Macros to acquire targets for your clones when your main dies.

[Bato]

I just finished getting my 5x Shaman to 70 yesterday and started doing some Arena and AV. Obviously i have a lot of kinks to work out because pvp isn't nearly as relaxed as grinding out instances etc. My biggest issue so far has been working out a good way to assist with my clones after my main dies. Currently i make my main the focus for all my clones and have all their spell macros written to be "/cast [target=focustarget]" etc... which worked fine in instances but i am struggling with how to make this fit when my main / focus dies. Any input / incite would be greatly appreciated.

[Alemi]

I just use

/assist [target=main, nodead] [target=secondary1, nodead] [target=secondary2, nodead], etc.

[Bato]

If you do it that way it will take actual names of chars in the parameters? so a sample macro would look like this

/assist [target=frakture, nodead] [target=fraktures, nodead] etc...
/cast Lightning Bolt

all in one macro? do you do that for each spell or do you have an assist button that you mash constantly and then don't macro your spells at all?

[Alemi]

If you do it that way it will take actual names of chars in the parameters? so a sample macro would look like this

/assist [target=frakture, nodead] [target=fraktures, nodead] etc...
/cast Lightning Bolt

all in one macro? do you do that for each spell or do you have an assist button that you mash constantly and then don't macro your spells at all?

All in one macro for all my spells. I ditched the assist button long ago.

[Naysayer]

hmmm

[Yagamoth]

In this thread is a pretty good solution for changing leaders instantly. (simply jump to the 2nd post)

Searching for Addon - Button Setup Quickchange

[Ughmahedhurtz]

If you want more control over which ones get leader and when, go get the BindPad addon, then add a new hotkey for each toon that switches focus to the new leader. Works great for me.

[shockernub]

I use this macro for my follow command.

/clearfocus
/focus [target=toon1, exists, nodead][target=toon2, exists, nodead][target=toon3, exists, nodead][target=toon4 , exists, nodead]
/assist focus
/follow focus

This is my normal follow command, and it allows me to switch to whoever is still alive as the next main.

[Naysayer]

I use this macro for my follow command.

/clearfocus
/focus [target=toon1, exists, nodead][target=toon2, exists, nodead][target=toon3, exists, nodead][target=toon4 , exists, nodead]
/assist focus
/follow focus

This is my normal follow command, and it allows me to switch to whoever is still alive as the next main.

I'm wondering if there is a way to alter that macro to accommodate a cast sequence that changes the focus every time the keybind is pressed, rather than depending on what characters are dead. Would anyone have something like I'm suggesting already?

[Depherios]

Maybe you could do something like this? no idea if it'd work...

/focus [focus=party3] party2 [focus=party4] party3; [focus=party5] party4;

I'm going to switch everything over soon so I just have 5 buttons to set my focus... as even with an addon to help me figure out who's leading (see my sig)... I could decide who to make lead, and make them leader faster than I can figure out who a macro just automatically made leader.