Can I do this with a macro

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Note that you cannot focus any player outside of your group/raid.

This isn't the case. I frequently follow my GF's hunter around and heal her while outside the group. I set her as the focus while not in the group.

Then you're playing a different game than I am. I have the focus macros on my follow key. When out of group, no worky. When in group, worky fine. /shrug

Lemme double-check to be sure... Yep, just verified.

Out of group.
/focus ukobach
/target focus
...nothing targets...

Invite to group.
/focus ukobach
/target focus
works like a champ.

Know something I don't? I suppose you could be talking about inviting someone to your group, setting them as focus, then disbanding. This will keep that focus until it gets unset, whereupon you must reset it to someone in group/raid again. But that makes it useless for people using dynamic focus for leaders.

[Dorffo]

Know something I don't? I suppose you could be talking about inviting someone to your group, setting them as focus, then disbanding. This will keep that focus until it gets unset, whereupon you must reset it to someone in group/raid again. But that makes it useless for people using dynamic focus for leaders.

well I was thinking the same thing as Ugh - and using the same type of macro as evidence... until someone on vent pointed out (rather condescendingly) that you can focus via right-click unit frame pretty much all the time.

so clarification: setting focus via macro when not grouped doesn't seem to work with the examples above(which is how i'd been setting those macros up as well). I'd bet if you changed those to something with a /target line it it they'd work out of group?

/target ukobach
/focus
/target focus

edit #2 - of course that works and now my coffee is kicking in

[Otlecs]

I'm glad you posted that Dorffo, it's been niggling me on-and-off all day.

Twice I started a post about how useless Focus would be if you couldn't focus on things outside of your group, but since I'm sitting at work with no WoW to test it on, I decided to keep my mouth shut until I could actually try it again

[Ughmahedhurtz]

lol...guess I've been doing it with /focus <target> for so long I didn't even think about the other methods. Learn something new every day. So considering it works those two ways and doesn't work with /focus <target>, I'd say someone in Blizzard's QA team dropped the ball.