I'm not an expert either but I do not believe the party1target type commands will work properly in raids (read: BGs). I would avoid using them for that reason. They would be useful in arena though, where you don't want the enemy to know who you are targeting, but I believe you can just use /cast [target=focustarget] spell anyway.

My macros look something like this:

Invite macro, accept macro, follow/stopcasting macro

focus macros:
fm1
/focus charname1
fm2
/focus charname2
fm3
/focus charname3
fm4
/focus charname4
fm5
/focus charname5
clearmacro
/clearfocus

character 1:
F1 - clearmacro
F2 - fm2
F3 - fm3
F4 - fm4
F5 - fm5

character 2:
F1 - fm1
F2 - clearmacro
F3 - fm3
F4 - fm4
F5 - fm5

and so on. You must clearfocus the character you are focusing or, if you have them focus themselves you will experience an annoying (and crippling) target re-target problem caused by latency.

All my offensive spells are simply
/assist focus
/cast spell


For heals...
F8 - /target charname1; /stopcast; /cast lesser healing wave
F9 - /target charname2; /stopcast; /cast lesser healing wave
F10 - /target charname3; /stopcast; /cast lesser healing wave
F11 - /target charname4; /stopcast; /cast lesser healing wave
F12 - /target charname5; /stopcast; /cast lesser healing wave
I am provably going to take the stopcast out since it occationally causes me problems with the GCD. It is nice though in an emergency, you know that in 1.5 sec that person will get healed.

And then simple
/assist focus
/cast lesser healing wave

and
/assist focus
/cast chain heal

I still need to work with my own macros... I think I should make a /cleartarget macro.

I have not macro'd EM+CL because I frequently do not use CL with EM. Like in PvP, if the guy is about to flee, EM+Earthshock is an insta-kill for me anyway and no cast time... though I imagine at some point I will make one ><



There are many benefits to the focus method. It is flexible... works in parties, works in raids, works in BGs. You can switch your main with 1 button push, so there is very little time lost. Also the macros are pretty simple and short.

Hope this helps.