What if Master dies :)

[Bobby79]

Ok so when the master dies you have a problem what do i need to do so i can use my next toon to be the master and they will all follow him attack his target and so on.

i have a feeling this could be complicated

tnx for any replys

[EaTCarbS]

Focus or FTL setup.

/cast [target=focustarget] Lightning Bolt

Set you driver as focus.

Switch as needed.

I've never used an FTL setup so i couldn't explain it. Its supposed to be better than focus tho

[ollee]

I innately think that for 5 boxing, it would mean having 5 different focus macros, one for each character, then all your casts are just targeted to focustarget. but thats just what it sounds like to me.

[Baldecaran]

Isn't it possible that, when your leader dies, you can still drive the targetting from the leaders window (providing the slave cast macros are utilizing [target=focustarget]?

[Ualaa]

The easiest is for everyone to cast (or assist) their focus target.
And to have a focus key for each toon in the group.

/Follow [target=Focus]
/cast [target=FocusTarget] Big Nuke
/cast [target=FocusTarget,Help][FocusTargetTarget,Help] Heal Spell

And for auto-shot/wand attacks:
/assist [target=Focus]
/cast Shoot



An FTL (Focus, Target and Leader independent) system is the best to go with, as you retain Focus and Target for other functions, and can operate with anyone as the party leader (so aside from loss of totem party buffs, your team could be in four groups in a BG and assist just fine).

[Tim]

The way I have it set up is I simply hit F1/Shift+F1 and I can instantly switch to whatever toon I want (F1 for main, F2 for second, F3 for third, etc) and it makes them be the new group leader.

Basically it takes about 1/10th of a second to switch leaders.

So to answer your question, what happens if the Master dies? The person who killed my master dies of course

[Aevra]

i would advice to use FTL its way faster with target switch and compared to focus way better. it is however a little harder to setup.

i dont know what software is being used mainly on these forums but with my software its fairly easy to setup.

Greetings

[iksurmunky]

I use an FTL set up and I prefer it over a focus. But I will show you with and without a focus an easy way to try switch focuses when your main dies.

THE FOCUS WAY:
On all your toons (except your first and primary main) set up this macro:

/focus 
[target=toon1,nodead,exists]
[target=toon2,nodead,exists]
[target=toon3,nodead,exists]
[target=toon4,nodead,exists]
[target=toon5,nodead,exists]
[mod:ctrl,target=toon1]

for explanatory purposes only, I have spaced them out with a new line. When creating the macro, delete the extra spaces between each closed brackets and make sure it writes in 1 long line (that will spill over to other lines).

Lines 1 through 5 simply check to see if toon# is alive and if the target exists (nearby) then s/he becomes your focus. If toon1 dies, you fast game switch to your next toon (toon2, probably) and hit this macro again and that toon becomes your focus. The very last line I use if all my characters were dead. Since none would activate the "nodead" argument, I used ctrl+button to force them to focus toon1 again so they can follow back to their dead bodies. (You must broadcast ctrl+button as well as the button u put the focus macro on to enable the modified 6th line)

FOCUS METHOD #2
Another method which is more efficient is using Tim's method. It is efficient in that 1 button will enable you to switch games and focus for every character you have.
Lets say you configure fast game switch as F1, F2, F3, F4 and F5. You would then put a macro on games 2-5 on the button F1 making those toons focus on game1 while hitting F1 to switch to game1. On games 1,3,4 and 5, you'd put a macro on F2 for focusing and switching to game2; games 1,2,4,5 macro F3 to focus & switch to game3; games 1,2,3,5 macro F4 to focus & switch to game4; and lastly, games 1,2,3,4 macro F5 to focus & switch to game5.

THE FTL WAY
Now FTL is a much more sophisticated system that utilizes many aspects of pwnboxer and the macro language of WoW. Here's a general crash course.

An example is best to explain. Let us imagine only 2 Wow clients. Button 1 will be the broadcast key and Button 2 will be the trigger key. On both clients, we will make Button 1 a healing spell and on button 2 we will make a macro of that healing spell with a modifier for the target (such as /cast [mod:ctrl,target=toon1][mod:alt,target=toon2] heal). Completely understand this before reading on.

Now we will tell pwnboxer that when game1 is highlighted and we broadcast button1, game2 will instead trigger ctrl+button2 (thus casting heal on toon1). We will also tell pwnboxer that when game2 is highlighted that when broadcasting button 1, game1 will instead trigger alt+button2 and therefore cast heal on toon2.

If you manipulate that and expand it to your whole team the same way you do with a focus, you can fastgame switch and never have to worry about resetting your focus. If you're interested in FTL, I suggest you check out the stickied tutorial on it under the macro subforum.

[adz4u28]

/focus [target=char1,nodead][target=char2,nodead][target=char3,nodead][target=char4,nodead][target=char5,nodead]

is the macro i use charX = charname.

self explanatory, if my leader dies, it will auto focus the next name in the list.

[Jafula]

Originally Posted by Bobby79

Ok so when the master dies you have a problem what do i need to do so i can use my next toon to be the master and they will all follow him attack his target and so on.

i have a feeling this could be complicated

tnx for any replys

In my early days, the answer to this was:

Panic! And then everyone else dies. Like this.









You have to wonder why the slaves don't run away. The fools...

Now FTL saves me.