Need Macro Pro to fix my macro

[pinotnoir]

I got this on the forums awhile back. I am having some trouble with it in instances. It should command people to heal the focus target if the focus clicks on a party member and presses the macro. For some reason its not working when I instance. It seems to work fine out of combat. maybe one of the modifiers is off. Can a macro pro take a look at it and let me know which part is messed up?

#showtooltip
/cast [target=focustargettarget,help,nodead,exists] Lesser Healing Wave; [target=target,help,nodead,exists] Lesser Healing Wave; [target=player] Lesser Healing Wave

[thinus]

Have you tried:

/cast [target=focustargettarget,help,nodead,exists] [target=target,help,nodead,exists] [target=player] Lesser Healing Wave

I think you can remove "exists" as well as checking "help" already implies that the target exists.

EDIT: See http://www.wowwiki.com/Useful_macros....28Friendly.29

EDIT2: Also from WoWWiki

exists
This determines whether the given unit exists. In other words, if you don't have a target, [exists] will return false. If you have a focus, [target=focus, exists] would be true. Note that in some cases [exists] is unnecessary. [help], [harm], [dead], [party], & [raid] all imply [exists] if they're true.

[pinotnoir]

So if I remove exist and help it will work how it does out of combat?
What it does out of combat is heal who the focus targets.
Then in combat it is suppose to heal who the enemy is targeting or heal who I am clicking on as the main toon who is set as focus. I checked out that link and there are some nice macros in there. But I am not sure how multibox friendly they are.
Honestly I am shocked I made it this far with macros. I am not very good at them.

[thinus]

So if I remove exist and help it will work how it does out of combat?
What it does out of combat is heal who the focus targets.
Then in combat it is suppose to heal who the enemy is targeting or heal who I am clicking on as the main toon who is set as focus. I checked out that link and there are some nice macros in there. But I am not sure how multibox friendly they are.
Honestly I am shocked I made it this far with macros. I am not very good at them.

Your macro does the following in order:

1. Heal the target of your focus target. In other words, the target of whatever your main is targeting. If it is friendly and not dead.
2. It will heal your current target if it is friendly and not dead.
3. It heals you.

I suggest the following macro:

/cast [target=focustargettarget, help, nodead, combat] [target=focustarget, help, nodead] [target=target, help, nodead] [target=player] Lesser Healing Wave

It will heal the 1st friendly it finds in the following order:

1. The target of whatever your focus is targeting when you are in combat. So in combat if your main is tanking a mob this will heal the target of the mob, either your tank or whoever it is beating on. Out of combat this is ignored.
2. The target of your focus. Whoever your main has targeted will be healed.
3. Heals your current target.
4. Heals yourself.

[Djarid]

In addition to Thinus' comments, it is important to remember that the first condition that is true is the one that takes effect.

[Lokked]

/cast [target=focustarget,help,nodead,exists][target=focustargettarget,help,nodead,exists][target=player] Healing Spell

In the following order:
Will heal the target of your focus (I assume you use focus targetting), being whatever your Main is targetting, if that target is friendly and alive. If your Main is not targetting a friendly....
Will heal the target of the mob/PvP PC that your Main is targetting (say if your main loses agro, etc). If the main is not targetting anything, or targetting a mob who does not have a target (not engaged)....
Will heal yourself.

I'm not sure what classes you are playing with, but I turned my Number Pad into a Healing Pad. I made *, 9, 6, 3 and . heal chars 1 through 5, with the healing spell tailored to their maximum HP. I also use the regular number bar (number 4) to heal with a macro similar to the above during PvE (as my tank will usually have agro, and I don't want to keep reaching for the Number Pad).

I would do something similar, as you will cause yourself a headache once you experience the lag in Alts keeping up with your Main's targetting. Also, you don't really want to have to use your main to actually target the Alt to heal it. You want to be bashing the mobs head in!

Hope this made sense!

Lokked

[Djarid]

one possible improvement to lokked's macro

/cast [target=focustarget,help,nodead,exists][target=focustargettarget,help,nodead,exists][] Healing Spell

The empty [ ] has the effect of returning the healing spell to its normal mode e.g.

healable target? YES - heal that target : NO - Heal self

[Kel]

I think that only works if you have self-cast enabled. I don't and on my Pala I use [] in healing macros to give me the little blue targeting hand.

[Djarid]

ah useful to know.

to be expected now I think about it... [ ] just returns the spell to as if no conditions were used.

[pinotnoir]

/cast [target=focustarget,help,nodead,exists][target=focustargettarget,help,nodead,exists][target=player] Healing Spell

In the following order:
Will heal the target of your focus (I assume you use focus targetting), being whatever your Main is targetting, if that target is friendly and alive. If your Main is not targetting a friendly....
Will heal the target of the mob/PvP PC that your Main is targetting (say if your main loses agro, etc). If the main is not targetting anything, or targetting a mob who does not have a target (not engaged)....
Will heal yourself.

I'm not sure what classes you are playing with, but I turned my Number Pad into a Healing Pad. I made *, 9, 6, 3 and . heal chars 1 through 5, with the healing spell tailored to their maximum HP. I also use the regular number bar (number 4) to heal with a macro similar to the above during PvE (as my tank will usually have agro, and I don't want to keep reaching for the Number Pad).

I would do something similar, as you will cause yourself a headache once you experience the lag in Alts keeping up with your Main's targetting. Also, you don't really want to have to use your main to actually target the Alt to heal it. You want to be bashing the mobs head in!

Hope this made sense!

Lokked

I really need to do this too. I can setup my Gkeys on my G15 to heal party 1 through 5. I have shaman healers so how would I set up the macros? Just /tar party2 /cast healing wave? I am not sure if I have anymore macro spots on my toons.