Modifying target player macro to not target dead players

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ruisen2000

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Saturday, April 4th 2015, 7:05pm

Modifying target player macro to not target dead players

Hello,
For the macro

/run if UnitIsUnit("player", "target") or UnitIsDeadOrGhost("target") then TargetUnit("") end
/run for i=1,10 do TargetNearestEnemy() if UnitIsPlayer("target") then break end end
/run if not UnitIsPlayer("target") then TargetUnit("") end

If I don't want it to target players that are already dead, or ghost players (which I'm assuming are players just as they rez out), how do I modify it?

Do I change the third line to
/run if not UnitIsPlayer("target") or UnitIsDeadOrGhost("target") then TargetUnit("") end
or just have a 4th line with
/run if not UnitIsDeadOrGhost("target") then TargetUnit("") end

Or are neither of these correct?Thanks.

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Sunday, April 5th 2015, 2:43am

Quoted from "ruisen2000"

Hello,
For the macro

/run if UnitIsUnit("player", "target") or UnitIsDeadOrGhost("target") then TargetUnit("") end
/run for i=1,10 do TargetNearestEnemy() if UnitIsPlayer("target") then break end end
/run if not UnitIsPlayer("target") then TargetUnit("") end

If I don't want it to target players that are already dead, or ghost players (which I'm assuming are players just as they rez out), how do I modify it?

Do I change the third line to
/run if not UnitIsPlayer("target") or UnitIsDeadOrGhost("target") then TargetUnit("") end
or just have a 4th line with
/run if not UnitIsDeadOrGhost("target") then TargetUnit("") end

Or are neither of these correct?Thanks.

You can always look at the health value of the target. If above 0 then it isn't dead. UnitHealth() will return the real health value for players (it returns a percentage for mobs and NPCs). So, you could modify the macro like this:

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run if UnitIsUnit("player", "target") or UnitIsDeadOrGhost("target") then TargetUnit("") end
/run for i=1,10 do TargetNearestEnemy() if UnitIsPlayer("target") and UnitHealth("target") > 0 then break end end
/run if not UnitIsPlayer("target") then TargetUnit("") end

The and UnitHealth("target") > 0 in the for loop's if statement will force it to keep looking if the target has no health. You could replace UnitHeath() with UnitIsDeadOrGhost(), but IIRC UnitHealth is more reliable.

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ruisen2000

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Sunday, April 5th 2015, 7:51am

Would that target players rezzing out as well? One of the problems I have with the current macros is during large battles, it becomes really difficult to target players, because I'd always target players that are dead, or players in the middle of rezzing out.

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Sunday, April 5th 2015, 11:45am

I have no idea. You'll have to try it out. Though it will certainly work for dead players, those that are "rezzing out" well I don't know. That would depend if the game considers them alive or dead and what the state of their health is.

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Sunday, April 5th 2015, 5:26pm

I'm assuming UnitIsDeadOrGhost("target") will check for both dead and rezzing (ghost), but I'm not familiar with the syntax for macros and I'm not sure how to incorporate it into the line /run if not UnitIsPlayer("target") then TargetUnit("") end

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