Quote Originally Posted by 'lacitpo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=128444#post 128444
When I hit my dps bigbutton once, my hunter grabs my tank(my brain)'s target. I hit it again and that target gets passed to my 2 other DPSers. They will continue to target that mob until the mob dies allowing me to switch targets on my tank all I want and know that my DPS toons will continue to dps their mob till it's dead. This allows for intelligent castsequences not to constantly be reset, or to not be reset upon a new mob being dps'd.
Now this is precisely where I started a few months ago with a Pally/Shaman duo. The combination of "main assist" targetting and a tankadin is truely superb. I've since graduated to a quad boxing setup, starting initially with 4xLocks for ease of play and speed of levelling. The massive dps and single class nature of the group made my targetting macros obsolete.

My second group was 4xMages, again under RAF I was looking for fast levels as I originally intended to discard accounts 3 and 4 and just use the gift levels on my main two. At this point I read about the targetless, focusless, leaderless system and took more than 8 hours of "played" time trying to get my head around its complexities with a newly purchased copy of Keyclone.

I'm now into my 4th group (I have discovered I LOVE the levelling) and back to my initial and favourite setup a Tankadin, and this time, 3xShaman. Now I am feeling the loss of my original targetting system, on a multiple pull it's hit and miss which target a lightning bolt will hit if I've had to grab threat with the pally. But, I think I have the solution.

Leaderless, focusless (I use focus for CC) but not targetless system. You just modify the orignial leaderless macros to /assist rather than /cast [target=targettarget], remove the /targetlasttarget from the end and your slaves will retain the target you told them to shoot. It's now a simple matter to add the [harm,nodead] conditionals into the beginning of the modified macro creating a superb tank/dps control system.

It's just as leaderless as it always was, should the tank die just mouse into a different window and continue as though nothing had happened and better yet the other DPS will continue to destroy the target originally allocated by your, now deceased, leader.

Due to the sheer number of alts I now find I have it's important to me to keep my macros, UI & hotstrings as generic as possible. In fact changing from one group to another simply requires copying of WTF folders for the initial UI setup, changing spell names in macros and then adding/modifying the names in a single "do everything" leaderless assist macro which all other macros /click. Hotstrings, once created, never change.

I can make the initial setup for a new group or toon combination in 5 minutes and be killing almost immediately. Once I've finalized and tested my ideas for a "Target-and-Hold, Leaderless, Focusless" macro system I'll try to clarify the thought process and write it up for any that may be interested. As it will only require the changing of a single "Assist macro" it could easily be swapped in and out between teams or even back to temporary targetlessness(!?!) for "target obscurity" in PvP.