Help with Vehicle Following and FTL for dailies

[Bettysue]

You can actually assist and follow a vehicle. It's just not possible to target the person that's inside the vehicle. This is why the FTL-macros on this site don't work for vehicles, they first target and then follow/assist that target.

Here's an example of an assist macro that will work for vehicles

/assist [mod:ctrl,mod:shift,nomod:alt,target=ToonA][mod:ctrl,mod:alt,nomod:shift, target=ToonB][mod:alt,mod:shift,nomod:ctrl,target=ToonC][mod:ctrl,mod:alt,mod:shift,target=ToonD][mod:ctrl,nomod:alt,nomod:shift,target=ToonE]

And here's the follow macro that will work for vehicles:

/run if IsControlKeyDown() and IsShiftKeyDown() and not IsAltKeyDown() then FollowUnit("ToonA") elseif IsControlKeyDown() and IsAltKeyDown() and not IsShiftKeyDown() then FollowUnit("ToonB") elseif IsAltKeyDown() and IsShiftKeyDown() and not IsControlKeyDown() then FollowUnit("ToonC") elseif IsControlKeyDown() and IsAltKeyDown() and IsShiftKeyDown() then FollowUnit("ToonD") elseif IsControlKeyDown() and (not IsAltKeyDown()) and (not IsShiftKeyDown()) then FollowUnit("ToonE") end

With the above macros and a bar mod that allows you to replace the vehicle bars, FTL will work seamlessly for vehicles. Seperate follow and assist keys, leader or focus based macros are no longer needed.

I like the run macro and have used it before, I was just providing a solution that doesn't "require" an addon to use. Yes I know I used the jamba created macro, but it could easily be replaced by the "normal" FTL bigbutton macro.

It's nice to see several viable solutions to a problem though. Thanks for posting those macros.

The second thing i wanted to mention was using assist to attack works perfectly, but you can't use assist to follow, unless of course you have the leader target themself and then hit the /assist /follow macro. I guess I could have stated that in a different manner to make it clear.

@pocalypse, both solutions maintain your focus, my just drops the target on the followers, but refocuses any focus they had, and since macros process all at once, it doesn't even mess up addons that track CC on the focus.