multiboxing Hunters - targetting problem with pets

[Emmelotje]

Hi all,

I recently started my first multiboxing team: 2 hunters
I looked around on the forum and didn't really find this so:

i'm having a problem with the pet of my second char: usually when i start attacking i would like to send in my pets first but i couldn't seem to be able to get macro's on the pet bar (like /assist main /attack) so how can you let the second pet attack your target as well? how do you guys solve this?
What i do now is cast a hunters mark first with both chars so they both have the same target and then send in my pets but this is mostly a waste of time because mobs drop so fast i really don't need the mark and i feel i could be chainpulling way fasterwithout the whole mark first then send pets if i could just get that targetting thing sorted out

I guess what i'm basicly asking is: can you macro your pets too? and how?

another problem is was having yesterday: patches
i have two separate folders with WoW and patched the first and when i run my second wow copy it says i need to patch first (logically) but then when i click ok it says i allready updated (not so logical) how do you do this? I copied the changed files from one folder to another to get it done quicly but is there a better way?

Thanks

[davsp]

I'm pretty sure you can use the following macro:

"/petattack [target=Yourmainsname-target,harm]"

Just replace it with the toon's name you're using.

As for the patching issue, I encountered the same problem today, copying the correct WoW.exe (currently build 9506) to the other folder did it for me.
Let us know if it works :0

[Spook]

I use focus to aim my alt's pet. There are probably other ways. I think mine is something like this:

/target Mainguy
/focus [target=targettarget, harm]
/cast [target=focus, harm] petattack

I think the last line would also work if it looked like this:
/petattack [target=focus, harm]

For sure you want the "harm" in there, to avoid the pet picking its own target when you have a friendly target, or no target.

[spronnancy]

Well i started multiboxing Hunters and what i did was /assist (Mains Name) /Petattack /cast Auto Shot (or whatever spell you want to use first)

[Emmelotje]

thanks

so you guys put macro's for the pet on your normal action bar's if i understand it right? because i couldn't seem to put them on my pet bar

[Kaynin]

thanks

so you guys put macro's for the pet on your normal action bar's if i understand it right? because i couldn't seem to put them on my pet bar

A pet bar exists out of actionID buttons so to speak, not macro's. So yes, place them on normal bars not pet bars.

[5fingersofdoom]

On Toon A create 2 new macros
Name Toon A
/clearfocus
Name Toon B
/focus toon B

On Toon B create 2 new macros
Name Toon A
/focus Toon A
Name Toon B
/clearfocus

Then create the same macros on both Toons
/follow focus

and
/assist focus
/cast autoshot

You can put petattack in there but its not really necessary anymore since blizz changed pets to attack in Defensive mode.

[Vyndree]

I like this petattack macro....

/petattack [target=focus,harm,nodead][target=party1pettarget,harm,nodead][target=party2pettarget,harm,nodead][target=party3pettarget,harm,nodead][target=party4pettarget,harm,nodead]

[Emmelotje]

thanks all, "/petattack [target=Yourmainsname-target,harm]" worked for me

[Kaynin]

I like this petattack macro....

/petattack [target=focus,harm,nodead][target=party1pettarget,harm,nodead][target=party2pettarget,harm,nodead][target=party3pettarget,harm,nodead][target=party4pettarget,harm,nodead]

How do you handle the fifth member in your party if you have one?