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Hello, I would need an advice on macro mechanics. To get to the point, today I edited my old macro for shred and added equip idol bit.

Also I made a macro for mangle and Idol of terror:

This is the reason why i changed macros. Idol of Terror's proc is keept even when the idol is unequiped, so when doing cat dps, if it proces gives 65 agility over 10 seconds and in cat (Agility = 1.133 (1.25) AP, 1% crit per ~25 agility (1% crit per ~22 agility)) so it seemed like a nice boost to dps when in cat.

I came up with the idea (I know it's pretty obvious but until lately my main concern was tanking) while browsing items yesterday for dkp values and I came across a highlighted comment on this page:Idol of the Crescent Goddess - Items - World of Warcraft... anyway I'll copy/paste the important bit:

All relics (Idols, Totems and Librams) can be macro'ed to be swapped AFTER the cast. The swapping of relics in fight incurs a global cooldown. Adding the swap after the cast 'feeds' the global cooldown you would get from swapping into the global cooldown you will get from the spell cast. The key factor though is that due to the way the game parses you can still get the full benefit from the idol even if technically speaking it wasn't really equipped when the cast was made.

So if I understand correctly... idol change does trigger gcd but if in macro it comes second (after cast part) it kinda goes into gcd of the spell. Tested it today and I do get the proc on first mangle in my mangle macro. Still don't quite get this part so if there's someone with more knowledge on this I'd appreciate any reply. Bottom line is: Do I loose any dps when doing this and if so is the dps gained from idol's proc higher?