Macro Questions - Page 5

wyldbill · 01/02/08, 4:55 PM

Originally Posted by Crumbles

the action bars obviously.

Less obviously would be to look for a mod called "spellbinder" which may circumvent the actionbars. I can't vouch for it personally, but I've heard good things so far.

But really, just find an empty bar and bind the numpad to that bar's actions; you can then hide that bar.

Ajuga · 01/02/08, 6:58 PM

Originally Posted by Aranan

I'm trying to set up a pet attack macro for my warlock and running into some issues. I have the macro itself set up (I think), but I can't click and drag it onto the pet bar. I think I'm overlooking something, but I can't seem to get any macro to move onto the pet bar. Am I doing something wrong (or is there an addon interferring), or does Blizzard really not let a macro be added to a pet bar?

Last time I checked, No. The pet bar is a stubborn thing - can't even drag some of the abilities off it.

Originally Posted by wyldbill

Less obviously would be to look for a mod called "spellbinder" which may circumvent the actionbars. I can't vouch for it personally, but I've heard good things so far.

But really, just find an empty bar and bind the numpad to that bar's actions; you can then hide that bar.

Spellbinder is great! But at the moment it can be hard to use due to something that went wrong in the last patch (should be fixed by Blizzard in next patch). Binding modifiers can be tricky and you can't see a list of all your 'spellbinds'.

Jelloshots · 01/02/08, 7:00 PM

Originally Posted by Akomos

So really, the problem is that the [target=mouseover, help] gate is busted; for some reason the mouseover isn't returning debuff status. Anyone have any ideas of what might have broken this and any possible workarounds, or am I going to have to decurse the slow way for now?

I would be suspicious of a spell failing to hit its intended target, so it looks like something else is going on. Have you tried breaking it down to see exactly where the macro is failing? Just get rid of everything except the mouseover condition. You might also try using [target=mouseover, help, exists] instead.

Blazingwater · 01/05/08, 6:12 PM

Need some macro help...

I want to make a macro that allows me to highest rank earth shock if I left click it, and lowest rank earth shock my focused target if I right click it. That would be great help in arena so I could dps one target and interrupt his healer.

Can anyone show me how to make that macro?

Barrakketh · 01/05/08, 9:03 PM

Originally Posted by Blazingwater

Need some macro help...

I want to make a macro that allows me to highest rank earth shock if I left click it, and lowest rank earth shock my focused target if I right click it. That would be great help in arena so I could dps one target and interrupt his healer.

Can anyone show me how to make that macro?

This:

#showtooltip
/cast [target=focus, button:2] Earth Shock(Rank 1); Earth Shock;

should work. Buttons 1, 2, and 3 match the left, right, and middle mouse buttons. Buttons 4 and 5 are usually the side buttons.

Kambi · 01/06/08, 8:07 PM

Try this one out please....

/stopcasting
/cast Nature's Swiftness
/stopcasting
/cast healing wave

that casts ns then hw on my target. What i'd like it to do is set my target as focus on left click only if i don't already have a focus then cast ns and hw on my focus. Any and all help would be appreciated.

Barrakketh · 01/07/08, 1:28 AM

Originally Posted by Kambi

Try this one out please....

/stopcasting
/cast Nature's Swiftness
/stopcasting
/cast healing wave

that casts ns then hw on my target. What i'd like it to do is set my target as focus on left click only if i don't already have a focus then cast ns and hw on my focus. Any and all help would be appreciated.

This might work, but I don't have a Shaman/Druid to test it with:

/clearfocus [modifier:shift]
/focus [target=focus, noexists] [target=focus, dead]
/stopmacro [target=focus, harm]
/stopcasting
/cast Nature's Swiftness
/stopcasting
/cast [target=focus, exists, nodead] Healing Wave

Holding shift down will clear your focus and allow you to change it. If you don't it will cast on your focus instead of a friendly target. The macro will stop if you have an enemy focused (presumably for Earth Shocking) so you don't blow Nature's Swiftness by accident.

Osse · 01/08/08, 9:43 PM

Never mind, I forgot itemrack can do it.....

PewPew · 01/10/08, 6:47 AM

i tried following to reduce some space used, but it doesnt really work:

#showtooltip psychic scream
/cast [nomodifier] Mass dispell
/cast [modifier:shift] Psychic Scream (rank1)
/cast [modifier:alt] Psychic Scream

didnt copy&pasted it, just wrote it off my mind, so if there is any error in it, that shouldnt be the problem because the version i use ingame should be free of any typos etc.
so i want Mass dispell and the two ranks of psychic scream on the same button(key-binded E), with the two modifiers alt and shift.
it works with mass dispell, but using one of the two modifiers will highlight the button, but not cast anything...
any ideas why it doesnt work? =(

JoeBravo · 01/10/08, 7:10 AM

Originally Posted by PewPew

i tried following to reduce some space used, but it doesnt really work:

#showtooltip psychic scream
/cast [nomodifier] Mass dispell
/cast [modifier:shift] Psychic Scream (rank1)
/cast [modifier:alt] Psychic Scream

didnt copy&pasted it, just wrote it off my mind, so if there is any error in it, that shouldnt be the problem because the version i use ingame should be free of any typos etc.
so i want Mass dispell and the two ranks of psychic scream on the same button(key-binded E), with the two modifiers alt and shift.
it works with mass dispell, but using one of the two modifiers will highlight the button, but not cast anything...
any ideas why it doesnt work? =(

Changing the order in

/cast [modifier:shift] Psychic Scream (rank1)
/cast [modifier:alt] Psychic Scream
/cast [nomodifier] Mass dispell

might do the trick.

But i would personally write it as

#showtooltip
/cast [modifier:shift] Psychic Scream (rank1); [modifier:alt] Psychic Scream; Mass dispell

because i tend to run into the max useable characters barrier for macro's :P

Akomos · 01/10/08, 8:33 PM

If you have shift-E or alt-E bound anywhere in your keybindings, that can mess with it too.

Insieme · 01/11/08, 4:25 AM

Hey all, I couldn't find any existing info on this. Apologies if my question is answered elsewhere. Been bothering me for a while.

I want a clickable Macro that does those two things:

On leftclick it should innervate the Target and if possible send him a message to get him aware of it.
On rightclick it should cast innervate on myself and equip my [Ethereum Life-Staff].

I'm not very used to those macros so i tried following, without success.

/cast [button:1; target=target] Innervate; /%t Innervate
/cast [button:2; target=player] Innervate; /use Ethereum Life-Staff

Barrakketh · 01/11/08, 5:13 AM

You didn't specify what the macro is or is not doing.

If the whisper isn't being sent, try using SendChatMessage instead.

SendChatMessage("Innervate", "WHISPER", nil, UnitName(target))

If you're having a problem with the weapon switching, I think you should be using /equip instead of /use.

Sunstealer · 01/11/08, 2:47 PM

So i've got me a paladin that i'm attempting to AOE tank with. That's all well and good, but i cant seem to figure out a proper macro that allows me to switch targets and keep auto attacking while being able to cast/recast holy shield...

This is what i've got so far.

#showtooltip Holy Shield
/cast attack
/cast Holy Shield

So what's happening is... i'm pulling 3-4 mobs. I hit my macro to start attacking the first guy and putting my holy shield up. Now when the 8sec cd is up, i hit the macro again to recast holy shield... but i stop attacking. I want a macro like this so i can tab target effectively without having to search through the mass of mobs with my mouse to find the guy i'm attacking and right-click him...

While i can make target focus sheep, Counterspell and fireblast macros... bind all my mage armors to one button, i dont know a whole lot about macros...

I've also heard about you being able to put an ! somewhere so that it will keep auto attacking even when you spam the button... then again it was a hunter who mentioned it so idk if autoshot and autoattack relate in a macro sense...

any help would be awesome.

• Adoriele · 01/11/08, 3:34 PM

Originally Posted by Insieme

/cast [button:1, target=target] Innervate; [button:2, target=player] Innervate
/equip [button:2] Ethereum Life-Staff
/stopmacro [button:2]
/t %t Innervate

Try that.

Originally Posted by Sunstealer

#showtooltip Holy Shield
/cast Holy Shield
/startattack

Same here. 'Attack' is a spell which toggles your autoattack. Another way of doing it, post 2.3.2, would be /cast !attack, but Blizzard has given us the simpler method for this very common spell.

Psichotic · 01/13/08, 8:35 PM

I have been using this macro for a long time to cast all my dots with one keybinding.

/castsequence reset=target siphon life, Curse of Agony, Corruption

However after the recent patch it has been getting stuck. For example, if the target goes out of range and I attempt a cast it will freeze and will not do anything when pressed after the target comes back into cast range. I read in the patch notes on this to see if there was a change that may have affected it and found

# Fixed various problems with /castsequence getting stuck.
# /cast will toggle spells again unless the name is prefixed with an exclamation mark, e.g. /castsequence Steady Shot, !Auto Shot

SO i have changed the macro to

/castsequence reset=target !siphon life, !Curse of Agony, !Corruption

and the problems still happen. Is there somthing i am missing? Any help would be awesome. Thank you!

• Adoriele · 01/14/08, 2:56 AM

Originally Posted by Psichotic

I have been using this macro for a long time to cast all my dots with one keybinding.

/castsequence reset=target siphon life, Curse of Agony, Corruption

However after the recent patch it has been getting stuck. For example, if the target goes out of range and I attempt a cast it will freeze and will not do anything when pressed after the target comes back into cast range. I read in the patch notes on this to see if there was a change that may have affected it and found

# Fixed various problems with /castsequence getting stuck.
# /cast will toggle spells again unless the name is prefixed with an exclamation mark, e.g. /castsequence Steady Shot, !Auto Shot

SO i have changed the macro to

/castsequence reset=target !siphon life, !Curse of Agony, !Corruption

and the problems still happen. Is there somthing i am missing? Any help would be awesome. Thank you!

The change you're looking at only affects spells that toggle by default, I.E. Shapeshift forms, auto attack, auto shot, etc. ! doesn't affect normal spells like SL, CoA, and Corruption.

xiaoxin21 · 01/14/08, 3:10 AM

Originally Posted by Aranan

So I'm trying to "enhance" a polymorph macro I found on this forum a while ago. Here's the original:

#show Polymorph
/focus [target=focus, noexists]; [target=focus, dead]; [target=focus, help]
/stopmacro [target=focus, noexists]
/cast [target=focus] Polymorph

This will cast polymorph if you have a focus target, and if your current focus target is dead or inexistant, then sets your current target as your focus.

This is the macro I am currently using. However is there a way to enhance it such that it sets and polymorphs the focus target, but when ctrl is pressed, it polymorphs the current target instead?

Delita · 01/14/08, 1:03 PM

#show Polymorph
/focus [target=focus, noexists]; [target=focus, dead]; [target=focus, help]
/stopmacro [target=focus, noexists]
/cast [modfier:ctrl, target=target]; [target=focus] Polymorph

Not sure... that might work. input?

Temis · 01/14/08, 1:49 PM

Close. You can make this macro cleaner by using multiple conditionals per parameter, as follows:

#showtooltip Polymorph
/focus [target=focus, noexists] [target=focus, dead] [target=focus, help]
/stopmacro [target=focus, noexists]
/cast [modfier:ctrl] [target=focus] Polymorph

That will get the effect you want.

CrK · 01/14/08, 3:46 PM

Hello:

Im spanish, so my english its not well, at all, im looking for a macro but im not sure how to do it.

I use GRID so im trying to do something like:

/cast [target=mouseover] cleanse

To by better cleaning stuff. Tell me if im doing well because im not sure if it will work.

wyldbill · 01/14/08, 3:48 PM

Originally Posted by CrK

/cast [target=mouseover] cleanse

Congratulate yourself, you got it right on the first try.

(Might wanna capitalize Cleanse)

CrK · 01/14/08, 3:55 PM

I mean if it will works to if im out of GRID frame, i only whant it to clean when im over GRID frame, that my dude. thx

Temis · 01/14/08, 4:11 PM

CrK, you might want to look into an addon like Clique to do most of your healing/cleansing by keeping your mouse in Grid.

As far as I know, there is no way to write a macro that does what you're saying, namely to target a mouseover on raid frames, but not a mouseover on an actual character model.

Granted · 01/14/08, 6:21 PM

So I've been trying to figure out a macro that will switch to my sword after an Ambush. With a sword, I can get higher top end damage than my dagger, and thusly my hemos will hit for more. Up till this point, I had used:

/cast Ambush
/equip Gladiator's Slicer

The only problem is this: if I was too far away for the Ambush to work, it would equip my sword anyway, and then I could not Ambush, as I did not have my dagger equipped anymore. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I could prevent it from switching weapons if my Ambush did not activate? It would be much appreciated.