1st Melee Group - Having Some Problems

[Khatovar]

Click to move enables you to use click movement as opposed to wasd or arrow keys. Basically, you click an area on the ground and your toon moves there. You need to use this in conjunction with Interact with Target on slaves, as it allows your slaves to move independently to get in range to interact.

For example, you target something 20 yards away and tell your slaves to interact with it. If Click to move is off, they will stand there and say "Too far away". With Click to move on, they will essentially click the area at that target and move to it, then interact with it, either via opening dialogue or autoattacking, or even skinning or looting.

There are many ways to use interact with target for melee toons. Most use a multi-step configuration in ISBoxer. I use it manually, tying my melee interact with target to my tab key where my master has a targetting + macro.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

For example, you target something 20 yards away and tell your slaves to interact with it. If Click to move is off, they will stand there and say "Too far away". With Click to move on, they will essentially click the area at that target and move to it, then interact with it, either via opening dialogue or autoattacking, or even skinning or looting.

Perfectly stated answer for the OP's question.

[d0z3rr]

You'll have to use IWT quite a bit in your fights. Meleers will constantly break follow, so plan on hitting IWT and your follow key over and over again in some fights. ALT+J sounds like a nightmare.... Also plan on your meleers running right through a mob for no reason at all, at which point you'll have to hit the follow key to regroup them and then hit IWT.

For example, you target something 20 yards away and tell your slaves to interact with it. If Click to move is off, they will stand there and say "Too far away". .

And at times where they are perfectly within range, but still say "too far away". Incredibly annoying and happens quite often to me. At that point you have to reposition the mob and keep hitting IWT until they finally get it.

[Khatovar]

You'll have to use IWT quite a bit in your fights. Meleers will constantly break follow, so plan on hitting IWT and your follow key over and over again in some fights. ALT+J sounds like a nightmare.... Also plan on your meleers running right through a mob for no reason at all, at which point you'll have to hit the follow key to regroup them and then hit IWT.

And at times where they are perfectly within range, but still say "too far away". Incredibly annoying and happens quite often to me. At that point you have to reposition the mob and keep hitting IWT until they finally get it.

A lot of this can be overcome.

Unless you need your slaves to be following you, you shouldn't actually need to spam follow and interact. They should either be following you or attacking a target. If the target is running away, interact should be all you need...they'll keep chasing down the target every time you hit interact. If you need to be running away from the target, follow should be all you need...spamming interact while trying to run away is counterproductive. If, in a case like the Ick and Krick fight or the jousting in TotC, where you need to attack, but be on the move, Jamba's follow strobing works nicely.

Slaves over running the target or continuing to run is often the result of a mob that is on the move when you press your interact key. This will cause a sort of "slippage" of the click to move action where it either misses the mob and clicks off in the distance or otherwise tries to target an x,y coordinate that the slave can't reach. The latter can often be seen if you have click to move on a character that is trying to run to an herb or ore node, or in places where the terrain is uneven.

Alternately, there can be a loss of the key action, which can be seen with normal movement as well. You might notice hectic times in a fight where you use a key movement while spamming a dps key or something, you can let go of the movement key, but you will keep moving as if the key is held down indefinitely. I believe the same can happen with click to move and interact. The game fails to realize that the movement command has been terminated until you press and release that movement key again.

To reduce these problems, I avoid overly spamming interact. I also have melee slaves follow my tank while I pull using /jamba-follow master melee in my pull macro and don't interact until the mob is in position or close to it. Finally, I have follow after combat enabled to prevent post-kill runners.

Slaves not moving is usually due to the slaves being unable to find a location to click. This is especially common when the server and client don't agree on the location of a mob, or in places where the terrain is cluttered or uneven {awnings, posts, boxes in the way} and the camera angle doesn't allow the slaves to target and click properly. Simply moving a few paces is usually enough to fix this.

[d0z3rr]

Slaves over running the target or continuing to run is often the result of a mob that is on the move when you press your interact key.

Not for me. I've had perfectly placed mobs with random characters running straight through them.

I am not making this shit up either. I should probably start frapsing it. I already have a video of once encounter where IWT was buggy as hell.