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

[Frojax]

Great stuff, it's working like a dream for me so far. if it works with blink too, I'll be in my element. Thanks for the share, Ellay

[Tizer]

My issue is having seperate follow keys for each toon. FTL system allows me to instantly move to a new window and press my mouse thumb button to set a new main, job done. :? But i guess there is no reason not to mix and match your macros.

[Taliesin]

I'm going to have to give these a try tonight. I am intentionally trying to stay away from going too far towards a FTL setup, because while I multibox usually when by myself, I also very frequently group with friends and guildies. Who I bring along totally depends on what is needed.

These macros seem perfect what I need. Currently I manually edit a couple macros when I need to, which is quick to do, but just a nuisance to HAVE to do it. Most often I am asked to bring either my mage or shaman for DPS, or sometimes both at the same time. Both the targetting and following priority chaining in each macro would save me from having to edit the macros at all. The mage is my lead when I'm DPS support, so I would put my tank at the bottom of the stack and mage right above it. Shaman will automatically assist the mage when the tank isn't around.

[Zzyzxx71]

For your big button

/target [target=Brain, nodead]; [target=Toontwo, nodead]; [target=ToonThree, nodead]; [target=ToonFour, nodead]; [target=ToonFive, nodead];[target=Brain]
/follow

For attacks/heals

/cast [target=targettarget] [] InsertSpellHere

This works for heals as well, if the first condition returns a harm enemy, the second condition fits - so you'll heal the leader. If the leader has a helpful target, everyone will heal that person.

If your main dies, go to window #2, hit your big button - everyone will go to the new guy and target him - no need for seperate macros per toon.

The only condition is they need to be in the same group/raid. They do NOT need to be in the same group in a raid.

[Ellay]

That looks pretty clean will have to give that a shot and re-define them

[Zzyzxx71]

To tackle an issue Ellay and myself discussed regarding the "if I failover, my new main targets himself whenever I bang the bg button"

Here's the compromise

*Disclaimer* - I haven't tested this, but these don't appear to be rocket science.

On toon 1 (main) - you use no big button macro... put an empty placeholder macro in there if you like, it's what I do.

On toon 2 -

/target [target=Brain, nodead]
/follow
/stopmacro [target=nodead]
/target [target=Brain, dead]
/follow

On toon 3 -

/target [target=Brain, nodead]; [target=Toontwo, nodead]
/follow
/stopmacro [target=nodead]
/target [target=Brain, dead]
/follow

On toon 4 -

/target [target=Brain, nodead]; [target=Toontwo, nodead]; [target=ToonThree, nodead]
/follow
/stopmacro [target=nodead]
/target [target=Brain, dead]
/follow

On toon 5 -

/target [target=Brain, nodead]; [target=Toontwo, nodead]; [target=ToonThree, nodead]; [target=ToonFour, nodead]
/follow
/stopmacro [target=nodead]
/target [target=Brain, dead]
/follow

It goes against the "all use the same code" philosophy, but the rest of macros use the same methodology and can be duplicated.

[Falkor]

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

King of Macros, Queen of noob mistakes :P we still love you Ellay!

[Zzyzxx71]

I wanted to respond to an issue someone brought up earlier about using different mains - to overcome that issue, just add all your brains to your bigbutton macro... I run most of the time with tank+4 shamies, but also run just the 4 shammies for pvp and have no changes that need to be made switching between the 2.

[Vicker]

Edit: Removed my idea. I'm an idiot.

[Tizer]

For your big button

/target [target=Brain, nodead]; [target=Toontwo, nodead]; [target=ToonThree, nodead]; [target=ToonFour, nodead]; [target=ToonFive, nodead];[target=Brain]
/follow

The only condition is they need to be in the same group/raid. They do NOT need to be in the same group in a raid.

iirc i had issues in BGs with this, where say my main toon might die, get a res at a GY then shaft me up for controlling the others since you can target anyone in a BG nomatter what range. i might not be spot on here, but something is ringing a bell in my head :>

I suppose its possible to make a few profiles, one for pvp and one for pve, but thats just hastle i can do without. The big follow button has to work everywhere and the FTL way pwns all others.