LF a targetting addon

[Wonzai]

As a new WoW dual-boxer, I've decided to prepend my harmful spells with

/assist Master
/cast [harm] [target=targettarget, harm]

my friendly spells with

/assist Master
/cast [help] [target=targettarget, help]

and my CC spells with

/assist Master
/cast [target=focus, exists, harm, nodead] [harm] [target=targettarget, harm]

This *should* allow me to cast friendly or harmful spells appropriately against my Master's target or my Master's target's target.

But this is a lot of macros to type.
Is there an addon that does something similar?
If not, would there be outside interest if I created one?
Is this even a recommended way to target (for 2-boxers)?

[Golle]

/cast [harm] [target=targettarget, harm]
/cast [help] [target=targettarget, help]

you can remove [help] and [harm] since you have them in the if-statement [target=targettarget, harm] already.
And no, I don't think there is any Addons that will do this, besides you have much better control when you make the macros yourself.

About this command:
/cast [target=focus, exists, harm, nodead] [harm] [target=targettarget, harm].

I made a rewrite on that command, to make it less messy:
/cast [target=focustarget, harm, nodead] [] Lightning Bolt <--That will try to cast Lightning Bolt on your focus' target. I added the "[]" bracket incase you want to singlebox your alt, this will enable you to cast on your current target, instead of searching for a focus(you don't have any focus if you play alone).

/cast [target=focustargettarget, help, nodead] [] Healing Wave <--This will try to cast a heal on your focus' target's target. So, if your focus is the one holding aggro, and he loses it, you won't have to change target manually to heal the right character, since the macro will auto-target what character the mob is targeting. Pretty messy, but think it through 2-3 times and you'll get my point. You should know what "[]" is doing.

[dodar]

loving it so far, tho i had some wasted time attempting to use the trinity importer when i first switched over. for some reason, when i used the importer to get my buttons db copied over, my macaroon settings would fail to save when i logged out. tried it several times before realizing how much faster it was to just start my macaroon bars from scratch and cut and paste in my macros that were at all complex. macaroon is a good bit more streamlined and user friendly than trinity (which i loved). has most of the same features ported already, tho even with macaroon xtras it seems to not support a petbar. not a roadblock since i just have ct bar display that one petbar, but is it a small waste to have to load another addon just for that one purpose. i'm guessing macaroons author just hasn't gotten to it yet. set up is super easy tho, when you don't stubbornly try to use the importer for an hour and a half. my gf got her pally set up in like 20 minutes.

i'm also using the /click syntax to reference my assist and follow macros, and it works great for a focus free leaderless set up.

[Wonzai]

I'm afraid I was unclear about how my targeting macros function, as they do in fact work as I intend. Yours of course, work as you intend, so we simply have a miscommunication.

The macro /cast [help] [target=targettarget, help] <Spell Name> will first attempt my spell (for example, Greater Heal) on the selected target, but if that target is harmful, it attempts to cast the spell on the select target's target (typically the friendly player who is being attacked).

/cast [harm] [target=targettarget, harm] <Spell Name> works similarly, searching for a harmful target. If my mage casts Frostbolt with a friendly player targeted, he will direct the frostbolt to the target of that friendly player. Of course, this only works if one of the targets is harmful. If the selected target is a friendly player who is targeting another friendly player, Frostbolt will not be cast.

As to your other suggestions, I do not use focus to designate a master or tank character, I use it to select secondary targets (CC targets). /cast [target=focus, harm, exists, nodead] [harm] [target=targettarget, harm] <Spell Name> first seeks a focus target, and provided it exists and is living and harmful, it will cast the spell (Polymorph, I suppose) at it. Barring those circumstances, it acts as all of my other harmful spells.

To solve the problem of having to constantly rewrite long macros, I've made the following four macros:

#ASSIST MACRO
/assist <name of leader>

#TARGET HELP MACRO
/target [help] [target=targettarget, help]

#TARGET HARM MACRO
/target [harm] [target=targettarget, harm]

#TARGET CC MACRO
/target [target=focus, exists, nodead] [harm] [target=targettarget, harm]

These macros are put on four unused Action Bar slots and my targeted spells have macros that prepend casting with clicks to those Action Buttons, i.e.

#showtooltip Flash Heal
/click MultiBarRightButton12
/click MultiBarRightButton10
/cast Flash Heal

To switch out my master character, I only need to change <name of leader> in the #ASSIST MACRO.

When I've successfully implemented a FTL setup as described in the wiki, I'll change my focus macro to /assist [mod:ctrl] <name of leader>.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

You might check out the Macaroon buttonbar mod. It lets you set a "target" for the entire button bar so that any macros target the bar's "target" by default. I've not used it yet but I'm really, really liking some of the ideas. :P

[Drak41]

tho even with macaroon xtras it seems to not support a petbar

Petbars are supported, you just need to read the FAQ to find out how to set them up

[dodar]

tho even with macaroon xtras it seems to not support a petbar

Petbars are supported, you just need to read the FAQ to find out how to set them up

ah, pet bars have a 'no pet' state. that's a really cool idea.

so, do your standard pet buttons show up on the pet bar when its in the pet state? will need to try this out again tonight. i was trying to use a macaroon pet bar for a quest pet (a possessed demon in netherstorm) and none of its abilities showed up in the bar.

[Drak41]

yes standard pet buttons do show once you have it setup, you'll need to create a Possessed bar as well, will work the same as a pet bar does, no pet no bar, no possessed no bar