Ken's complete Shaman macro set - feedback welcome

[Ken]

I just added a new page:
http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/inde...aman_macro_set

This is a full overview of my current Shaman macro setup. It will be update as I progress in the game. Feedback is welcome, that's why I created this topic.
I know that it is partially a gathering of existing macro's, but I thought it would be helpful for newcomers to have a complete sample setup.

[Djarid]

He he, until the focus macro, it is identical to my setup ;)

btw with your healing macro, why?

/target focus
/target [target=targettarget, help]
/castsequence reset=12 Healing Wave,,
/assist target

why not?

/castsequence [target=focustarget,help] reset=12 Healing Wave,,

When I ran just 3xshamans I used the numpad for healing with the 3x3 grid representing who healed who and the numpad 0 being the heal focus

[Ken]

3xshamans

He he, until the focus macro, it is identical to my setup

btw with your healing macro, why?

/target focus
/target [target=targettarget, help]
/castsequence reset=12 Healing Wave,,
/assist target

why not?

/castsequence [target=focustarget,help] reset=12 Healing Wave,,

When I ran just 3xshamans I used the numpad for healing with the 3x3 grid representing who healed who and the numpad 0 being the heal focus

This way it heals my focus target by default(which is always the main character that is currently played with). If my focus target itself has a friendly target selected, then the healer will heal that instead.
So, if I want to heal someone else, I don't have to set the focus target again. If I'd click on an enemy it would just heal my main character anyway.
In your case it only heals the focus target, so you have to set focus before you can heal someone else with your additionals.

(at least, that's how I interpreted your macro)

[edit: rephrase]

[Djarid]

Ah I get you

you can overload the target in my version... e.g.

/castsequence [target=focustarget,help][target=focus,help][] reset=12 Healing Wave,,

This will heal:

1. The focustarget if you can
2. the focus if you can
3. the target (it will behave as if no options where specified)

Now it is a little redundant, because you will almost always have a focus ;)

[Ken]

Ah I get you

you can overload the target in my version... e.g.

/castsequence [target=focustarget,help][target=focus,help][] reset=12 Healing Wave,,

This will heal:

1. The focustarget if you can
2. the focus if you can
3. the target (it will behave as if no options where specified)

Now it is a little redundant, because you will almost always have a focus

Ah that's better indeed, i didn't know there was "focustarget" too. Your example above doesn't need the "/target" that I had to put in, which makes it better, so the target 'slot' remains free for other things like continueing to attack.
Number 3 isn't really redundant to me, as it is handy if you want to use the character to do solo questing/instances.

[edit] I'll try this out tonight and update the wiki.

[Djarid]

BTW... for unitids they perpetually chain (well perpetually is probably incorrect but you can get long strings) e.g.

targettargettargettargettargettargettarget - of course there is a limit to the usefulness of this recursion.

useful unitids:

target
focus
party# (party1 = leader, party2-4 are relative to the character and are ordered in inverse age of the party members)
name
targettarget
focustarget
party1target (party leader's target)
djarid-target (assuming your character name is djarid)
focustargettarget (if you want to heal the guy being beaten on, this is the daddy ;) ) or any unitid for the first part

[Ken]

That's awesome, thanks for the info!

[Ken]

I updated how I do focus. Now I manually select which target has focus. And the focus character itself doesn't have a focus to itself anymore. This way, certain focus-related macro's can just stop when started by the focus character.

Changes:
- the above healing improvement
- Follow macro will now not give an error when no focus is set.
- Macro's will not give an error when no focus is set. You can use the macro's when the character isn't in the multibox party.
- Assignable focus.

Still, I don't know how to do a correct assignable focus where I have 4 characters where:
- 3 characters have focus to 1 main character
- the focus character doesn't have a focus

The only way I can think of is to do it in 2 steps(with 2 button presses):
- assign a specific focus on all characters by macro
- clear focus by macro for the focus character

"/clearfocus [player]" doesn't seem to work, as all focus targets are players.

Any suggestions to do this in 1 button press?

[rbaldwin7]

This is a great asset and guide.

I found the accept all very useful since the most popular ones i usually see do not work very good and that one definately does.

Actually I found all of the macros to be better than my own! Thanks!!!

[Ken]

That's good to hear, thanks!
I'll be updating the wiki as I encounter new improvements.