5 box follow / attack Q

[iluva]

I have a Pally tank , Priest healer
and 3 ranged dps .

My q is . they are on follow on tank . But ranged should be able to stay a bit behind . Now they stay on tank .. my healer aswell .
How can i let's them stay behind to dps ?

Greetz

[Smoooth]

Just tap your forward or back key to get them to drop follow. After you kill it just hit your follow button to have start to follow again.

[Ualaa]

Hit your follow key, when you want to move the team.
And break your follow when they're in a good position.

Quite often, I just leave follow on and don't care about it.
But anything more challenging, like say a heroic boss, you might prefer to position them somewhat.

[iluva]

Just tap your forward or back key to get them to drop follow. After you kill it just hit your follow button to have start to follow again.

yes but then i have to switch windows and do that right ?
Isn't there a macro that does /stopfollow or something ?

[ElectronDF]

3 thoughts. One: Break follow with your pallies attack (like put a movement key for your alts tied to your pally's pull key)
Two: Have a movement for your whole team, your main only and your alts only. For me, WASD is main only, arrow keys are everyone and I use 2 keys from my Logitech G15 G-keys for my alts only.
Three: Stagger follows, have your healer follow your main, and then have your DPS follow your healer. It puts them an extra 5 or so yards back. This is what I did back in the day when hunters had to far away to attack.

You can use Jamba to do the follow after combat so you don't have to worry about it.

Hope that helps and good luck.

[Gadzooks]

yes but then i have to switch windows and do that right ?
Isn't there a macro that does /stopfollow or something ?

No, you don't need to switch windows.

Your leader should have wasd set for movement, and those keys blocked for your slaves.

You can set it up the way you want, but I have two toons with q set for strafe left, and the other two have q set for strafe right.

When I run up to a mob (not a boss), all I have to do is hit the q key, and they all stop in place. I drop them off like that all the time, I don't even think about it anymore.

I don't start boss fights with it, but if I need to reposition, I use it.

I also split the /follow and /assist commands - /follow is on a key (f), and I put /assist focus in the slaves macros. That way, if I drop them off, and hit the attack key (1), they will rotate towards the mob. If they don't rotate, then I'll hit F and the q quickly afterwards, which positions them.

[iluva]

thx for the responses . this helps me .

greetz

[Ualaa]

You have some way to broadcast keys.

So your pally can spam their 96969 macro.
Your priest can heal the team as needed.
And your dps can do their pew-pew-pew.

If you're using something like Keyclone, have keys on a blacklist which are not passed to the slaves.
But then unbind other keys on the main (in warcraft) so you can move the slaves without moving the main.

If you're using InnerSpace, have repeater off (default), and don't bind WASDQE to any Keymaps.
So pressing these don't broadcast, because they're not in a Keymap.
Then make keymaps for the Arrow Keys, which broadcast to all windows without the current.
That does the same (entirely within the software instead of software + wow), where you can move the active toon or the slaves without moving the other.

Hardware boxing would be similar to Keyclone.
Have keys which are bound to the clients on the other systems, but not to the main.
So you can press down arrow, which does something when broadcast to other systems.
But does nothing on some systems.

[iluva]

Still having a problem . i want to bind a strafe key to avoid some things in hc 's . I copied a dps key from iSboxer . It does break the follow but when i keep it pressed it only breaks follow and stand still nothing more . What am i doing wrong ?

Greetz iLu

[Ualaa]

When you click on the name of the key, on the left pane, but have not expanded it to the steps.

Looking to the right pane, we have the hotkey to trigger the Keymap.
One of the options is "Hold any Keystroke Actions while Hotkey is held".
You want to set this option to "On".