Focus vs FTL

[Dominian]

Its a pretty simple.. If you need to use focus for ccing in pve or blow people up in pvp without targeting them the go FTL.

If you cba to use focus for either and dont like spending much time on settings go with Focus.

Personally i use FTL, when i pve i use same chars but different clients. (wich means i just have to restart wow and my pve totems,settings etc is ready) thats thanks to macaroon who saves my buttons localy.

This is the way i use focus in the arena.

My slaves just assist my main so i got to target him at the start of the match and wait 1 second due to the "assist delay" (note: i havent setup ftl keys for this since i usualy just use it once per match)

My macro looks like this:

/target [target=focus]
/cast elemental mastery
/cast blood fury
/use 13
/castsequence reset=10 flameshock,lavaburst
/targetlasttarget

What happens now??

The focused target i set on the start gets a flameshock and lava burst instantly with my trinket,racial and elemental mastery. But since i added /targetlasttarget you can never see what im targeting.

What skilled teams ususaly do is to look at my mains target, everytime i change to a new target they start to cast hots/shields/dispell. What i also love with the feature is that i pretty much blow them up anyway without knowing if they are behinde/infront/whatever i just spin my slaves around. (i have to look out for damage migations like pain suppresion etc thought)

However im looking for a better way then /target [target=focus] since it seem to bug at times.

[Ualaa]

Generally speaking, you can go with either:

A)
/assist [target=focus]
/assist [target=party1]
/assist (However FTL assists)

and

/cast or /castsequence or /castrandom


- or -

B)
/cast [target=focustarget]
/castsequence [target=party1target]
/castrandom (However FTL assists]


With method A, each of your slaves assists your main (thereby gaining the target) and then does whatever.
This is especially nice if you'd like your slave to interact with the target, such as skinning or looting.

With method B, your slaves ability will be targeted at your mains target, but they'll never actually acquire (visibly target) the target.
You could easily script the macro to be /cast [target=focus] Big Spell.
To have [target=focus], obviously you'd need to use either FTL or Party1 as your assist method; not assist focus.




I personally use the Party1 assist method.
The strength of the system... it takes just a tiny bit more time to set up then the Focus system, and any toon can lead as well as any other.
The weakness... the current leader is the party leader; not sure off the top of my head if you can tell who the party leader is, for another party that you're not in.
Each toon needs a promote to leader macro, one for each member of the team.. so this system uses as many macro's over focus as there are team members.