Macro for AOE spells without having to click the area ??

[Janus]

Hi,

I have a druid and a mage as slaves, and sometimes I like to cast some of their AOE spells (force of nature, blizzard, hurricane) without needing to specify the are of attack (like for example a boss, etc)

Is there anyway of doing this currently? I didn't know if there was a syntax that I could specify for the blizzard to cast without me clicking in the slave's screen and telling it where to cast..

Thanks

[TheMuffinMan]

There is no way in WoW currently to macro the target area of an AoE spell.

Most people will have AoE spells bound to a key.

They will hit that key, then using mouse broadcasting click at a single point int he main window. If all your slaves are lined up well and zoomed approximtely the, they will AoE roughly the same place on each screen.

[Ualaa]

Honestly, set your software to enable (turn on mouse broadcasting) -- where you move the mouse in the current window, and the slaves move their targeting in their windows at the same speed/position as the active/current window. The stronger options let you turn on broadcasting by hitting whatever keybind Hurricane/Blizzard happen to be on, and turn it off automatically after one click... which targets the effect.

If that doesn't work for you...




There used to be an option to click by pinging the mini-map. This was removed. The closest you can get to casting an AoE which requires ground-target without targeting the ground is with key remapping scripts.

Basically, you make something that you rarely use the key equivalent to a left click. Then set the macro to look top down, which is pretty much the only way this can be semi-reliable. Hit your key, which wow interprets as a left click wherever the cursor happens to be (hence the top-down is only way to make this accurate), and the aoe is centered on the mouse position.

I'll try to dig up the original post, from another site and post here.

[Ualaa]

Reposting....




While since I rolled Death Knights for fun, I simply had to figure out a way to utilize AoE's that you have to click to target

Basically you may have to switch your format up a bit, since mine is kind of funky and someone can hopefully make this cleaner.

First things first.

decide which key on your keyboard you want to act as a left mouse click. I choose something I usually don't type in which is " ; "

/script SetBinding(";", "CAMERAORSELECTORMOVE")

Now copy/paste that into WoW while in the game
Do the same for this line as well

/script SaveBindings(1)

There now you've bound your left click mouse to the " ; " key. (The Left Click on your mouse button still does the same thing don't worry!!)
If you ever want to remove this functionality - > /wow/WTF/<accname>/bindings-cache.wtf and remove the entry.

Next step make a macro such as this

/script SetView(4);SetView(4)
/cast Death and Decay

To explain the view pieces, they run from 1 through 5 and you can actually save to a viewing you like, it just positions your camera in that location so you don't need to worry about how your facing. The second entry of setview moves your camera to that position instantly instead of moving to that angle.
Bind that to a key and simply push the button then press ;
I have mine setup so my cursor stays on top of my characters so when I press it, it throws it down right on top of me.
The cleaner part of this is that I use F9 for the hotkey on my action bar macro, and my n52 has the ; key bound as well, so I push then 1 after the other, or together and poof you've got a targetable AoE without moving to that screen and clicking.

Hope this helps.

[Tim]

I have done AOE's with Pwnboxer a billion times, it is super easy, just do this:

(assuming you have Pwnboxer)

Click the Enable Mouse Broadcasting option
Click Configure Mouse button
Only select Method 1 - Original Pwnboxer Method
Set keystroke from left mouse click: [
Set keystroke for right mouse click: ]

Then in your main game window, lets say you have the Mage as the main guy, Druid as the alt guy. Bind both their AOE's to a single key (Eg, 9). Then make sure their camera positions in both are relatively the same if you want to position their cast anywhere on the screen. If you are just AOE'ing on top of yourself, this won't matter.

Then hit 9, then move your mouse to where you want the AOE to be, then hit the ] key, and BAM, both guys will AOE on where the mouse should be automagically.

I leveled 5 druids boomkin all the way to 80 using mass hurricane AOE'ing, and I've done plenty of other classes like hunters, mages, etc, in between. You're going to Pwn

[Heartspark]

The key to this is getting camera in right spot, I never got it right with my mages so just don't use GTAE.

[Tim]

There are also some basic macros to reset the camera, HOWEVER

With the latest patch in WoW, the camera angle will actually automagically reset itself nicely if you have it enabled. All your toons will have the exact same camera angle now by default, which makes AOEing spells like Blizzard multibox style super, super easy.

[Ualaa]

I would think mouse broadcasting is the easiest method.

For me, I place my AoE casting toon's in an "Action Target Group", which is just a pre-defined group which can then be the target of a bunch of things.

And I set whatever DPS key I am using, to "send next click to" and pick that ATG as the target.

So when I press "4", every toon presses 4 too, but send next click is sent to all members of my "4 ATG" group. So these toons get a mouse targeting circle to position over the mobs... I move the cursor on the active window even if that toon has no AoE spell, while watching the slave windows. When the circle is over the target on the slave windows, I left click. Because it was send next click, at that point mouse targeting is off. And only the toons which a mouse-aoe spell had the next click enabled, which means none of my other toons clicked the ground anywhere (which could be good if you had Click to Move enabled).

Mouse broadcasting will be slightly different for each software. IS Boxer (as described above) requires advance configuration during set up (which you can change whenever), but then its automatically on when the AoE is cast and off once the target is selected. Pwnboxer and HKN have a key you press to enable the mouse broadcasting, so you'd click your Hurricane/Blizzard key then press the broadcast on key then click the ground and press your broadcast off key -- no advance set up beyond setting the toggle.

No matter what software you use, if it has a decent mouse broadcast option that's going to be the best method to use.

[Doousham]

this all makes me miss the old eq 1 days of taoe's and saoe's where you never had to click the ground.

[Janus]

Yes, I use pwnboxer. I will give these a try

Thanks