Follow and assist macros....

[Dilandach]

Follow and assist macros?

All the ones that I've seen listed on the wiki/forum dont work.

/target [target=paladin, nodead] [target=mage1, nodead]
/assist target

does not work

/target [target=paladin, nodead]; [target=mage1, nodead];

/assist target

does not work

terribly frustrating, all I want the assist/follow macros to do is pretty much what that above is attempting to do.

If you copy/paste from board, it sometimes can carry over some weird characters that wont even showup, but render macro useless.
so try rewriting it from scratch, and I don't know if you know that or not, but you need to put names of your toons in place of "paladin" "mage"

/target [target=Neux, nodead];
/assist target

have to work...
but to be honest I dont have time to test it now, but I will by the end of this day.

[edit] after testing above macro on random bystander in AH, I can confirm it works as intended, it targets bystander's target instantly
but for second person and onward you have to be in party...
don't even have to have << ; >> at the end of every << ] >>, but it really doesn't effect it either.


PS: adding "exists" might be also good idea, like:

/target [target=NAME, nodead, exists]; [target=NAME, nodead, exists];
/assist target

or you can have one macro like

/focus [target=NAME, nodead, exists]; [target=NAME, nodead, exists]; [target=NAME, nodead, exists];

and rest of macros like

/cast [target=focustarget, harm, nodead, exists] Fire Ball

or what ever version you think works best for you, there at least good half of dozen well know, and even more custom version of follow/assist.

I strongly recommend learning basics, study examples here on board, and adjust for your liking, hehe XD

Its not so much that I was requiring the basics to be learnt or copy and pasting, it was just a case of the macro not being suited to the situation I was using it for.

IE Follow this guy and assist him but if he's dead, out of range or offline then follow and assist this other guy.

All I'd get if I took the first follow/assist target offline is "You have no target" from the other chars. If they've both online, the macro works as intended but take the main offline and it does a "rainman".