Focus-only target system

[heyaz]

I'm playing with a few new targeting systems, the goal being making the targets compltely invisible. I lose the ability to have a second focus target, but I've found that to be little more than a one-off shot to try to gib someone who wasn't expecting it, after that it's useless and I need a new one. In arenas and pvp, people put a focus on my main and see my target and bomb heals and shield on them before I can even start casting.

Follow/assist is done via a basic FTL system, no focus on my toons, but focus on the enemy instead (on all 4 toons).

System works like this so far:

-Main toon picks a target, assigns a focus to it, and a raid icon (why not?)
- Alts assist off main, set same focus
- Main and alts drops target or targets self
- All harmful spells are casted at last focus regardless of current target, until I set a new one via the main

Main issue I am having at the moment is assist lag - while it was something I could overcome with regular targeting (main keeps target so eventually the alts assist off the right one).

Problem now is that after setting focus, the main drops the target. If I switch targets quickly, the alts don't get the right focus, and never will because the main is no longer targeting it.

I tried a few variations of /focus targetfocus, but I don't think it seems to exists.

Macro looks like this:

/assist maintoon
/focus [exists,harm,nodead] targettarget
/cast [target=focus,exists,harm,nodead][] Lightning Bolt

The extra [] allows the alts to cast solo, without a focus target at all, but other issues still exists.

I haven't done a ton of testing in real pvp (just target dummies), has anyone tried this before and know of any caveats before I re-do a ton of macros? Of course including the fact that the alts never pick up the focus target if there is assist lag

[RobinGBrown]

I'd suggest splitting your macro into two spearate ones. The first one would be bound to a key (e.g. F) and the other would be your normal spell.

 
/assist maintoon 
/focus [exists,harm,nodead] targettarget

and

 
/cast [target=focus,exists,harm,nodead][] Lightning Bolt

This means that your followers aren't going through the whole target switching rigmarole every time you cast a spell (should reduce number of problems), it also means that all your toons will 'lock on' to a target which means that your main can target someone else (hopefully fooling your opponents into wasting their healing) while you DPS with focus.



Please note that I'm not a PVP or arena player (although I do play on an RP-PVP server)

[Ualaa]

Assuming you're using something with fairly reliable mouse broadcasting...

Could you use:
/focus [target=mouseover]

You'd physically never target anything, so there wouldn't even be a momentary target.
The delay is in quickly acquiring the target from the main, not in setting a focus once the target has been acquired.

[Zamian]

I'd suggest splitting your macro into two spearate ones. The first one would be bound to a key (e.g. F) and the other would be your normal spell.

 
/assist maintoon 
/focus [exists,harm,nodead] targettarget

and

 
/cast [target=focus,exists,harm,nodead][] Lightning Bolt

This means that your followers aren't going through the whole target switching rigmarole every time you cast a spell (should reduce number of problems), it also means that all your toons will 'lock on' to a target which means that your main can target someone else (hopefully fooling your opponents into wasting their healing) while you DPS with focus.



Please note that I'm not a PVP or arena player (although I do play on an RP-PVP server)

Hi there.... Would this work for my pally priest Shammie(3) setup?
I Usually AOE
I have been looking for a macro to assist my pally with my shamans at start and have them burn down that target until its dead while my pally jumps to different targets where needed.

So will this macro work if my paladin switches to several targets or just skips to a new target only?
Need a macro that will have shamans "Pin" to their first target then once its dead reaquire the next focus target.