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Tanking and Macros
« Thread Started on Feb 26, 2009, 8:45am »
Tanking Macros

I thought I'd re-purpose this thread for some general/tanky macro discussion. Feel free to post up your own please!


Marking Macro
I'm pretty sure everyone concerned already has a marking system setup, but for completeness I'll post some basic marky-macro stuff.

If you have a free keybinding or two - you can assign target symbols directly using the keybinding screen, or you can use Macros.

Set Current Target to Skull (Good for Kill Targets)

/script SetRaidTargetIcon("target",7)


Set Current Target only if your current target has no icon (good for OT targets)

/script if GetRaidTargetIndex("target")==nil then SetRaidTargetIcon("target",n) end

Where n (the second argument of SetRaidTargetIcon() ) is:
1 - Star
2 - Circle
3 - Diamond
4 - Triangle
5 - Moon
6 - Square
7 - X
8 - Skull
0 - Remove raid icon

If you prefer to set targets via a keybinding and mouseover, change "target" to "mouseover" ie: SetRaidTarget("mouseover", n)


So, if we all have a keybind for skull and a keybind for our (unique) OT symbol we should be able to move raid focus around pretty easily, and get stuff marked up ASAP.


An alternative may be to run Magic Marker - with so little CC required these days, it seems a little bit overcomplicated for our usual Naxx farm purposes.

Any thoughts on this?
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Re: Tanking and Marking
« Reply #1 on Feb 26, 2009, 9:21am »
One thing I'd like to recommend is setting a Designated Marker, either one of the tanks or a hunter, so we can avoid things like that silly Construct trash wipe last week. It's something I've gotten a little lax about and will be resuming next week - more scooting ahead to mark the next pull, less padding meters with FoK.
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Re: Tanking and Marking
« Reply #2 on Feb 26, 2009, 10:29am »
Thanks for the info Calen. I've been meaning to figure out some of that stuff for my own raid leading purposes in Naxx 10.
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Re: Tanking and Marking
« Reply #3 on Feb 26, 2009, 12:48pm »
If you're interested, I am pretty quick on markings. I've been binding them various places (I used g-keys on my g15 back in Kara, but those don't wanna work any more so I've got n-? bound for the purpose now and, having been doing this in a 10-man for a few months now, know the priority kill order pretty well).
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Re: Tanking and Marking
« Reply #4 on Feb 26, 2009, 11:29pm »
If you're like me and have no free macro spaces, there are setting for the raid targeting in the Keybinding UI
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Re: Tanking and Macros
« Reply #5 on Jul 25, 2009, 11:28am »
Advanced swap focus / target

I had one of these many moons ago, and when it broke I never fixed it. I found this the other day and I am appalled that I have waited this long. Absolutely perfect for dealing with a pair of mobs to tank out.


Quote:

/focus [target=focus, noexists]
/target [combat, noexists] focus
/clearfocus [nocombat, noexists]
/stopmacro [target=focus, noexists]
/target focus
/targetlasttarget
/focus [exists]
/targetlasttarget


Sets the focus if you don't have one; clears the focus if you're out of combat and don't have a target; targets the focus if you're in combat and don't have a target; otherwise swaps the target and focus.

Stolen with shame from http://www.wowwiki.com/Useful_Macros
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