Ok, so I'm a new mage, and I live in fear of focusing on the DPS target and forgetting to re-sheep a cc target. I looked around for an add-on that would make this easier by putting up a timer or giving me a warning or something, but I can't seem to find anything current that works post-2.3. What do you guys do to manage your sheep? Do you just tab back and forth to check when it needs to be polymorphed again, or do you use some more sophisticated method?
Possibly I've been spoilt by Healbot: I just want to click bars and have the mod do all the work for me while I collect loot, dur.
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Cryolysis. I don't know that I've updated it so I don't know if there's a post-p[atch version, but I just opt to load outdated add-ons and it's working for me just fine.
It won't re-target your sheep for you but it gives you a little timing bar and, if you opt to have the sound warning on, it will "Bahhhh" at you about 7 seconds before your sheep is going to break. It won't help if the sheep breaks early but it's nice to have anyway.
It won't re-target your sheep for you but it gives you a little timing bar and, if you opt to have the sound warning on, it will "Bahhhh" at you about 7 seconds before your sheep is going to break. It won't help if the sheep breaks early but it's nice to have anyway.
Thanks guys - I know it's a basic question. I checked out Cryolysis but it seemed like it was giving me a lot of other stuff I didn't want/need. Control Freak looks like just the simple little ticket. Rate-ups all around. TYVM!
NECB and others also do that. You will probably want to use a sheeping focus macro.
It is pretty easy to use:
Left click to set focus and start sheeping
Right click to resheep that focus while keeping your target so you can keep dpsing. The only issue that I had was that instead of watching the fight go on I am watching the picture frame of my UI to see if the face changes from a sheep to themselves which relies on my quickly going back to that button. Never too much trouble though.
It is pretty easy to use:
Left click to set focus and start sheeping
Right click to resheep that focus while keeping your target so you can keep dpsing. The only issue that I had was that instead of watching the fight go on I am watching the picture frame of my UI to see if the face changes from a sheep to themselves which relies on my quickly going back to that button. Never too much trouble though.
As long as you use a focus sheep macro, then Quartz is a good way of keeping an eye on your debuffs on them and what they are casting.
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I tend to just set the sheep target as focus target and check that it still has the polymorph debuff icon underneath it inbetween casts.
zargoza wrote:
I tend to just set the sheep target as focus target and check that it still has the polymorph debuff icon underneath it inbetween casts.
X Perl gives you a focus target frame that allows you to see easily if your focus target breaks out of polymorph. Between that and a focus macro, sheep is ridiculously easy to keep up.
I just got x-perl running myself and would like to know how to enable/show/set the focus target for my Polymorphs, yet I just cant figure out what I'm supposed to be doing when I set a focus target...any pointers?
/cast [target=focus,exists,nodead,nomodifier:alt] Polymorph
/stopmacro [target=focus,exists,nodead,nomodifier:alt]
/focus
the first time you press this macro, your target is set as focus target (so you get a second target frame if you have an add-on for it).
from now on, every time you hit this macro, the same mob gets resheeped no matter what target you currently have! so you don't have to switch from your dps target, it automatically resheeps your focus target.
if the focus target is dead or does not exist, the new target gets set to the focus target.
if you need to switch targets while the old one is still alive, hold down the alt key.
use dotimer to get a bar that shows sheep duration in addition to having the focus target frame up.
edit: open x-perl to move the position of your target frames while using this, because then the focus target frame will be up.
Edited, Feb 6th 2008 11:40am by Turicus
/stopmacro [target=focus,exists,nodead,nomodifier:alt]
/focus
the first time you press this macro, your target is set as focus target (so you get a second target frame if you have an add-on for it).
from now on, every time you hit this macro, the same mob gets resheeped no matter what target you currently have! so you don't have to switch from your dps target, it automatically resheeps your focus target.
if the focus target is dead or does not exist, the new target gets set to the focus target.
if you need to switch targets while the old one is still alive, hold down the alt key.
use dotimer to get a bar that shows sheep duration in addition to having the focus target frame up.
edit: open x-perl to move the position of your target frames while using this, because then the focus target frame will be up.
Edited, Feb 6th 2008 11:40am by Turicus
ah right, so you need the macro to set the focus frame otherwise x-perl wont do or show anything? I'll give this a try out later tonight when i get home. i'll also be grabbing dotimer as suggested as i dont have anything like this for timing my re-sheeping yet.
I'm telling you, try Control Freak. It does everything you can ask from a CC standpoint and works with every class that has CC (for those with a ton of alts like me).
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7797-ControlFreak.html
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7797-ControlFreak.html
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I'm telling you, try Control Freak.
I am now using it per your recommendation upthread and I can second this. I'm a little lazy, if by "lazy" you mean "clueless," when it comes to macros, and this does all the work for me in one teeeeeny tiiiiiny little bar. It's great stuff.
Well i went off last night to try the Marco / x-perl forus frame approach and had problems.
I took the following macro from wowwiki:
#show Polymorph (Rank 1: Pig)
/clearfocus [modifier:shift]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]; [target=focus,dead]
/clearfocus [target=focus,help]
/stopcasting
/cast [target=focus,exists,harm] Polymorph (Rank 1: Pig); Polymorph (Rank 1: Pig)
I also installed DoTimer for the Poly cooldown - which is very nice :)
I am totally "clueless" when it comes to Macros so when it didnt work I started to scratch my head.
I'll try the Macro from Turicus to see if that one works better and if all else fails, Control Freak.
I took the following macro from wowwiki:
#show Polymorph (Rank 1: Pig)
/clearfocus [modifier:shift]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]; [target=focus,dead]
/clearfocus [target=focus,help]
/stopcasting
/cast [target=focus,exists,harm] Polymorph (Rank 1: Pig); Polymorph (Rank 1: Pig)
I also installed DoTimer for the Poly cooldown - which is very nice :)
I am totally "clueless" when it comes to Macros so when it didnt work I started to scratch my head.
I'll try the Macro from Turicus to see if that one works better and if all else fails, Control Freak.
Do you have Polymorph: Pig?
I know that I have posted my sheeping macro somewhere here, I will see if I can dig it up.
I know that I have posted my sheeping macro somewhere here, I will see if I can dig it up.
Yeah I have the Pig polymorph but I cant seem to get it to work.
I'm now using the Macro suggested by Turicus which works fine for Sheep yet no clues as to how to get it to work for Pig:
/cast [target=focus,exists,nodead,nomodifier:alt] Polymorph
/stopmacro [target=focus,exists,nodead,nomodifier:alt]
/focus
Any suggestions would be great, thx
I'm now using the Macro suggested by Turicus which works fine for Sheep yet no clues as to how to get it to work for Pig:
/cast [target=focus,exists,nodead,nomodifier:alt] Polymorph
/stopmacro [target=focus,exists,nodead,nomodifier:alt]
/focus
Any suggestions would be great, thx
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