Jamba 0.5 available for testing (Update 12).

[Ughmahedhurtz]

This might've been mentioned before, but is it possible to add in a /jamba-assist focus strobeon/off all command like the //jamba-follow strobeon/off all one? If so, then this might greatly benefit melee class teams. Might help cut down on how many times we have to mash the /assist focus macro button just to get everyone to assist the mains. It could be purely optional to use, and set to off by default like the auto follow is.

Why would you need this? Two very effective methods of making this intrinsic:

• add /assist <focus> or /assist <charname> in your attack macros.
• use [target=focustarget] or [target=targettarget] in your attack macros.

Or were you using some other method of targeting/assisting that makes this a non-starter?

[lans83]

Why would you need this? Two very effective methods of making this intrinsic:

• add /assist <focus> or /assist <charname> in your attack macros.

Or were you using some other method of targeting/assisting that makes this a non-starter?

This is actually what I use on my teams, but once in a while, I'll notice that they still don't hit the right targets when I'm mashing the button. Guess it's just the lag on my end or something. I'll suck it up and just stick to this method. I was mostly curious if the /assist strobing would be possible tho.

All my attack macros have /assist focus in them, even my Consecration spell on my Pally team has this in a macro too. /assist focus /cast Consecration, that way I can spam this one button and they still target my target.

Jafula, don't worry about that option, I do however have another idea to run by you. Would it be possible to add in an option for accounts that use gathering professions like Mining/Herb to auto-ping their minimap on nodes that they are seeing so that the pings show up on the leader's minimap to indicate there's one near by? Reason I ask, is cause I have alot of crafting professions on my main account I use as leader and gotten pretty high up with and don't want to give up for a tracking/gathering one.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

This is actually what I use on my teams, but once in a while, I'll notice that they still don't hit the right targets when I'm mashing the button. Guess it's just the lag on my end or something. I'll suck it up and just stick to this method. I was mostly curious if the /assist strobing would be possible tho.

All my attack macros have /assist focus in them, even my Consecration spell on my Pally team has this in a macro too. /assist focus /cast Consecration, that way I can spam this one button and they still target my target.

Yep, you're hitting the lag problem. For me, it's much worse in instances, whereas it is nearly instantaneous outside. Of course, I may not be the best example as I'm sitting at 7-10ms pings to my server. :P

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Argh. New bug in the 0.5 dev version: When talking to the NPC to train new spells, alts randomly close the NPC's dialog window when the master clicks the "learn new talents blah blah" option. I can repro this 100% on my shammies. I'll try it later on my other chars.

[edit] And found another bug. Just got the "Howling Wind" drop off an elemental out in Nagrand. /use it to open the quest dialog on all 5 shammies, but Jamba won't click accept on any of the alts. When I manually accepted on all 5, I figured I'd abandon it and try again but when I open the quest log, select "The Howling Wind" quest and click "Select," Jamba reports, " {charname} - I do not have the quest: The Howling Wind." Very strange. I had no problem with this quest using 0.4 jamba builds on my last few groups.

I'll keep the howling wind quest in case you want me to try some debug for you.

[edit2] Same bug with Murkblood Invasion Plans quest. Seems to affect drops that start quests.
[edit3] Same bug with the Wanted poster quest "Felling an Ancient Tree" in Thunderlord Stronghold, Blades Edge Mountains. Alts won't do anything.

[Jafula]

Jafula, don't worry about that option, I do however have another idea to run by you. Would it be possible to add in an option for accounts that use gathering professions like Mining/Herb to auto-ping their minimap on nodes that they are seeing so that the pings show up on the leader's minimap to indicate there's one near by? Reason I ask, is cause I have alot of crafting professions on my main account I use as leader and gotten pretty high up with and don't want to give up for a tracking/gathering one.

I don't know if I could do this in WoW. I'm not sure if the addons api have access to information on the minimap / access to node information. I guessing that the answer is its not possible...

[Jafula]

This might've been mentioned before, but is it possible to add in a /jamba-assist focus strobeon/off all command like the //jamba-follow strobeon/off all one? If so, then this might greatly benefit melee class teams. Might help cut down on how many times we have to mash the /assist focus macro button just to get everyone to assist the mains. It could be purely optional to use, and set to off by default like the auto follow is.

Eeek, could you explain this a bit more. I'm not quite sure what you are requesting...

Edit: Lets see what your response to Ugh's post is...

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The jamba team password thing... it keeps asking me to enter the password, even though they're all the same?

Not doing that here. Did you change it from default to something else?

[Jafula]

The jamba team password thing... it keeps asking me to enter the password, even though they're all the same?

Thanks for reporting this. I'll have to add a note about that behavior to the final docs.

I have come across that before during development. I'm not sure why WoW does that. The only fix I have had so far is to reload the UI. Does that work for you?

[Owltoid]

Along with Fur I keep having it ask me for the channel password every time I log in (I haven't changed from the default). In addition, if I do try to change to a different channel, such as "Owtloid Team" it just goes right back to the default channel name.

Sorry if I missed it, but I don't see my team list anywhere. I have all my team added, and my master/slaves set correctly, but I don't have the team list as I do with regular Jamba. That may be under development, but it's the biggest reason I use Jamba. It makes it tough to test out the other functions of Jamba since I rely on that team list and have to enable 0.4, which causes all sorts of LUA errors with the development version.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Along with Fur I keep having it ask me for the channel password every time I log in (I haven't changed from the default). In addition, if I do try to change to a different channel, such as "Owtloid Team" it just goes right back to the default channel name.

In my experience, to get 0.5 working properly the following procedure is required:

1. Change master and alts to something other than the default channel name/password.
2. /console reloadui (on all chars)
3. Add master to all alts and set as master.
4. Add all to master's team list and push to alts.

Once you do all this, everything should work fine from there on out (aside from the few bugs that have been reported).

All of my alts that haven't yet had the new jamba channel/password set will prompt for the team password and not function correctly until it has been changed and the UI reloaded.

Hope that helps.