zomg awesome sauce new assisting system but follow needs some tuning! [works good now!]

[Ellay]

*modified and tested, let me know if anyone has any issues*

Alright so... I really wanted to get back to my roots and utilize Focus for a secondary target and not assisting my main.

I was able to make my macro's as such.

main character would use normal spells with no macro's tied

secondary character would have macros as such

/assist [target=Aelli, nodead, exists]
/cast Lightning Bolt

So if the main died, this character would be the new main and cast freely

Third character

/assist [target=Aellie, nodead, exists]
/assist [target=Aelli, nodead, exists]
/cast Lightning Bolt

If the main and the secondary died, this character would become the main

Forth Character

/assist [target=Aellii, nodead, exists]
 /assist [target=Aellie, nodead, exists]
 /assist [target=Aelli, nodead, exists]
 /cast Lightning Bolt

Final and 4th character

If you notice the first character you want to assist needs to be at the bottom and you work your way up, kind of the opposite when you think about it logically, it just works nicely this way.
Tried and tested I love this system, it frees up a ton of space and makes it really easy

The part that does mess up is the follow macro

currently it looks something like this

/targetexact Aellie
/targetexact Aelli
/follow

I think this is pretty solid, let me know if there are any problems.

[Owltoid]

You probably know more about macros than I do so I'm not sure how much help I'll be. Isn't there a /targetexact type command? That could help with the /follow issue.

Also, I like your plan for a different reason: different groups compositions. Using a typical FTL makes it very tough to sub one toon in on account A for another toon on account A. Using your system I can easily expand it a little bit so that the chain of /assist also takes into account modifiers so that all I need to do is load a new HKN script that passes a modifier (such as ctrl) with each broadcasted keystroke.

In other words, if my group is sometimes:

Account 1 -> Pally Tank
Account 2 -> Moonkin1
Account 3 -> Moonkin2
Account 4 -> Moonkin3
Account 5 -> Shaman Healer

and instead I want to try other toons I have on my account, such as:

Account 1 -> Moonkin4
Account 2 -> Moonkin1
Account 3 -> Moonkin2
Account 4 -> Moonkin3
Account 5 -> Shaman Healer

I could just have my macros do something like the following:

/assist [target=Moonkin2]
/assist [target=Moonkin1]
/assist [target=Pally Tank, nodead, nomod:ctrl],[target=Moonkin4, nodead, mod:ctrl]
/cast Lightning Bolt

[Ellay]

Hmm, looks like I'll have to do some research into the targetexact. thanks!

[Selz]

hmm looking it up if i can

[Ellay]

Issue is resolved.

A couple of things need to be modified and I'll edit it in the main post.

assisting needs to look like this, I noticed a problem if the main died it didn't cross over smoothly

/assist [target=Aelli, nodead, exists]
/cast Lightning Bolt

This also works perfectly for following

/targetexact Aelli
/follow

There you have it.

[Ellay]

Update, just made these settings and it's not working properly, still need to work on it.

[Owltoid]

Update, just made these settings and it's not working properly, still need to work on it.

Follow isn't working properly? Or what is the outstanding issue?

[Ellay]

Found the issue It works fine, but you HAVE TO BE GROUPED wow that was annoying lol.

[emesis]

The part that does mess up is the follow macro

currently it looks something like this

 /Follow [target=Aellie, nodead]
 /Follow [target=Aelli, nodead]

It works fine until the main dies and then they just decide to follow whoever they please Any ideas?

As Owltoid implies, the issue might be that one of your toons (Aelli) is a substring match for the others. However, as you have it written, that toon is at the bottom of the macros and so substring matching shouldn't really be the problem (or it would be a problem for your casting macros as well).

I suspect the problem lies in issuing multiple follow commands, when 1 toon is dead there are multiple toons that the follow command will be issued on. There may be some latency affecting who gets the final follow command for the surviving toons.

One approach would be:

/target [target=Aellie,nodead]
/target [target=Aelli,nodead]
/follow target

This will cause to you lose your current target, however. /targetlastenemy might be helpful at the end of the macro.

Haven't tested this out (at work :-( )

[Owltoid]

I was running crypts until I finally figured out that everyone has trouble with that first boss. I wish I knew that from the beginning because I wiped countless times on that big eye. However, that's beside the point. In crypts my tank would sometimes get mindcontroled. You may want to consider adding in "help" or whatever the conditional agrument is. In other words, when my pally becomes possessed, I want my moonkin to now be the "lead." Obviously I'd have to switch to the moonkin window, but without some conditional I believe the system would break down since the pally is still alive and exists.