Need Macro Pro to fix my macro

[pinotnoir]

I tried making a macro for the party..
/tar party3
/cast [mod:alt] Chain Heal; [mod:shift] Healing Wave; Lesser Healing Wave

But when the guy who is say Party3 is trying to heal he always heals party 4. It seems like you cannot target yourself even if you are party 3.

[�eceased]

I tried making a macro for the party..
/tar party3
/cast [mod:alt] Chain Heal; [mod:shift] Healing Wave; Lesser Healing Wave

But when the guy who is say Party3 is trying to heal he always heals party 4. It seems like you cannot target yourself even if you are party 3.

I'm not 100% sure what you were describing there but the way I imagine it is that as it orders the group alphabetically you have to incorporate that into your macro setup..
so say you have A B C D and Z where Z is ur main and group leader

my guess would be that then the group order becomes Z A B C D
with one little exception dependant on the character ur casting from.. (and I'm not sure on this so might need testing :P)

if you are A:

Player: heals A
Party1: heals Z
Party2: heals B
Party3: heals C
Party4: heals D

if you are B:

Player: heals B
Party1: heals Z
Party2: heals A
Party3: heals C
Party4: heals D

if you are C:

Player: heals C
Party1: heals Z
Party2: heals A
Party3: heals B
Party4: heals D

if you are D:

Player: heals D
Party1: heals Z
Party2: heals A
Party3: heals B
Party4: heals C

if you are Z:

Player: heals Z
Party1: heals A
Party2: heals B
Party3: heals C
Party4: heals D

I'm only guessing here as i haven't the opportunity to test it out atm :S
If you are planning on using this use it at ur own risk.. if you want to change the leader for some reason u'll mess up the order big time :S
you could however use the actual name of the clones instead (if they fit).. stick to part1 for leader if you like tho it's a good way to do it if you have different mains

[pinotnoir]

I am thinking using their names would prob be best. I am not sure.. Healing has been my downfall.

[Djarid]

I tried making a macro for the party..
/tar party3
/cast [mod:alt] Chain Heal; [mod:shift] Healing Wave; Lesser Healing Wave

But when the guy who is say Party3 is trying to heal he always heals party 4. It seems like you cannot target yourself even if you are party 3.

remember that each party list is specific to each char... so PArty1 = leader, party 2 is probably self then party 3-5 in reverse order of creation... could be slightly wrong about that but...

[Lokked]

Yes, use their names. You can't reliable target using /partyX. With some headache, you may get it working for your 5-man group, but as soon as you enter a raid or BG setting, /partyX targetting will fail.

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[Dezeral]

You cannot target yourself using party#. You use "target=player" to target yourself. For each person in the party other than yourself, you have the options of party1, party2, party3, and party4. There isn't a party5 targeting option. All of these targeting options are for the other players in your group. Party1 is always the party leader.

Also, if you're creating macros to heal specific party members, then using /tar party# is not necessary. This is especially true if your using shamans/druids as DPS who also heal. If you switch targets to heal, that means you have to switch back to start DPS'ing again. Instead, you can include your desired target in your macro. For example your original macro was:
/tar party3
/cast [mod:alt] Chain Heal; [mod:shift] Healing Wave; Lesser Healing Wave

This could be re-written to:
/cast [target=party3] [mod:alt] Chain Heal; [mod:shift] Healing Wave; Lesser Healing Wave

This would allow your shaman to keep his/her original target so that they could resume DPS as soon as the heal finished without having to reacquire a target.

A full set of party healing macros would look like:

/cast [target=player] [mod:alt] Chain Heal; [mod:shift] Healing Wave; Lesser Healing Wave
/cast [target=party1] [mod:alt] Chain Heal; [mod:shift] Healing Wave; Lesser Healing Wave
/cast [target=party2] [mod:alt] Chain Heal; [mod:shift] Healing Wave; Lesser Healing Wave
/cast [target=party3] [mod:alt] Chain Heal; [mod:shift] Healing Wave; Lesser Healing Wave
/cast [target=party4] [mod:alt] Chain Heal; [mod:shift] Healing Wave; Lesser Healing Wave

If you're using a dedicated healer whether it be a shaman or druid (or any other healer) then it isn't a big deal to use the /tar party# line in your macro. But it is really going to slow down your DPS output if you're DPS'ing and Healing with the same character.

[pinotnoir]

I tried doing my macro like this
/cast [target=pinotgrigio] [mod:shift] Healing Wave; [mod:ctrl] Lesser Healing Wave; Chain Heal

It should cast chain heal without modifiers. For some reason it cast healing wave if you press the key without modifiers. The only way I can get it to work is do the macro like this.

/tar pinotgrigio
/cast [mod:shift] Healing Wave; [mod:ctrl] Lesser Healing Wave; Chain Heal

Unless I have something incorrect in my above macro I think this is the only way for me to get it working. Any suggestions?

[Maxion]

You cannot target yourself using party#. You use "target=player" to target yourself. For each person in the party other than yourself, you have the options of party1, party2, party3, and party4. There isn't a party5 targeting option. All of these targeting options are for the other players in your group. Party1 is always the party leader.

I believe you can use party0 to target yourself.

[Kel]

I could be wrong about this, but i was under the impression that you can't include character names as modifiers.

Things like [target=party1] work, but I thought [target=Kelli] wouldn't as it's protected or something (I'm happy to be proved wrong on this front).

As for the macro itself I think [target=pinotgrigio][mod:shift] Healing Wave; etc
is acting as though [target=pinotgrigio] is a condition, the first condition that is true is activated. So basically I think the macro is saying if my target is Pinotgrigio then cast Healing Wave on it, regardless of the rest of the modifiers.

I think you need to include all the modifiers in the same [], so [target=pinotgrigio,mod:shift] Healing Wave; might work.

Then again I'm tired and ill, so could be talking complete crap

[Lokked]

You can use Character names as long as they are Party'd or Raid'd with you.

I have been doing it for a while now...

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