Basic Focus Help

[Seldum]

Hi Guys/Gals,

I have a basic focus issue. I actually think its an problem understanding how it works.
I have read some stuff on this forum, and theres some really good tips around, but I still don't understand it.

My problem is, how do I shift the focus to a toon? And how does it work?

I want this: I have one toon which is the party leader. I want the rest to set focus on him.

Is there a keybinding that will target the party leader or something, so I can hit that pop the macro which sets focus to this toon?

Theres a description in one of the stickies, where he says he binds the assist, focus script to F11, and he hits F12?

If I manually choose a target and hit the focus, assist script it works fine. But I want something where I hit fx. one button to target the group leader and anotherone to assit and set focus.

I also use Jamba, but is it just me, or is it only half finished? I cant make the follow module work at all.

Thanks for all the help in this forum! You guys rock.

[RobinGBrown]

I just wrote this:

Simple Focus-Based MultiBoxing Setup and Macros Guide

It should help

[Golle]

Make a macro like this to focus a toon:

/target nameoftoon
/focus target

[Seldum]

Thanks for the link, ill definetly look into it.

Currently, I need the leader to target a mob, and start attacking, and then I have to press a macro to get the rest of the toons to assist the leader.

Do you guys build in macros for all spells? Or simply use the assist command to get all characters to attack?

My other alternative is to setup macros for all spells, with something like this:

/Focus LEAD
/Assist Focus
/Cast spell
....

Then I guess I woulden't have to target a mob with the leader, start attacking, then hitting another macro to get all the toons to assist, then press the button for the spell I want to cast.

[Golle]

I have my setup like this:

/target mainchar
/focus target

I have putted that macro on Shift+8 and I press it once all my chars are logged in, I never touch that macro after login.

To make my alts cast spells on the same target as my main I use this macro:

/cast [target=focustarget, harm] [target=focustargettarget, harm] [target=focustargettargettarget, harm] [] Spell

It is pretty simple and every [bracket] act as an IF statement. So, if my focus' target is harm (enemy) i will attack him. If that statement is false, I'll check if my focus' target's target is harm. It goes on like that until it finds a statement that will work and cast the spell, or if none of the staements work, return an error (You have no target).

[Ualaa]

For a focus based assist system, you have a hotkey to switch which toon is active.

If you have a program with PIP (Picture in Picture) capability, such as Keyclone, you would have the same hotkey for both switching which toon is in the foreground (Keyclone PIP key) and for a warcraft macro to switch who your leader is. The warcraft macro would include, "/focus NewLeaderName" and possibly, "/script PromoteToLeader("NewLeaderName") ". For a focus based leader system, you'll have one hotkey per toon and every toon will click the hotkey. So if you have a 5 box set up, you have 5 macro's for leadership changes on each character. Pressing the macro for #4 will have all toon's, even toon #4, press the macro which makes #4 their focus.

Now that the correct leader is the focus, all of your spells cast on the target of your focus.

If you want to have your slave toons target the leader's target, your spells will look like this:

/assist Focus
/cast Spell Name

/assist Focus
/castsequence Spell 1, Spell 2

If you would prefer to have your slaves hit the focus's target without a target themselves, instead use these:

/cast [target=focustarget] Spell Name

/castsequence [target=focustarget] Spell 1, Spell 2, Spell 3......

[Seldum]

That’s sweet info. I think I understand now. I will look into the PiP thing tonight and hopefully ill get it setup smoothly!

I can see why you can easily drown in macros while 5-boxing, and I want to get a good setup from the beginning so I don’t have to change my setup all the time, because THAT’S time consuming.

Im also starting to get a feel for the JAMBA mod, and it really helps me a lot.

Thanks for the help guys.

It took me 5 min from activating my 5 druids, to the first player accusing me of cheating and hacking! I never laughed so much before.

And two people actually started arguing. One guy wanted me to prove I wasn’t cheating, the other said I was 5 boxing and it was legit. That’s so fun!

[wowphreak]

Here's something else to think about.

How about doing an ftl setup
http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/inde...aderless_Setup

that way yeh don't have to worry about whose the leader and can switch chars on-the-fly and yeh can still use focus for something else

One of the things I would suggest is having a separate assist button that way all the other macros don't get to complicated

[davedontmind]

I also use Jamba, but is it just me, or is it only half finished? I cant make the follow module work at all.

I think it's just you - Jamba works extremely well for me and many others.

For following I do this:

- run /jamba and add your master toon to the Jamba team - do this on *ALL* of your toons.

- run /jamba on the master, add all toons to the team, making sure all are checked, then click the button to push the settings to all toons. Now all toons know about all the other toons in the team.

- on the master run "/jamba-follow master all" - now all toons with the "all" tag (which is everyone by default) should follow the master toon. I bind this to a handy key or mouse button/

To change master, on the new master toon run "/jamba setmeasmaster all". Next time you run the above follow macro, everyone will follow this new master instead. I create this macro on all toons, and bind to the matching keyclone PiP switch key, so whenever I change PiP the master automatically changes.

[Seldum]

ahh very nice!

I have setup Jamba for all toons (did that from the beginning) and I must admit after fiddeling around with it a bit, I have begun to absolutely love this addon! Autofollow after combat works, sharing of quest works etc.

I have also reworked my macros last night. I used some of the macros from the quick guide, using focus and assist. Maybe I diden't do it right, but I had to choose a target on the main, then hit the assist button and then hit the spell I wanted to cast.

Now I have simply setup a focus/assist button to assist my main, then build a macro for each spell with:

/target focustarget
/cast bla bla

and it works way smoother.

One problem though.

Sometimes when I loot on one of the slaves, they loose focus/follow, and hitting the Assist/follow button I have dosen't help. They just keep the target on the corpse and dont react. Then I have to click on the toon's own health bar, and then I can hit the general assist button.

I can live with this, but atleast once last night I "lost" a toon because he diden't follow.