The new interact unit option.

[Marava]

This sounds promising!

If I get this right, all I have to do is make a macro "/assist [Main]" and keybind it, then look for the Interact with Unit option in keybindings and change that, then whenever I need a slave to loot, or open up a quest dialog box, I'd just hit the assist button and then the interact button?

[Dorffo]

that is correct Marava

I just added an /assist [main] line to my "follow macro" - so after combat I tap "follow" and then "interact with target" (alt-modified same key as i have bound to Follow).

[Trixster]

enabling click to move in wow makes this function amazing.

[Otlecs]

enabling click to move in wow makes this function amazing.

Bump to raise awareness of this.

I enabled it for the first time at the weekend and it really is amazing.

I can send my guys off to loot corpses on their own, melee when they're out of mana (as a bonus, the pathing "logic" causes some comic effects at times!) and I will never again have that one guy out of range of the quest giver and get out of sync!

When my guys get feared, a quick tap of my "interact" button followed by a down-arrow or similar to stop movement makes sure they're all facing the same way too.

I couldn't live with it on my "main" though - it'd drive me nuts

edit: typos... *sigh*...

[Marathon]

Clarifcation please. I am trying to set this up on my druid team. And i am little behind the power curve on this and I apoligize if this redundent.

I have 3 basic macros that i am using.

First I use the basic Follow the Leader.

/target Oxyn <Main Druid>
/focus
/follow


Second once we killed the target I click on the target with my main and then press this macro.

/target focustarget

Third I have the interact with target ket binding set to "R"

so i have to press r to loot it. And with auto loot it loots the target.

Questions - Have I set this up right? Do i need all 3 buttons to make this work or can I simply use 2 ?

[Ualaa]

Ultimately you need two keystrokes to make this work.

Your main targets something.
Keystroke 1, is assist the main, so you are now targeting what she is.
Keystroke 2, is the interact keybind, so you interact with your target.

If you use the Focus system, and your main is the Focus, you'd need another key once to set focus.
If you use Party Leader system, your assist key could be /assist [target=party1]. Still need a keystroke to change leaders.

[Marathon]

thank you ... thats is kinda what i thought. It still beats having to move to a new screen and click manually. Thank you again for the response

[Simulacra]

because I use targetarget based targeting I created a macro:

/assist target

bound to ","

and bound the Interface with target to "."

so I target with my main and press ,.

this is so nice - no more click fest

edit: reduced further to just keybinds

, bound to assist target
. bound to interact with target

[balrog78]

No one said something about the usefullness for collection quests. This should make those MUCH easier or did I missed something?

Target corpse and let the slaves interact until they all got the needed objects

Probably it doesnt help if you collect crates or something like this. I guess they are not targetable

[Maxion]

No one said something about the usefullness for collection quests. This should make those MUCH easier or did I missed something?

Target corpse and let the slaves interact until they all got the needed objects

Probably it doesnt help if you collect crates or something like this. I guess they are not targetable

Indeed.