Agree very much.
Lol then no wonder Blizz is fine with it.
I agree to this 110%. People need to stop trying to make vanilla their own version of vanilla.
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Not sure if it was already mentioned since I don’t want to read all the replies, but it’s now been mentioned in the locked beta forum as well: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/focus-command-not-working/182371/7
It’s not an advantage if literally anyone can do it. If you want to optimize your gameplay then you should have multiple accounts.
Burning Crusade code and after should never be implemented into classic. Focus changes game play too much imo that it’ll just make it closer to a retail feel. I’m against this as well. I agree with Apocalypse on this whole thing. Everyone wants “ease of use” when it really wasn’t that easy back then. Please don’t implement this and let people experience what it’s like to not have this.
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It was in vanilla, the only thing that TBC changed was how you accessed it.
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Sorry, I still don’t agree with it as it is something too similar to retail that people would just roll through content without any problems. Focus is mind numbing for healing for the masses.
Focus only works on 1 target so the argument that it’s mind numbing for healing the masses is not a good argument in any way shape or form.
And if you want to argue that it’s too similar to retail, well retail greatly limited its functionality. It existed in vanilla and had a far more open and wide array of uses.
It didn’t exist in vanilla though. a script that allowed the user a work around to set any target to any word existed. People would use that for focus targets and eventually blizzard added it in. It did not exist in vanilla though.
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Keeping the same target for abilities while doing other things/tasks I consider mind number especially if your using healing without switching back and forth through targets like I remember doing back in vanilla. Classic doesn’t need this either because the content back then wasn’t as complicated as it is now with boss mechanics. You’re literally asking for vanilla to be even more easier than it already is. I came back for Classic thinking they would not implement or add anything that would make it like on retail. I’m beginning to think this is changing because people don’t like doing what was cumbersome back then and want it easier like on retail.
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Really? You don’t see the advantage of having multiple characters sitting in the same location burning down anyone from an opposing faction that tries to get close to you? Or running dungeons by yourself rather than having to go through the arduous but necessary process in Classic of networking with people and making friends? How deluded can you get?
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It’s also perfectly similar to Vanilla, because Vanilla was Retail at the point where it swapped to TBC…
“Eventually” being the point where they reworked the entire macro conditional system such that Secure Code prevented scripting. There was never a moment in time where it didn’t exist in one form or the other, excluding Classic.
It wasn’t cumbersome in Vanilla? It was easier and far more adaptable. Retail restricted the flexibility, but they gave us focus at the same time that the removed custom targets, because they didn’t want us to lose that functionality.
It’s also perfectly similar to Vanilla, because Vanilla was Retail at the point where it swapped to TBC…
I do believe we’re talking about the present time here not “a timeline” where vanilla swapped to TBC. It is not similar currently and if you still think it is you’re blind to see the differences.
It wasn’t cumbersome in Vanilla? It was easier and far more adaptable. Retail restricted the flexibility, but they gave us
focusat the same time that the removed custom targets, because they didn’t want us to lose that functionality.
It was and it is less now currently in retail. So if you say it was easier and far more adaptable then, then what exactly are you fighting for? Are you wanting that functionality in script commands back before they took it away or are you trying solely to get TBC focus forced into classic?
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he is trying to get it back so he can multibox in classic with ease. It’s in multiple threads he has created. I kid you not there is like 3 or so.
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I know it’s disappointing to see. Wasn’t aware he spamed it that much.
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No multiboxing in Classic?!?! That makes the experience even better!
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Sorry. I was playing in Vanilla, and playing when it became TBC. I spent time in Hellfire Peninsula rewriting my Focus macros to use the new model.
I want the functionality of a single player-selected unit, aside from target. We had that functionality in both Vanilla and TBC, though the form of all macros completely changed during the swap from Vanilla to TBC.
Its not being “forced” into Classic, because they’re using the modern API.
I want to be able to use:
/cast [@focus] Healing Touch
just like I can use
/cast [@targettarget] Healing Touch
in Classic. There’s no “forcing”, its an integral part of the macro conditional system that they implemented in Classic using the Retail model.
The request is simply to have a focus unit ID. Nothing more, nothing less.
Actually, the people you hate, are the ones who will be unaffected.
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I don’t hate anyone. I strongly dislike multiboxers. If you can’t be bothered to play like everyone else then don’t play at all.
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Ok, the people you “strongly dislike” will be unaffected.