Acquiring the focus of another player with macro

[Mendicant]

I'm trying to find a way to have my part acquire the focus of my main, so that I do not have to worry about lag in focus-choosing.

I.E. main: /focus target
Others: /target Main /target targetfocus /focus target

I haven't been successful thus far it's probably not possible.

[Crayonbox]

Um, doesn't seem like that hard of a problem.

main

pick a target
/focus

alts
/assist main
/focus

[Mendicant]

I will use that one if I have to, but it's not what I'm looking for. That one can fall prey to lag and may result in the followers focusing an incorrect target. This would not be so much of a problem in PvE where time is not necessarily of the essence, but in PvP waiting 1/2 a second for lag is a big disadvantage.

The idea is that with my main I can click, focus, click next target in a very short period of time, then have the my slaves assume the same focus as the main.

[Stabface]

Focus is client-only. So you can't obtain someone else's focus unfortunately.

[Crayonbox]

I've been always acceptant of the fact that client server lag will always be there and that there is no way around it...
However, if there are any programmers out there with mod experience, would it be possible to write a mod that automatically updates the targets of each person and send continuous updates to each client that is running the mod?

It would not effect server client delay for other people's targets, but for us boxers, it would completely remove the delay associated with the lead selecting target delay.

Also, is this even practical? and if possible, would it break any tos or eula? feedback?

[Mendicant]

I've been always acceptant of the fact that client server lag will always be there and that there is no way around it...
However, if there are any programmers out there with mod experience, would it be possible to write a mod that automatically updates the targets of each person and send continuous updates to each client that is running the mod?

It would not effect server client delay for other people's targets, but for us boxers, it would completely remove the delay associated with the lead selecting target delay.

Also, is this even practical? and if possible, would it break any tos or eula? feedback?

That would be awesome. I suspect it may violate the tos... It may be okay to have a program display the information on your screen, but inputting back into WoW would probably violate something. The only way I see it not breaking tos/eula would be for it to send that information through the game, however that would defeat the whole purposed of it. Maybe a certain person could give feedback on that?

[Depherios]

Can't have addons change targets in combat...

You could have it SHOW who it is via an addon, but no way to make a box you can click on or anything that works in combat (think Proximo)

[caffiend86]

Hrm, I don't think your going to get around the half second lag on picking up targets, its just one of the realities of multiboxing. That half second delay is simply there as your wow clients grabs a character's current target from the server...

[dirjax]

what you are trying to do will result in the same thinking as:
"I want my healer to heal a target that i'm mouseovering"

basically, I think (i'm not versed in LUA code, but seeing one can relay whispers with it, one can also get other commands) it could be lua scripted if you make a macro on your main:
/focus
/whisper toons "%n"

and on the toons a lua script doing
get "name" from whisper
do /target "name"


but that'll be on the very edge of automation, and it will indeed only skip you that quarter to half a second. I don't know if it's worth the hastle if you suddenly get 4 to 5 accs banned because of automation.

[Crayonbox]

Of course no one here wants to do something against the tos and get banned. Was just wondering if this idea would fly with blizzard,