Oooh new assist without focus macro!!

[Zzyzxx71]

Needed to get home to post this, but this is my healing macro format... not sure WHY it works, but it works..

/cast [target=targettarget, help] [] Lesser Healing Wave

[yarr]

here's an idea, just throwing it out there (i'm not using it atm, im one of those noobs using focus)

you may want to put [nodead, noharm] instead of just [nodead] or however the syntax allows. Because when your main gets MC'ed, you won't be able to assist him.

This is actually potentially a great solution to the MC dilemma some of us have had.

Not sure if its possible to extend it to include hex/polymorph (until blizzard adds a noCC'ed variable lol!)

[kllrwlf]

I did some testing and can't figure out how to make this work.

Have 3 toons (or more, but 3 for the test) all in a party and all alive and not in combat.

Have Toon1 (main toon) at one end of Shatt.

Toon2 and Toon3 together at the other end.

Have a macro for Toon3, that says, follow Toon1 or follow Toon2.

What's happening is that Toon3 is targeting Toon1 and doing nothing. It's able to target Toon1 because they are all in the same party.

Any suggestion?

I tried [nodead, exists] and [nodead] and [exists] but with the same result.

This is basically a test for when you are in AV, and all of your toons have spawned, but split up at 2 different GYs.

[Zzyzxx71]

The [noharm] is a damn good idea. I just started getting into situationw where the main is being MC'd and in one instance the rest of the guys KILLED my main. Was really sucky.

Anyone know if there's a nodifier for [inrange] or something to the effect? That would be the key to what the above poster is talking about I believe.

[Eteocles]

Kllr that's because your lead was alive, just out of range; nodead != norange ;p(and no I don't think there's an "in range" modifier); I haven't been able to properly test it yet because my shamen haven't died yet and I only die in pvp on my boomkins mostly(hush zin) and their names make it too hard for me to tell if I'm using the right window as the main or not lol

That said, this macro HAS saved me alot of time; no longer do I Have to manually set /focus every time I log on, just hit the macro and go, and it works fine while all 3 are dead at the GY. It seems to respond better MOST of the time than my focus macros did as well, less delay between target updates(though it still exists and always will)

[JD50]

If you don't use focus, and you are constantly targeting your main, what are you using to keep track of your CC'd target?

Also, what are you using to keep DPSing the same target when your main switches targets to grab aggro? Someone else mentioned a macro for this in another thread that I've been using, but it wouldn't work if you are constantly targeting your main.

[Zzyzxx71]

If you don't use focus, and you are constantly targeting your main, what are you using to keep track of your CC'd target?

Also, what are you using to keep DPSing the same target when your main switches targets to grab aggro? Someone else mentioned a macro for this in another thread that I've been using, but it wouldn't work if you are constantly targeting your main.

What CCd target? I run 4 shamans right now. I never claimed this was the end all be all solution for all group makeups. If you need focus, use it. The nice part of the nofocus credo is that focus is STILL THERE. It's usable, available, free to do with as you please. As far as aggro, with 4 shamans aggro tends to bounce around a lot. I ran mana tombs the other night and setup macros (and yes, used focus) for the first time. If it hadn't been available to me, I wouldn't have been able to use it.

I think something should be made clear that hasn't been touched on. This thread and the upcoming manifesto has absolutely nothing to do with some kind of malformed hatred towards focus - quite the opposite actually. It's the potential POWER and flexibility of focus that made me initially hesitant to use it. I wanted to save is as my ICBM in my pocket. Eventually there will be this situation where "how the fuck is that multiboxer guy gonna do THAT??" comes up and I'll be able to say - FOCUS!!! Why? Because it'll still be an unused, untapped tool.

[JD50]

Aaahhhh....Ok, that makes sense. I thought I might have been missing out on a good macro or something that would still leave focus free for me when I CC something.

[Eteocles]

I use this /target 1nodead 2nodead etc macro on all my chars now, much more effective than /tar focus /assist focus etc since I can just log on, hit hotkey, and bam, everyone's following the lead toon, and if he dies, the next in line takes over as leader with no special hotkeys/macros needed beyond this one. And yeah, /focus is still free to use on other things like sheep targets; leave your /cast Polymorph [target=focus] and set /focus to the mob you want poly'd, and this macro will still work as a follow/assist lead char without "needing" focus; aka, this macro lets you do the usual full assists and dps without the Lead char hogging Focus

[Zzyzxx71]

Eteocles you've taken it one step further. I still don't have the whole sequence worked in to every macro but that would be the completion of the process.