Chained keycommands?

[Wyneth]

Hello everyone,

Not sure if this should actually be put in the macros/addons section, but still.. Is there a good way to make chained key actions?

What I mean is, if I for instance hit F1 and then 1, I'd heal my first character. F1, 2 would heal my second, and so forth. The chain would need some sort of timeout or reset key (hitting F1 again?). As it is now, I have macros set up for mousover on my priest second, if no healable target is on mouseover, it'd try to heal the target of my focus (main is focus), and if that isn't a healable one, heal the focus. F1 is lesser heal, F2 is renew. The idea is that hitting F2, 2 would cast renew on my second character. F1, 3 would cast lesser heal on the third char etc.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

[Gallo]

If you're looking for healing methods, you are pretty close to getting a good macro set up just with your ideas.

I would suggest that you macro out 5 simple targetting macros:

/target Toon1
/target Toon2
etc

Set these on F1-F5, or on your keypad, or whatever.
Then, all you need is your heals put on macros.

/cast Greater Heal
or
/cast Renew

Then, you tap your target, then whatever heal you want.

When I was doing a PVE team, I put this all on the keypad:

1 - target tank
2 - target dps1
3 - target dps2
5 - target dps3
6 - target dps4
4 - Greater heal (i put this here because it was right above the Tank target button, and you'll be healing the tank the most (hopefully))
7 - Renew
8 - Flash heal
9 - Prayer of Healing
PageUp - Shield

so, all my targetting and healing was on the keypad, and all my DPS was on the normal keys.

[Wyneth]

Hrm, maybe I was confused writing that post, heh. What you say works just fine for the purpose. Then all I have to do is make my casting macros work from Target of Focus, and it doesn't matter who I'm targetting at the moment.

[Gallo]

Hrm, maybe I was confused writing that post, heh. What you say works just fine for the purpose. Then all I have to do is make my casting macros work from Target of Focus, and it doesn't matter who I'm targetting at the moment.

Are you saying that because you want your Main Tank to be targetting who you want healed by your healer? That is a bad idea IMO. You want to be able to be tanking, while healing. Using focustarget to heal will cause your tank to "pause" for a couple seconds while you target someone to get healed.

[Wyneth]

Well, I suppose there's no way to use the mouseover target of the focus? [target=focusmousover]?
Switching windows to my healer is quite iffy, so I'll have to use some sort of targetting and then targetted macros.

[Gallo]

You don't want to use any mouseovers. Also, you don't have to switch windows to your healer. Just make sure that no other character has those keys I described binded... then just watch the health from your main's account

[Wyneth]

Well, I don't mind having to target people first, but mouseovers make things a LOT simpler.. I just point at the unit frame, and wham, spell cast. I use mouseovers for healing on my 70 shammy healer (raid, resto specced) and it works quite fine with addons like grid.

Anyhow, I made a targetting macro for each of my three toons, and I'm using that for specifying who to heal when things are getting rough.. It's just a little difficult to get it into my fingers

[Djarid]

I have the 1st 7 buttons on the 2nd row of my X-Keys Pro dedicated to healing macros. (they are bound to numpad 0, 1-5 & .)

focutargettarget
1.

/cast [target=focustargettarget, nomodifier] Healing Touch; [target=focustargettarget, mod:alt] Regeneration; [target=focustargettarget, mod:alt] Regrowth

named characters
2-5.

/cast [target=Ashanav, nomodifier] Healing Touch; [target=Ashanav, mod:alt] Regeneration; [target=Ashanav, mod:alt] Regrowth

OMGWTF (on all characters)
.

/cast [target=focustargettarget,nomodifier] <flash heal>; [target=focustargettarget,mod:alt/shift] <big heal>; target=focustargettarget, mod:ctrl] Git of the Naaru

[Gallo]

Well, I don't mind having to target people first, but mouseovers make things a LOT simpler.. I just point at the unit frame, and wham, spell cast. I use mouseovers for healing on my 70 shammy healer (raid, resto specced) and it works quite fine with addons like grid.

Anyhow, I made a targetting macro for each of my three toons, and I'm using that for specifying who to heal when things are getting rough.. It's just a little difficult to get it into my fingers

I don't think that you quite get what I'm saying. Yes, mouseovers are great if you're actually playing a healer character. If you're tank is the main screen, you don't want to be using mouseovers to heal when a mob breaks aggro and runs toward your squishies, when you should have been rotating sunder armor or whatever. As a tank, you should have your full attention on mobs. Ultimately it is your decision, but as a whole Multiboxers are slower to react in instances, and this could potentially make it harder to regain aggro if you miss a runner.

[Maxion]

I think his point with mouseover is that when you use mouseover as the target then you don't actually have to change your target and can keep spamming your tanking rotation, you can point your mouse wherever without changing your target as long as you don't click, so if they could cast on his mouseover then he wouldn't have to take his tank's attention off the mob to heal.