/follow in WoW

[HPAVC]

Channeled abilities break follow iirc, not 100% sure

tested myself - every ability which turn character (i.e. mindflay or arcane missles) breaks /follow. Channeled spells like Blizzard logically shouldnt break /follow - will test as soon as I get the spell.[/quote]

Some spells break follow and give the 'your too busy to do that' response, though they don't move the character like the warlock drains, mindflay and arcane missles when you try and /follow during them. I believe old school slam is one of these. I wouldn't be surprised if all the channeled spells at times did this because of the tick timing they seem to have. Such as interrupting hellfire seems to not be as responsive as you want at times, but it has a fast tick speed.

[Evilsmith]

My main computers movement keys are WASD, on the client those keys are bound to /follow "nameofmaincharacter" macros to solve this problem. Not a perfect solution but it does the trick.

hey, it pains me to ask this question here because i hate being the guy that always asks the dumb questions but i searched the wowwiki and couldn't find an answer.

i really can't figure out how to trigger a macro with anything but the action bar keys (ie. 1-10 etc). i want to make my slaves follow when i hit 'w' with my main.

thanks again..

[Ughmahedhurtz]

hey, it pains me to ask this question here because i hate being the guy that always asks the dumb questions but i searched the wowwiki and couldn't find an answer.

i really can't figure out how to trigger a macro with anything but the action bar keys (ie. 1-10 etc). i want to make my slaves follow when i hit 'w' with my main.

thanks again..

1) Make macro for "/follow <mainchar>"
2) Go into Interface Options-->Advanced and show all the other hotbars
3) Go into Keybinds and bind your "W" key to a hotbar button
4) Drag macro for /follow onto that key
5) ???
6) Profit!

This is exactly what I do on my guys. "E" is a button on actionbar3 I think. I drop macro on there and leave "E" bound to "Move Forward" on my main. I don't bind the other movement keys to it because sometimes I want to move around while leaving them where they are (LOS pulls, for example). I use both mouse buttons for the alternate/default "move forward" and my middle mouse is the "toggle run" bind, so I only use E when I'm moving around and want the others to autofollow.

[Evilsmith]

yup! thanks a bunch mang.

slowly am i cutting down on unecessary button clicks.. makes the experience so much better. >

[Xzin]

There are also auto follow UI mods that auto follow your focus character when you leave combat.