Help with Interact with Target

So, in reading this thread, I think I figured something out, but want to confirm...

I've been playing around with ISBoxer for a couple days now and am starting to feel more comfortable with the mechanics. I have a mixed team (druid tank, 2 ret pallys, enh shaman and holy priest). Lax helped me the other day with getting the priest out of the group, to not follow or interact with target so he could just heal... The Jamba strobing was throwing me off because its nice for melee, but sucks for a healer that needs to stand still.

For my melee. I have a single dps key (using click macros in game right now, eventually will start to move them over to ISBoxer). I was having an issue where one melee or both might run off after a fight concluded and run into another group of mobs. Its actually pretty funny to see, but very frustrating...

What I did yesterday was a 3 step on that keybind (its the numpad5 key). There are no pauses between steps, which I think means that they fire off at the same time in step order.

Step one (which is probably unecessary) - assist me (tank)
Step two - interact with target
Step three - follow me (tank)

My thinking was that I would make sure that the slaves were on my tank's target, interact with that target, then not run off, but jump back on the tank, rinse and repeat..

What I want is for the slaves to stick on tank's target and then switch when the tank does.. I turned strobing off, so that isn't an issue

This thread indicates that I might be able to get them to stop interacting (thus not running off) and then assisting my tank on what he is currently hitting (change step 3 to stop interacting [thus they pause for half a second] and then assisting tank and interacting with tank target again).

I love the repeater regions which makes having a healer around and using heal bot pretty cool. I want to next start working on understanding and incorporating click regions in there... But first things first.. the dps keybind so everyone stays together and kills target dead without running in different directions)...

[Ualaa]

Steps, in the IS Boxer context, are different actions which take place on sequential presses of the same key.

Step 1
- FTL Assist Me (Target - Current Window)
- Send IWT Keybind (Target - All Windows)

Step 2
- Send Down-Arrow Keybind (Target - All Windows)



The first press of the mapped key gets you all of the actions in Step 1.
The second press of the mapped key gets you all of the actions in Step 2.

Warcraft limits some actions from occurring too quickly, with the Global Cooldown.
Something like Assist, is not on the GCD.
So you can freely assist and then do something else, all on the same Step.

For the most part, Step 1 executes on the first press, and Step 2 on the second.
Etc, for Step 3, Step 4 or other actions.
You can also execute a Step on "press or release" instead of "release (default)".
Even then, the GCD will limit some actions (such as most Warcraft Spells), but won't interfere with a lot of stuff.

I thought I had it and then things stopped working. I was doing underbog and things were working right... After talking with lax a little last night via chat, I simplified things considerably.

I created several keymaps.

The first was assist. I actually have an assist macro hard coded to my tank on each melee class so I just set up the keymap in isboxer to reference the numpad del key. in game, I put the assist macro in a slot keybound to that key. so when my tank targets something and i hit the numdel key, it should show that target on all melee windows. Was working then stopped and flashes unknown unit in the other windows. If I move that macro to the 4 key (which is a preset for isboxer), it works fine... don't understand.

The second is interact with target. in game, i bound this to the num0 key. so in boxer, i just set up a keybind for num0 that presses that key for members of the actiongroup called followers (i can drop my priest out of that group when I need to and he stops everything so he can heal). was working then suddenly stopped.

The third is my dps key that is bound in game on all toons except priest to num5. series of click macros. That one seems to work fine.

What i did to finish underbog was to hit my follow key (macrod in game and working fine), keybound to the home key and run through the boss and then press dps key... not perfect or consistent, but it worked.

I feel like i'm not using the power of the software and don't understand why I'm having issues. Part of me just wants to reset and start over as I'm afraid I've messed some stuff up. technically, you don't really need any in game macros as Isboxer seems good enough to do it all...

What would you suggest. The repeater region window thing works great with healbot, but that is the only feature of the software that i'm really using. Sorry to be a pain, but I really want this to work.

well, i shut down, rebooted and brought everything back up and the 3 pieces worked as they should. weird. ualaa - you have a great guide and I'm just going to have to sit down and really read through it. I did mana tombs tonight and didn't have issues. but I will need to build in more flexibility as tank and spank doesn't always work...