how to instantly change leaders VERY easily with the press of a button

[Vunpac]

Alright first thing I wanna get outta the way is the fact that I can't spell and I don't know grammer.. fell free to correct me and I'll clean it up haha.. Anyway lets get started here

Now this instant change I do also works with pip mmmmm pip Anyway heres a link to get your pip set up if you don't understand that, and for those of you who don't know what it is.. it allows you to switch spots with windows when you have windows everywhere.. HOWTo - Set up Maximizer (Updated PiP) compliments of Diamndzngunz

Alright after that lets move on to your macros, to make it very simple were gonna make them global insted of spasific persons so we don't get all complicaited.. For your simple macros for attack and such just use


[align=justify]/cleartarget (clears any previous targets)
/assist party1 (assists party leader)
/cast spell (works for both hastile and friendly spells)[/align]

[align=justify]alright now for your main charactor put all your normal spells on your main bar and how ever else you have it set up.. Once you do that I now want you to make him all the same macros incase you want to switch just because.. I do it to confuse people in arenas an such I switch mains every queue and sometimes in the middle of gameplay.. it really fucks with them..
Alright once you did that go to your backup guy and put all the macros on his number 1 bar and all his normal spells and such on his number 2 bar.. (now I use the bottom right/left bars and both side bars so in this explination I am refering to the only 2 bars left where 1 - = usually sit there are always 2 left thats bar 1 and bar 2 when you press down) [/align]

[align=justify]Keep in mind to make sure your macro hotkeys and normal spells on both bars are setup the same.. [/align]

[align=justify]alright once you get all those set up lets move on to actually changing the leaders. Now if you don't use pip and prefer to just select the window yourself or turn your head or w/e thats fine.. But because I use pip I'm gonna go with that.
Lets start by hotkeying our window switches just as Diamndzngunz explains in his pip explination, Then what were gonna do in wow is make a few macros [/align]

[align=justify]Now lets use 2 windows as examples we'll call them main and backup windows. now say you set your main window as F11 and backup as F12, What your going to do is make a macro to switch your leader from the main window charactor to your backup charactor. So lets say you press F12 to swap windows your going to bind a macro to F12 saying the following..[/align]

[align=justify]on the leader input this macro[/align]

[align=justify]/script PromoteToLeader("backup's name") (makes main give backup leader)
/swapactionbar 1 2 (this will swap your action bars from 1 to 2..)[/align]

[align=justify]now on the backup char input bound to F12[/align]

[align=justify]/swapactionbar 2 1 (swaps macros to main abilities)[/align]

[align=justify]There now when you swap windows and charactors your main chars abilities are all macroed to assist your backup char who now has all his normal spells and abilities out and ready to go.. and since you changed over leadership the main will now follow the backup and assist the backup.. now be sure to use the same macros for F11 to reverse main back to leader and back up back to being backup.. [/align]

[align=justify]so now you press a button and BAM 100% reversed twik it as you wish and enjoy the freedom of not having to worry bout who's leading :thumbsup: [/align]

[align=justify]All feedback, comments, and questions welcome [/align]

[Vunpac]

if anyone wants I can upload a video showing it..

[HbKx]

Very nice cant wait to try it out

[Modes]

Mulling this over at work, seems like a very solid approach. I can't seem to find a set of macros for leader changing that I love, this one might solve that problem elegantly. Kudos for the idea, only 6 hours to see if I can implement it well.

[Vunpac]

on the leader input this macro




[align=justify]/script PromoteToLeader("backup's name") (makes main give backup leader)
/swapactionbar 1 2 (this will swap your action bars from 1 to 2..)[/align]




[align=justify]now on the backup char input bound to F12[/align]




[align=justify]/swapactionbar 2 1 (swaps macros to main abilities)[/align]

k yeah I'm missing some stuff... sigh thats what happens when you don't sleep haha.. anyway go with this one here

on the leader input this macro binding to F12



[align=justify]/script PromoteToLeader("backup's name") (makes main give backup leader)
/swapactionbar 1 2 (this will swap your action bars from 1 to 2..)[/align]




[align=justify]and also on the leader bind this macro to F11 for when you switch back it switches your actionbar back to 1[/align]




[align=justify]/swapactionbar 2 1 (swaps macros to main abilities)[/align]




[align=justify]then do the same thing on the backup char but reverse the bindings of F11 and F12 and obviously the name in the macro :P[/align]

[Vunpac]

untill now I would just use that to switch between 2 guys but I was just trying it with all 5 and I'm having a few issues.. such as other bars changing back and sometimes the leader won't change over first press.. I'm gonna work on these see if I can get them resolved

[Vunpac]

Alright I think I have it down fairly solid for all 5 chars. I have my pip keys starting at F8 and ending at F12 and these are the macros I have for when I switch to a new leader

/script if GetPartyLeaderIndex() == 0 then if GetActionBarPage() == 1 then ChangeActionBarPage(2) else ChangeActionBarPage(1) end end /script PromoteToLeader("newleadername")

then for the returning macro

/changeactionbar 1

make sure on your 5 hotkeys that the new leaders macro /changeactionbar 2 since it's the one with all their normal abilities...

I'll start looking into movement binding to make the new leader take over the wsad and the old one to unbind them

[olipcs]

I'll start looking into movement binding to make the new leader take over the wsad and the old one to unbind them

..why not simple set aswd on the do-not-pass-list of your keyboard multiplexer (keyclone etc.)?

[Vunpac]

uhhhh because I'm dumb! lol wow forgot that even exsisted.... lol thanks for the reminder

[pengwynman]

I do kind of the same thing.... only i have it set up with the main guy being the focus target. I 5-box, and i have it set up so i don't have to switch between abilities when i switch mains. when one becomes the main, he clears his focus and the other guys all focus him.

the switching macros are very simple, but i have a different one for each toon:

/clearfocus
/focus <toon name>

and for the toon that is becoming the focus, just /clearfocus
these macros are bound to the same keys as my PiP-- Ctrl + Numpad 0, 1, 2, 4, 5 to switch

i have my spells set up something like this:

/assist [target=focus, exists]
/cast Lightning Bolt

^ this makes it so you can keep the macros on your bar even if you're soloing. only downside to all of this is if you want to use your focus for something else.

and following is easy too:

/stopmacro [target=focus, noexists]
/follow focus