Warrior main in 5 box, how to heal?

[Vodka]

I was doing some quests earlier with my 5 level 5s(Warlock, Druid, Shaman, Warrior, Mage) and ran into a bit of a snag. I would be killing the level 8-9 trolls in Durotar when I notice my warlock has 2 dots on him and 20% life. While I am alt tabbing trying to find my shaman, my warlock dies.

Is it possible to set it up to where I can heal the party without having 50 different buttons?

Any suggested macros?

Currently I am using:

/cast [target=party1] Healing Wave;

Of course, you can see here the rigidness in my operation =P

I tried

/cast [target=party1focus] Healing Wave;

But that doesn't work.

Any ideas?

[Djarid]

you would have to use party1target as focus is a local variable

of you could predefine macros for each of your characters and assign them hotkeys, perhaps the numpad or an xkeys unit.

[laeelin]

I use shift F1 to F5 to case a fast heal on characters 1-5, and ctrl F1-F5 to cast a big heal on characters 1-5

[The IT Monkey]

Here is my exact macros for my priest... you will have to tweak for your shaman.

(F1)
/target focus
/cast [modifier:lalt]Abolish Disease; [modifier:lctrl]Renew; [modifier:lshift]Flash Heal; [modifier:ralt]Power Word: Fortitude; [modifier:rctrl]Resurect; [modifier:rshift]Fear Ward; Heal

(F5)
/target <Name of Character 2>
/cast [modifier:lalt]Abolish Disease; [modifier:lctrl]Renew; [modifier:lshift]Flash Heal; [modifier:ralt]Power Word: Fortitude; [modifier:rctrl]Resurrect; [modifier:rshift]Fear Ward; Heal

(F6)
/target <Name of Character 3>
/cast [modifier:lalt]Abolish Disease; [modifier:lctrl]Renew; [modifier:lshift]Flash Heal; [modifier:ralt]Power Word: Fortitude; [modifier:rctrl]Resurrect; [modifier:rshift]Fear Ward; Heal

(F7)
/target <Name of Character 4>
/cast [modifier:lalt]Abolish Disease; [modifier:lctrl]Renew; [modifier:lshift]Flash Heal; [modifier:ralt]Power Word: Fortitude; [modifier:rctrl]Resurrect; [modifier:rshift]Fear Ward; Heal

(F8)
/target <Name of Character 5>
/cast [modifier:lalt]Abolish Disease; [modifier:lctrl]Renew; [modifier:lshift]Flash Heal; [modifier:ralt]Power Word: Fortitude; [modifier:rctrl]Resurrect; [modifier:rshift]Fear Ward; Heal


Obviously my main is my focus. Change the <Name of Character #> to the names of your followers.

Modifiers such as Alt and Ctrl are split into Left and Right modifiers so that if I hit the left alt and the F1 key I get an abolish disease on my main, but if I hit the right alt and F1 I get a Powerword Fortitude placed on my main.

So the left mods are all things I will need while in battle and the right mods are all things I use out of battle. This is for easy of use during fights.

Obviously, each one of these is a seperate macro.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Is it possible to set it up to where I can heal the party without having 50 different buttons?

This is one of the tradeoffs when multiboxing. And why a lot of us run the healer as the main for click-healing. Read some more of the threads around here; you'll find quite a few key-space-saving macros to condense your ability types onto a few basic keys.

[Vodka]

This is one of the tradeoffs when multiboxing. And why a lot of us run the healer as the main for click-healing. Read some more of the threads around here; you'll find quite a few key-space-saving macros to condense your ability types onto a few basic keys.

Hehe, I used to three box in Anarchy Online with nothing but my finger, keyboard, and trusty alt-tab.

I am thinking that trying to tank on a warrior from a healer main would be impossible, no?

At any rate, I figure I'll do a quick

#showtooltip
/target party1
/cast [target=targettarget,help,nodead,exists] Healing Wave; [target=target,help,nodead,exists] Healing Wave

And just target whoever needs healing, hit the button, and then switch back fast.

Thanks for the replies guys, this has got to be one of the best forum communities ever =D

[Vodka]

Another quick question:

Is there a way to check to see if a character is the leader?

Like right now all my secondaries have

/target party1
/follow

But then my secondary leader(cause lead died or whatnot) starts following HIS F2....

[mxracer050]

thank you IT monkey, for supplying good macros with good reasoning I am actually going to be using these myself.. haha

[Jusa]

I'm real new to this too but this is the set-up i use atm with 1 Pal and 4 Priests. I use Keyclone and I have my followers with my main set as focus and all my macros with mostly this format:

#showtooltip renew
/assist focus
/cast renew

this will cast 4 renews on who ever my main has targeted when i push the V key

I have another one that is the same for my flash heal that is the same, but i also have a macro that makes toon 1 heal toon 2 heal toon 3 heal toon 4 heal toon 5 heal toon 1, so that if i'm getting beat on and i'm getting pushbace it makes sure that the guy geting beat on gets an non interupted heal. (i used this for my 5 priest setup) that one is:

#showtooltip flash heal
/cast [target=ToonName] flash heal

Just change the toon name for each macro and set them all to the same key.

I hope this was helpfull. I'm new here but i love the site so far. good luck.

[kayb]

I use a total of 13 buttons only for healing. Shield and Flash Heal on all clones. Shield, Greater Heal and Renew for tank, and Prayer of Healing. Also a 5x Gift of the Naaru button. It takes some time getting used to but it's definitely worth it for PVE. I'd assume the same for PVP. The trick is to find a good balance between complexity and efficiency. Don't use more than you can effectively micro. Start with ie 1 button pr character, and add more as you get comfortable.