Quote Originally Posted by 'keyclone',index.php?page=Thread&postID=47701#post 47701
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".