Focus was in Vanilla - Please Fix the API

WoW Classic WoW Classic General Discussion
84

and they dont want modern api stuff being used in classic. they dont want automation. it is automation if its automatically switching targets and casting a spell (even if you choose the spell and target beforehand) without dropping your target.

It is doing something for you in 1 keystroke that would otherwise take you multiples. that is automation.

2 Likes
85

You can still do that with party ids and raid frames and mouse over macros and target macros.
Also they left in the modern raid frames for this exact reason.

2 Likes
86

They implemented the modern API in Classic.

Everything that you can do today with the modern API (excluding things to do with systems like LFR that aren’t in Vanilla, and including things like Weapon Skills that aren’t in Retail) can be done in Classic.

/cast Healing Touch [@targettarget,noharm]

still works if you want to heal whatever your target is hitting. That’s not Vanilla coding, that’s the modern API at work in Classic. It’s exactly the example you’re claiming doesn’t work, using a different unit ID. The only unit ID missing is focus.

Which is why your argument is actually absurd because you can use all the other targetting modifiers in Classic from Retail.

2 Likes
87

Speaking of which, reporting this post for spamming the forums with multiple of the same topic.

1 Like
88

This bit made me smile. Look buddy all I’m saying is that if you’re gonna make a huge wall of text outlining uses for focus scripts maybe you should include what you plan to use it for?

4 Likes
89

Maybe they didnt because idiots like you try to turn it into an anti multiboxing thread.
Stop ignoring the majority af users who dont multibox so you can argue with your strawman.

5 Likes
90

No you shouldn’t include it! Why you ask ? This leads to you forming an opinion on it instead of looking at the facts. It is irrelevant what people want to use it for. It literally “DOESN’T” matter. This is 100% fact.

All that matters is if it was in the original game and how it functioned. Period. No one should ever list the personal reason “Why” they want it because facts and history have nothing to do with personal thoughts or opinions.

That is all :wink:

3 Likes
91

So my warlock kick/dispell bot addon is good to go then? Cuz that was most definitely a thing in vanilla too…

OP is constantly ignoring that this functionality WAS PURPOSELY AND INTENTIONALLY DISABLED from the modern API going into classic.

If he doesn’t like it, he can go back to threatening not to play… on his second account… ( :roll_eyes: at how pathetic that threat was)… but there was a reason for the decision initially.

At the very least the functionality wasn’t added officially until TBC, that you had an exploit-api workaround to accomplish it in actual vanilla is about as relevant as me using a warlock felhunter dispell/kick “addon” during that time period. It ain’t gonna fly, and there’s a reason it was removed.

5 Likes
92

thought so. I appreciate your feedback apocalypse

93

Yea it sure would be a shame if people started forming opinions. Especially if they aren’t the same as yours.

I’m all for a 1:1 recreation of the original game. Unfortunately we seem to be living in Layering Loot Trading Streamer Land. The way I see it getting rid of multi-boxing would be a sort of consolation prize for dealing with all of that other mess. The only reason multi-boxing was ever allowed was to rake extra subs. If gameplay came first it would have been outlawed from the start.

1 Like
94

It wasnt remove in classic it was removed in bc. It isnt blocked because they intentionaly kept it out its blocked because its blocked in BFA and classic uses that client.
For everything else that used blocked scripts they left the modern api in.

95

For the tenth time. This does NOT get rid of multiboxers.
Most multiboxers dont use focus macros. They use third party programs.

2 Likes
96

Is that against the rules? If not then it doesn’t matter.

I don’t have a dog in the race when it comes to someones personal opinions. So as someone who isn’t taking any sides in this thread because there shouldn’t be any sides, just facts. If it was in the original game it should be in Classic. Even if players disliked it. Things that people didn’t like make the game what it was as much as what people enjoy.

The Good and Bad need to be in Classic as it was in Vanilla. That is to give us the authentic experience. That is all that matters. Has nothing to do with what you like or dislike.

1 Like
97

It wasnt in the original game. There was a script that allowed you to set an id. people would use focus, but you could use anything. So no. Focus wasnt in the game.

2 Likes
98

So you don’t need the focus?

99

But they wont let us use that script. Thats why they left in the ids the game makes for raid members. We want the focus id.

1 Like
100

My apologies. What I meant was “If this is even a minor annoyance for multiboxers.” That is good enough for me as well.

101

but the focus id wasnt in vanilla

102

Im sure lots of multiboxers would be anoyed if you added lfr to classic.

2 Likes
103

Let’s get this right you want focus target on
/script focus=UnitName(“target”).

So, then you have a one button heal on someone you were not watching? Or not in party with?

Yes that could help with multiboxing. It could do a lot more that as well.

I hope they keep it out.

3 Likes