Macro - Different targets for you and your pet

[Fuyutsuki-grim-batol]

Hey guys, so I did a macro that allows my pet to be focused on a different target than I am, so basicly we can be fighting different targets at the same time.

How/when is that useful? You might ask. I don’t really know, but after seeing the Orc on this clip I decided to give it a try at being able to do the same kind of thing in game, and I managed to do so.

So, if any of you are interested in having it, here it is:
#showtooltip Kill Command
/cast [nopet] Call Pet 1
/petattack [@focus, harm][@target, harm]
/cast [pet] Dash
/cast [@focus, harm][@target, harm] Kill Command

As you can see I have it tied to Kill Command, because it’s the damage ability we use but the pet performs, but you can tie it to any other ability you desire, of course.
For the people who are not much into macros, or might not understand what it does just from looking at it I will explain.
The first and third lines I guess are self explanatory, if you don’t have a pet with you it will call the first one in your party and it will cast Dash, those two lines are not needed for the macro to work they are just some utility I already had in Kill Command anyway.
Now, the second and fourth lines are the ones that matter. What they do is when you press the macro it will check your focus target first and see if it can be attacked, if you don’t have a focus target or you have one but it can’t be attacked (like your raid tank for example), it will then check your target and if it can be harmed. So, basicly, if you don’t have a focus target, or a friendly focus, the pet will attack/KC your normal target as usual, but if you have a hostile focus target the pet will instead attack that one while you can target someone else.

Again, I don’t really know how useful it is, tbh I only used it a few times for fun, but if anyone ever wanted to be able to do something like this, be it for roleplay or whatever, enjoy.

[Tsaranoga-onyxia]

/petattack [@mouseover,harm]
is what i’m using.
(among other lines.)

[Fuyutsuki-grim-batol]

Haven’t tried that one, but the issue I think that might have is that everytime you use KC the pet will default to your target and then you have to keep chaging the pet to your desired target.

With the one I made, your pet will stick to it no matter what, because the pet will do KC and the attacks on the @focus, so it won’t be going back and forth between your target and @focus.

Idk, but I guess it depends on what exactly we wanna do, if that works for you cool. In fact I wasn’t expecting anyone to reply with something similar they do, I figured nobody would want to have the pet focused on a different target than our own. I guess it might be useful in situations where you want the pet to stick to a priority target/boss while you deal with adds/trash. So you basicly can regen Focus from KC without the pet leaving the target you want it to stick to. Other than that, I guess there’s no use for such a thing. Nonetheless I did it for fun, and also to learn/understand more about macros, figured I’d share for anyone who’d be interested.

But I might try your way, just to see how it feels.

Edit:
After I wrote the reply a thought crossed my mind, in my macro if [@mouseover,harm] was added between the other 2 conditionals it might work well, as a mix of what you already do with what I do. It would look like this:

#showtooltip Kill Command
/cast [nopet] Call Pet 1
/petattack [@focus, harm][@mouseover,harm][@target, harm]
/cast [pet] Dash
/cast [@focus, harm][@mouseover,harm][@target, harm] Kill Command

And what it should do the following: Check focus, if there is no focus, check mouseover (like you do), if there is no mouseover only then it would go for my selected target.

Hmmm… Gotta try it out, interesting. Thank you for the idea.

[Tsaranoga-onyxia]

As I said “among other lines”. ^^

[Fuyutsuki-grim-batol]

Oh right, my bad. Didn’t take that part into consideration.