Having targeting issues

[Xixillia]

Heyo, I took a break from multiboxing back in BC to focus on raid progression and whatnot on my main through wrath. I have now re-activated my mb accounts and am working towards just pleasure leveling a team through instancing (without RAF hahaha)

ANYWHO, this is my first jump into 5 boxing a whole team (tank,healer,dps/heals.)

My issue, and the one that I believe I had whilst playing is BC is one that really frustrates me.

I have my healer just button targeting and healing. (i.e num pad 1-5 = party members 1-5)

When my tank, or a party member, needs extra healing I have the dpsers (druids and a shammy) /assist the healer and cast a heal.

Often times if I don't SPAM (like 7 or 8 times) the assist healer button my dpsers will just heal themselves, or if I'm cycling through party targets with my healer the dpsers will heal the last target my healer had looked at before its current target.


Is there anything I can do besides writing name specific macros to make targeting work correctly?


(I'm about to try...

/assist healer
/castsequence ,healing wave

to see if having that (,) in there will give my toons enough of a buffer to /target the correct target.)

/fingers


Thanks in advance!

[Baldecaran]

You can put a /stopcasting in your healing macro to force the DPS characters to stop casting their offensive spells. That might help.

[Xixillia]

I should have posted the macro that I am currently using

/stopcasting
/assist healer
/cast healing touch

Doesn't seem to help

[Tim]

I'm not a fan of stopcasting myself since it will interrupt your actual heal if you button mash it.

I've found it simply best to have a simple macro do this:

/cast [target=YourTank] SuperHealingSpell


Then make your healer have a macro for each character in your 5 man team.

[EaTCarbS]

the [target=____] function is the most reliable in my experience. If you keep your group in the same party order, something like this might work:

[target=party5target]

[Bobby79]

Have to agree with tim and carbs the only way to make sure of a target is target=toon in the macro then it will always hit the named toon

[Xixillia]

Thanks for the replies. I just went ahead and re-wrote my macros.

I suppose my next question would be...

How does one multi-box heal things like BG's, or PVE content (my goals are to attempt both.) I can't imagine having to have specific macros for every raid/bg member.

[EaTCarbS]

I use my numpad for healing keys.