Doing some googling, it seems that there’s been much discussion on this topic, but I still can’t get a straight answer without doing shuffles or 3s and possibly tanking rating since macros might not work. I don’t care about my own rating so much, but don’t want to be setting my UI up at their expense
I feel like my needs are really simple: I want a life swap macro for the healer and a life swap macro for the other DPS, as well as a PI macro for the other DPS. That’s it
Anytime I’m in a new 3s group, or the lobby changes in shuffle, I have to keep switching names and I don’t want to do a whole new season of this
Doing some googling, I’ve gone down a rabbit hole of sort frame (Which I guess is now gone), Framesort, DynamicMacros for PVP and vuhdo
All I need is for the healer to always be Party1, the other dps to always be Party2 and for me to be Party3. That’s all I need.
Surely this configuration exists?
frame sort is best imo. Can also make macros to specifically target your healer or other dps.
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That’s what need! No personal names involved, just a macro for the healer in the shuffle and a couple for the other dps in a shuffle, without constantly swapping names.
Where can I find these macros?
I think the addon called TargetRole is easiest for this. Just put @HEALER and @DPS in your macro conditional, and “register” the macro with /tr add macroname
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I was following you until the “register” the macro with /tr
What does that mean exactly? Is that something I do in the standard blizzard macro creator, or something in the addon?
its part of the addon. its a command you type into chat after creating the macro.
If you are doing this in shuffle, you might need to use @DPS/TANK incase if you get a tank in your lobby. And the rare 2x prot paladin lobby would also be a problem for the healer macros, so you would need to use @HEALER/TANK in your healer target macros.
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TR is probably short for TargetRole, ‘register’ so the addon recognizes it.
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just get FrameSort addon. This really needs a part of the base UI.
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Well I tried it. Downloaded it. Updated my macros to say DPS or HEALER accordingly.
Pressed / and copy pasted the macro info into chat, jumped into a skirm, which happened to be a 3v3 and nothing
What did I miss?
Or was I supposed to put the name of the macro in chat?
Example: pidps
yes you put whatever you named the macro into the chat command, so for this one you would type “/tr add pidps”. You can see the list of macros you have added successfully with “/tr list”.
You can also consider doing all of this with the FrameSort addon. I didn’t realize it has a dynamic macro updating feature
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Ok all of that is working like you said. Let me jump in a skirm and see what happens now
I still use dynamic macros for PvP and it works. You have to go to the creators GitHub for the instructions of how to format your macros.
I’m messing around with it now, and it seems like as a DPS player you might need to use @DPS2 instead of @DPS to target the other dps, but tbh i’m not entirely sure if that is reliable.
With FrameSort it looks like it has a @otherdps, so that would be reliable.
edit: yes I think TargetRole is not good for arena because it doesn’t have something like “@otherdps” to always update the macro to the correct id. It seems that in skirmishes at least, it is replacing the DPS keyword with a raid# unitid which can refer to the player, instead of a party# which cannot refer to the player. I was using this addon for PVE as a healer in a way where this wasn’t really a problem. Use FrameSort instead for arena
Under buff uptime in details, it looks like my partner did get pi, but the void shift (life swap) macro wasn’t going off. I’m going to try a few more
I use an addon called “dynamic macros for Pvp” Google it and download it from curseforge.
It lets you do this for healer macros:
#showtooltip Void Shift
/cast [@dynamicMacros] Void Shift
And for DPS void shifts, you can do something like this:
#showtooltip Void Shift
/cast [@dynamicMacros]
/cast [@dynamicMacros] Void Shift
Inside of the arena it automatically replaces the @dynamicMacros part with the character names.
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I appreciate the response. I finally figured it out with franesort though. I just set myself to always be on bottom And then in wows UI settings, I have it set to organized by role
Then I just used the pre-written out macros on the frame sort page and voila! Everything is working. Let me tell you about what an absolute joy it’s been, to have the lobby change in a shuffle and not have to change names and do all that stuff.
Now I can just look at talents, talk strategies etc