Never leader in BG and group is always split

[a_ht]

Hi,

I join battlegrounds as a group always. I try to click all my toons as fast as possible when the window pops up. However, I am never the raid leader and my toons are never in the same group. The raid leader usually ignores my requests to group my shamans together. My shamans therefore get split honor points and achievements, creating undesired individuality amongst them. Is there any solution to this problem? I remember a time when joining a BG as a group would always land you in the lead spot. Now than experience is granted for BG, I am planning to level a team with pvp. This would be problematic since they will level unevenly if they are not in the same team.

[moog]

There is no solution if the RL ignores your requests to be made assist or move your chars.

I've given up on BGs due to this issue

[blast3r]

I like having my toons in the same group but since they have implemented this new feature I have never had all toons in same group. Luckily I use FTL so have no issues targetting,etc, but I hate I can't use all my buffs properly and do any healing, etc.

[Ridere]

Yah, my main issue with it are Tremor Totems and Healing Stream Totems when playing as my Shamans, but for the most part, I guess it's not a huge deal. I'm hoping it's something that gets fixed, though. Keep your fingers crossed for a fix of sorts in 3.2.

[Owltoid]

My biggest problem is healing. I have my toons in the same order through Pitbull, and I know the top one in my party list is 1, second from the top is 2, etc. If they're not in the same party in BG then I don't know which one requires healing (unless I click on their nameplate which is just too slow).

I've started a thread begging Jafula to look at a solution through using Jamba (have the toons in the Jamba list show up in the same order at the alphabetical Pitbull and show their health bars). At least then I could know which one needs healing and just hit the button.

For the record I also use a FTL system and I can heal anyone through clicking and have my slaves assist, it's just that I also have my keypad mapped to specific Owltoids for quicker targeting/healing.

[defactoman]

I have another related problem. Getting leadership isn't usually an issue, however once i get it i find it hard to move all my characters to the same group. It bugs out and doesn't move the character. Anyone else experience this?

[blast3r]

I have another related problem. Getting leadership isn't usually an issue, however once i get it i find it hard to move all my characters to the same group. It bugs out and doesn't move the character. Anyone else experience this?

I think you have to wait until the battle starts now to do that. Wow, that is a bright idea, huh?

[a_ht]

edit: problem with jamba. This post is deleted.

[rpheng]

This usually isn't a problem for me. In my bg, queue wait time is less than 1 min so I wait and manually join the bg right away with just one char to speed the load time. I usually get in first then I enter my other shamans and move them to a group not filled in (cause I can't move ungrouped player out). A mod that automatically joins a bg would help but I don't know of any. Just dl it to one of your char preferably the nonleader of your group so you can requeue if you want.

[Bettysue]

You can only move characters from your own server, so if you manage to get leader move them all to group 8 ASAP so you can keep them together.
All auto join when it pops type addons are gonna be broken as they changed AccetpBattlefieldPortal() so that it no requires a keypress to use, simpy add it to an accept all type macro with the proper parameters and you should be in fast on all your chars once again. (look it up on wowwiki under the API section so you use it correctly)

#showtoolip Lightning Bolt
/click [mod] MyFTLbutton
/castrandom [target=targettarget,harm][target=targettargettarget,help][] Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Chain Heal
/targetlasttarget [mod]

that's the macro I use on my shamans for healing in mixed groups, is works most of the time and keeps everyone up, it still works after the castrandom change because none of the spells have a cooldown. The 5DPS/1heal ratio seems to work the best for me, it may be different for you adjust as necessary. I have buttons bound for healing each toon individually if they happen to get focused.