Need help. Targetting and Following

[Furystrike]

Hi All,

First time with this, so please bear with me. Running 5 locks on 1 PC. Using Octopus. I want to do two simple things, then I think I am set moving forward. I need a dynamic follow and target depending on who is alive/dead. Here are macros that I found under the focusless section that work, but every time I use it, my alts are SAYing part of the macro so everyone else around can see it - VERY ANNOYING! What am I doing wrong? Is there a command to make the alts stop repeating the commands or ?

Targetting:
/target [target=Furystrike, nodead] [target=Ddecay, nodead] [target=Deecay, nodead] [target=Deccay, nodead] [target=Decayy, nodead]
/assist target

Following:
/target [target=Furystrike, nodead] [target=Ddecay, nodead] [target=Deecay, nodead] [target=Deccay, nodead] [target=Decayy, nodead]
/follow target

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Frosty]

Make sure in your in-game macros, you don't have any "breaks" or "returns". This should all be on one line:

/target [target=Furystrike, nodead] [target=Ddecay, nodead] [target=Deecay, nodead] [target=Deccay, nodead] [target=Decayy, nodead]

[griffin01]

the only solution I could give is to make sure there are no spaces before the /target, otherwise it would be much like someone saying /wrists in chat with the added space so that they dont emote or get a message indicating that it is an invalid command. So just double check that, and if nothing... sorry I couldnt be of more help.

I do find it interesting though since I had read about another boxer who was having troubles with their casting being cut off without a /stopcast command. This was occuring regardless of the cast (not channeling), and would continue to the next spell. Leads me to believe that there may be a problem server side with some people's macros, but I personally havent encountered it. Anyhow, good luck

[Bettysue]

Follow and assist can both take target parameters meaing there is no need to have /target blah blah blah followed by /follow.
Adding spaces and the newline characters will often mess up a perfect looking macro. The newline symbol is invisible on most bulletin board systems and is often copied when the text does not appear in "code" blocks.
So use this for assist

/assist [target=Furystrike,nodead][target=Ddecay,nodead][target=Deecay,nodead][target=Deccay,nodead][target=Decayy,nodead]

and this for follow

/follow [target=Furystrike,nodead][target=Ddecay,nodead][target=Deecay,nodead][target=Deccay,nodead][target=Decayy,nodead]

If you still have trouble, try deleting the macro all together and putting the following at the end of your macros-cache.txt file

MACRO 16777234 "Assisting" Ability_CheapShot
/assist [target=Furystrike,nodead][target=Ddecay,nodead][target=Deecay,nodead][target=Deccay,nodead][target=Decayy,nodead]
END
MACRO 16777233 "Following" Ability_CheapShot
/follow [target=Furystrike,nodead][target=Ddecay,nodead][target=Deecay,nodead][target=Deccay,nodead][target=Decayy,nodead]
END

the file on vista can be found at World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\ACCOUNTNAME\Server\Charname\m acros-cache.txt

If the file does not exist there just create it in notepad.

Anyway good luck.

[RobinGBrown]

I wrote this guide, it's about as simple as you can get:

Simple Focus-Based MultiBoxing Setup and Macros Guide

[Furystrike]

BettySue - Thank you so much! That's awesome! I appreciate your help. =) Cheers!