Quote Originally Posted by amalgam
Vyndree, your macros are interesting. Is "party1" equivalent to "self"? If so, doesn't this mean your healing priority goes Focus's target -> My (from the toon's perspective) target -> Focus -> -> Self?

In this setup, how do you typically heal, say, ShammyD specifically? Do you set the others to /focus your tank, then target ShammyD using your tank? Or do you possibly use the F# keys to target a specific party member and let the target checks validate?

I like how they default to healing themselves. Nice touch.
Party1= party leader

This is what the /target portion of each macro means:
  • 1) if your focus is targeting something friendly, heal the friendly (i.e. you've set your "/follow" main char to /focus because you're in a BG)
    2) if your party leader is targeting something friendly, heal the friendly
    3) if your focus is friendly (i.e. you've set your "/follow" main char to /focus because you're in a BG), heal your focus
    4) otherwise, heal your party leader


To heal any target other than your "main", including targets outside my party (a friendly who's having trouble with an elite, and you want to help out), I just target them with my main (i.e. my /focus if I have one, or my party leader) and press the respective heal button.

The reason why focus is in there is for this reason: If you're in a battleground, or in a raid and your shaman must be split amongst multiple groups, all of my macros are set up to first /assist their friendly focus, and only if the friendly focus isn't available do they default to "party leader". Secondly, having the ability to set your "main" via /focus allows you to instantly switch "mains" if your normal main is unavailable/dead/you decided you didn't want to play it today.


If you want them to heal themselves if their party leader is dead (I prefer not to - I like more control), your casting line would go like this:
/cast [target=focustarget,help,nodead][target=party1target,help,nodead][target=focus,help,nodead][target=party1,help,nodead][target=player] Lesser Healing Wave
I have a seperate button for emergencies where my tank goes down. Each shammy has a chain heal buddy, and they heal off the chain heal buddy if the buddy's alive, otherwise they chain heal off themselves.
/cast [target=ShammyBuddy,help,nodead][target=player] Chain Heal