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You can't target by unit ID, or at least I've never seen a means to do it and I have previously looked for a way.

The main problem is that though you can retrieve the GUID of a unit (mob or npc), there is nothing to set your target based on this ID.

you can target by something's specific name...peryl made a schweet little addon for it a while back (that i shamefully butchered into the anti-fandreith targeting addon for siege )

The only thing you can do with the INGAME macro system is to use a macro to target the nearest enemy (or friend). You can also do a check to see if the Enemy that is selected is a Player or a Mob:

This one just targets the nearest enemy. Doesn't check to see if it's a player or a mob, just the closest thing you can kill:


This one checks to make sure the selected enemy is a Player - if it's a Mob or a players pet, it'll clear the target:


There's more you can do with TargetNearestEnemy/TargetNearestFriend().. Perhaps if you explained a little bit about what you're trying to accomplish, someone can help with a more detailed macro.

As far as I know, there's nothing in the API that assigns a specific ID to a particular mob type.. The UnitGUID is a unique identifier, and every mob will have a different one.

I ran this though 10 different mobs of the same name, for instance:

/script ChatFrame1:AddMessage(UnitGUID("target"))

And all 10 came back with 10 different IDs (although they were sequential).

If there's an API function that returns a generic ID for a particular monster type, then it should be pretty easy to write a macro for it (using Peryl's wonderful "target by name" macro as a baseline), but I know of no such ID..

Ok, a bit more testing.. Apparently the UnitGUID is NOT completely random, instead it represents a specific spawn point.

IE., a monster at a specific spawn point may have a UnitGUID of "2938", and if you kill it when it respawns that one will also have the same UnitGUID of "2938".

So I would (assume/presume) that each guard in Siege would follow the same logic, with each one having it's own unique identifier, meaning you would need like 18 different macros just to target the 18 different guards by UnitGUID.

If there's a different, more generic ID that represents a specific Mob Type, this would be a lot easier. lol

the function to target still relies on the tab targeting limitations...if called by name the tower guard leader will be the only one in range so will be the only one targeted..any mobs with identical names will just be scrolled through by distance. and player names being unique, at least calling friendlies would be easy. pulling uniqueID off all mobs around you using only ingame macros without any custom functions would be a bit interesting to see.

there was an addon that basically filled an array of all targets and gave them their own identifiers but it was either canned or abandoned a chapter or 2 ago.

Quoted from "karmakarma;592826"

for example kate weskers specific id that will never change is 121035,

Ok, progress. If you tell me the API command that you use to get the "121035" number, I can probably hack something together that would only target by that ID.

Are you sure Peryl's "Target By Name" macro wouldn't do the exact same thing that you're looking for, though?

Quoted from "karmakarma;592838"

yes it will find kate by her name, but it wouldnt be able to find the turtles or rabbits in andor, target by name only works for targeting objects and other things that have a tab function, correct? i cant remember the api coomand for objectid. but the main reason i want to solve this macro riddle is cuz it will be a huge time saver when it comes to needing to do a specific task

OK, I see what you're saying.. In relation to the things like turtles in Andor Training Grounds, no - there's nothing in the API that will target things that are not tab-targetable.

Now that I'm back from work, let me butt in again.

Since you hadn't specified what you wanted the ID targeting for, I just assumed a general case. But since you want to do a kind of TAB targeting but only actually target based on a GUID, then that is in fact possible.

Basically you would want to modify the "target by name" or "target only players" macro to "target by GUID" instead. Something like this should do the trick:

Replace the IDToLookFor with the GUID you want to look for.

A slight variation on this code could allow you to define an array of GUIDs to look for and allow targeting any of them. The only problem would be getting the list into the game since macros are only run via user interaction. Though you might want to check my macro guide since it does cover some of this aspect as well.

Anyway, you would define the list like this (much like the silence list in DIYCE):

where the IDx are the GUIDs themselves.

Then the macro would become:


The cute thing with this is if you wanted to temporarily remove an ID from being targeted, you could simply set the entry to false instead of true and the entry would then be ignored. More GUIDs could be added to the list and the macro wouldn't need to change.

Edit:
For the stuff that isn't actually TAB targetable, you might try TargetUnit("mouseover"). This'll target whatever the mouse is currently hovering over. Would of course require you to move the mouse over the mob, but at least it is one method.

Edit 2:
Forgot to mention. You would want to do the mouseover trick with the UnitGUID() thing so you could modify the macro like so: