Mage Polymorph

[mxracer050]

Hello


I am rather very baffled at how the mage polymorph works for multi-boxing.

What I want to do is be able to polymorph a mob with the hit of NUMPAD+1 and NUMPAD+2.

I use this macro.


/focus [target=focus, noexists] [target=focus, dead] [target=focus, help]
/stopmacro [target=focus, noexists]
/cast [target=focus] Polymorph


I have no idea how to use it. When I invite my chars to a group, I set their focus to me, so then I can use "The Big Button" and have them follow me.

I'm assuming this conflicts with the Polymorph macro. Does anyone have any other following macro suggestions, or polymorph macro?

Help me out please! Thanks

[Rhod]

I use this on my mages. I take no credit for it because something similar is posted on this site. I use this on my 3 mages, all hotkeyyed to 1 button. It essentially rotates polymorph based on what my Priest has targeted.

MAGE1:
/target [target=focustarget]
/castsequence reset=5 Polymorph,,

MAGE2:
/target [target=focustarget]
/castsequence reset=5 ,Polymorph,

MAGE3:
/target [target=focustarget]
/castsequence reset=5 ,,Polymorph

I don't use the "/assist focus" to assist my focus because if the mob is in melee range, i don't want them being smacked out of polymorph.

Make sure to include the comma's! Also, I put the reset in there so in case of a resist/stun/whatever, it rotates to the next mage to cast it.

[kalih]

I have my focus set to my main, and all of my normal attack macros use [target=focustarget]... thereby leaving the normal target open for CC.

So, for me, I just set targets manually (I also have round-robin set up to set targets individually)... and then just cast normal polymorph on broadcasting. This allows me to have two mages keep two things polymorphed without any targeting switching or anything.

[bdybldkris]

I have my focus set to my main, and all of my normal attack macros use [target=focustarget]... thereby leaving the normal target open for CC.

So, for me, I just set targets manually (I also have round-robin set up to set targets individually)... and then just cast normal polymorph on broadcasting. This allows me to have two mages keep two things polymorphed without any targeting switching or anything.

Could you expand on this a bit? I'm having a brain freeze on the polymorph issue. With so many using different setups (ie. software or hardware boxing) it's difficult to work out in my mind how to set this up properly.

My current setup is Paly, Priest, 3 Mages. I use Keyclone and 1 computer. I'm working on setting up a hardware setup of 2-3 computers and easing the load of the main computer.

Anyway, my focus is set on my Paly and I use him as the main to control threat. I use keyclone for control of the other toons. What would the syntax be for the macros to sheep extra mobs? Are you manually setting their targets (ie. switching to control of the mage and selecting a target?)

I understand the macros posted above, but can't work out their use ingame. When I'm tanking I'd like to be able to press a macro that will grab a target, sheep it, then switch back to my main....Is this possible via software or do I need the hardware setup to achieve this action?

Are you using the main to target a mob, press the macro to sheep it and then switching the tanks target back to the kill mob?

Sorry for the rambling. I'm hoping you can figure out what I'm asking.

[kalih]

I have my focus set to my main, and all of my normal attack macros use [target=focustarget]... thereby leaving the normal target open for CC.

So, for me, I just set targets manually (I also have round-robin set up to set targets individually)... and then just cast normal polymorph on broadcasting. This allows me to have two mages keep two things polymorphed without any targeting switching or anything.

Could you expand on this a bit? I'm having a brain freeze on the polymorph issue. With so many using different setups (ie. software or hardware boxing) it's difficult to work out in my mind how to set this up properly.

My current setup is Paly, Priest, 3 Mages. I use Keyclone and 1 computer.

This is identical to my setup (except the party makeup where I have a warlock instead of a third mage).

Anyway, my focus is set on my Paly and I use him as the main to control threat. I use keyclone for control of the other toons. What would the syntax be for the macros to sheep extra mobs? Are you manually setting their targets (ie. switching to control of the mage and selecting a target?)

So my paladin is my focus of all my alts, so my dps macros are like:
/cast [target=focustarget] fireball
Etc.

This means the actual target of my alts is totally unused when dps'ing, since all my dps macros target=focustarget. For CC, I use the normal spells (ie the target is my char's target). So, for my mages. DPS always happens to focustarget, and CC always happen to the target.

So my main:
target: mob to be dps'd
focus: unused

My alts:
target: mob to be cc'd
focus: my main
focustarget: mob to be dps'd

So, a simple dual-pull for me, would be...
1) mouse over to my mage's screen, target the second mob (the one I want to poly) with the mage.
2) mouse back over to my paly's screen, target the primary mob.
3) Broadcast the "poly" command (this is just the normal polymoprh spell.. no macro)

Mage will polymorph the second mob, whom he is targetting.

4) hit "dps" command

Mage will now nuke the primary mob, whom is the focustarget (focus is the paladin whose target is the primary mob).

I also have a key setup on round-robin to:
/target focustarget

So if I see an add coming, I target the add with my paladin, hit the above key, retarget my primary mob, and then hit the poly key. This is a way of setting the target of my mages from my paladin's current target.

They key to all this is I never /assist my focus. I never change my mage's target in any of my dps macros. The mage's target is always set to the mob I want him to CC.

Are you using the main to target a mob, press the macro to sheep it and then switching the tanks target back to the kill mob?

No. I'm using the main only to set my mage's primary target. Once. (and even then I only do this in "emergency" add situations... I often just mouse over to the mage screens when doing harder pulls and preset all their targets to who I want them to poly).

My mages are -always- targeting their CC targets. Their target remains the person I want them to poly. I dps a different mob (my paladins target) because all of the nuke-macros are targeted at focustarget.

As an asides, I've considered reversing the whole scheme but there are pros and cons to both setups. You could use each mage's focus for their poly-target, and use their primary target for dps. This setup has some potential advantages (ie, autowanding seems to work)

[keyclone]

hmmm... add another key for set focus and make it round robin.

so you'd drive up to the mob site on your main, with the crew in tow, click one mob, hit /assist main, then hit round-robin setfocus

and after you are done, hit your sheep focustarget and all targets get sheeped at once.

[Stealthy]

hmmm... add another key for set focus and make it round robin.

so you'd drive up to the mob site on your main, with the crew in tow, click one mob, hit /assist main, then hit round-robin setfocus

and after you are done, hit your sheep focustarget and all targets get sheeped at once.

Hiya KC,

Can you explain how you'd round robin the focus in a bit more detail? Sounds intriguing...

Cheers,
Stealthy

[keyclone]

for simplicity, assume my main is 'joe'

macro definitions
--
macro: assist-main
/assist joe

macro: setfocus
/focus target

macro: sheepfocus
/cast [target=focus] polymorph


key bindings
--
key: f6 assist-main
key: f7 setfocus
key: f8 sheepfocus

keyclone
--
round-robin: f7

assuming you have that set up, drive up to a spawn area, on your main (joe), click a target... hit f6 and then f7.

done right, all your characters get the same target... then your first mage would set his focus to that target. repeat on the second target.. repeat for 5 targets.

now all your characters have a different focus target.

on your main, target a new target... hit f6 to get all your characters on the new target... then f8 to sheep all other targets at once

now, normal attack the 6th target until dead. when you are ready to re-sheep, hit f8 again and all original targets will get sheep'd

[Stealthy]

perfectly clear - thanks for that!

Cheers,
Stealthy

[kalih]

That is exactly what I do except the roles of focus and target are reversed. I use the target for poly and focus for dps (or rather, focustarget).

So I go up to a pack of mobs, target a mob, hit a button, and that button sets one of my mages focus to my mains target. Pick another, etc, etc.

Then I open with my polymorph spell and all the mobs get poly'd at the same time.. and I can keep repolying those same mobs throughout the fight.