/assist and target=Braintarget, worrying observation

[Ðeceased]

Soo I've recently entered SP and Underbog and having a laugh ^^ I never used to like those two, maybe its because I don't like dark damp rooms in general :S nevertheless I've been blasting my way through (now nearly lvl 65) and enjoying all the new loot ^^
It is the first time I've encountered mobs that use charm on you, except for the Blood furnace boss (usually targets a clone), but the twist now being that my main, at times gets charmed.
I have definitely noticed a strange thing happening now, and am positive this isn't down to me messing up, keyclone, octopus or my macros (although I think a temporary solution lies within the macros).

I'll briefly describe what happens.

Totem drops (tremor in rotation to avoid long charm/fear spells), and engage mobs.
Wait a few seconds whilst my pally builds a little agro and begin electrifying the mobs
at some point the unavoidable seems to happen and I get charmed.. I immediately switch to my second dps macro that makes sure my clones kill their target before assisting me (just in case I get charmed and target one of my clones).
what happens now? all hell breaks loose :S
dps drops to 0 apart from my pally meleeing.. so my shammies end up just healing me until I can be arsed to make a simple target random/dps on my clones.
Why does dps drop to 0? well my macros stop working.. whenever I use them they select a dead target.. even though my main is obviously targeting an active mob. Something seems to happen at this point and I can only speculate on what that is..

First I will be investigating if /assist and [target=Braintarget] have the same problem but for now I will list what I believe could be the main cause of this.

The act of a Brain getting charmed temporarily places the mobs as [help] thus blocking them from being targeted using the [target=Braintarget,harm] condition. (this may be an argument for using /assist - needs testing - additional. using /assist with /cast [harm] LB could also suffer from this confusion/bug as I think it relies on the [harm] condition).

I'm not sure if this affect us in PvP too.

anyways I'll be testing it a little more tonight - this may be a bug that noone appart from mboxers might notice ^^ seeing as we are the only ones doing this so regularly

I will be reporting my findings and making a bug report

anyone else noticed this before?

Btw, I'm not talking about charm, as in seduced, I mean them actually controlling you. I'm surprised most of you haven't encountered this problem when going through SL on the mind control boss.. The only thing I can speculate on that is that somehow maybe that boss was coded properly or he temporarily resets whilst remaining in combat. I dunno.. purely guess work at this point in time

[FunkStar]

Happens to me as well, a lot, but for me it is fixed when i loose my main's target and then retarget some mob (so just spam escape since the mob will likely be hitting on you and get himself as your target again)
this way during the charm i have 0 dps, but as soon as the charm is over i drop target, retarget, and it works again

the macro i use is:

#showtooltip Lightning Bolt
/use [target=Inner Demon, harm,nodead,exists][target=focustarget,harm][target=focustargettarget,harm][harm] Lightning Bolt

ignore the first inner demon thing, thats just for when I go SSC

[Ðeceased]

Happens to me as well, a lot, but for me it is fixed when i loose my main's target and then retarget some mob (so just spam escape since the mob will likely be hitting on you and get himself as your target again)
this way during the charm i have 0 dps, but as soon as the charm is over i drop target, retarget, and it works again

the macro i use is:

#showtooltip Lightning Bolt
/use [target=Inner Demon, harm,nodead,exists][target=focustarget,harm][target=focustargettarget,harm][harm] Lightning Bolt

ignore the first inner demon thing, thats just for when I go SSC

hmm I'll have to try that

hehe as for the inner demon I have one macro on a spare key I've set up with all the different special boss mobs/events I can think of [target=Inner Demon, harm,nodead,exists][target=Chains, harm,nodead,exists][target=etc, harm,nodead,exists] (i'm not 70 yet but I'm prepared :P

[Ðeceased]

was initially thinking how things could go horrible wrong if an enemy priest managed to mind control you :S = arena game over :P

[Djarid]

btw target=braintarget... I assume you are replacing the unitid and not a name with brain? name-target will work of course

[Ðeceased]

btw target=braintarget... I assume you are replacing the unitid and not a name with brain? name-target will work of course

I doesn't? :S been working all the way up to 64 so far

nah, this is ofc using Brain=Main=Chief Whippingboy (or girl in the case of my pally - think my slaves.. i mean. my clones, like her better 8| )

[Djarid]

ROFL, I didn;t think so mate... but wanted to clarify for ohers