Just want a 2nd opinion on my macro set up :-)

[Lowcorn]

i need to set up a macro that will target the focus target that can be semi turned off. example being 2 shamans healing in a raid. have both shamans healing a MT then change to one shaman healing the MT and the other spot healing the raid. i thought about useing a modifyer in a normal focus macro but i figured id put it out to the community to see if anyone else had any ideas. heres what i came up with

/assist [target=focus,nomod]
/assist [target=target,mod:shift]
/cast whatever or /click


also can you put a modifyer inside a /click macro? like
/click MultiBarRightButton1 [nomod]
/click MultiBarRightButton2 [mod:lctrl]
that obviously doesnt work but anyone found a way around this?

[Tasty]

Its extremely early in the morning and I can only think of one thing at the moment but it would require more effort than most solutions I think.

You'd have to make two of each macro one for each healer

one with /cast [target=focus] Spell
and one with /cast [target=focus, actionbar:1] [target=target, actionbar2] Spell

this of course means you'd have to use both actionbars however which makes it a less ... "good" solution :P

[HPAVC]

Is this during a single encounter your shaman need to make this change?

If not, in jamba I have my druid/priest/shaman that are dual spec deal with this with tags

Each class has a macro set with corresponding tag (eg, shaman for shaman) and then those sets are in the default.

Then in the sets I have either that tag 'all' , 'healbot' or '!healbot'.

So when I flip the druid from boomkin to tree, I just add the tag 'healbot' to the team member, push it and all the bindings and macros change. So no longer will the dps macro (moonfire, wrath, etc) be active, since that macro is '!healbot'. But the mt boss heal rotation is now active which wasn't before. Since thats tagged as 'healbot'

Its important to have the class tag set and the tag for this, otherwise my shadow priest would start doing the wrong spells for example. If your running many shaman you would need to tag a particular partymember is the same vein.

The example in the forums for dealing with mounts within jamba addresses this as well. i believe in that example they tag the characters with baronmount otherwise mammoth is used.

[Ualaa]

I can think of a fairly easy way with IS Boxer.
But not sure that you are using IS Boxer or not.

Create your mapped key.
Have it look something like:

Hotkey: Whatever
Steps 1:
- Do Mapped Key Action (Focus Heal - mapped key)
- Do Mapped Key Action (Normal Heal - mapped key)

Then create another mapped key
Which toggles on/off the Focus Heal and Normal Heal mapped keys.
One is on, and one is off.
Press it again, and this reverses.
You could give more then one shammy this toggle mapped key, each on their own keybind.
And even have the mapped keys (Focus Heal vs Normal Heal) enabled or disabled on a per toon basis.

[Lowcorn]

I can think of a fairly easy way with IS Boxer.
But not sure that you are using IS Boxer or not.

Create your mapped key.
Have it look something like:

Hotkey: Whatever
Steps 1:
- Do Mapped Key Action (Focus Heal - mapped key)
- Do Mapped Key Action (Normal Heal - mapped key)

Then create another mapped key
Which toggles on/off the Focus Heal and Normal Heal mapped keys.
One is on, and one is off.
Press it again, and this reverses.
You could give more then one shammy this toggle mapped key, each on their own keybind.
And even have the mapped keys (Focus Heal vs Normal Heal) enabled or disabled on a per toon basis.

iv been doing a lot of reading into ISboxer and im pretty conflicted about using it. Been using Keyclone for EVER lol

Its extremely early in the morning and I can only think of one thing at the moment but it would require more effort than most solutions I think.

You'd have to make two of each macro one for each healer

one with /cast [target=focus] Spell
and one with /cast [target=focus, actionbar:1] [target=target, actionbar2] Spell

this of course means you'd have to use both actionbars however which makes it a less ... "good" solution :P

does this mean that macro one targets the focus target and casts the spell and macro two targets the focus if its on bar 1 and the target if its on bar two? iv never seen macros set up like that with a "actionbar" deal put into it.

Is this during a single encounter your shaman need to make this change?

If not, in jamba I have my druid/priest/shaman that are dual spec deal with this with tags

Each class has a macro set with corresponding tag (eg, shaman for shaman) and then those sets are in the default.

Then in the sets I have either that tag 'all' , 'healbot' or '!healbot'.

So when I flip the druid from boomkin to tree, I just add the tag 'healbot' to the team member, push it and all the bindings and macros change. So no longer will the dps macro (moonfire, wrath, etc) be active, since that macro is '!healbot'. But the mt boss heal rotation is now active which wasn't before. Since thats tagged as 'healbot'

Its important to have the class tag set and the tag for this, otherwise my shadow priest would start doing the wrong spells for example. If your running many shaman you would need to tag a particular partymember is the same vein.

The example in the forums for dealing with mounts within jamba addresses this as well. i believe in that example they tag the characters with baronmount otherwise mammoth is used.

im mostly looking to do this mid fight. i like to dps on my shamans until my DK needs to be healed lol

[ElectronDF]

Wait, so simple part is 1 shammy heal MT all the time and other one spot heal and MT sometimes? Then have your main shammy do heal whatever you want (either spot heal or MT heal) and have 2nd shammy always MT heal. What is the question I guess?

[shaeman]

For a non software dependant solution - Couldn't this be achieved by a mouseover macro?

On one or both of the shaman you could have a macro that heals the mouseover target if there is one, or focus if not, or target if no focus.....

You would then mouseover your raid frame on the shaman you are controlling for healing an individual in a raid or move it off of there to heal the focus.