So I found this old addon that allows you to cycle through party members with one bind. It hasn’t been updated since 2010 or something, but it still works somehow.
My issue with its current setup, however, is that it also targets yourself before party1, and after reaching the last member of your party. Also, I just tried it out on live, and it seemed to cycle through my dungeon party out of order ( instead of 1 through 5 ), while on the Shadowlands beta it did work in the right order.
Is there anyone here with coding knowledge who may apply some simple edits to iron out these kinks, possibly?
https://www.wowace.com/projects/tabparty
There is a comment on the addon’s website that tells you what to change in code to skip your character while going through the party. You just need to change one line: newunit = "player" to lastunit = (lastunit + 1).
As for the order, maybe you have some sorting of party member that shows them in different order they are acutaly in.
I’ve tried following those instructions, only to encounter a WoW error whenever I use the bind afterwards. Must be some inherent flaw in it.
Any other ideas?
Hmm I will have to install it and check it, if you can you might post the content of the error here.
Here’s a screenshot of what happens when I press the bind after changing that line.
Thank you, didn’t know how to do that ^^
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Oh it crashes the whole game, that might be a bigger problem.
Could I ask what you want this function for?
Have you tried it in retail and not beta?
Could I ask what you want this function for?
It’s very useful in arenas where you have to cast multiple spells on your partners; your only other options are to bind target party1, target party2, etc., or to go ahead and make two or three macros for each individual spell, and use up a whole bunch of extra keybinds for them.
Have you tried it in retail and not beta?
Yup. Same issue. Feel free to experiment with it yourself as well.
Will that enable me to scroll through party members once per press, or will one click perform a whole cycle?
You can make a macro that will cycle through spells as you press the macro - put the most important stuff at the top. It will check and use each thing in turn, moving on if something is on cooldown.
It sticks to the one keypress = 1 action rule and is safe.
Nothing can one click an entire cycle - that sounds too much like automation and breaks tos.
GSE works fairly well, although not on beta - no biggie there. However a slight issue remains, that it doesn’t adjust according to group size.
If I do a dungeon with a full group, for example, and I use a macro that goes /target party1, /target party2, /target party3 and /target party4, later on when I try to use it in a party of a smaller size like 3v3 arenas, the first 2 clicks work, but then I have to click 2 more times for it to register the remaining 2 lines before going back to party1. What do you do to remedy that?
Or do what other arena players do and just use mouse wheel?
Scroll up for 1 and down for 2nd arena mate and alt for self cast.
Trying to conserve keybinds here.
edit: don’t do what I just suggested