Lemme bold something very very important in response, Djarid: "AHHH guys you're killin me here!! The idea is to NOT use focus. For targetting, following, anything. Zip, zot, nada, ziltch, nein, no focus - save it for something else!!"

This macro enables you to change the lead if your main dies and is a simpler, baby step up to the complex main-focus-switch macro you describe :p And in my practice last night, the targeting seemed ALOT more response via /target [target=main] /assist than it did via Focus; the upsides are that I don't have to target and type /focus every time I log on, and the macro ALSO lets me continue to have non-tab control if my main dies, and it seems to NOT have the delay of waiting for the Focus' target to update; Focus is a static window and it's target seems to take a sec to update, whereas if I targeted someone specifically, their targeting updates much more instantly.

I had to wait awhile before hitting /assist with my old focus macro and now I'm able to acquire new targets much fasterthan before and used it to my advantage in pvp last night when a half dozen 70s showed up at Nesingwary :P WIth my focus macro I'd have lost because of the time taken to update target to alts lol

Also, Party1 is different for each char due to the way party orders work; I avoid it like the plague personally lol but that's just me