Noob Questions?? (Revisited)

[Bigdaddy2]

I think I have everything setup. Have the correct version and all but when I shoot only the main is shooting or attacking. It secondary or tertiary characters just stand there. On occasion as I am switching from one Wow --> Wow2. It won't let me click on anything it just stays on the outside or puts me back into Wow.

It only started to happen to me since the new version I think as a couple of weeks ago I was Dual-boxing fine even went on a raid or two but now !!



Help plz.

[keyclone]

did you set up your /assist macro?

are you using focus for targeting instead? if so, did you remember to set focus?
did you do it while all your clones were in the group?

[Bigdaddy2]

Not really. I followed the pdf. To the letter. The first time. It worked before, the upgrade apparently. Cause it follows but it doesn't attack. Just need a bit of help to get back to doing it. What macro?



[align=left]Big Button [/align]/target focus[font='Calibri'][size=12]
[align=left]/follow[/align]
[align=left]/assist[/align]
[align=left]/stopcasting[/align]
[align=left] [/align][font='Calibri'][color=#ff0000][size=12]
[align=left]Focus button [/align][font='Calibri'][size=12]
[align=left]/target main (where main is your character name of your main)[/align]
[align=left]/focus[/align]
[align=left] [/align]
[align=left]Lightning Bolt[/align]
[align=left]/assist focus[/align]
[align=left]/cast [exists,harm] Lightning bolt[/align]
[align=left] [/align]
[align=left]These are the ones I am using. But none of my attacks are working. It finds the focus, it follows, but it won't attack. Only the main is attacking. The key is bound to 2, but when I press 2 only the main attacks. 3 the main heals himself.[/align]
[align=left] [/align]

[keyclone]

ok.. those are some odd macros. try these:

set focus macro (you should have 1 per character so you can switch.. using joe as the character's name)

--

/focus joe



follow macro:
--
/follow focus

offensive spell macro:
--
/cast [target=focustarget] lightning bolt

healing spell to heal the character currently getting pounded:
--
/cast [target=focustargettarget] heal

those are the ones i use mostly. works every time. no messing around with assist. assist works fine prior to 20.. but after that, target+focus is where it is (unless someone has a better solution)

let me know how that goes,

Rob

[Otlecs]

>assist works fine prior to 20

Entirely off-topic, but assist works fine, and is more flexible, through all levels. The choice of focus vs. assist is entirely personal.

But, yes, that's a strange hybrid combination of focus and assist macros you posted there, Daddy - KC's suggestion will at least get you going.

:thumbup:

[i8screaminmoose]

/assist does work but i have used it awhile and sometimes one of my guys gets a different target and pulls it in addition to what I want ot kill so what keyclone suggest is alot cleaner to use exspecially for avoiding larger pulls

[Otlecs]

This is one of those things we'll just have to disagree on. If you make a bad pull, it's entirely your fault for not checking targets first. A no-focus assist system is far more flexible and frees focus up for more important things.

Just as I doubt people who are commited to using /focus to determine who their main is would ever want to go over to a much simpler /assist system (and do away with 'n' unnecessary DPS macros), I wouldn't want to change to /focus.

Horses for courses.

But to say that /assist is ever less effective than /focus is entirely wrong, and that's the only reason I piped up, not to fire up yet another focus vs. assist argument - that's been done to death, and I think everyone's decided which side they sit

[keyclone]

i cannot say for certain, but having the target in the single command instead of spread across 2 commands, may actually provide a more reliable targeting mechanism.

my thought is that there may be a delay between the assist and the cast... which could switch targets somehow (not engaged with target yet, but get hit by another mob).

personally, i found using focustarget in my cast made the targeting more reliable. your mileage may vary