Macro Questions - Page 12

wyldbill · 02/05/08, 5:40 PM

I have this. One moment.

Here's the healthstone list (strongest first):

/use item:22105
/use item:22104
/use item:22103
/use Charged Crystal Focus

If you'd like to throw health potions in there, you just need the itemid from wowhead dot com and the same syntax as above.

Be warned: health potions are not the same cooldown! This macro works because those items all share a cooldown and it cannot double up. If you put a health potion in that same macro, you'll end up burning both the health-stone and the health potion!

Deathwing · 02/06/08, 10:23 AM

I've got 3 trinkets I want to make one macro to control, no matter what trinket is in which slot. Normally this would be an easy macro:

/use 13
/use 14

This works for most trinkets because using the trinket in the first slot would cause a short-term cooldown on the second slot, and I can just press the macro again. This doesn't give the nice icon changing that /castsequence would, but as far as I know, you can't use more than one inventory slot in /castsequence.

The problem is coming from Moroes' Lucky Pocket Watch and Badge of Tenacity. They don't cause a cooldown on eachother, so using that macro would activate both at the same time. I imagine I would use it that way most of the time, but I want control over that.

"/castsequence Moroes' Lucky Pocket Watch, Badge of Tenacity, Crystalforged Trinket" doesn't work because the macro will start switching in the trinket that isn't equipped. The best I've come up with is:

/castsequence [stance:1] Moroes' Lucky Pocket Watch, Badge of Tenacity
/castsequence [stance:3] Crystalforged Trinket

This will cover most situations, but being a feral, there will be numerous situations where I start tanking, with my tanking trinkets, and then switch to dps. The use feature of the Badge of Tenacity is pretty good for dps, and I want the option to use it. Anyone had some success with this? I'm sure these three trinkets are pretty common trinkets for ferals.

f1reburn · 02/06/08, 12:16 PM

Does anyone know of a good targeting macro that allows me to target the Shadowy Necromancers in the Hiyal trash, one that doesn't target their corpses?

I tried /target [nodead] Shadowy Necromancer but it still targets corpses.

Deathwing · 02/06/08, 1:15 PM

The [nodead] option checks your current target, not the one you hope to target. You could try spamming:

/cleartarget [dead]
/target [notarget] Shadowy Necromancer

But I'm going to guess the targeting system will just keep giving you the same dead necro.

maybe try:

/target [target=nodead] Shadowy Necromancer

But that will probably ignore the "Shadowy Necromancer" part.

Gearknight · 02/06/08, 1:17 PM

Originally Posted by f1reburn

Does anyone know of a good targeting macro that allows me to target the Shadowy Necromancers in the Hiyal trash, one that doesn't target their corpses?

I tried /target [nodead] Shadowy Necromancer but it still targets corpses.

/target <mob> will always target the closest match to you, regardless of whether it's alive or not. I haven't been to that specific encounter, but I use something similar in other places:

/target <mob>
/targetenemy [dead]

This will target the mob with the specified name, and if it gets a dead one, it will target the next nearest alive enemy that's in front of you - equivalent to pressing tab. This will obviously work best if the Shadowy Necromancers are near eachother, and it does require some attention to make sure you're on the right mob.

shellfish · 02/07/08, 6:58 AM

I created a macro tonight for arena action. It allows me to access three ranks of mana burn with one macro. I adapted it from earlier iterations of similar macros, but I thought I would give folks searching for mana burn macros something to seize upon.

/cast [target=target, harm, modifier:ctrl] Mana Burn(Rank 4); [target=target, harm, modifier:alt] Mana Burn(Rank 1);[target=target,harm] Mana Burn(Rank 7)

I have this macro bound to "B". When I just press "B", it casts max rank MB. Holding Ctrl+B = rank 4, Alt+B = rank 1. This is useful for dragging someone down to zero mana using max rank then keeping them there using lower ranks for greater mana efficiency. Hopes this helps those searching for a solution. Also I recognize that it is probably pretty inelegant but there you have a newb effort

shellfish · 02/07/08, 6:56 PM

Now, I have a question. I've created a macro that casts smite if enemy targeted, flash heal if none or friendly is targeted:

/cast [target=target,help] Flash Heal(Rank 9);[target=target,harm] Smite(Rank 10);[target=player] Flash Heal(Rank 9)

What I want to add is a modifier that will cast flash heal even if an enemy is targeted, to enable me to heal myself. Any thoughts?

Ajuga · 02/07/08, 8:04 PM

/cast [mod:shift, target=player] Flash Heal; [help] Flash Heal; [harm] Smite; [target=player] Flash Heal

Didn't test it. Probably needs tweaking.

shellfish · 02/07/08, 8:43 PM

It works brilliantly, many thanks.

Destrous · 02/07/08, 11:23 PM

There was a mod ages ago that could automatically detect if a warlock had enough mana left to cast a shadowbolt, if the warlock didn't it would automatically cast lifetap for us.

And while I don't believe the mod exists anymore I was curious if a macro could work like this,

I tried using a macro that basically said
/cast Shadowbolt
/cast Lifetap

Assuming that if the shadowbolt cast fails the macro would automatically just go down the list to lifetap, but it doesn't seem to be working. So the question is can i modify this macro to work like this or has bliz blocked these kinds of macros somehow?

Ajuga · 02/08/08, 10:08 AM

It's blocked, Destrous. The /cast Shadowbolt will - if you can't cast it - trigger a short GCD (0.4s I think I read somewhere) so /cast Lifetap wont ever trigger.

Destrous · 02/08/08, 1:57 PM

Well that explains that, thank-you for the update, and I guess I shouldn't be so lazy.

Thanahtos · 02/09/08, 1:46 AM

I'm not quite sure if this is possible...but I was trying to figure out if there was a way to make a one button (clicked twice, I know it isn't possible with one click) summon then Demonic Sacrifice my Succubus.

#showtooltip Summon Succubus
/cast [pet:succubus] Demonic Sacrifice
/cast Summon Succubus

is what I have right now, but the summon spell triggers again after the sacrifice (because it doesn't trigger GCD), is there a script to stop a macro if I have a certain aura? or am I trying to think too hard?

f1reburn · 02/09/08, 4:30 AM

Gearknight and Deathwing, thank you for your help on the nodead targeting macros, but unfortunately neither of them seemed to work too well for me. It works fine on the first wave, when there are no corpses, but after that it doesn't target alive Necromancers anymore.

• Chicken · 02/09/08, 7:57 AM

Originally Posted by Thanahtos

I'm not quite sure if this is possible...but I was trying to figure out if there was a way to make a one button (clicked twice, I know it isn't possible with one click) summon then Demonic Sacrifice my Succubus.

#showtooltip Summon Succubus
/cast [pet:succubus] Demonic Sacrifice
/cast Summon Succubus

is what I have right now, but the summon spell triggers again after the sacrifice (because it doesn't trigger GCD), is there a script to stop a macro if I have a certain aura? or am I trying to think too hard?

Try it like this:

#showtooltip Summon Succubus
/cast [pet:succubus] Demonic Sacrifice; Summon Succubus