The No Focus Manifesto v0.1

[Fuzzyboy]

[align=center]The No Focus Manifesto!!![/align]
The functionality of these 4 macros with a little modification (add one for earth shock, frost shock, chain lightning) and you have:
1. Group invite
2. Accept
3. Follow
4. Assist and Pew Pew

Lets explore the following scenario:

Your Brain dies – “OH NO NOT THE BRAIN!!!” – You take control of slave #1, You click your follow macr, Slaves #2,3,4 target Slave #1 based on the way the big button macro is setup.
You start to pew pew with slave #1. Based on the way the casting macros are setup – he is allowed to free fire. The rest of the slaves, targeting slave #1, fire on slave #1’s target (targettarget) without UNTARGETING slave #1.

This might seem like a laborious process, but it’s rather fast.

Brain dies
Take control of slave #X
Press your follow macro
Continue killing.
2 actions and your failover is complete.

First of all: thanks for the work you put into this. I do have a few questions however. I've switched from the focus-style to the no-focus style using your macros, which I like. However!

On my main I have the ordinary dps spell (LB) mapped to my "Q" button and the /cast [target=targettarget] etc mapped to my slaves "Q" buttons. So now my main dies and I switch to slave #1, hit the big button, target a mob and start pewpew'ing, but oh noes, slave #1s pewbutton casts on "targettarget,harm" and since he has a mob targeted, the targettarget will be "help" and hes unable to shoot.

What am I doing wrong here? Do I need to make different keymappings, or?

[zendarva]

First of all: thanks for the work you put into this. I do have a few questions however. I've switched from the focus-style to the no-focus style using your macros, which I like. However!

On my main I have the ordinary dps spell (LB) mapped to my "Q" button and the /cast [target=targettarget] etc mapped to my slaves "Q" buttons. So now my main dies and I switch to slave #1, hit the big button, target a mob and start pewpew'ing, but oh noes, slave #1s pewbutton casts on "targettarget,harm" and since he has a mob targeted, the targettarget will be "help" and hes unable to shoot.

What am I doing wrong here? Do I need to make different keymappings, or?

I had the same problem at first. It needs to be /cast [harm] [target=targettarget, harm] [] Spell name.

The , harm, and the empty set of brackets are what allow it to "fall through" and target without your main after your main dies.

[Zzyzxx71]

Correct, the [] needs to be there in case A: your slave is the brain and B: in case the slave HAPPENS to have the mob targetted instead of the brain.

I had the same problem at first. It needs to be /cast [harm] [target=targettarget, harm] [] Spell name.

I don't believe the first [harm] needs to be there - if condition 1 "[target=targettarget, harm] "=false, then it will go to condition 2"[]", which will always be true.

After putting some thought into it, here's what I got for autoshot and wanding

/target [target=Main, no dead, help, exists][target=Clone1, no dead, help, exists][target=Clone2, no dead, help, exists][target=Clone3, no dead, help, exists]
/assist
/cast Autoshot (or shoot I guess - whatever the command is for wanding)

Then as long as you have [] in the macros for the remainder of the slaves, they'll still do arcane shot, etc.

Not the most elegant solution immediately, but a workaround.

You'd still need to go through the big button to switch targets though, OR hit the autoshot button to re-assist your current brain.

[zendarva]

Correct, the [] needs to be there in case A: your slave is the brain and B: in case the slave HAPPENS to have the mob targetted instead of the brain.

I had the same problem at first. It needs to be /cast [harm] [target=targettarget, harm] [] Spell name.

I don't believe the first [harm] needs to be there - if condition 1 "[target=targettarget, harm] "=false, then it will go to condition 2"[]", which will always be true.

After putting some thought into it, here's what I got for autoshot and wanding

/target [target=Main, no dead, help, exists][target=Clone1, no dead, help, exists][target=Clone2, no dead, help, exists][target=Clone3, no dead, help, exists]
/assist
/cast Autoshot (or shoot I guess - whatever the command is for wanding)

Then as long as you have [] in the macros for the remainder of the slaves, they'll still do arcane shot, etc.

Not the most elegant solution immediately, but a workaround.

You'd still need to go through the big button to switch targets though, OR hit the autoshot button to re-assist your current brain.

While i know this is the No Focus Manefesto, would wanding/autoshoot work on a focused mob, while you were still targeted on your brain? Hmm. I'll have to try that out later when i'm not so burnt out on fiddling with my macros.

[Zzyzxx71]

bumpping my own thread!!! omgzoorz!! flog me later.

[Finges]

Haha.. thanks for bumping it... I was waiting for the manifesto to come out since your first post... and I somehow missed it.

Gonna go through and rework all my macros tonight.

-Finges

[Caspian]

Ok I think I found a solution to the targeting issue with pets.

Basically if you use a pet attack, even if it is off of a /assist your target is switched from your Brain to the target. This is less the optimal. Resetting your target after solves the issue.

/assist target
/petattack
/target [target=Kuolemaa, nodead, help, exists]; [target=Kuolemaa, nodead, help, exists]; [target=Kuolemaa, nodead, help, exists]; [target=Jonika, nodead, help, exists]; [target=Kuolemaa, exists]

Space is an issue in this macro,I would have liked to use the "Big Button" logic for the assist but I ran out of room, so you assume your Brain is targeted hence the /assist target
Next is your /petattack, this could be any pet command
Last I do the full "big button" target on the off chance you brain has died while you are clicking this button. You could also do a /targetlasttarget here.

[Finges]

Hiya!

I moved to this technique of controlling a while back.. something I noticed.
I'm using the following script...

/cast [target=targettarget, harm] [] Lightning Bolt

If your main has a enemy healer selected.... your main ends up shooting at whomever the enemy healer is healing... So essentially with a 4xshaman team...

1 LB goes to the healers target
3 LB goes to the brains target (Healer).

I'm at work now... but I'm thinking to solve this... I'm going to change the above to this:
/cast [target=target, harm][target=targettarget, harm] Lightning Bolt

If my understanding of macros is correct....
My Main/Brain will use the [target=target, harm] condition and shoot the healer.... and because my slaves are targeting the brain... and he's not "harm" they will move onto the [target=targettarget, harm] conditional.. and pew pew.

Anyone else run into this issue? I mainly noticed it because I was trying to interrupt a healer but for some reason the earth shocks never hit him.

-Finges

[heyaz]

If the alts are listed in order, and my main dies and I have to switch, how does it know which alt to set as the new follow? Say if the main dies, do I need to make sure to switch to the alts in some specific order?

[Caspian]

yes for me I have it in alphabetical order. It is how you set it up in the "big button"