Quote Originally Posted by bdybldkris
Quote Originally Posted by 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)