Macros & Group/Raid Icons

[Kothnok]

Group/Raid icons were added recently so that a group/raid leader can mark targets with easily visible icons that everyone can see.  These are a great boon for coordination, but it's a bit clumsy to rightclick the target's icon, select Raid Icon> and then pick the icon you want to mark it with.

Enter Macros!

Create a macro with the following text and put it on an action bar for easy use.

/script SetRaidTarget("target",8)

In this case, the 8 is the SKULL icon.
The number is a value from 0 to 8, as follows:
            0 = no icon
            1 = Yellow 4-point Star
            2 = Orange Circle
            3 = Purple Diamond
            4 = Green Triangle
            5 = White Crescent Moon
            6 = Blue Square
            7 = Red "X" Cross
            8 = White Skull

Lets say a raid designates a Main Tank (this is the person who's target nearly everyone should be attacking) by putting the Orange Circle on the player.  A macro for easily assisting this person without having to change your macro with every raid would be the following:

/script for i=1,GetNumRaidMembers() do if GetRaidTargetIndex("raid"..i.."target") == 2 then AssistUnit("raid"..i) return end end

(the above is all on one line, it's shown here wrapped so you can read it)
This macro may be slower than just "/script AssistByName("Johnny")", but at least you never have to change it.

[un4]

I like it, thanks!