Healing Priest + Frost Mage

[Jaszar]

Hi all,

I am a beggining multiboxer and now I am leveling my mage and priest together, just wanted to know if there is any way i can make macros to heal and bubble the mage while he is aoeing :P also wanted to involve priest in dps as well, any suggestions ? as most multibox posts here are same classes together.

[Tynk]

mage - arcane blast - aoe damage
Priest - Holy Nova - aoe damge + aoe heal

put them both on the same key and spam.

[Jaszar]

yes i know that too but any way i can make priest say bubble and 1 button heal mage while he goes crazy on aoe, they are lvl 17 now so not that far leveled

[emps]

Just for the healing part... I misread the orginal and didn't include the DPS bit for the priest.. ackk!!

here's my 2c:

Mage: set the keybinding of this to (example) NUM2 for primary and NUM3 for secondary

/cast AOE_SPELL --BIND TO NUM2 (or whatever you prefer;must be the same as the priests healing primary and secondary keybinding)


Priest: only works if group with mage..holding alt down while pressing NUM2 will heal yourself. if the mage is dead and your out of combat, it'll cast ressurction on the mage.

/cast [nomod,target=MAGE_NAME,nodead] HEALING_SPELL;[nomod,target=MAGE_NAME,dead,nocombat] REZ_SPELL;[mod:alt,target=player] HEALING_SPELL --BIND TO NUM2 (or whatever you prefer;must be the same as mages AOE primary keybinding)


Priest: only works if group with mage..will just bubble the mage..holding alt down will decurse the mage..

/cast [nomod,target=MAGE_NAME] BUBBLE_SPELL;[mod=alt,target=MAGE_NAME] DECURSE_SPELL --BIND TO NUM3 ((or whatever you prefer;must be the same as mages AOE secondary keybinding)

if you're using alt as your modifier, please don't keybind the macro to F4. :P

[Ualaa]

With only two accounts, you could easily set up one as the master the other as the slave.
I'd go with the master = mage, slave = priest.

The master account just has the spells that normally cast, as if you were only playing one account.
The slave has all of their keys set to assist the master.

For heals use this macro:

#show SpellName
/assist MasterName
/cast [help] SpellName; [help, target=targettarget] SpellName; [target=player] SpellName

SpellName can be Renew, Lesser heal, Heal, Greater heal, Binding Heal, Prayer of Mending.. does not matter.
You could do the same for the PW:Shield spell.
It assists the master account, and then tries to heal that target if the target is friendly.
If the target is hostile (ie, mage is killing a mob) then it heals the mobs target, which will be the mage or your tank in a group.

The priest could be given a castsequence macro for dps.
Either something which is bound to the mage's dps key, but then shorter in length (so you're not casting on the priest when you want to be healing)

/castsequence [target=MageName] reset=combat/target Shadow Word: Pain, Devouring Plague,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Bind that to the same key the mage uses for their primary nuke, and the priest double-dots your mob automatically.

Alternatively, make a longer priest dps macro, which is manually pushed.
That way the priest can dps harder, and when you need a heal, the priest stops the dps and is casting nothing, which lets them heal.

I'd put the priest heals on say NumPad 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 etc.
That way you can easily reach them, and they don't interfere with your normal keys.











A more advanced set up, would be for each toon to assist, so it does not matter who the leader is.
A forum search or the wiki will get you a lot more information.
The basic methods are:

Mage: /cast [target=focustarget] Spell
Mage: /castsequence [target=focustarget] reset=combat/target Spell 1, Spell 2, Spell 3, etc.

Priest: Same as the mage.

Whoever is the lead screen is made focus.
So when you switch to the priest you type /focus PRIEST NAME
And /focus MAGE NAME when on the mage.

They both assist the focus just fine.





Assisting party 1 (ie, the leader of the party) works too. Its a little more complicated, but it leaves the /focus key free
In PvP you focus a burn target. In PvE you focus a target to interrupt or crowd control. Example mage focuses the sheep target and priest focuses the shackle target.

Your macro's on both toons are:
/cast [target=party1target] Name of Spell
A sequence goes the same way for targeting.

Bar 1, the default bar is the macro set with assist party1 in it.
Bar 2, for both toons has exactly the same spells, but no assist.

Then you make a macro per toon in your team.
With two toons, you have two switch macro's.

The priest has [Mage is Leader] and [Priest is Leader] macro's.
His mage macro will be:
/script PromoteToLeader("MageName")
/changeactionbar 1

His priest macro will be:
/changeactionbar 2

The mage does the reverse. As in mage macro is the one line bar2. And priest macro is the two line bar1.

What this does is, pressing the macro (same keybind on both toons) puts the new master on bar 2.
And the previous master promotes the new master to party leader and goes to bar 1.

So you have your slave on bar 1, assisting the party leader.
You have your party leader on bar 2, casting normally.

The reason for the paging of the bars, is because all of the non-leader toons will see party1 as the party leader.
But the party leader see's party1 as the first toon beneath their name.
In wow, if you type in /target party1, its the same thing as pressing F2 in the default keybindings.
So F2 is the leader of the party for everyone except the leader.
So we need the leader to use a key to cast, which does not call on assisting the F2 target.






If you want to work a bit harder, but get the strongest assist method possible, take a look at the FTL system.
This uses Keyclones keystrings. Your assist is done by the keystrings, where keyclone determines which toon to assist by who is in the active window.
You have Focus free, Target free and no set Leader. Hence Focus-free, Target-free, Leader-free system.
It can be a lot of set-up, I've not gone that route myself, but once its working, its the best assist system.