A quick macro question.

[Moonwindd]

Hi, I'm rather new with this whole dual-boxing thing, and I find it quite fun. Since I am moving ahead slowly I don't use to many advanced functions. I have though one issue which I cannot figure out.
I run with two characters, a pally and a shaman. At the moment I "drive" with the pally and the shammy follows. I use a few macros that deals with some basic actions on the "slave" shammy.

One is, casting Lightning Bolt. I use a simple macro:

/assist focus
/cast Lightning Bolt

This works as intended. But why doesn't the following macro work at all?

/assist focus
/cast Earth Shock


I've checked that I am in range and that the cooldown isn't up or anything like that. But it still won't cast. If I manually click on the macro on the shammy the spell goes off. Its really strange.
Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Oatboat]

i would check your macro for the earth shock in game..... an extra space somewhere or misspelling will throw off your macro.

[Moonwindd]

I will recheck it to me sure...but I am quite certain that it is ok with spelling etc.
But it should be working right? Nothing different with instacast spells or something like that?

[Oatboat]

yeah the only thing i can think of is that you might have to push it 2x or so to get to work. Maybe the assist is taking a little to long to bring up the enemy before its trying to cast earth shock. So click it a couple times to see if it goes off.

[Minirogue]

if that dosent work i know most of my friends use the castsequance reset macro while the duel box and they have no problems if u nee the full macro let me know

[Bot]

i use

/assist party1
/cast earth shock

it works perfectly. so i dont see why yours wouldnt unless theres some small error in your macro. also i only have to push it once. another thing you may check is that you have the right key bound to it or that its not on donotpass list for some wierd reason or something.

[thinus]

i use

/assist party1
/cast earth shock

it works perfectly. so i dont see why yours wouldnt unless theres some small error in your macro. also i only have to push it once. another thing you may check is that you have the right key bound to it or that its not on donotpass list for some wierd reason or something.

/agree
Sounds like it might be a keybinding issue or a key on the thou-shalt-not-pass list.

PS: Any specific reason you don't use:

/cast [target=focustarget] Earth Shock

[Bot]

PS: Any specific reason you don't use:

/cast [target=focustarget] Earth Shock

if you were asking me i really havent had to mess around with focus and stuff. i have 2 mages and i havent sheeped anything since i got consecrate. i just run in and lay down the law. maybe once i start getting into the harder stuff where i may lose my tank more often ill try and work out my leadership macros and whatnot but until this morning in SM Lib i hadnt wiped once since rfc. maybe in a few more levels ill have to upgrade my macro system as things get more complex but until then im gonna try and keep it as simple as possible. as it is im just starting to try and work scorch in on the bosses...

now if you were asking the OP then i cant say.

[thinus]

now if you were asking the OP then i cant say.

It was aimed at the OP
I saw you were assisting party1 in your macro but I suppose the same can be done for that:

/cast [target=party1target] Earth Shock

The upside of doing this is that your characters do not change whatever they are targeting so you can use their assigned targets for things like spell interruptions, etc. Not an issue till you get into tough fights at max level but worth keeping in mind.