Misdirection macro/modFollow

I'm a bit macro happy. I like my buttons to be as situationally aware as I can make them, so I don't have to waste time in combat flitting all over the keyboard. I've got most of my duties in instance groups down to about 5 buttons which change with changing conditions and various modifiers.

One that has me stumped, however, is a misdirect macro. My guild has three main tanks. I'd like to set up a button (or small set of buttons) that will target my choice of the tanks -> cast misdirect -> either target the tank's target or allow me to choose a target -> cast my three highest threat spells with no autoattacks in between.

Has anyone seen or written a macro that will accomplish all or most of this?

By the way, I've always assumed that the highest threat I can generate in three attacks is Arcane, Muli, and Distracting. Is this correct?

/Cast Misdirection
/y T% is Misdirected, start the pew pewing!
/assist

Is what I use. It casts MD, gives a shout that they are MD'd and targets their target. After that I manually wind up Aimedshot and go wild.

Edit: I just have MD on my bars too so I don't yell all over the place in outdoor zones.

Edited, Dec 12th 2007 4:52am by Ieatrocks

I think these two should accomplish what you are looking to do:

(1) Use:
#showtooltip Misdirection
/cast [target=focus] Misdirection

This is a great macro to use for this. Set the tank as your focus, target the mob you plan on attacking, and hit this button. It will cast misdirection on your tank while maintaining your target so you can quickly fire afterwards. Also, the first line of this macro is optional, I just prefer to have tooltips show.

(2) Spam:
/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/castsequence reset=5 Aimed Shot, Multi Shot, Arcane Shot
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/script UIErrorsFrame:Show()

Spam this macro and you will fire off a max rank Aimed Shot --> Multi Shot --> Arcane Shot with no autos in between. Hopefully you'll get a crit or two and really load the tank up with threat. I am at work and have NOT tested the /castsequence macro for any problems. I will do so when I get home later, but I basically modified my Steady/Auto/Arcane macro for this, so it should work just fine.

Obviously you need to set the tank as the focus to use these. Either set a key binding for setting the focus, or use a simple a macro of:
(a) /focus target
Select tank, hit button
(b) /focus [target=mouseover]
Place mouse over player (or player frame, can't confirm personally though) and hit button

Hope these can be of some help to you.

Sorry for the double post.

Edited, Dec 12th 2007 1:28pm by actodd

Okidoke, I think I've got it:

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#showtooltip
/cast [button:1, modifier:alt, target=focus] Misdirection
/castsequence [button:1, nomodifier] reset=110 Aimed Shot, Arcane Shot, Multi-Shot
/focus [button:2, nocombat] target
/assist [button:2, combat, target=focus]
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This will set my focus with a right-click if I'm out of combat. Apparently you have to do this over again if you die, I don't know yet if you have to do it again if the tank dies. (I've been practicing with my pet, and I can't bring myself to just stand back and watch him get killed.)

Pressing alt+click will cast the MD on whatever you focused, then letting go of alt and continuing to click will kill the mobs. I set the reset timer to 110 so I'd have a 10 second visual warning when MD would be up again. I put Multi-Shot last in case there's cc around, I can just let the last attack be an autoshot.

Once the MD is done and I'm in combat, another right click will target the tank's target (I think) in case I was helping built aggro on 'X' so I can start pew-pewing. In fact, this can be used to target the tank's target whether or not MD was ever used - though no one here would ever forget the kill order ;).

Thanks for all the help guys! :)


Edited, Dec 12th 2007 9:24pm by Laecy