Quote Originally Posted by 'khundawg',index.php?page=Thread&postID=51097#post 51097
ok, so you never issue a real /assist command like

Code:
/assist focus
or
Code:
/target focus
/assist
This was what I was trying and having no luck. So how would you do a switch of your focus between live characters or to a specific character on the fly?
It really depends on what works for you and this can depend on the key broadcasting method you are using to a certain extent, software, hardware, keyclone, AHK, Octupus, etc.

How and when do you plan to assist? In PvE you can still get away with pushing an assist button and then pushing your dps buttons. It is not really feasible for most of us as you have enough micro-management going on and adding the additional burden of assisting is something we try and avoid.

Targeting is a major discussion point on the forums and if you search for anything to do with "switching main" or "focus targeting" you should get more than enough information.

The disadvantage of using "/assist" is that it doesn't work if you have yourself focused and if you do assist then you lose your current target which you could have been using for CC for instance.

Lets say you have 5 buttons to switch focus.
Btn1: everyone /focus char1
Btn2: everyone /focus char2
Btn3: everyone /focus char3
Btn4: everyone /focus char4
Btn5: everyone /focus char5

Now you can easily switch between which character you want to be your "targeting" controller. Even if you focus yourself then [target=focustarget] will still work in your macros as it will resolve to whatever you have targeted.

Now lets say you want to assign targets for CC, for this you can make /assist macros:
SetCC1: char with CC1 - /assist focus
SetCC2: char with CC2 - /assist focus

So to assign a CC target you hit the SetCC1 button and that character only targets your current target and remembers it. Because all your normal abilities are macrod to work on [target=focustarget] your clones will never lose their targets.

Your CC macro will act on your assigned target and not on your focustarget, ie
Code:
/cast polymorph
Add all the modifiers like [exists, nodead, harm] etc to your taste.



So in short:
DPS: [target=focustarget]
Heal: [target=focus] OR [target=focustargettarget] OR you can hardcode healing by name [target=char1]
CC: On your assigned target
Buff: [target=focustarget] if you want to make it easy to buff other ppl too
Switch main: everyone /focus the new main