Ken's complete Shaman macro set - feedback welcome

[Djarid]

Ken, why don't you want the brain to have focus on themselves?

[Ken]

Ken, why don't you want the brain to have focus on themselves?

So it can identify itself as being the brain. This way, macro's like the 'follow focus' don't complain about not having a focus target. This could also be used for casting(or not casting) certain spells.
There's no "am I the brain?" or "is he the brain?" check possible in WoW, so this is my workaround for it.

Also: Characters that don't have a focus set will behave (with my macro's) like a normal character. So macro-functionality buttons will become normal use buttons and - for example - cast spells normally. In most cases this worked already, but it would complain about the "/assist focus" because there is no focus set.

[opt]

hm thats an interesting healing setup.
I have mine so 2 shamans cast lesser healing wave and 2 cast healing wave on the mob's target so focustargettarget, also /cast [target=self] chain healing, for aoe healing and an alt modifier on that one /cast [target=focustargettarget] chain heal.
Its simple but it has problems with mobs hitting a different target than what you may want to heal and such. I'd love to change it and use a better one, like what you have above but im afraid if i change it now i will stick to my old ways and wont be able to sub consciencly change it

Maybe add a few different healing macros into it.

[Ken]

hm thats an interesting healing setup.
I have mine so 2 shamans cast lesser healing wave and 2 cast healing wave on the mob's target so focustargettarget, also /cast [target=self] chain healing, for aoe healing and an alt modifier on that one /cast [target=focustargettarget] chain heal.

Chain heal does indeed sound better, but I don't have that skill yet.

Its simple but it has problems with mobs hitting a different target than what you may want to heal and such. I'd love to change it and use a better one, like what you have above but im afraid if i change it now i will stick to my old ways and wont be able to sub consciencly change it

Maybe add a few different healing macros into it.

Sub-consciencly changing it only takes a couple of minutes to hours(depending on how long you used it), so that shouldn't be the problem
I get 2 shamans heal me(or my target) by just pressing the butting twice, quickly. It's slightly more work, but just takes a fraction of a second. The benefit is that you keep more control of your mana and that I can just let 1 guy heal while the other one continues to attack.

Still, I'm not 100% happy with the healing, because if my main dies and my second character becomes my main, this second character will be the first to cast the healing macro, while I want the others to continue doing that by themselves.

[Havelcek]

Awesome, thank you so much. I find the macro stuff to be the hardest part of multiboxing.

+rep

[Multibocks]

I love it, was lookin for something just like this! Was wondering why you dont use mouseovers? It's great for healing and doesnt do indirectly wasteful healing (all characters casting healing wave on themselves seems strange). I guess in an AE dmg situation it would be useful....

[TheBigBB]

Ken, I really appreciate this wiki. I got a grasp of proper group setup within one session of trying out your macros. I fully understand the importance now of so many concepts that were absolutely foreign to me before.

[Ken]

I love it, was lookin for something just like this! Was wondering why you dont use mouseovers? It's great for healing and doesnt do indirectly wasteful healing (all characters casting healing wave on themselves seems strange). I guess in an AE dmg situation it would be useful....

^^
I target everything with my keyboard and tabbing and use the mouse the least as possible, because it's slower than the keyboard.
When I get AoE dmg, I do a chain heal in the shape of a circle. But normally the just do a lesser heal on the friendly focustarget or on the focus itself when he has no friendly target.

Ken, I really appreciate this wiki. I got a grasp of proper group setup within one session of trying out your macros. I fully understand the importance now of so many concepts that were absolutely foreign to me before.

You're welcome and good luck! :D
If you think that anything should be written down more clear or if anything should be more detailed/extensive, you're very welcome to point it out here.

*cough* wow-multiboxing.com *cough* soon *cough*

[Tizer]

/stopcasting
/cast Bloodlust

On round-robin in keyclone

It wasnt until a few days ago that i changed the bloodlust ability. I just had it on simple round robin in keyclone but i just had the spell in the slot instead of macro'd.

This way i dont have to wait until my current spell being cast is complete, i can activate it as soon as i press the button.

Stupid of me not to think about doing this before hand really.

I think its also worth adding the /stopcasting line before any instant spell like a shock and purge.

I know these aint in there at the moment but could be a worthy addition to your set! xD

maybe! :x

[shaeman]

It's amazing - you can read something and completely ignore it's significance.

I've seen this setup guide and because I was prejudiced against the use of focus I pretty much discounted this whole setup.

Today after posting in another thread I've been made to realise that my wishing not to use focus is stupid, so I read your setup wiki page with fresh eyes.

THANK YOU!!!

This setup is elegant and simple. Combined with the PIP feature of keyclone maximizer I will be able to switch Brains as quickly as I want.

I boosted my team to their 40's in instances and it was only yesterday when I lost my brain toon for the first time that I came to appreciate the frustration of not being able to switch.

Your solution also allows me to solo play each of the toons. I'll install the totem add on I will have on all 4 of the shammys so that when I switch I can have access to all the totems really easily too.

Great work.