I thought in the early days of WoW that I had a macro that I could use to create another macro, but now I can’t figure out how to do that.
In particular, I want a button on my bar called “Create Assist Macro”, which when I target a person (say, “MrTargetCaller”) and I click the button, creates a new macro called “Assist TC” which just does “/assist MrTargetCaller”, which I can then put on my bar which has an already bound key (mouse 5 in my case).
Why? Because I don’t want to hand-edit my assist macro every time I’m in a new BG, or in a PUG 3s arena.
Anyone know how to accomplish this?
CreateMacro(“name”, iconFileID [, “body”, perCharacter])
But imho it’d be less effort to edit a persistent “Assist” macro rather than create a new one you have to drag to your bars.
This macro:
/run local n=UnitName("target") or "pet" if not InCombatLockdown() then EditMacro(GetMacroIndexByName("Assist"),nil,nil,"/assist "..n) print("Assist set to "..n) end
will edit a macro named “Assist” to /assist whatever you had targeted when the macro was hit.
This is what I use:
/run if UnitName(“target”) then t="/assist “…UnitName(“target”) else t=” " end EditMacro(GetMacroIndexByName(“SmartAssist”), “SmartAssist”, nil, t, 1, 1)
My assist macro is called SmartAssist
I also have a SmartTarget one that I use for certain situations like if I’m healing or want a macro to target a boss. Same concept:
/run EditMacro(GetMacroIndexByName(“SmartTarget”), “SmartTarget”,nil, "/target "…UnitName(“target”), 1, 1)
Just noticed the difference between the two and remembered that I made the assist one that way so that it will clear the macro if I don’t have a target. Otherwise, it would stay that way if I didn’t have a target.
When I’m in a group, I just make the Tank my focus. Then use this macro:
/assist [target=focus, exists][target=pet]
It will also assist my pet, if I don’t have a focus.
/assist [@target,nodead,help][@pet,nodead] might help a bit.
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