Argent Tourney macros?

[Malekyth]

I'm trying to figure out how to do the Argent dailies as intended, with everyone mounted up. With the new dungeon coming online soon, and Battle Before the Citadel being pretty deadly with four clothies on foot, I figure the time has come to do it right!

I usually run an FTL setup, but figure I need to suspend it while mounted. I can get as far as '/follow Osaar (the leader); /assist Osaar', which does what I'd expect. What I can't do is macro any offensive spells. '/cast Shield-Breaker' and '/cast Thrust' just do not work for me. Clicking the button on the vehicle bar is the only way I've found to make this happen.

Am I missing something, or are these just not macroable? I know some people have been multiboxing on horseback ... are they doing it with mouse replication? Is there a /click involved?

[Bovidae]

I just use a posses/vehicle paging bar, so that my main keybinds (1 2 3 4 5) line up with the vehicle actionbar.

aside from that, I have two new bound actions: /follow leader /assist leader


/cast [target=focustarget] sheildbreaker is not possible

[Lyonheart]

I just use a posses/vehicle paging bar, so that my main keybinds (1 2 3 4 5) line up with the vehicle actionbar.

aside from that, I have two new bound actions: /follow leader /assist leader


/cast [target=focustarget] sheildbreaker is not possible

can you explane what you mean here>>" I just use a posses/vehicle paging bar, so that my main keybinds (1 2 3 4 5) line up with the vehicle actionbar."

[zanthor]

I just use a posses/vehicle paging bar, so that my main keybinds (1 2 3 4 5) line up with the vehicle actionbar.

aside from that, I have two new bound actions: /follow leader /assist leader


/cast [target=focustarget] sheildbreaker is not possible

can you explane what you mean here>>" I just use a posses/vehicle paging bar, so that my main keybinds (1 2 3 4 5) line up with the vehicle actionbar."

He means he goes back to basics. A UI mod that pages his bar when he gets in a vehicle so the hotkeys 1-0 are just normal single player buttons...

He then has a button for assist (which can still be FTL based) and a button for follow (same.)

This is very similar to how I run everything now and it works amazingly.

[Malekyth]

I was starting to put together some of the ideas presented in this thread, when I realized how easy this'd be with FTL. I set it up, tried it in southern Icecrown, and had a blast! It's all about lots of buttons, plus using /click. Obvious to some people, probably, but someone (like me) who didn't get it immediately might find this useful. I hope I can make it intelligible enough at 5:00 am ...

Normally you'd set up an alt's spell macro like:

/assist [mod:shift,mod:ctrl,nomod:alt,target=Osaar] [nomod:shift,mod:ctrl,mod:alt,target=Esaar]  [mod:shift,nomod:ctrl,mod:alt,target=Isaar] [mod:shift,mod:ctrl,mod:alt,target=Usaar] [nomod:shift,mod:ctrl,nomod:alt,target=Harmsworth]
/cast Shield-Breaker

This doesn't work on the Argent mounts. Using 'target' as a condition breaks vehicles. Also, /cast doesn't work for most Argent spells. Defend works, but Shield-Breaker, for example, does not. You'd have to use a /click back to your vehicle bar to make it work.

I set up a Macaroon profile that I can switch to when I start the Argent stuff, to keep things minimal for now (but am sure I'll have to incorporate it into my usual setup for the new dungeon, because you can't switch profiles in combat). I have twenty alt buttons hidden, off to the side. Each toon gets an alt button for each of the three combat spells, as well as for follow. The Thrust macros include a /follow, assuming that I'd want everyone to close into melee range when casting this. They look like this:

--keybinding ctrl-shift-Insert
/follow Osaar
/assist Osaar
/click MacaroonButton22

--keybinding alt-control-Insert
/follow Esaar
/assist Esaar
/click MacaroonButton22

--keybinding alt-shift-Insert
/follow Isaar
/assist Isaar
/click MacaroonButton22

--keybinding shift-alt-control-Insert
/follow Usaar
/assist Usaar
/click MacaroonButton22

--keybinding control-Insert
/follow Harmsworth
/assist Harmsworth
/click MacaroonButton22

MacaroonButton22 is the Thrust button on each toon's vehicle bar. When I hit '1', HKN sends 'Insert' plus the FTL modifiers to each client and I get a follow, an assist, and a Thrust for each. The Shield-Breaker macros look much like the above, except with no /follow line, and /click to MacaroonButton23. And so on.

The alt Follow macros are very simple, just /follow Osaar, /follow Esaar, etc. with the appropriate FTL modifiers.

[Lyonheart]

I have never had a problem with the kill quests in south icecrown. I use bindpad and have a macro that makes the leader the focus..switches my screen..follows and assists the focus.

so i use F4-F8 keys for PiP and making leader focus,assist and follow. It works with any vehicle i use ( jousting mounts and siege )
Bind Pad macors look like this ( simple as it can get )

/focus Whitelyon ( example )
/follow focus
/assist focus

This works for everything, including the tournament ground jousts. However, even though they follow and assist on the grounds, only the character that starts the joust can attack the npc.. if all are mounted. I now just have the slaves stay put, off the mounts, and attack normally. Works great.. i kill everything super fast! Also, for kicks, i put out my Fire eles and they help anyone who is jousting kill their npcs lol.. fun!