Target Focus macros

[Broomba37]

Tim, I saw your focus target macro you made before you ran RFC and was wondering if you put commas, semicolon, etc or nothing, no space in between the the target in the bracket or[target=focus target target]

BTW that macro looks awesome and wonder why I never used it on a 3 man team who can heal
Thanks
Broomba

[Chamassa]

Originally Posted by Broomba37

Tim, I saw your focus target macro you made before you ran RFC and was wondering if you put commas, semicolon, etc or nothing, no space in between the the target in the bracket or[target=focus target target]

BTW that macro looks awesome and wonder why I never used it on a 3 man team who can heal
Thanks
Broomba

Erm, the way you deal with targeting is:

/cast [conditions] spellname

for conditions:

/cast [@focus, nodead][@focustargettarget, exists, nodead, help] Healing Wave; [@focustarget,harm,exists,nodead] Flame shock

This would cast 1. Healing wave if focus is alive, 2. Healing wave on focus target of target (so focus targets boss, boss targets a guy) if that person is a friendly target and alive. 3. Flame shock if focus target is a mob.

Theres a lot of info on all this on wowwiki/wowpedia, but any situation you want help on throw it in here i got a bit of practice :P

[Tim]

Yup, I generally do this:

/assist focus


Then I just use normal spells which don't require a macro at all. This keeps things ultra simple and easy.

For targetted healing spells, I use:

/cast [target=timshamza] Super Duper Heal

[Chamassa]

Originally Posted by Tim

Yup, I generally do this:

/assist focus


Then I just use normal spells which don't require a macro at all. This keeps things ultra simple and easy.

For targetted healing spells, I use:

/cast [target=timshamza] Super Duper Heal

You should really start use @timshamza instead of target= :P

[Tim]

Oh, target= is the same as @?

[Chamassa]

Originally Posted by Tim

Oh, target= is the same as @?

yep, just a lot easier to read, and officially "target=" is deprecated

[Ualaa]

In a lot of cases, spacing makes a macro easier to read, but it is not necessary.

/cast [@targettarget,nodead,help] and [@targettarget, nodead, help] are functionally the same.
However the latter is easier to read, while the former uses three less characters... assuming you're not using an addon to exceed the 255 character limit... that could be essential.

You need the commas between each term, for the macro to function.
/cast [@targettargetnodeadharm] isn't going to run, spaces or not.

A semi-colon can be essential if you want to use boolean logic, such as do this if these conditions are met, otherwise do that.
/cast [help] Healing Wave; [harm] Lightning Bolt; Water Shield
That's going to cast Healing Wave on a friendly, Lightning Bolt on a hostile, and otherwise default to Water Shield.