Help with a "Spread Out" Macro

[Adronson]

Well, I'm not using AHK, but with Keyclone the method described elsewhere in this thread works like a charm on one machine. I'm running three WOW's on one machine and I bind the del key to "strafe left" on my mage and to "strafe right" on my priest, and my paladin's movement is not bound to that key. Tap the del key and the mage and priest jump about a body length apart while the paladin stays front and center. Hold the key down and they run apart until they run into something. I've also got a driud on a second machine with the del bound to "move forward" so that she moves up just behind the paladin to off tank if need be. The simplicity of setting it up in Keyclone was worth $10 to me.

I don't like calling attention to myself, so I played around with permutations of this in out of the way places. But, you can do some nifty parade ground exercises with this set up. I bind strafe right and left then bind /say macros to my paladin who is out in front. So the the Paladin will say SQUAD! DRESS RIGHT, DRESS! and the rest line up. Then bind another key so that the Paladin says PRESENT ARMS! and the group salutes. Etc.

Like I say, I don't use this in public because it tends to attract A LOT of attention and too many questions.

[Runiat]

My Third option that I have not tried yet, My toons are Warlocks and have some spells that make them follow the target as the target moves (Channeling spells like Soul Drain) I'm thinking of having a button for the alt to cast that spell (which turns them to face the mob) then cast the next spell I wanted them to cast.
- Downside to this is mana used, but at least they are doing some damage while they are turning to face the mob lol.

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Note: I have not testing if you can cast a Channeling spell on a mob thats at your back, but maybe there is a command to make your character do a 180 turn.

You can't.
Oh and it wont wont work to cast the next spell too soon, as I don't believe there's any of the auto-facing abilities that wont trigger your global cooldown.

What I usually do is that I turn off autofollow on any alts about 20 yards from my target. Should I need to turn them around again (in which case the mob will have moved at least 21 yards and I'll most likely be right behind it on the main) I just turn on auto-follow for an instant and then switch it back off (wont be interrupting anything if I can't cast).

[unit187]

thanks for answers, gonna study ahk documentation once more, maybe I missed something but I couldnt get it to work. I mean I press my button which should move alt to the left but it just emulate alot of fast key clicks so the char almost doesnt moving. Gonna try to find a command to emulate key "press and hold"

[unit187]

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uhm, last time I checked Paypal wasnt accepting any transactions from Russia. Maybe now they do so I can pay for keyclone, must check it someday

[hapiguy314]

thanks for answers, gonna study ahk documentation once more, maybe I missed something but I couldnt get it to work. I mean I press my button which should move alt to the left but it just emulate alot of fast key clicks so the char almost doesnt moving. Gonna try to find a command to emulate key "press and hold"

In AHK - Use Press Down Press Up function, it might work (similar to broadcasting Shift / Control / Alt keys). Broadcasting simple press of a key in regular AHK command means you only press it once - not holding it which causes the strafing.

[Steph]

I have WASD for the stick leader and the arrow keys for the /follow chars.
If I need to have the follow chars turn around the easiest way is to just run through them with the stick leader whom they are following. Since they dont actually start moving until you are three steps or so away from them, this wont interrupt spellcasts. Alternatively use the turn left/right keys you use for the following chars.

[keyclone]

re: keyclone binds to allow for line formation
now that is very nice work. hadn't thought of that. very slick.

[hardc0re]

i use g15 keyboard.. just hitting g1 key and perfect CROSS not that hard but then again G15 rocks for macros