I really like the idea of this method since it will allow me to free focus up for CC targets. I can see using the CC macros and different modifiers on each toon's macro so that my main can assign a different target to each mage and have them remember it. The one problem I have is that I use Trinity.

So I played around a bit and got around the problem of Trinity having differently named buttons for each page on the bar. Thought I would post my solution here for those that use Trinity to be able to use this non-focus method.

In the Trinity options you have the ability to Enable the Blizzard bar. Also, whatever you put in the Blizzard bar is still available for use even if you have it hidden and use trinity keymappings/macros for everything. Trinity has its own verions of ActionButton12 which does not interfere with the Blizzard one and is called TrinityActionButton12. All of this is what allows my solution to work. Note that it is a little convoluted but once set up, works just fine. So here is what I did.


  1. Temporarily enable the Blizzard bar in the Trinity Global options
  2. Open up the regular Blizzard macro window
  3. Build the 2-5 macros that handle using a different "mains" to get targets from in the Blizzard window .
  4. Place those macros on the Blizzard bar pages 1-N (where N is the number of toons you play at once) in the last slot on the bar
  5. Disable the Blizzard bar in the Trinity Global options.
  6. Map whatever keys you want to the action bar switching (I used the same function keys that I use to swithc PiP in Keyclone so my main automatically switches when I change windows)
  7. Build all your macros in Trinity to use /click ActionButton12

And that is it! Even though the blizzard bar is not visible, switching pages still happens as expected and you can click that page's version of the macro with the same click command. An additional helper for this just as a visual cue to me that it is all working fine is that I created a 1 button Trinity bar that has 5 pages on it and copied the same macro images and titles into each page button there. So when I hit the keys to switch action pages, that Trinity bar follows suit and if something goes wrong I'll know because I will actually see that the bar didn't switch.

Hope this helps, I was really excited to get Trinity working with this method!

Mark.