RestoDrood/ 2box Need Macro Help

[slay13]

Hello all,

Currently I am running on a resto druid as my main, and boxxing 2nd resto druid along side my main during raids/pvp ect. It has been working alright so far, but there is a slight problem with the way my macro's are acting that are resulting in my boxxed druid to be 1 cast behind my main druid.
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What i want is my boxxed druid to /cast whatever spell, based on the target of my Main, currently it is set up like...

/assist Name
/cast Lifebloom

..and i'm doing that for each respective druid spell.
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The problem...is unless I hit a seperate Assist/target macro ahead of time, it doesnt cast the lifebloom on the target until the next cast...so...if i'm healing target 1...and my main switches to target 2 and casts..the first cast will still be on target 1 until the next cast is active, which then is on target 2.

So basically its as though it isnt putting through the assist until after the first cast. Is there a way to re-work this, or combine it into 1 line of code if it is a latency issue? Any help would be much appreciated friends.

[shockbeta]

I beleive what you're seeing is the delay for your target to replicate to the server then back to your other client. Have you tried switching targets then waiting a second before casting? If that fixes the issue then it's just server/client latency and nothing can really be done.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Yep, this is normal delay. If you're only waiting on the GCD between targets, then that's probably hitting right on the edge of how fast the "Main Switched Targets" data makes it from your main to the server and down to your alt. On my PCs at home, I sit at about 9-11ms latency, so I'm only suffering about half a second delays for this. When I was on cable, it was about 1-1.5 seconds delay between switching targets. On "raid nights" for your server, instance lag will extend this to up to 2-3 seconds at times, so that may be another factor.

Short answer: nothing you can do about that. :P

[edit] To simplify things, if you're setting the focus on your alt to your main, you can change the macro to be:

/cast [target=focustarget] lifebloom

Though I doubt it'll make any difference with the change-targets lag you're seeing.

[slay13]

Thanks alot guys for the quick response,

I had thought that it may very well be server latency ect, but was hoping that it was something with the way I was writing my macro.
I'll try with the new one either way, and thanks for the advice Ughma.