Macro Questions - Page 41

Brgid · 04/24/09, 9:20 PM

Urgh, another hunter armed with a brainless totemstomping macro. Looking forward to Blizzard one day honouring its promise to get rid of them .... [/rantover]

Macro question: apologies if this has been addressed but couldn't find it on a search; is there a macro command to switch action bars, or any way to alter keybinds within a macro? I'm trying to set up a macro that switches me from 2H to S+B but I use different abilities with S+B than I do with a 2Her so wanted to switch around my bars +/or binds at the same time (and then have a macro which switches back to 2Her and switches bars/binds back...)

If this has already been addressed even a quick link would be greatly appreciated...!

MatsT · 04/25/09, 6:30 AM

Reminder: always make sure to check Making a macro - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft before asking questions since 90% is already answered there. The answer to your particular question can be found at Making a macro - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft

Soulflare · 04/25/09, 9:33 PM

Anywhere I can find information on new dual spec macro commands? I'm trying to create a single macro that will cast different spells in different specs and another for switching talent spec using a macro.

Stirius · 04/26/09, 4:36 AM

Originally Posted by Soulflare

Anywhere I can find information on new dual spec macro commands? I'm trying to create a single macro that will cast different spells in different specs and another for switching talent spec using a macro.

different spells:

/cast [spec:1] bla; [spec:2] blub

for switching spec:

/usetalents 1

or for secondary spec:

/usetalents 2

Prinsesa · 04/27/09, 5:45 AM

To merge those two:

/usetalents [spec:1] 2; [spec:2] 1

That should switch you back and forth between specs, regardless of which one you're currently using.

Deepwinter · 04/28/09, 9:16 AM

Hey sarf i just wanted to say thx for the addon its a really nice neat solution to repeatedly queuing up in my case maul goodwork

Regards,

Deepwinter

Draenor EU

kalbear · 04/28/09, 3:31 PM

Also on a sidenote - one thing that I like a lot about TONS is that you can do some unintended things. For instance, I have faerie fire on a macro, and it was trivial to add it to the macros that should be toggled with maul. Now that faerie fire is an important part of the rotation, it was pretty trivial to get that in as well.

sarf · 04/29/09, 8:44 AM

Originally Posted by kalbear

Also on a sidenote - one thing that I like a lot about TONS is that you can do some unintended things. For instance, I have faerie fire on a macro, and it was trivial to add it to the macros that should be toggled with maul. Now that faerie fire is an important part of the rotation, it was pretty trivial to get that in as well.

Cool, and thanks for the info! I haven't kept up with the threat increase - I've been too busy just enjoying 5 minute Faerie Fire (hence, not spamming it). Your post does make my fingers itch on writing a macro manipulation lib, though...

On a personal note, while my life is much less hectic now that I have maul bound to everything under the sun, rage starvation is becoming a real problem. If only Blizzard would allow caps/num/scroll-lock as a modifier!

Flangus · 05/03/09, 11:26 PM

Hey, I'm having some trouble with the hand-mounted pyro rocket. I'm trying to macro it onto heart strike, but what happens is that the rocket will go off every 45 sec. However, heart strike isn't cast. At all.

Trying to use

#showtooltip heart strike 
/cast heart strike (rank 6)
/use Valorous Scourgeborne Gauntlets

but it obviously isn't working. Any thoughts?

MatsT · 05/04/09, 12:25 AM

Originally Posted by Flangus

Hey, I'm having some trouble with the hand-mounted pyro rocket. I'm trying to macro it onto heart strike, but what happens is that the rocket will go off every 45 sec. However, heart strike isn't cast. At all.

Trying to use

#showtooltip heart strike 
/cast heart strike (rank 6)
/use Valorous Scourgeborne Gauntlets

but it obviously isn't working. Any thoughts?

There's not supposed to be a space between "heart strike" and "(rank 6)".

Flangus · 05/04/09, 12:27 AM

Oh god, I just facepalmed so hard I broke my nose. Ever since the downranking nerfs I've just left the rank-part out of my macros till dual spec decided to bug out.

Thanks!

Prinsesa · 05/04/09, 7:55 AM

Tangentially related to the AHK thread, but how are we supposed to spell out Feral Faerie Fire in a macro?

#showtooltip Swipe
/castrandom Swipe,Mangle (Bear)(Rank 5),Faerie Fire (Feral)

This macro never seems to cast FFF, even after I shift-click-copied it from the spellbook (which worked for Mangle)

charriu · 05/04/09, 8:21 AM

Originally Posted by Prinsesa

Tangentially related to the AHK thread, but how are we supposed to spell out Feral Faerie Fire in a macro?

#showtooltip Swipe
/castrandom Swipe,Mangle (Bear)(Rank 5),Faerie Fire (Feral)

This macro never seems to cast FFF, even after I shift-click-copied it from the spellbook (which worked for Mangle)

Append () to it.

Darkorical · 05/04/09, 7:18 PM

Alright searching failed and the wiki article on macros didn't help that much either so Ill ask it here.

is there a way to change what chat channel a macro goes to based on current situation

I have

/cast Life Tap
Tap! Tap! Tap!

That way the healer knows that I'm just tapping and not getting pounded and they don't need to pay attention to my loss of HP.

But it always sends to the last chat I was active in (which sometimes annoys my guild)

but if I go
/raid Tap! Tap! Tap!

and I'm in a Heroic then I get the not in a raid group error and switching to /p doesn't work in raids

and if I'm alone I don't need it at all

now I saw the group condition part of the wiki but

/[group:party] /p Tap! Tap! Tap [group:raid] /raid Tap! Tap! Tap [group, nomodifier] /

doesn't seem to work either.

any advice

sarf · 05/05/09, 3:41 AM

/cast Life Tap
/stopmacro [nogroup]
/p Tap! Tap! Tap!
/stopmacro [nogroup:raid]
/raid Tap! Tap! Tap!

To avoid spamming /p in raids, you will need to do macro branching with /click. This example uses ActionButton 11 and 12:

/cast Life Tap
/click [group:raid] ActionButton11
/stopmacro [group:raid] 
/click [group:party] ActionButton12

On ActionButton11 you place the following command: /raid Tap! Tap! Tap!
On ActionButton12 you place the following command: /p Tap! Tap! Tap!

To get the name of a button, you mouse over it and use the command:

/run local f = GetMouseFocus() if f and f:GetName() then ChatFrame1:AddMessage(f:GetName()) end

It's a bit complex, and can actually be solved using script commands instead:

/cast Life Tap
/run local c if GetNumRaidMembers() > 0 then c="RAID" elseif GetNumPartyMembers() > 0 then c="PARTY" end if c then SendChatMessage("Tap! Tap! Tap!", c) end