Polymorph Issue

[Gigatron]

I use standard cast macro:

/cast [target=focustarget, nodead, harm] lightning bolt

My problem is, when my main is polymorphed, this macro stops working. Exampled, in ZF shadow hunter polymorphs my main, even though I still have target, my other characters won't cast. Anyone have suggestions around this?

[Stealthy]

Only speculating but...

Try removing the 'harm' condition from your macro. I'm guessing that when your main becomes polymorphed (hexed), the 'harm' flag is turned off

Cheers,
Stealthy

[Gigatron]

Ya, I tried removing the harm modifier, but my cast macro still stops working when they sheep me. Pretty annoying.

[Tasty]

More speculation here. When you get polymorphed you often move around. If you alts haven't stopped following you they too will move, thus interrupting spell casts.
?

[Stealthy]

Does it work is you use /assist focus instead of target=focustarget?

I know this isn't an ideal solution but I'm trying to break down the macro to see where the problem is actually occuring.

Cheers,
Stealthy

[Nixi]

I just started doing battlegrounds over the past few days because my guys just hit 70. I was in a WSG battle where the other side had an abundance of mages. Even though I use a

/castrandom [target=focustarget,nodead,exists,harm] Lightning Bolt,Purge,Grounding Totem

macro on all my toons to ensure Grounding totem is up on every cooldown and buffs are purged, these damn mages were easily able to shoot them all and and one would poly my main. It was the first time I ran into this problem, I targeted the asshat who polyed me and hammered my 'I win' button but it wouldn't go off.

I did notice that when my main was moving around grazing on the bloodstained grass the alts were turning, but I'm sure they didn't actually move enough to break spell casting. So even if my NS was down, they should have started to cast Chain Lightning.

I'd like some more insight on this problem too. I'll keep my eyes open the next time this happens to see if I can observe anymore about the potential causes for the targeting to stop working.

[Steph]

focustarget does not work when your focus is poly'ed or feared. Stun/sap is no problem.

I have so far been too lazy to look for a real workaround. /assist to give each follower the target would work, but I have not tested the conditions to use to automatically use that target instead of the focustarget only when the main is poly'ed or feared.

[Evol]

Blind also causes this problem.

[Gigatron]

Hasn't anyone brought this issue up before? I tried searching, but didn't really see anything. What are you guys who are doing arenas using to counter sheep? Maybe in the macro stickies we should note this somewhere. Going to be a pain to update all my macros to use /assist now.

[Evol]

I searched for this as well when I started having issues with Blind, and couldn't find anything. Polymorph can at least be blocked by grounding or cleansed. Blind is a killer.

I'll have to modify all my cast macros to something like

/assist focus
/cast [target=focustarget,harm,nodead,exists] Lightning Bolt; [harm,nodead] Lightning Bolt