help with "/assist party1"

[Ken]

@ Topic starter:
Don't use party1, because in battlegrounds/raids you might not be the leader.

Focusless, Leaderless setup[/url] if you are using Keyclone.

You don't have to worry about who is party1 with this setup. You just click the screen you want to be the leader, and start fighting as normal.
All slaves will coordinate with whatever screen you are on. I suggest reading from the beginning, as there is a lot of good info in there. :D

[s]I highly recommend to not use that setup because:
- You get less macro space for the actual casting. To overcome this you you can install an addon that makes macro space unlimited but which might not work anymore once the macros become server-side in WOTLK.
- You can't use modifiers for combining spells underneath one button because these modifiers are used already (thus you get less buttons available that you can use for other class types in your group). For example: You can't make a macro that has Lightning Bolt underneath a button that fires a Chain Lightning if you press shift together with that button.
- Your group is not flexible anymore, you can't just put any character in your team and have a go with that same team, because the names of your party members are hardcoded in your macros.
- For casting with anything but the standard toon you have to constantly press at least 1 or 2 modifiers, which is highly annoying and makes casting slower (because you can 't move your fingers around as flexible as you should be able to). This also limits the keypresses you can reach because you have to press the modifiers constantly, thus you have less buttons available to cast with. This is especially a problem as you need a macro for each spell, as you can't use the modifiers for putting multiple spells in 1 macro.[/s]

[edit] See reaction below or here: Focusless, targetless, 'leaderless' setup.