Macro Question Concerning Focus

[opt]

Wow man I did not know that. Thanks I would love to free up more macrospace.

One other thing is that if i get feared i run around spamming t and often will pick up my shamans that way

[sigtau66]

So I set this up last night, but I noticed something odd. Sometimes my 2nd lock would lose focus. I'd have to re-focus her so that she could cast. Any ideas on why focus is being lost?

[Diamndzngunz]

That should not be happening. What key do you have set up for the focus? and how do you have the command written?

is it /focus

or

/focus toon

[sigtau66]

F1 is set on my main to /focus main. I then broadcast F1 to my second PC which is a macro that does /focus main.

Then each spell on my second lock is a macro of:

/cast [target=focustarget] spell


It works the majority of the time, but I was noticing that I do occasionally have to re-focus and I hit F1 to send the F1 keystroke to my 2nd alt.

[Atorifan]

I was thinking of a similar thing with the f1-5 keys, but for healing. f1 bongo bound all heal aggorar, f2 all heal agg.. and so forth. Until chain heal. I don't understand the healing macro, and I'm not asking for explanation. I just found a way to overcome the problem with an oh crap need to heal. Previously F1 etc, would target not the same guy for each toon. so ya...probly clear before, and I over worded it

[Djarid]

my 2 penne'th

I avoid target=focustarget in DPS macros like the plague as I feel I lose a lot of flexibility with it. Let me explain, no there is too much, let me sum up.

I have my G1 - 5 keys bound to focus Party 1 -5 (by name)
I have my G 7-11 keys bound to target focustarget (1 per client client) this allows me to uniquely assign targets for my clones
I bind ` (the key next to 1) to assist focus on all clients

This gives me the focus fire option with a button that is close to hand for emergencies but also a simple means of pre-planning encounters

I also have my numpad keys bound to heals (on my 3 box shaman) so that any character can heal any other with a quick keypress.

1 = Char 1 heals char 1
2 = char 1 heals char 2
3 = char 1 heals char 3
4 = char 2 heals char 1
5 = char 2 heals char 2
6 = char 2 heals char 3
7 = char 3 heals char 1
8 = char 3 heals char 2
9 = char 3 heals char 3

0 = all heal focustargetfocus


but with 5 characters now, I am going to have to really rethink that any suggestions?

Yeah I know I will have to get an X-keys!

[aetherg]

These are the macros I use for targeting:

1. Set focus to the first non-nead, non-mind-controlled character
/focus [target=aeara,help,nodead]; [target=aebra,help,nodead]; [target=aecra,help,nodead]; [target=aedra,help,nodead]; [target=aeera,help,nodead]

2. Attack either the minion's target or the main's target (same for all damage spells)
/cast [harm,nodead] Lightning Bolt; [target=focustarget] Lightning Bolt

3. Heal either the minion's target, the main's target, or the main (same for all healing spells)
/cast [help,nodead] Lesser Healing Wave(Rank 4); [target=focustarget,help,nodead] Lesser Healing Wave(Rank 4); [target=focus] Lesser Healing Wave(Rank 4)

4. Target the main's target: /target focustarget

5. A set of 4 macros for /target aebra, aecra, aedra, aeera

6. A macro to /cleartarget

Explanation: because of how the game shuffles information between the client and the server, using focustarget rather than an /assist macro is faster and more reliable, especially if you're playing on the opposite coast from the server, at 300-400 ms lag. Most of the time, my minions have no targets, and will attack whoever the main is attacking, and heal the main, via focustarget.

For more complex fights, I can hand out a target for them to burn down in advance, via the target-main's-target macro. Since they now have a target, they will burn this down first, then return to attacking the main's target unless I assign them a new one. I don't end up needing this option much, but it is handy.

When a specific minion pulls aggro or gets hit by some attack, I hit one of my four specific-target macros, and then cast a heal. Because the minions have targets now, the heal will go to that target rather than the main. Once I'm done, I hit the cleartarget macro to reset them to healing the main. If I need to heal a target that I don't have a minion /target macro for, I can target it with my main and either use my target-main's-target macro (for more long-term healing) or just throw out a quick heal thanks to the [target=focustarget,help,nodead] condition in the healing macros.

The important thing here is that 'target' is being used like a 'focus' for the minions. So it's important that the minions' targets be cleared most of the time, which takes a little bit of getting used to. Once you do, it works very smoothly.

[sigtau66]

Ok, I'm back. Apparently what I'm doing isn't working and for some odd reason completely stopped working last night. The first thing I do after grouping my 2 warlocks is have my second warlock do this macro (my main Warlock's name is Kelseer):

/focus Kelseer

Once focus has been established, ALL my spell macros are the same:

#showtooltip
/cast [target=focustarget] Curse of Agony

#showtooltip
/cast [target=focustarget] Corruption

So, last night for some reason ALL spells stopped working except for Curse of Agony and Drain Soul. Shadowbolt, Corruption and Immolate wouldn't cast. Kept saying I had no target. Even after hitting F1 (my focus hotkey) and SHOWING that my main warlock was the focus I still couldn't cast spells. At this point, I don't know what's best to do. I thought about putting a:

/focus Kelseer

command in each of my spell macros, but I'm not sure if that will interfere with anything.

Any suggestions?

*edit: Oh, one other thing I forgot to mention. My 2nd warlock continually loses her focus. What causes a character to lose their focus?

[aetherg]

Make sure you don't have 'focus' on the minions bound to any key you're hitting on the main; it's probably best to un-bind focus completely on the minions.

[sigtau66]

My focus macro is F1. On both characters, that corresponds to

/focus Kelseer

I have no reason to F1 for any thing other than to focus.