Weird follow macro issue

[maqz]

could it be the non-standard character you are using in the third name?

hmm well i went as far as transferring the letter from my main pc (which has a numpad) to my laptop through word.. logged on and copied he WFT Account letter.. went online to find it.. all of those in both capital and lower case and yet it still doesn't work :S

Try to copy it inside the game instead, from the chat to the macro box. There are so many possible different encodings.

[Ðeceased]

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Try to copy it inside the game instead, from the chat to the macro box. There are so many possible different encodings.[/quote]

oo didn't think of that one! lets hope it works I'll test it out in a little while when i get back on WoW

[Djarid]

regarding using partyleader, I used to do this right up until my first BG at 12 then quickly switched all my macros to focus.

I have since reverted, using Vyndree's recommendation of using the following conditions on spells

/ cast [target=focustarget, harm][target=party1target, harm] whatever

and for CC

/cast [target=focus, harm][target=focustarget=harm] Polymorph

This allows me to use focus or partyleader for assisting etc.

but If I have a focus that is a mob then I can cast poly on it.

[Ðeceased]

My original intention to use:

/tar [target=Kaiya,nodead,exists] [target=Ðeceased,nodead,exists] [target=Ælures,nodead,exists]
/follow

or

/follow [target=Kaiya,nodead,exists] [target=Ðeceased,nodead,exists] [target=Ælures,nodead,exists]

and other such like macros, was to allow me to completely remove the focus based friendly targeting from my game play.. the reason is that I would like to be able to use focus purely for either outside party support or enemy CC/interrupts, or maintain single target dps while being able to select different targets for spothealing etc.
so whilst party1 has made this possible for me in a PvE environment, in BG pvp i would encounter follow and targeting issues.

I get the feeling I will have to resign myself to using actual player names to manage this, but unfortunately they take up a lot of space, and as I was asking originally, for some reason this one doesn't work with my last character.. (trying to figure out why atm)

is there anyway to shorten the above conditions for finding players? ie

instead of:

/follow [target=Kaiya,nodead,exists] [target=Ðeceased,nodead,exists] [target=Ælures,nodead,exists]


writing

/follow [target=Kaiya;Ðeceased;Ælures,nodead,exists]

[Djarid]

not that I know of

[maqz]

Compressing macros is fun!

• if something matches [help] or [harm], it will also match [exists]. Since your characters are friendly, use [help].
• You don't need [target=name] in a target command, you can put the name after the conditions.
• /f = /follow (and /tar = /target, but you already use that).
• Target will try to find the best match, so (with a little risk of targetting the wrong guy) you could
  remove a few characters from the end (especially with your weird characters).
• Do you need any conditions on the last character?

/tar [help,nodead]Kaiya;[help,nodead]Ðecea;Ælures
/f

[Ðeceased]

Compressing macros is fun!

• if something matches [help] or [harm], it will also match [exists]. Since your characters are friendly, use [help].
• You don't need [target=name] in a target command, you can put the name after the conditions.
• /f = /follow (and /tar = /target, but you already use that).
• Target will try to find the best match, so (with a little risk of targetting the wrong guy) you could
  remove a few characters from the end (especially with your weird characters).
• Do you need any conditions on the last character?

/tar [help,nodead]Kaiya;[help,nodead]Ðecea;Ælures
/f

silly me..


so i could potentially have a follow macro like this (stripped down to the bone)

/f [help,nodead]Kaiya;Ðecea;Ælures

quick question tho.. I was under the impression that the nodead and help/exists part went after the the target=.... to make the conditions applicable to the target. does this way of writing it not place the condition of following on your own character? so you only follow if you are [help] or [nodead] and not the target? what i mean by that is .. that the clones follow command would depend on whether they are alive and not if the main is/isn't... am I anywhere close to being right?

just like when you write:

/cast [swimming....] Seal form (i forget the exact name) it depends on your character..
so
/f [help,nodead]Kaiya would depend on whether you are dead or not



in which case you would be able to write

/f Kaiya;Ðecea;Ælures no?

[maqz]

quick question tho.. I was under the impression that the nodead and help/exists part went after the the target=.... to make the conditions applicable to the target. does this way of writing it not place the condition of following on your own character? so you only follow if you are [help] or [nodead] and not the target? what i mean by that is .. that the clones follow command would depend on whether they are alive and not if the main is/isn't... am I anywhere close to being right?

just like when you write:

/cast [swimming....] Seal form (i forget the exact name) it depends on your character..
so
/f [help,nodead]Kaiya would depend on whether you are dead or not



in which case you would be able to write

/f Kaiya;Ðecea;Ælures no?

You got a point. I guess I was wrong, you probably do need the [target=X,...] syntax. :S

Conditions are usually tested on the target. Swimming and mounted and so on are exceptions that are tested on the player. However, I believed that in a /target command, the conditions where tested on the unit you were trying to target (that's why I wrote separate /target and /follow commands.)

I don't know if /follow will work with a shortened name like /target does, you'll have to try that.

Options do not carry over a semicolon. That's great, because sometimes you want to test for different options.

How short do you need to make this macro? I suppose you have other commands you need to fit as well, it would be helpful to see the whole thing to see how small it needs to be. Oh, and by the way, did you ever get the last character's name to work?

[Ðeceased]

You got a point. I guess I was wrong, you probably do need the [target=X,...] syntax. :S

Conditions are usually tested on the target. Swimming and mounted and so on are exceptions that are tested on the player. However, I believed that in a /target command, the conditions where tested on the unit you were trying to target (that's why I wrote separate /target and /follow commands.)

I don't know if /follow will work with a shortened name like /target does, you'll have to try that.

Options do not carry over a semicolon. That's great, because sometimes you want to test for different options.

How short do you need to make this macro? I suppose you have other commands you need to fit as well, it would be helpful to see the whole thing to see how small it needs to be. Oh, and by the way, did you ever get the last character's name to work?

well as short as poss rly. basically I am trying to set my macros up so i can use them in Pve and Pvp for all my mains without having to use focus as a main targeting necessity. this way ensures that when I enter a BG i will also be able to follow etc without risking them all going off in different directions if I were to use Party1.
the only dissadvantage to using this way is the fact that I'll be running out of space in my macro box (255 characters).
The Idea eventually would be to include my clones in to the macro aswell incase my main dies and i need to switch to a clone .. this would mean that I am likely to have around 6-7 names as a requirement :S I will try and abbreviate as much as poss.. I hadn't rly thought of that ^^

"Ð" and all those odd letters would probably already suffice as 99% of the wow population doesn't use them.. I'll be posting the final one once I get it done

[Djarid]

nm - misread