Starting a new 5 mage group, what race?

[dancook]

Okay so I went gnomes, currently at level 18. The damage is... redonkulous! I am definitly loving the challenge. I tried deadmines at level 16, had quite a few deaths. I tried to set up ISBoxer with the mages assigning raid symbols for individual sheeping then realized I can't complete the quest objective in a raid group, so I need to figure out another way to do this while not in a raid group. Anyways after dying a bit I just started manually assigning raid icons and having the individual mages focus on thier icon before the pull and this made a world of difference. Made it all the way past the shredder boss then got too tired to continue for the night.

The biggest thing that made it difficult was my level and the bad to-hit on the elite mobs. Will try again soon and destroy some baddies

You don't need to be in a 'raid' to assign symbols, I use one key to cycle through each mage with a set focus and symbol. Once I see enough different symbols ... one key to sheep.

I have Q set to Arcane Explosion and E set to Barrage - then Space for DPS macro with Arcane Blast / Missiles.

When I'm running around doing quests I just use Q and E so I don't need to stop.

[Hotnutz]

You don't need to be in a 'raid' to assign symbols

No you don't but you do need to be in a raid to promote the slaves so they can set their own symbols

[valkry]

No you don't but you do need to be in a raid to promote the slaves so they can set their own symbols

Pretty sure I have been in groups (ZA/ZG) where I wasn't the leader and was able to set a symbol.

[Hotnutz]

make a 5 man party, go into deadmines or whatever random dungeon, go to a slaves screen and try to set a raid icon on a mob. i know what im talking about

[dancook]

make a 5 man party, go into deadmines or whatever random dungeon, go to a slaves screen and try to set a raid icon on a mob. i know what im talking about

I'm using it constantly in dungeons in a five man party slaves setting their own target

In zul I set my own targets even if I'm not the leader, either for focus and warning/kill patrols symbols.

[Hotnutz]

Ya not sure whats going on then, the option is there when i right click a mob, but when i go to set the icon it doesn't show. When I try my macros, it sets the focus properly but no symbols as well.

[Tin]

For crowd controlling

For focusing:

Main mage (Shift+F1) (this is binded only to main window)
#showtooltip polymorph
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/script SetRaidTarget("focus", 1)

Slave mage 1 (Shift+F2) (this is binded only to slave 1 window)
/assist Beeq
#showtooltip polymorph
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/script SetRaidTarget("focus", 2)

Slave mage 2 (Shift+F3) (this is binded only to slave 2 window)
/assist Beeq
#showtooltip polymorph
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/script SetRaidTarget("focus", 3)

Slave mage 3 (Shift+F4) (this is binded only to slave 3 window)
/assist Beeq
#showtooltip polymorph
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/script SetRaidTarget("focus", 4)

Slave mage 4 (Shift+F5) (this is binded only to slave 4 window)
/assist Beeq
#showtooltip polymorph
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/script SetRaidTarget("focus", 5)

For sheeping:

Sheep (L) (this is FTL DPS key, binded to all windows)
/cast [target=focus]Polymorph
/stopmacro [nogroup]

For clearing focus frames:

Clearfocus (O) (this is FTL DPS key, binded to all windows)
/clearfocus

How it works?
Main mage selects any mob.
key push: Shift+F1 (The mob is now focused by main mage, and the mob have mark Star above)

Main mage selects any other mob.
key push: Shift+F2 (Slave mage 1 assists Main mage. The mob is now focused by Slave mage 1, and the mob have mark Circle above)

and so on..

when you have 5 marks on mobs, you can simply press your sheep macro (I have it on 'L'-key) and all focused mobs will turn into fluffy sheeps. Now when you nuke any target, the focused mobs will stay in focus, and pressing sheep-key will resheep them.