Beginning Macro Help... 3xSpriest...

[Tonuss]

I am running a group with a priest, paladin and mage and for buffing I've tried two approaches. One is using the /targetparty function. Each time you run the macro the character will target the next person in the group, apparently using themselves as a start point. So the macros could be:

Priest
/targetparty
/cast Power Word: Fortitude

Mage
/targetparty
/cast Arcane Intellect

Paladin
/targetparty
/cast Blessing of Wisdom


Bind them to the same key (shift-F12 in my case) and just press it X number of times and your group is buffed.

However, I was having some problems with it, it may be that if you take too long between keypresses it resets it or something. It worked fine when I had the mage and priest doing it, but when I added the paladin for some reason it stopped working. Since I run one main character and have the rest work from that character, I did the following. I created a macro to make the party leader the focus of the other characters.

/target party1
/focus


Then I created the following macros and bound them as before:

Priest
/cast [target=focustarget] Power Word: Fortitude

Mage
/cast [target=focustarget] Arcane Intellect

Paladin
/cast [target=focustarget] Blessing of Wisdom

So what I do is select each party member in turn with the mouse, then press shift-F12 and each party member gets buffed in turn.

This won't work for every setup, but since it's primarily a caster group those are the buffs I'd be using the most. My group is also of a low level and being powerleveled by a 70 shaman, so I can be lazy with the focus command... at some point I'll need to add more macros to allow me to recover when the primary character is killed.

[Nepida]

Paladins buff based on class, not group. So Priests and Mages can buff once and hit everyone, but Paladins need to buff for each class in the group (ex, 3 times with pally, mage, priest in the party)

[Tonuss]

Sorry, I should have clarified. My group is low-level (currently 18) and thus the priest and mage do not have group versions of their buffs, just the single-target ones.

[Nepida]

Ah, and I didn't read it carefully enough. I wasn't aware of the /targetparty command so thanks for that . Though I don't see how it would be different from paladin to priest (I have both and single target should be the same).

My only guess is you need to make sure all the keybindings are set up properly on your paladin, I'm still learning a lot myself though.

[Otlecs]

Just to pick up on the party buff key binding discussion, I can't recommend SmartBuff highly enough.

It really is indispensible, especially with encounter-specific buffs that you can enable on the fly, and its reminders. Once installed, you can bind a key to "trigger" SmartBuff from the regular binding menu - just keep spamming that until all your characters have all the buffs they need.

Saves a few bindings, and that's all before I even talk about SmartDebuff that comes bundled with it