Focusless, targetless, 'leaderless' (FTL) setup.

[phara]

I'd like to be able to mouseover my healing target and set that focus for ToonC to heal. I'd like to use the middle mouse button. Is there a way to pass focus among Toons? Here is my poor attempt, any suggestions?

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Bind mmb to "\" on ToonC

Attach following macro to "\" on ToonC:

/stopcasting
/focus [target=mouseover]
/cast [target=focus] healing wave
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Can't be this easy can it??

The mouseover will be the mouseover of toon C, not of the toon that has focus. So this would work only if you are in the toon C window (there is no way for any toon to get the mouseover target of another toon).

Theoretically could have have FTL macros that do /target [target=mouseover] on the toon who pressed the keys and have other toons do targettarget on the same key binding. I say theoretically because targeting lag would prevent this from working, the mouseover target would not be acquired quick enough for the targettarget or assist to work.

The closest practical solution is you must actually target the toon you want to heal and have FTL macros on healers something like this:

/cast [target=targettarget,help][target=target,help][target=player]

And even with this you can have target lag issues - if you target the toon and hit the heal FTL key too quick you'll just heal yourself and not your target.

Due to target lag all I do one of the following (and all my heal macros start with /stopcasting):

a) mouse over to the window of the toon I want to heal and hit a FTL "healme" macro (FTL assist, heal target, targetlasttarget)
b) use specific heal party1, party2 etc macros I have bound to my numpad

This way I only have to press the key once and don't have to deal with target lag issues.

[Frosty]

Has anyone used Kavoom (or any similar software) with this setup?
I just added another computer to my collection..and all the mice are killing me, so I'm curious what my options might be.

[Tnarg]

Sorry if this question has been asked before, but using mages as an example:
Is it possable to use this set up so if I press '2' it case a fireball at the target of my current window but if I press 'Shift+2' it casts a fireball at its current target. So if I want to kill single targets it atacks my current window target or if I'm pulling an AOE group I can have each mage target a different mob so when I shift+2 it cast a fireball on a different target so no one mage gets agro from each mob.

[Pocalypse]

Sure, just don't make any hotstrings for Shift+2 and simply drag the fireball spell to the button.

[Tnarg]

OK I set up all my macros but I'm have 2 big problems, firstly is the 255 char limit which I got around a little bit by using the an assist macro and calling it using '/click ActionButton12' but that takes up a spot on my action bar.
The other problem and a much bigger one is each time I cast a spell my leader losses his target.

Any one know any way around these problems?

[echo]

Hi all, I read through the wiki and tried various search strings in the search function here, but was unable to find an answer regarding movement using the FTL system. How is movement handled when you switch main/brains? Do you have the movement keys on a do not pass list? drive movement with mouse only? something else that I dont know about?

Sorry if this has been addressed before but i was unable to find an answer to this after going through both the wiki and hitting a brick wall with the search engine.

[Frosty]

Hi all, I read through the wiki and tried various search strings in the search function here, but was unable to find an answer regarding movement using the FTL system. How is movement handled when you switch main/brains? Do you have the movement keys on a do not pass list? drive movement with mouse only? something else that I dont know about?

Sorry if this has been addressed before but i was unable to find an answer to this after going through both the wiki and hitting a brick wall with the search engine.

You will want to have your movement keys on the do-not-pass list even if you don't want ot use this system.

The easiest setup I have found (for me) is OLIPCS's setup. Read from post 1-59 I think. His last post (59) should give you a setup to use 1 main assist key, and 1 main follow key.
when you click on the screen/window of the new "main/brain" you would hit the same follow key, and all slaves would update who they follow.

This setup requires that you hit your main assist key every time you target a new mob. But, it lets you switch targets with your main to geterate rage or gain aggro, while the slaves continue to DPS the same target.

Hope this helps!

[echo]

Thanks for your help Frosty! Really appreciate your taking the time to help me.

I will have to redo my movement keybinds now but at least now I know how to setup the movement keys now. Thanks again! :thumbsup:

[Drakkun]

So after reading about FTL setup when it was first posted, I've wanted to try it but being a hardware boxer for a long time I had a pretty good setup already. Well with the new patch and a new dual quad core (yes that's 8 cores)/8 gb ram system, I decided to use Keyclone and play on a single system.

Last night I setup 2 different teams with FTL. First team was easy with Paladin + 4 Shamans. Second team is Feral Druid, Shadow Priest, Hunter, Elemental Shaman, Holy Paladin. With both setups the FTL system works incredible effiecently.

Thanks for coming up with this system and those that have contributed to help refine it.

[Multibocks]

Ok I have come up with an interesting predicament. I use one tank to swap between groups (paladin, shaman x4 or druids x4) and Im wondering how I can do this without having to reset my macros everytime I want to play a different group? Is there a way or do I need to level another tank?