Macro Thread

[Ragecrow]

Please post helpful Macro's for other dual/multi box people. I see quite a few questions so this may help people (including me!!!)

I two box so I have my healer on the second box.

/cast [target=party1target] Shadow Word: Pain
/follow Party1

/cast [target=party1] Renew
/follow Party1

This is the basic template for most of my macro's. You can use a characters name instead of Party1 but I prefer the generic party1 so it will work with whoever I have as the main character.

[Ellay]

If the main player dies, is there a macro that switches it to the secondary player to assist from?

[Ragecrow]

being I am only two boxing atm, I havent needed it but Ill take a look and see what I can come up with. I wonder if I cannot use modifiers to switch the /assist and /target to other party members...

[Micah]

This is the macro I use when my primary character dies and I need to switch to another one. I target someone else with the main character then press this macro on all other characters to switch to the main characters target.
[code:1]/focus focustarget[/code:1]

[Ragecrow]

I found a macro I just cannot figure out. Setup is Rogue on main box and priest on second box. My macro for most actions is this

[code:1]/cast [target=party1target] Shadow Word: Pain
/follow Party1[/code:1]

[code:1]/cast [target=party1] Renew
/follow Party1[/code:1]

What does not work is any form of shoot wand. If I put it into the above macro, it shoots it once.

[code:1]/cast [target=party1target] shoot[/code:1]

If I just put /Cast shoot it obviously wont target anything. Anyone have a way to target and shoot wand where the wand actually shoots until the mob dies? If I need to change all of my macros to /focus, I cna do that. I just want to be able to shoot the mob after I pain it with the priest. No reason to waste mana mindblasting.

Thanks!!

[Micah]

Auto-shoot goes based on your current target. Using the [target] option doesn't change your target, it just tells Auto-shoot where to start at then every shot after that will be at your target (whoever that is).
[code:1]/target party1target
/cast Shoot[/code:1]
That will change your target first then shoot at it, repeating until your target changes again.

[Steph]

After looking at my screens a bit puzzled after logging in and no chars responding, I realized it is because I extensively use the 'party1' style of macros, and my chars were not yet partied.

So, I have the following macro now on my primary char:

[code:1]/invite Alaire
/invite Blaire
/invite Dlaire
/invite Elaire
/script SetLootMethod("freeforall")
[/code:1]

This showed clearly that I dont want to hit [accept] on each screen, so I added a macro on the clients. This has grown to a general accept and is very handy indeed:

[code:1]/script AcceptGroup{}
/script AcceptQuest{}
/script AcceptTrade{}
/script RetrieveCorpse{}[/code:1]

Partying up is just one button, accepting trades or shared quests is done with the same button! :wink:

[jah76de]

This is a repost from another thread:


This is really a macro that helps anyone with a healer and up to 3 other boxes(or pets).

cast [modifier:shift, target=player1]renew; [modifier:alt, target=player2]renew; [modifier:ctrl, target=player3]renew; [target=player4]renew

What this will do is make it so you don't have to specifically target anyone in your party to heal them.

Let's say your hotkey for renew is 5. If you click alt+5 then a certain toon gets renewed.

If you click ctrl+5 then a certain toon gets renewed.

If you click shift+5 then a certain toon gets renewed.

If you just click 5 then a certain toon gets renewed.

This is also nice because since you never have to target the toon, the healer will never lose their current target(if they are helping attack a mob).

Of course, you can substitute any spell for renew to be cast. The shift and ctrl modifiers are tricky though. Make sure they are not bound to anything already. Also, shift needs to be enabled as a modifier(you can find out how to do this on the WoW UI and macros official forum in one of the stickies I believe)[/b]

[Micah]

[code:1]/script AcceptGroup{}
/script AcceptQuest{}
/script AcceptTrade{}[/code:1]

I'm adding this to my action bars when I get home tonight.

[Ellay]

Has anyone noticed quicker target assisting by using focustarget instead of assist?
When I tab through enemies quickly, my assists will sometimes be a target or two behind. Anyone found a nice way to get past this?