Spammable /target macro (playing whack-a-mole)

Unaz · 06/18/07, 11:33 AM

I did a quick search and didn't see anything along these lines mentioned before, and know it has been an issue for people in my guild in game.

For those fights where you have to full burn a secondary target as soon as it pops, people typically make one or two /target macros. But if you spam your macro before the secondary target is there you usually end up targetting some random person that isn't who you're supposed to be attacking.

So I tried doing this last night and it seemed to work like a charm. You may want to through a /startattack at the end of it if you're melee though just in case.

/target Secondary Target
/target [help] Primary Target

So for example:

/target Demon Chain
/target [help] Terestian

/target Spitfire
/target [help] Fathom

Lodi · 06/18/07, 5:33 PM

Thanks.

Akomos · 06/22/07, 4:45 PM

Oooh, I didn't think of using conditionals to retarget that way. Neato.

Here's a question, though -- and I searched the forum, so forgive me if it's answered elsewhere -- do the Demon Chains target their victim? If they do,

/cast [target=demon-target, help] [help] flash heal

should work. If not, our healers just need to get better reactions, no?

subscience · 06/22/07, 5:00 PM

Akomos- If you use Grid, it's very easy to setup a status indicator for Sacrificed (I forget if it's 'Sacrifice' or 'Sacrificed'). Once that's up, it's a breeze to find who is being Sacrificed and heal accordingly. This works beautifully for Insidious Whispers, Whirlwind (the DoT component), and tons of other debuffs that healers need to track.

Akomos · 06/22/07, 5:34 PM

Yeah, that's what I do on my Druid -- just use Grid with [target=mouseover, help] macros. I'm trying to help out the healers in my regular Kara run deal with Illhoof easier, and asking them to download additional mods is, unfortunately, not going to work very well =\

I was hoping I had figured out a macro I could have them cut-and-paste, because I think that might be the extent of the lengths to which they're willing to go. Frustrating, innit?

Illundai · 06/22/07, 7:03 PM

Sorry to hyjack this thread, but I was wondering if this would work. Basicly what I want to do is heal whatever Solarian is targetting with Arcane missiles, so:

/cast [target=targettarget, help] Healing Wave

I'm still a little confused aboutthse conditionals >.<.

shieldb · 06/22/07, 7:54 PM

That should work just fine Illundai. I know what I did for my fiancee (she plays a druid) was help her set up all her heals as follows:

/cast [target=mouseover, exists, help] Regrowth; [help] Regrowth; [target=targettarget, exists, help] Regrowth

What this does is:
- Cast Regrowth on whatever target her mouse is hovering over (either a raid frame or person in the world), if it's a friendly target (she mouses over the particular raid frame, then presses the keybinding for the macro). The person in the world part is really handy for healing pets if you don't have frames for them.

- If she doesn't have her mouse over a friendly target, but is targeting a friendly, then it will heal the targeted friendly unit.

- If she doesn't have her mouse over a friendly target, and is targeting a hostile target (the boss), then it will toss a regrowth on the hostile target's target (who the boss is targeting, usually the tank).

This way she can heal the way that she wants to all the time, but also have the ability to do 'assist healing' on fights like Solarian or Aran where the boss changes target rapidly by just targeting the boss instead.

To answer the demon chains question - sadly the demon chains do not have a target. Healers will have to catch the person via raidframes or otherwise.

Thelyna · 06/22/07, 7:56 PM

/cast [help] Flash of Light; [target=targettarget,help] Flash of Light

Is what I use, pretty much trivialises Aran healing. (also usable in tank'n'spanks too, that's what the first conditional is for.

Akomos · 06/23/07, 1:39 PM

Originally Posted by shieldb

To answer the demon chains question - sadly the demon chains do not have a target. Healers will have to catch the person via raidframes or otherwise.

Yeah, I was afraid of that. Time to have *another* talk with the healers. Hopefully if I hook them up with a decent mouseover macro (thanks for the exact syntax, btw) their reaction times will improve.

Thanks for the help, everyone.

Brodrik · 06/23/07, 3:02 PM

A good way to handle healing the target of an enemy is to focus the enemy, then use target=focustarget.

If you prefer slightly different behavior to your targeting macros, you might try something like:
/target Whatever
/stopmacro [harm,nodead]
/targetlasttarget

Glaurong · 06/26/07, 10:58 PM

This is the macro I use for Illhoof, since our kill priority is chains -> Kil'rek -> Illhoof

/target Terestian
/target Kil'rek
/targetlasttarget [help] [dead]
/target Demonic Chains
/targetlasttarget [help] [dead]
/raid Changing targets to -> %t <-

The targetlasttarget lines keep the macro from picking up a member of your raid or stalling on dead chains/kil'rek.