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Can you add an option to change keybind for activating marking? ALT-key in my case used as modifier for casts in macros.

I'm mainly using MM for 5-mans so that may influence my thoughts on it. I ran Hero Ramps last night and made sure I had everything setup. I still ended up with a lot of manual marking and realized there is one more variable needed that should be set manually per run:

Minimum # tank targets

We had plenty of two pulls where one got marked sheep and the other trap... hmm... weren't we supposed to kill one of them? In the absence of a "swipe, then mark" system you could still achieve the correct result if you mark the "tank minimum" first, before you start assigning CCs. Of course that may still require some swapping and, ultimately, a "swipe then mark" system would be best.

Speaking of "swipe then mark"... can we get some target frames created similar to Proximo by MM? I'm not sure if 2.4 will allow targetting through such frames, but it would still be useful. See the PerfectTargets thread in Addon Ideas for some thoughts on this.

I do like the idea of a minimum number of tank targets.

Mainly using Magic Marker in Karazhan and Zul'Aman and sometimes we only have one tank (Karazhan) and sometimes we have two. But even if we have two there are a few groups where I'd like to Crowd Control as many mobs as possible (the charging horses in Karazhan, Flamecasters in ZA, ...) regardless of the number of tanks and then there are groups where a second tank can begin to build threat on completely harmless targets which would otherwise be crowd controlled.

Perhaps two keybindings: One "force marking tank targets" and the other the usual "smart marking"?

Or...is this already possible? I have lost track of all the added features :)

You are probably right ;-)

Keep it simple...

Quote from NeoTron »

I think I don't really think it's too horrible if you start tanking circle (shackle) instead of star (2nd tank) or whatever. With 2.4 out I might change things around but overall it's kind of messy to force things to be what they are not.

I would have to disagree. If I tell my raid that symbol X is the 2nd tank target and symbol Y is a CC, it will cause confusion if I were to suddenly mark up the 2nd tank target as a CC. And at least for me this situation is very common, as when my guild learns new content we tend to use maximum CC, but when we're comfortable enough with a trash group we always leave two targets to be tanked so that the 2nd tank can build threat and speed things up big time by allowing full DPS on each target beyond the 1st. Maybe the database could have an "always CC" option for each mob for those situations where mobs should be CC'd regardless of the minimum number of tank targets, beyond having 1 tank target of course? (think of the Skeletal Ushers in Kara before the Opera event)

Other suggestions for things I'd like to see in this addon:

It would be nice to have the ability to explicitly define a kill order to use in the announcement of raid targets, optionally with player names. I realise I can type this manually or make into a macro, but the former is time consuming and the latter is cumbersome to do during a raid.

Also, could the new graphical symbols in 2.4 be used instead of names for the symbols? I realise that this might be on its way already (or maybe even implemented by now), but thought I'd mention it just in case.

Keep up the good work on this addon, it's looking very promising!

First of all, many thanks for the time you have put into this addon. I like it a lot.

But... (there always is a but, isn't there? :) )

After a recent update it has ceased to work for me. The error I am getting is:

[2008/03/29 11:39:47-2224-x1]: MagicMarker-1.0 r66304\MagicMarker.lua:36: attempt to call method 'EmbedLogger' (a nil value)

and

[2008/03/29 11:39:47-2224-x1]: MagicMarker-1.0 r66304\Config.lua:196: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil)
MagicMarker-1.0 r66304\Config.lua:196: in main chunk

Hope this helps. Not sure if it is something I have done or not done. If you could shed some light on this I would appreciate it.

I am running MagicComm btw.

Thanks for your time.

Same "EmbedLogger" error here.

Thanks for a quick fix. :)

I have been running without MM for a few days because it was missing a dependency. I went and downloaded magiccomm and it works again. Is MComm a required dependecy, and if so, why doesn't it come bundled? I'm updating with JWU and have it set to split out libraries.

Okay, so, I've been trying to play with this for a couple of days, and I seem to be missing fundamental.

If I'm reading things right, I should be able to set up what types of CC I want, tanking, what the prefered handling of each mob is, etc... and then just hold down alt and mouseover a pack of mobs and have it assign symbols to everything... right?

Well, it's not. I can select individual mobs and hit the key I have bound to MM's "mark mob" function and that works, but that's kind of contrary to the point of the mod!

I've tried the other modifiers (ctrl, alt) with no luck, and I've also tried a completely custom key (F8) with no luck. I assume ont hat last you're expected to hold it down like a modifier key, and wave past your mobs.

Am I somehow just completely missing something?

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Quote from NeoTron »

MagicComm is a separate addon. It should be added automatically by WAU as a dependency. It's not bundled because it's an addon, not a library.

It is not added automatically by JWowUpdater and, if it is required, it's want it to be downloaded together with MM (other addons that are a collection of addons like Bongos, Auctioneer etc put all the addons in one zip file). If MC is not optional I think you need to tie them closer together.

Hey! I've been testing magicmarker now, and it really works great. I have one question though (may have missed it in this thread); are there plans to add export/import functionality of the addon's data? It would save a lot of seperate setup time if I could share the CC-options for mobs with guildies.