• Adoriele

Adding these changes would also allow you to use the macro during normal casting, and by holding the shift key would allow you to re-equip your normal weapons after the buff runs out. You'd have to manually trigger it, but it would be significantly easier and would have the least effect on GCD from weapon swapping.

 

• The Gopher

But then it's just using both bindings for the same action, unless there's some way to specify in the macro to behave a certain way based on the binding used.

 

◊ Sarutobi

If you move the 2 equip lines below the Greater Heal cast, you avoid a wasted global cooldown completely.

The best way to do it would be to bind the key to 5 and f (instead of shift + f) then include [modifier:shift, target=focus]. That way, if you hit shift + f or shift + 5 it will perform the action on your focus target.

 

• Adoriele

Hahaha, yes, my bad. You don't avoid it completely, though, as it looks like the GCD caused by weapon swaps (initiates once the swap occurs, which requires response from the server) is slightly behind the GCD caused by spell casts (initiated by pressing the cast button, response from server only verifies or removes). In essence you'll still add your latency to the GCD with the macro, but in the case of GHeal, that doesn't matter too much.

 

Smurrf

Ah, right...I'd forgotten about that; which shows how much weapon swapping I do. It does mean, however, that that first heal will be somewhat less robust, though. I guess I'm too used to making macros to pop tirnkets while casting spells...

 

• Adoriele

Nope. As long as it's not instant (and possibly even if it is), since almost everything is calculated when the spell lands instead of when it begins casting, the weapons will have swapped before the cast completes, and will gain the benefits of the new stats.

 

• The Gopher

Yeah I thought of this workaround, the only problem with it is I'm trying not to lose my binding for Assist Target which I use quite frequently. I guess I'll have to figure something out ><

 

• Adoriele

Um, why not use two actionbar slots, one bound to 5 with just the normal ability, and the other bound to shift-f with a macro version to target the focus, i.e.

 

Harmonics

Is there anyway to announce that I have used an ability with a macro for that ability? I wanted to let my party know when I use Nature's swiftness, but a /p blah blah in the macro is pretty spammy, and if I hit it while NS is on cooldown (wishful thinking) it broadcasts wrong information.

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Nemaa

Is it possible to make a purge macro to function like this:
Cast purge on my focus target if it exists, otherwise Purge on my target.
I couldn't find a way to make this. If you know about an addon that can make this it would be a great help as well.

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Fendryl

Not via vanilla macros, but with an addon you can. WoWInterface Downloads : Iriel's Castle : AfterCast and then you can do:

 

Nemaa

Unfortunately it does not work. With aftercast you can do ony unprotected actions like emotes, chat messages and so on.
Displays a "Blizzard UI blocked this action" message.
So I think I should use 2 different macros with 2 hotkeys, or this:

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Hamsda

Fendryl's post was no reply to your question if you look at the quote :P

but to solve your problem, try this one:

 

Nemaa

Thank You, that works fine.
And if I want to make my macro work like the opposite way (purge my target, if it has nothing to dispell try purging my focus target if it exists) I should change it to this:
Am I right?

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• Adoriele

No. Your macros can never distinguish whether the spell will fail or not, so in this case it will only purge your focus if you have no target. Similarly, the one above will only purge your target if you have no focus, though that's a more likely scenario to pop up.

 

Lons

Glad I came upon this thread, I like to say I am an amateur macro writer and I use this in raids as my focus macro sheep with the option of using alt to reassign my focus.

#showtooltip Polymorph(Rank 1: Turtle)
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
/clearfocus [modifier:alt]
/target focus
/focus [harm,exists,nodead] target
/targetlasttarget [harm]
/target [noexists] focus
/cast [target=focus,exists] Polymorph(Rank 1: Turtle)

It may not be pretty, but it is what I use. my first question is.

1) Can this be cleaned up and
2) I really want to be able to cast random all my polys, but with what I have I run out of room adding the new info tot he macro, is there a way to do what I need done in this macro, but add in a castrandom ability to poly so I can just randomly have all my polys used.

Thanks.

 

Lons

I have seen a lot of posts from people that want to use click trinkets and abilites whenever the cooldowns are up and wanted to show what I use in a raid, because a) I hate missing cooldowns and b) I hate having to worry about missing cooldowns

#showtooltip Fireball
/console Sound_EnableSFX 0
/use 13
/use 14
/use Combustion
/use Icy Veins
/console Sound_EnableSFX 1
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/use Fireball


This macro to me is very clean and I use it for my fireballs and have set up my frostbolts and arcane missles with similar ones.

It simply pops everything I have whenever the cooldown is up.

 

Marroc

Just to make sure I get what you want it to do / what it does correct:

1. Clear focus if current focus is dead
2. Clear focus if alt is held
3. Target current focus (unneeded?)
4. Focus current target if it exists and isn't dead
5. Target your last target (unneeded?)
6. Target your focus if you don't have a target (unneeded?)
7. Cast polymorph on your target.

With that said, you can reduce the macro above to the following, as well as remove the unneeded targeting:

#showtooltip Polymorph(Rank 1: Turtle)
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead][modifier:alt]
/focus [target=focus, noexists]
/cast [target=focus,exists] Polymorph(Rank 1: Turtle)

Total length: 170

The above does:
1. Clears your focus if its dead or alt is held
2. Sets your focus to your current target if you do not have a focus
3. Casts polymorph on your current focus if it exists

If the functionality of targeting your focus if you have no target is still wanted you can simply add the line /target [exists] focus.


To make the macro cast a random poly you do:
#showtooltip Polymorph(Rank 1: Turtle)
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead][modifier:alt]
/focus [target=focus, noexists]
/castrandom [target=focus,exists] Polymorph(Rank 1: Turtle), Polymorph(Rank 1: Pig), Polymorph(Rank 4)

Total length: 219

 

Lons

Thanks, I'm in a raid right now that doesn't require any sheeping, but will get back to you on how this works out. I knew I had to much crap in there that was redundant!

 

Lons

Works like a charm, thanks ever so much for helping me out Marroc.

 

Kdorf

Looking to expand on a script using something from a macro I've used commonly.

/run SendChatMessage(">>> Super Cool Message Here <<<","WHISPER","COMMON","Kdorf")

Will obviously whisper Kdorf that message, and...

/in 10 /whisper Kdorf >>> Super Cool Message Here <<<

Will whisper me the same message after 10 seconds.

I couldn't find any API or syntax to make the SendChatMessage delay for whatever period of time I want. Is that possible?

 

Matos

Does anyone know if there is a chance to make work /stopcasting into a macro like this for all the spells?

 

ninor

From a DPS point of view, this is a really bad idea. By all means have a macro that pops all your use trinkets, IV and Combustion, but do not tie it in with your Fireball. Not being able to use your cooldowns at 20% is a huge DPS loss.

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Ajuga

I know, I know - I'm a genius!

 

Kremmidis

I would like to know if there is any command to announce a taunt for example in raids and after some seconds cast it (e.g. Kremmidis is taunting in 3) ?