Comments on: Debuffing Your Focus Target

By: Catychlor

Catychlor — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:14:43 +0000

Thanks for posting this! What an amazing macro! I’m a Shaman and I use it for Flame Shock (dot)/Lava Burst and Wind Shear (spell interrupt)/Earth Shock (debuff).

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:33:38 +0000

@Bonsaigoob: If you switch “focustarget” to “targettarget”, it should do what you’re asking.

By: Bonsaigoob

Bonsaigoob — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:01:03 +0000

Is there a way to tweak this macro to use my target’s target instead of focus target? I’d like to debuff multiple mobs in multi tank fights.

TIA,
Bonsai

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:08:21 +0000

@Chaendryn: Thank you so much. And your signficant other, too! I LOVE your avatar!

By: Chaendryn

Chaendryn — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:06:50 +0000

Tested the macro and it still works *smiles* Thought I’d let you know.

Chaen

By: Chaendryn

Chaendryn — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:28:52 +0000

Hmm .. perhaps it was a patch 2.4 thing? Had my other half tinker with it as well – he’s the programming genius in the houshold *grins* This is the result and have tested it and it worked with focus set (his target) and no focus set (my directly targetting something). But will test it again when I’m in a group to see whether it continues to work.

#showtooltip
/cast [modifier:ctrl, exists, target=focustarget, nodead] [modifier:ctrl] Faerie Fire;[exists, target=focustarget, nodead] [] Insect Swarm

This pre-supposes that I’ve set my focus manually as someone in the group though.

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:54:14 +0000

@Chaendryn: I’m having similar difficulties with this macro. It always work when I build it when first coming into the game but the next time I log in, it doesn’t, making it a PITA to debug. I’m going to try this variation today (the servers are down, at the moment, so I can’t test it, yet):

/cast [nomodifier,harm,target=focustarget] [nomodifier,harm,target=target] Insect Swarm; [modifier:ctrl,harm,target=focustarget] [modifier:ctrl,harm,target=target] Faerie Fire

By: Chaendryn

Chaendryn — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:47:46 +0000

Hey there. I’ve tried the macro – copied as is from here and it doesn’t work when I have no focus target. I see from comments that someone had a similar problem and changed it … but that macro doesn’t work either. Any ideas?

I’m clueless when it comes to macro’s, so I have no idea how to correct it either.

Chaen

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:38:08 +0000

@Walkere: I have done something similar for chain-Cycloning in Arena, but at the time it didn’t occur to me to make the same key Cyclone my target vs. my focus’s target based on whether I used a modifier key. That’s a really great idea for 2v2! And thanks for the tip on Focus Frame. I’m sure you’re not the only one who prefers the standard UI unitframes. =)

By: Walkere

Walkere — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:03:24 +0000

Nice, innovative way to use the focus mechanism. A lot of people know how to use the focus for one purpose (sheep/shackle/hibernate/etc), but there are endless possibilities.

For example, on my mage I set up almost all of my spells to have an option to shoot my focus by holding down the Alt key. In 2v2 arena, I’d immediately focus one person and target the other – so that I could easily counterspell or sheep either player.

As for a visual, I don’t use a unit frames mod, so I found a separate mod specifically for the focus mechanism – “Focus Frame.” It creates an extra targeting portrait (just like the regular target) for your focus. You can drag it around the screen to place it where you want. This also shows buffs/debuffs and target-of-target, just like the regular targeting portrait.