Quick Macro Help :)

Whiplash · 08/18/06, 5:24 PM

I appologize in advance, for I know that there have been a million and one macro help threads in these forums. Unfortunately, corporate firewalls FTL, I can't access any of the macro help sites from work.

So, I was hoping one of you macro guru's could help me write a macro for the priests in my guild. What I was looking for was a marco that could let the priest press the macro button and it automatically searches through the druids for one with an innervate available (not on cooldown) and then sends that person a tell for an innervate. (we all have WhisperCast installed)

I am not sure how feasible this is, but I know that mods can send a tell to all druids when you are battle rezzing a person to avoid doubling up, so I figure there has to be a way to write a macro to manually target each druid, and I was under the impression tiki mod had a way to check for cooldowns. So I figured this has to be within the realm of possibility.

• Zoid · 08/18/06, 5:31 PM

Ask the priest to push his Vent talk key and say, "Could any druids with Innervate available cast it on on <priest name>?" One of the druids should then push his talk key and says, "<Druid name here> has got it" and then innervates the priest.

You're not asking for a macro, you're asking for a mod that integrates and needs cross communication between players. There is nothing in WoW that lets a player "ask another" about what cooldowns he has available. CTRaidAssist tracks some stuff such as Reincarnation for Shamans and Battle Resurrections for Druids, but that's because everyone is running CTRaidAssist. I'm not sure if RaidAssist tracks Innervate or if it can be added, but if you added it you'd have to have every druid run the new modified version.

• Shalas · 08/18/06, 5:41 PM

It looks like it'd be pretty trivial to implement that with RDX6, as you don't even have to get people to download it.

Malan · 08/18/06, 5:49 PM

There are mods available for this already - sort of. A macro won't do it it though, you're looking for something that offers cross communication.
Go browse through curse gaming for keywords Druids, cooldowns, stuff like that. You'll find mods that monitor class specific cooldowns and display who has one up and how long cooldowns for the others are.

Pater · 08/19/06, 12:07 AM

Healers' Assist has what you seek, plus much more. Everyone who uses any part of it will need to be running it, though. As everyone else has mentioned, it requirest the use of a hidden channel.

http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/a...rs-assist.html

I love it because it allows you to see in realtime what heals are currently being cast. Most people in my guild aren't interested in that, though. I still use it, because it also has some nifty plug-ins, like one that lets me modify my casting bar to show my currently casting heal's target, target's updated HP, and expected heal size. It also makes the casting bar red if the heal will be overheal (green otherwise).

Yuckie · 08/19/06, 1:29 PM

Originally Posted by Zoid

Ask the priest to push his Vent talk key and say, "Could any druids with Innervate available cast it on on <priest name>?" One of the druids should then push his talk key and says, "<Druid name here> has got it" and then innervates the priest.

You're not asking for a macro, you're asking for a mod that integrates and needs cross communication between players. There is nothing in WoW that lets a player "ask another" about what cooldowns he has available. CTRaidAssist tracks some stuff such as Reincarnation for Shamans and Battle Resurrections for Druids, but that's because everyone is running CTRaidAssist. I'm not sure if RaidAssist tracks Innervate or if it can be added, but if you added it you'd have to have every druid run the new modified version.

It's possible to have such a macro, there are script functions built into the game where given the request for information via tell, the player can output cooldown info. I have shield wall / last stand macros for the MT in our guild. If I click on either button it either activates it (on his next keystroke, any key) or tells me the cooldown remaining. I mainly use it just so I can check the cooldowns as he activates them himself hehe, it's nice to not have to clog up vent with such questions though. If anyone wants it I'm pretty sure he'd be willing to share it, it's just a small / simple addon he has installed on his end, and given a specific tell from me will cause him to activate / output depending on the abilities state. You might need to edit the LUA however, as i'm pretty sure he's set it to only accept activation from my characters name.

So you could technically have all your druids install such a mod, that would then output if the ability is up or not. Could also implement a seperate function to auto-cast the innervate on the requested target. I'm definately not trying to disagree with Zoid, as communication is something you need to learn to work with first, but it's quite a bit more efficient to have things like this handled automatically. Battle-Rez would be another skill that's be useful in a similar addon.

xarg · 08/19/06, 8:29 PM

Originally Posted by Yuckie

It's possible to have such a macro
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it's just a small / simple addon he has installed on his end
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So you could technically have all your druids install such a mod

As void wrote, he's not after a macro, he's after a mod. With the appropriate mod, such a macro would be trivial. This doesn't change the fact that it requires a mod to work.

Yuckie · 08/20/06, 1:26 AM

A simple non-GUI addon would require the use of a macro (unless you actually wanted to manually type it out the trigger) to request the cooldown information. If he's looking for something similar to the mod posted above (which looks to be alot more involving that his original request) cool, thread over. If he has any concern for the amount of memory used by his interface, something simple like I explained would be much better. If you want some help with what I posted above toss me a PM Whiplash.

Whiplash · 08/21/06, 9:37 AM

Thanks for all of your help guys. As far as communication, we are generally ok, we are trying to clean up vent a bit, and help organize the in game stuff for new content progression without over-speaking the raid leaders. And, since this communication needed to be between all of the priests and druids, we wanted to avoid having this called over and over in vent when 30 out of 40 people don't really need to know about it.

Pater - I had seen this mod before, but was hoping to find something that wouldn't take up more screen space (as I am running low already, all I see are health and mana bars, emergency lists and decursive lists, etc. etc.. I don't think I could even tell you what Nef looks like :-p ) But if it comes down to it, I may wind up trying it out, and just getting rid of my emergency monitors. I do have one question about this mod though. Since it shows heals being cast on the targets at a certain time, how does this mod handle multiple heals being cast simultaneously, and cancelled heals (firemaw fight comes to mind, or for that matter pretty much all MT healing fights at this point).

Yuckie, I will get in touch with you to check that stuff out. I am definately interested to hear more.