

However, an alternative approach would be to chain a few more casts on there. As long as you don't cast/burn the GCD, it will continue. So, combining your two sets of originally working macros in reverse order should work:

/cast [target=party1target,mod:shift] Frostbolt
/cast [target=party1target] Fireball
/cast [mod:shift] Frostbolt
/cast Fireball

(Although ugly and verbose)

think there some goofy going on when yeh use a mod having an empty [] didnt work for either so I added [target=target]

Code:

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/cast [target=target mod:shift][target=party1target,mod:shift] Frostbolt
/cast [target=target][target=party1target] Fireball

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another thing if yer just 2 boxing and not grouping with anyone using party1 is fine but once yeh get more then 3 people in a group it gets funky the group order will be different for each char.

I basically did [targer=charname-target] that got to be a pain when switching out chars
to [target=party1target] that lasted all but a day
though about doing a focus based setup but then figure out FTL setup
Now I'm doing an FTL based setup using /click so I can switch out any char without having go nutty on modifying macros

The only way to get this marco to work even party way is this

/cast [target=party1target,harm,mod:shift][mod:shift] Frostbolt
/cast [target=party1target,harm][] Fireball

try this out using 2 mage agaist the target dummys and a few bats.
Both mage will cast fireball
when I hit shift, both instance will show the toggle to frostbolt, but only the 1st mage. will cast the frostbolt, the slave will said spell not ready. Tab over to the slave and hit shift+1 will cause slave to cast Frostbolt. ?(

Err, from your posts I guess you're using Octopus? I know nothing about it, but from the sounds of your posts, it seems that you are not passing the combined keys. IE it's passing 1 or shift, but won't pass shift+1. If you were using Keyclone I'd tell you to make sure your whitelist isn't set to "strict". Is shift+# whitelisted in Octopus?

You also may want to check that shift+1 isn't still bound to something in your slave window {via the keybindings menu}. Other than that, I'm out of uninformed guesses.

Thks for everyones help

I was the white list. I have it working before using a focus base setup, I forget, I upgrade my computer and reinstaill windows, wow and optupus.

I did not believe it was some something so simple, I overlooked. Added shift+1 to the white list and everything is working fine.

Thks again for all everyones help.

:thumbsup:

Glad to hear it, happy nuking!

I thought say shift-1 was set to change which bar is up ( shift 1-6 changes your bar ) and I thought cntrl 1-9 are set to your pet bar.

try using ALT or just plain MOD as your modifier, unless you already have that modifier used

/cast [mod] foo
/cast bar

per say you can use all 3 modifiers but it probably should be on a key not already bound to other features.

I think You have to change quick the focus to the leader. I do this with a Makro. Then do your cast-makro works with focus. This helped me out...

/cast [target=party1target,harm,mod:shift][mod:shift] Frostbolt; [target=party1target,harm,nomod][nomod] Fireball

You can add multiple targets to the macro, in the event that one doesn't exist.

/assist party1
/cast [target=party1target,exists,harm,mod:shift][target=target,mod:shift][mod:shift] Frostbolt
/cast [target=party1target,exists,harm][target=target,mod:shift][] Fireball

crude, but that way if your tank dies the mage will still nuke ther last target, or whoever they end up targeting. instead of [target=target] you could put [target=party3target] or any other party member. As long as you dont run into the macro limit, you could put a conditional progression of targeting leaders to fall back to in the event of a toon death. It's not flexible like the "TFL" setups, but still pretty powerful. If your tank dies, just pick up the next toon and fire away, and the rest of the toons should see that the tank has no target, and move to the next toon for targeting, which you are controlling. Since I still use a focus system, I think I will try to adapt this system for me, but all I need to do is make one focusing macro fallback, so the toons focus on someone else in the event of main death.