ivoxyy wrote:ProfileI had the penance set up as a keystroke action from my classes' virtual key map using a hotkey. i.e. pressing dps rotation(1) would keystroke Alt+1 to the priest, hitting the spell. I would expect it to assist leader's target, but it cast's on self(no macro).
I am a little confused about assist as well.. It's not necessary to use assist hotkeys unless I have abilities macro'd?
No. My original question was missing some clarification, but your profile gives the answer. This is the key:
ivoxyy wrote:I would expect it to assist leader's target, but it cast's on self(no macro).
At this point, my question to you is: Why? Why would you expect any other character in your party to pick up your main's target? I'm not trying to make you feel dumb, I'm trying to make you question the process.
The way you have it set up is that in Combat Hotkeys you're pressing the "1" key. The Actions in that Mapped Key dictate what happens next, and there's only one Action in there that connects to Virtual Combat. Virtual Combat is virtualized into the Class Key Map, and in there you're sending the "1" key to the Priest (for what I'll assume is Penance). At no point throughout that chain is any other key being sent—just the "1" key.
So, now that it's broken down like that, at what point is the Priest ever told to assist the character you're playing from? If you aren't hard-coding in "/assist PlayerName" inside a Penance macro on your Priest (which I don't recommend), then at no point during all of this is the Priest ever told to grab the leader's target. Which brings us to this...
ivoxyy wrote:I've not actually experienced having to use the assist hotkeys in game, usually as I attack my rotation is just sent to the other windows via mapped keys.
I'll assume this is because you've only used the MMO:Standard template prior to this, and that template will automatically integrate assist into your Mapped Keys if you select the "auto-assist" setting on the final step of the Wizard (which is what I recommend in my Quick Setup Wizard video because it makes things easy for new players). Now that you've move to the Pro System, you will need to make the decision to either press the assist Hotkey you have assigned in Base Hotkeys each time you acquire a target, or add a "Do Mapped Key" Action into each of the Mapped Keys of your "Combat Hotkeys" Key Map, and then point it at the "Assist Me" Mapped Key in Base Hotkeys so that your characters assist the main.
I don't have time to re-watch the entire series at the moment, but quickly moving through some of the first two videos, I don't see where I talk about an assist (nor do I show how to integrate one). Clearly an oversight on my part when I created the video series years ago.
ivoxyy wrote:Hypothetically, if you used the mouseover click bar to activate/deactivate a key map, couldn't those be hot keyed to keyboard buttons which in turn could utilize mouseover macros? Similar to how clique operates?
If I'm understanding your question correctly, yes.