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[Malgrim]

Hello everyone, have a couple questions. Is there a way to do target forwarding while healing or DPS'ing (target tank and cast through them)? In PVP is there a more effective way to target enemies other than tab? It rotates through each enemy regardless of distance.

[ManuelBravo]

On PvP I use PC and just click on the name for faster selections same for raids when too hard to see and such.

[Malgrim]

On PvP I use PC and just click on the name for faster selections same for raids when too hard to see and such.

Cool, that will help I am sure I have been trying to click the physical character instead of name. Thank you

[miraidensetsu]

Hello everyone, have a couple questions. Is there a way to do target forwarding while healing or DPS'ing (target tank and cast through them)? In PVP is there a more effective way to target enemies other than tab? It rotates through each enemy regardless of distance.

If on group, there is a way through a macro. Let's, for example, throw some rocks:

/micon "Stone"
/merror off
/ac "Stone" <tt>

That macro will cast a Stone spell on your target's target. If you're focusing the tanker, you'll attack the monster the tank is attacking.

[Malgrim]

If on group, there is a way through a macro. Let's, for example, throw some rocks:

/micon "Stone"
/merror off
/ac "Stone" <tt>

That macro will cast a Stone spell on your target's target. If you're focusing the tanker, you'll attack the monster the tank is attacking.

Okay so to cast any spell replace stone in both locations and it will make button and all that or hotbar?

[Niwashi]

Okay so to cast any spell replace stone in both locations and it will make button and all that or hotbar?

Yes, you can do it with any spell or action. (The action name needs to be in quotation marks if it's multiple words. With one-word spell names like these examples, the quotation marks are optional, but a good habit to get into.)

And you place the macro itself on the hotbar. The /micon line of the macro is for specifying how the macro will look on your hotbar. For instance:
/micon "Stone"
means give this macro the icon of the "Stone" skill when it's placed on a hotbar.

[Malgrim]

Very cool, thank you again. Will start working on making some buttons after work.

[Niwashi]

Target forwarding can be done in macros using <tt> for target of target. For example:
/ac "Aero" <tt>
would cast Aero on your target's target.

In macros, you can also combine multiple options, like:

/micon "Cure"
/ac "Cure" <t>
/ac "Cure" <tt>
/ac "Cure" <ft>

That would try casting Cure on your target, but if that isn't possible (like when you have an enemy targeted), then it would try casting it on your target's target. If neither of those is a viable target for a cure, it would cast on your focus target. Lines that aren't viable because they specify an unavailable or inappropriate target are skipped until it reaches a line that works. At that point, you begin casting, so any following lines are skipped because you're already busy. The result is a single cast to any of several possible targets, choosing between them according to the priority of how those lines are arranged in the macro.

EDIT: oh, and <mo> for "mouse over" is another popular one for keyboard/mouse players to include, usually fairly high on the list. Mouse overs can be done either mousing over the nameplates above the actual character or mob, but more reliably over names in the party list or enmity list (since HUD elements don't keep moving around like characters do).

[Hasrat]

/micon "Cure"
/ac "Cure" <t>
/ac "Cure" <tt>
/ac "Cure" <ft>

That would try casting Cure on your target, but if that isn't possible (like when you have an enemy targeted), then it would try casting it on your target's target.

Might be wrong here, but pretty sure that would just mean Cure would cast on self, and the macro would never progress past that.

[TensaiSogetsu]

Might be wrong here, but pretty sure that would just mean Cure would cast on self, and the macro would never progress past that.

You are wrong. Macros don't automatically default to self. The example given would try to cast cure on the Target then if that's not successful, it tries to cast cure on the Target of the Target, then if THAT isn't possible, then it tries to cast cure on the Focus Target. Unless you are targeting yourself or change the first /ac "Cure" <t> to /ac "Cure" <me> then it will not cast on yourself.