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sahamet · 05/19/07, 4:28 AM

Stopcast macros I use look something like:

/stopcasting
/cast Spell

Using a castbar with a built-in latency indicator (like the excellent Quartz, from wowace.com) is I'd say mandatory for stopcasting, or at the very least highly useful. Even in fairly light-lag situations I can regain about .2 seconds of casting time on an average cast using stopcasts.

Aside from maximizing DPS, you can get really good results using stopcasts on heals. I healed a heroic ramparts with high latency last night (as a paladin) and I don't think it'd have been possible at all without stopcasting. You can do this with click-casting using something like the following as your macro (I use Clique + Grid):

/stopcasting
/cast [target=mouseover] Holy Light

with similar macros for Flash of Light and Holy Shock. I personally have a PVE and PVP set of bindings for Clique though because in PVP I tend to frantically click and it costs too much to accidentally cancel a heal in progress during PvP (so I don't have stopcasts in my PvP binding set), but I suppose if you became more disciplined it'd work well there in letting you get off the most healing in the shortest amount of time.

05/19/07, 4:28 AM	#5
sahamet Glass Joe Truffaut Undead Priest <Kudzu> The Underbog	Stopcast macros I use look something like: /stopcasting /cast Spell Using a castbar with a built-in latency indicator (like the excellent Quartz, from wowace.com) is I'd say mandatory for stopcasting, or at the very least highly useful. Even in fairly light-lag situations I can regain about .2 seconds of casting time on an average cast using stopcasts. Aside from maximizing DPS, you can get really good results using stopcasts on heals. I healed a heroic ramparts with high latency last night (as a paladin) and I don't think it'd have been possible at all without stopcasting. You can do this with click-casting using something like the following as your macro (I use Clique + Grid): /stopcasting /cast [target=mouseover] Holy Light with similar macros for Flash of Light and Holy Shock. I personally have a PVE and PVP set of bindings for Clique though because in PVP I tend to frantically click and it costs too much to accidentally cancel a heal in progress during PvP (so I don't have stopcasts in my PvP binding set), but I suppose if you became more disciplined it'd work well there in letting you get off the most healing in the shortest amount of time. Last edited by sahamet : 05/19/07 at 4:48 AM.