Elwood
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This was posted by Carys on the aSGA forum and I thought is interesting enough to bring it over here.
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One of the things I was most excited about in the 2.0 UI is also one of the most underutilized: the "focus". In fact, many people don't seem to know about it.
Basically, the "focus" is like a secondary target; you can assign your current target to your focus by using the command "/focus"...
...so now what?
Well, it turns out that there are a lot of interesting tricks you can do with the focus, particularly if as a caster you have a need to occasionally cast spells on a secondary target; mages sheeping, warlocks banishing, etc. It's always a pain to lose your target, so often if you're focused (pardon the pun) on keeping a firesworn banished, you just don't participate in the fight.
No more!
...will let you keep your current target, but when you mash the above macro, it will cast Banish on whatever is in your focus. So you can load up on DPSing your target and just casually cast on your focus to keep them out of the fight.
That's just the very tip of the iceberg, though. There's a great thread on the Mage forums about this very subject here, but for example:
Check out the thread--some great ideas. I use a slightly simpler version of the above for banish and fear (without the raid marker or message), and it works wonderfully.
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One of the things I was most excited about in the 2.0 UI is also one of the most underutilized: the "focus". In fact, many people don't seem to know about it.
Basically, the "focus" is like a secondary target; you can assign your current target to your focus by using the command "/focus"...
...so now what?
Well, it turns out that there are a lot of interesting tricks you can do with the focus, particularly if as a caster you have a need to occasionally cast spells on a secondary target; mages sheeping, warlocks banishing, etc. It's always a pain to lose your target, so often if you're focused (pardon the pun) on keeping a firesworn banished, you just don't participate in the fight.
No more!
...will let you keep your current target, but when you mash the above macro, it will cast Banish on whatever is in your focus. So you can load up on DPSing your target and just casually cast on your focus to keep them out of the fight.
That's just the very tip of the iceberg, though. There's a great thread on the Mage forums about this very subject here, but for example:
Check out the thread--some great ideas. I use a slightly simpler version of the above for banish and fear (without the raid marker or message), and it works wonderfully.
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