New User Problem

[elsegundo]

no you shouldnt have to hit it twice. check if you set it up as a "round robin" on keyclone.

[Jeddius]

I checked and the "rr" button was not pushed in keyclone.

I'm not sure what the issue is! But I have to hit that "2" button twice to have my dps cast the first spell, thus keeps turning my attack from on to off with the main. Then, after that in order for the alt to keep casting I have to hit "2" again every time. So basically to get the first cast by the alt it takes two clicks of the "2" button, then after that it casts every time I hit the "2"...that isn't normal is it? Shouldn't the alt just keep casting?

If nobody else has any input I'll probably have to call keyclone because I can't figure it out...but thank you to everyone who has given me tips up to this point, they have helped. I'm almost there!!

[RaiTidR]

I checked and the "rr" button was not pushed in keyclone.

I'm not sure what the issue is! But I have to hit that "2" button twice to have my dps cast the first spell, thus keeps turning my attack from on to off with the main. Then, after that in order for the alt to keep casting I have to hit "2" again every time. So basically to get the first cast by the alt it takes two clicks of the "2" button, then after that it casts every time I hit the "2"...that isn't normal is it? Shouldn't the alt just keep casting?

If nobody else has any input I'll probably have to call keyclone because I can't figure it out...but thank you to everyone who has given me tips up to this point, they have helped. I'm almost there!!

I don't know why you have to hit the key twice... thats something of macro orientation i'm sure. But if you want to prevent your warrior from stopping attacking by hitting 2 multiple times.

Make sure Auto-Attack is NOT in the second slot on your action bar. Put rend or hamstring or heroic strike there. That way when you press 2 you cast lightning bolt on your shaman and rend on your warrior. Also if during the fight you want to cast lightning bolt again you press 2 again and your warrior doesn't stop auto-attacking.

[Jeddius]

I am happy to say the clicking the "2" button twice is now fixed! After the last poster said something about macro configuration I was thinking about this macro I found and was using:

/target focus
/follow
/assist
/stopcasting

I was hitting this as my "big button". So I took it out and simply used a /follow...then hit the "2" and it worked with one click, woot! I don't completely understand why, but there must have been something in this macro that was conflicting with the /assist macro I setup.

I have one more question...I know people are shocked. How do I set-up my Lightning Bolt macro on the alt so he keeps nuking till the mob is dead? Do I just remove /stopcasting if it's on there...or do I type in /cast Lightning Bolt multiple times? Thanks for your help!

[Jheusse]

You keep pressing the button that makes him cast, 1 button press, 1 action. Having multiple spellcasts on one toon on one keystroke takes you down the path towards automation and banning. You can stack actions like triggering trinkets or instant casts that don't trigger a cooldown (like a mage's PoM), but you can't push once and "cast this spell every time the cooldown is up until mob croaks". That's automation, and bad mojo.

I was thinking your issue with having to press 2 was a slight delay that can happen when slaves are picking up the main's target, they don't cast if they don't have a target, and there can be a slight delay in them acquiring it. A way to test it with that [] setup mentioned above is to target one mob and have hte main target a different named mob and hit your macro, then see which mob your slave casts on if any.

Again, still very much a noob myself, could be wrong, but the forum has been a big help to me, so I try to help back, even at risk of talking out my fifth point of contact.

Since you've already set your focus to the warrior, the macro with the target=focustarget will accomplish the same as the /target focus and /assist portions of your big button, the /stopcasting may or not play a role.

[Jeddius]

Thanks for post Jheusse, I'm hoping someday I'll get smarter about this and will be able to help others on the board as well. That's good to know about that automation point you made. I think I finally have the basics set-up...the rest I'm gonna hope I can nail down through trial and error.

I'm still wondering about something though. I have been running this on my laptop w/ 2 windows. I'm wondering how I take what I'm doing now and then make it work on 2 seperate computers? Is there a guide out there for that? I'm just trying to figure out how you make all that link together. I just don't want to burn out my laptop and I'm getting concerned about that.

[elsegundo]

you dont need /assist if you're using target=focustarget.


/target focus <-------- this makes your current target your focus. so only use this if you have targetted your warrior and want him to be the focus. if you only have two guys, i suggest you do this once every time you log on, much like how you make looting free for all, or set your main as the group leader. once you make tank your focus, you dont have to do anything else really. simply make all your other spells a spell to cast on the focus target.
this should be how your macro looks like, and nothing else:

#showtooltip
/cast [target=focustarget, harm, nodead][] Lightning Bolt

if you /assist, you shaman will simply assist whoever he's targeting. so if your shaman is targeting your warrior, pressing /assist will make your shaman target what your warrior is targeting. this will require that your shaman always re-target your warrior each time he needs to target another mob. a better way to do this would be to /assist WarriroName. in doing so, you will no longer require the "target=focustarget" macro stated above. a simple, /cast Lightning Bolt would suffice.

I'm still wondering about something though. I have been running this on my laptop w/ 2 windows. I'm wondering how I take what I'm doing now and then make it work on 2 seperate computers? Is there a guide out there for that? I'm just trying to figure out how you make all that link together. I just don't want to burn out my laptop and I'm getting concerned about that.

two things. one, you dont really "burn out" your laptop unless you're running the game on some really old hardware or on some cheap laptop. i would suggest getting a laptop cooler. these are basically platforms for your laptop to sit on with fans built in to keep it cool. thats really all you need.
two, in order for you to use two computers, if you're running keyclone, you'll have to have one copy of keyclone for each computer. link the two keyclones, and you're set. this requires another registration of keyclone, so you might want to think about the costs, of thats important to you.

[Jeddius]

this requires another registration of keyclone, so you might want to think about the costs, of thats important to you.

That's a bummer that you have to pay for another registration of the program, I would have thought you could use the same one!