Problem with targeting

[Kaynin]

Hmm,

You could try to use the following.

/cast [target=focus] Chain Lightning ; Chain Lightning

And for your focus macro have the main use a /clear focus

Example: If F2 switches to your second toon, have all other toons focus the second toon and have the second toon clear his focus. F3 third toons, etc, etc.

I think that might work. If the main doesn't have a focus it should cast a normal Chain Lightning then.

[scottig]

I guess I could set up a separate cast bar and reword the focus macro to switch cast bars when I change focus to one of my alts.

[Kaynin]

Oh, and I would make it like this..

/cast [target=focus, nodead, exists, harm] Chain Lightning ; Chain Lightning

(You won't need the modifiers on your main toon, so the second on the list doesn't need them, the macro should only use the second part of the cast if it's the main toon.)

And if your characters are named toon1-toon5 and you have the change keys like F1-F5
Have F1 do a "/focus toon1" on toon 2-5 and have F1 do a "/clear focus" on toon1

Or switch castbars, but to be honest, this should work as well.

[scottig]

The change action bar works great I just set up the main to have one cast bar with
#showtooltip
/assist focus
/cast Fireball

and a 2nd cast bar where I just drag spells from the spellbook.

And I just renamed my set focus button to
/focus gumbie
/target focus
/follow
/assist
/changeactionbar 4

works perfect no more target jumping :thumbsup:

thanks for everyones help

[Kaynin]

Cool, been of little help myself then but nice to see things worked out. x)

[Dinkydau]

I'm not sure if my way is the best way to do it or not, but I have a macro that I assign to my "X" key for all my toons. That macro is to /assist maintoon. With my main, I select my target with my mouse, press the X button, all other toons automatically targt the mains target. It can get a little tedious doing it for every mob, but it works. If anyone has a better way, I'd love to hear it.

Johnny

[Kaynin]

I'm not sure if my way is the best way to do it or not, but I have a macro that I assign to my "X" key for all my toons. That macro is to /assist maintoon. With my main, I select my target with my mouse, press the X button, all other toons automatically targt the mains target. It can get a little tedious doing it for every mob, but it works. If anyone has a better way, I'd love to hear it.

Johnny

That is -the- way of lets say your main is a tank and your alts the dps. That way you can retarget at will on your main while your alts remain on theirs.

For PvP however, I'd go with the above described way. you generally always focus the same target on your mains as well as alts and focusing your main while using [target=focustarget] macro's would then save the problem of pressing an extra key.
Or put the /assist maintoon inside the dps macro's. Though personally I prefer using focus myself, not sure why though.

If you have CC, you should use assist tho since your cc's will need focus for their CC. But that's the only reason not to use focus on your main. And a seperate button for targeting will only matter in PvE when your main is tanking multiple mobs/ switching targets. In all other situations I can think off, you should just combine it with the dps keys.

[keyclone]

what do you people think about this...

in the step-by-step guide, i mention using a macro like '/assist joe' and '/follow joe' to make things easier and not expose the new user to the complexities of wow macros. my thinking being that they would pick up macros as they go along and would be able to adjust their own macros when they are ready and better able to understand the impact.

do you think i should introduce the concept early, or keep it as simple as possible for the beginner?

[Sentack]

It'll be difficult to define where the 'bar' is, but honestly i think you should give those who honestly go for Multi-boxing some amount of credit and consider them to at least be not completely idiots. It doesn't mean you shouldn't explain in details WHY you make your choices or when alternative choices are available to at least point them out. But in general, be specific, use real examples and try to make things seem functional and reasonable.

I can understand making things as simple as possible but honestly, we're not talking average joe user here for multi-boxers. These people want to be at least somewhat serious about their play. And are ready to take risks and be forced to do real research. Multi-Boxing doesn't happen over night.

[Schwarz]

what do you people think about this...

in the step-by-step guide, i mention using a macro like '/assist joe' and '/follow joe' to make things easier and not expose the new user to the complexities of wow macros. my thinking being that they would pick up macros as they go along and would be able to adjust their own macros when they are ready and better able to understand the impact.

do you think i should introduce the concept early, or keep it as simple as possible for the beginner?

From my little experiment I started out just using the '/assist joe' type of macro and soon found that I wanted a way for my clones to keep nuking a target while my main does something else. Enter /focus.

Some of these more complex methods actually make things simplier. It always pissed me off in a math class when you learned the hard way of computing something first. Then a week or 2 later they come back and say "well there is a trick to doing this that is really simple".