How do you heal when you have Pal, Mage x 3, Priest?

[Smokar]

I'm currently boosting 3 mages and a priest with my 70 paladin. Right now there's no healing necessary but it's something I'm eventually going to need.

I'm new to mulitboxing with macros (usually two box w/o macros) and my macro skills are crap. I'm using two I got from this forum.

Group invite n stuff macro:

/script AcceptGroup();
/script AcceptQuest();
/script AcceptTrade();
/script RetrieveCorpse();




Targeting n follow macro

/target focus
/follow
/assist
/stopcasting


My target macro is set to Z. V is just hotkeyed directly to Frostbolt / Smite and blank on my Pally.

So, I'm always on my paladin's screen but I can't figure out how to make my priest heal. I mean I could just remove the assist macro from the priest and set him always on the pally but if a mage needs healing I wouldn't know what to do.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Draz]

I think what you are looking for is the targetstarget macro. Its the one where it will target whatever the mob is targeting. So the priest will heal whatever the mob has targeted. So you dont have to jump around on the heals. So you can have multiple buttons for the priest, for each type of heal...Renew ect...

As far as the correct macro syntax, sorry cant help you there But I atleast pointed you in the right direction!

[Smokar]

Oh yea!! I forgot about that. That's so incredibly simple. I love it. Thanks.



Edit: I'll be able to find it from here.

[Heenan]

This is just an example of what I would do...

Bind Priest bars to keypad keys as follows:
keypad 7, 8, 9 - renew, flash, greater heal mage 1
keypad 4, 5, 6 - renew, flash, greater heal mage 2
keypad 1, 2, 3 - renew, flash, greater heal mage 3
keypad 0, . (period), enter - renew, flash, greater heal pally

You get the idea. You can make the keys/bars anything you want really.

Use macros like:
#showtooltip
/cast [target=mage1] Flash Heal
/cast [target=pally] Renew

You could add some modifiers as well to save some space, although it may be hard to reach unless you do a left-alt + keypad.

I use the keypad because most of my normal keys are used on all toons for something.

[Sarduci]

[target=focustargettarget]

That's taken care of all my healing so far.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Multiboxing_Macros

[ElectronDF]

I don't like targeting people. I don't like having to think or know who to heal. I just let the macros do it for me. I focus my main and then use:
/cast [target=focus-target] DPSSpell for DPS
/cast [target=focus-target-target] HealSpell for Healing
The healing is done to whoever the focus' mob is beating on. No worrying about who is main. No worry about different setups. No worrying about who has aggro.

For my priest in seperate classes groups, I use:
/cast [target=TankName, nocombat] Power Word: Shield
/castsequence [target=focus-target-target, combat] reset=14 Renew, Flash Heal, Flash Heal, Power Word: Shield
It heals small, then larger, then a holy crap stop hitting my guy spell. Just mash it as much as you need it (tiny mobs, just once, larger, twice, etc).

[Draz]

I don't like targeting people. I don't like having to think or know who to heal. I just let the macros do it for me. I focus my main and then use:
/cast [target=focus-target] DPSSpell for DPS
/cast [target=focus-target-target] HealSpell for Healing
The healing is done to whoever the focus' mob is beating on. No worrying about who is main. No worry about different setups. No worrying about who has aggro.

For my priest in seperate classes groups, I use:
/cast [target=TankName, nocombat] Power Word: Shield
/castsequence [target=focus-target-target, combat] reset=14 Renew, Flash Heal, Flash Heal, Power Word: Shield
It heals small, then larger, then a holy crap stop hitting my guy spell. Just mash it as much as you need it (tiny mobs, just once, larger, twice, etc).

Thats definetly the way to go as far as setting up macros. Just smash buttons and forget it!

[caffiend86]

I use the exact same setup with Pally, 3 mages and Holy Priest. The way I do it is with Character specific healing macros using a Logitech G11 Keyboard in conjunction with the Bindpad mod allowing me to have a little block of 6 keys grouped together one for each of my toons and one for group heals like prayer of healing. The 2 Tank heals are also on the main bar for the priest.

Each of these uses Ctrl and Alt as modifiers which are really easy to use with the pair of extra buttons attached to my mouse...

Little Tank Heal Macro
Flash Heals normally, alt press for power word shield on the tank. I have a separate macro for renew tied to the same button as holy shield, but that one's hardly rocket science...
/stopmacro [mod:shift]
/tar [target=focus,help];party1
/stopcasting [mod:alt]
/cast [target=party1,nocombat,dead] Resurrection
/cast [mod:ctrl/alt] Power Word: Shield
/cast [target=focus,help][target=party1] Flash Heal

Main Tank Heal Macro
Bread and butter Healing Macro alt press activates trinkets and casts circle of healing on the priest instead for quick heals on the party.
#showtooltip
/stopmacro [mod:shift]
/tar [target=focus,help];party1
/stopcasting [mod:alt/ctrl]
/cast [mod:alt/ctrl, target=player] Circle of Healing
/use [mod:alt/ctrl] 13
/use [mod:alt/ctrl] 14
/cast [target=focus,help] [target=party1] Greater Heal


DPS Heals
Healing macro for DPS toons, does a cast sequence of power word shield, renew and flash heals normally, straight flash heals on ctrl press and greater heal on alt press
/stopmacro [mod:shift]
/tar [target=Neeva,help][target=Darnoc,help];Party3
/cast [nocombat,dead] Resurrection; [mod:ctrl] Flash Heal; [mod:alt] Greater Heal
/castsequence reset=10 Power Word: Shield,Renew,Flash Heal,Flash Heal,Flash HealThe big heal and little heal are tied to 2 buttons on the main bar that no other toon uses since I'm spamming them all the time. I also have straight Prayer of Healing bound so I can do that when needed. Most of the party heals come down either Circle or Prayer of healing for my group, but I do frequently use the character specific....

Obviously this setup is somewhat complicated, but it works really well for my purposes...

[Steph]

You do not want to use focustarget on the tank for healing. For tanking and dps you already need to do variable targetting.

I concur with a number of people who suggested to go for fixed target healing macros on the healer. For my setup, I use the unitIDs party1, party2, party3, party4 and party5 as healing targets. Using one of the extended action bars and keybinds for it that I do not use for anything else. you get "Heal Party1" buttons - and so on and so forth.

[ElectronDF]

My warrior in my mixed group never ever targets anyone except the mob to kill. If the healer gets a mob on it for whatever reason, I reach over and push fade. Or I run the tank up to the mob and do my attack macro that has sunder at the start. Or I send the hunter's pet at it. Or I just bubble the healer and wait it out. I have done everything up to DM and never had a problem. But hey, everyone has different stories.

With my shammies, they are built to take hits. I would want each of them to take equal number of hits. It makes healing totems and chain heals easy for me. But hey, for beginners, it should be really easy to make 5 different macros to heal 5 different people that won't work if you change your group line up.