Macros WoW 2.0 - Page 3

Evert · 12/07/06, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by Feorthas

Is there any way to do the following:

if($Skill.isNotOnCD && $Rage >= $Skill.cost)
     /cast $Skill
else
     /cast $AnotherSkill

I've looked around through much of the new UI stuff but cant seem to find conditionals for 'Do I have a certain amount of Rage/Mana/Energy?' or 'is this skill on CD?' :-/.

I'm specifically trying to combine my Maul & Mangle (Bear) buttons so that I will mangle if I have 15 Rage & it isn't on CD but I'll queue a maul otherwise.

You can not check for rage mana or enegry, nor health, buffs, or debuffs. not sure about cooldown, but I doube you could do that as well

Feorthas · 12/07/06, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by Margot

Unless it is available through the new selectors [combat, focus, stance, etc], you cannot use any conditional logic. I think this is the new square minimap question.

Yeah, I was afraid of that; I just thought that it would make a fair amount of sense for there to be at least a "Is it on CD?" check, even if that could be abused in some way :-/.

Feorthas · 12/07/06, 1:09 PM

Originally Posted by Cireena

I had a fear break macro I have used since Maggie that no longer works, and with my lag I don't want to have to rely on button mashing is there any way to recreate the effect of the old macro?

Probably, but it might lag a little.

Assuming:
-Stance 0 is Battle
-Stance 1 is Defensive
-Stance 2 is Berserker

/cast [Stance:2] Berserker Rage; Berserker Stance
/cast Defensive Stance

It SHOULD do the following:

If(stance == Berserker)
     /cast Berserker Rage
else
     /cast Berserker Stance
/cast Defensive Stance

Which will cast Berserker rage if you're in the right stance, shift you TO Berserker stance if you're not (but not cast Berserker ), and will most likely kick you to Defensive Stance after a successful Berserker cast b/c the stance change will probably not be on CD.

An alternative to try, would be the following:

/cast [Stance:2] Berserker Rage, Defensive Stance; Berserker Stance

That should kick you into Berserker Stance if you're not (click 1) and hit Berserker Rage and swap you to Defensive Stance if you are (probably click 2). I'm not sure if you can chain casts with commas though, I haven't tried it yet (although you can chain conditionals like that so you ~probably~ can...).

Axelrod · 12/07/06, 1:14 PM

I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with this one. Basically, I want to left or right click the button and it will cast either Freezing or Frost Trap.

/cast [button:1]Freezing Trap; [button:2]Frost Trap

However, nothing fires when I press either of the mouse buttons.

Nisu · 12/07/06, 4:30 PM

Originally Posted by Axelrod

I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with this one. Basically, I want to left or right click the button and it will cast either Freezing or Frost Trap.

/cast [button:1]Freezing Trap; [button:2]Frost Trap

However, nothing fires when I press either of the mouse buttons.

Put a space between the ] and the start of the spell name.

ninor · 12/07/06, 5:14 PM

Looking at the mage macros from the OP link, there's one I can't get to work.

/cancelaura Ice Block
/stopcasting
/castsequence reset=300 Ice Block, Cold Snap

It works fine until it's supposed to cast Cold Snap, that it just wont do.

Any ideas?

beesknees · 12/07/06, 5:17 PM

Originally Posted by blindworld

Originally Posted by f1reburn

I took this macro from the Hunter macro thread link provided here, and changed this macro:

Cast Spells Based On Modifier Keys
/cast [nomodifier] Aspect of the Hawk
/cast [modifier:ctrl] Aspect of the Monkey
/cast [modifier:alt] Aspect of the Cheetah

to this macro, to suit my controls better:

/cast [modifier:shift] Aspect of the Cheetah
/cast [modifier:ctrl] Aspect of the Monkey
/cast [modifier:alt] Aspect of the Hawk

But neither seems to work for me.

I was messing around with the modifier controls, and they work, but only if you're clicking the macro with the mouse. If you have the macro bound to a keyboard hit, it seemed to always act as if there wasn't a modifier.

Check your key bindings. By default, ctrl-#, alt-#, etc are bound to "special action functions" or something like that. So when you hit ctrl-1 or whatever, it looks for whatever ctrl-1 is directly bound to rather than "cast action 1 with the ctrl-modifier for the script." If that makes any sense.

Slouken sort of explains this issue in the thread below:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...eNo=2&sid=1#35

Chimp · 12/07/06, 5:29 PM

I've heard it mentioned that you can bind keys to activate a macro/spell without needing to place the macro/spell on an Actionbar. Does anyone know how this is achieved?

Kalman · 12/07/06, 5:37 PM

Originally Posted by Chimp

I've heard it mentioned that you can bind keys to activate a macro/spell without needing to place the macro/spell on an Actionbar. Does anyone know how this is achieved?

There are scripting commands to do it; if you don't like the word /script, look into a mod called BindPad.

Liand · 12/07/06, 5:39 PM

/script SetBindingSpell("B", "Cleanse");
/script SetBindingMacro("SHIFT-B", "Cleanse Macro");
/script SaveBindings(2);

The first argument is the key you want to bind to; second is the name of the spell/macro; SaveBindings so that WoW remembers your settings next time you log in (the argument specifies the scope, so 1 for all characters; 2 for the character you're on).

As Kalman mentioned, BindPad makes the whole thing easier to use, though.

• Chicken · 12/07/06, 6:49 PM

Originally Posted by Feorthas

An alternative to try, would be the following:

/castsequence [Stance:3] Berserker Rage, Defensive Stance; Berserker Stance

That should kick you into Berserker Stance if you're not (click 1) and hit Berserker Rage and swap you to Defensive Stance if you are (probably click 2). I'm not sure if you can chain casts with commas though, I haven't tried it yet (although you can chain conditionals like that so you ~probably~ can...).

That would nearly work. I've made (and bolded) the fixes. Stances start counting as the first one as 1, not the 0 you'd expect from a coding point of view, and /castsequence allows you to make multiple sequences with the new conditions, with different sequences being seperated by ';' while spells within a sequence are seperated by ','.

And before anyone asks, that doesn't work to make a macro that goes through each member of your party and decurses, you can only define the conditionals at the start of a sequence.

♦ Oggie · 12/07/06, 7:14 PM

Originally Posted by ninor

Looking at the mage macros from the OP link, there's one I can't get to work.

/cancelaura Ice Block
/stopcasting
/castsequence reset=300 Ice Block, Cold Snap

It works fine until it's supposed to cast Cold Snap, that it just wont do.

Any ideas?

I think that the reason it doesn't work because the /cancelaura bombs.

Since you can't Cold Snap as an icecube and there's a delay between activation of Ice Block and the ability to cancel aura (right?), if there was a 'dummy' cast you could do something like:

/castsequence reset=300 Ice Block, Find Herbs, Cold Snap, Find Herbs
/cancelaura Ice Block
/cancelaura Find Herbs

Just a thought

Axelrod · 12/07/06, 7:39 PM

Originally Posted by Nisu

Originally Posted by Axelrod

I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with this one. Basically, I want to left or right click the button and it will cast either Freezing or Frost Trap.

/cast [button:1]Freezing Trap; [button:2]Frost Trap

However, nothing fires when I press either of the mouse buttons.

Put a space between the ] and the start of the spell name.

No go still. :( Any other ideas?

Apate · 12/08/06, 3:32 PM

Originally Posted by Apate

Originally Posted by heel

Official boards seem to be down . . . anyone know how to make a macro that attempts to cast a spell only if its cooldown is up?
For example,

/cast Inner Focus
/stopcasting
/cast Greater Heal(rank 5)

works fine, but gives an annoying error message any time Inner Focus is down.

That has been explicitly stated as being a decision that needs to be player-made, not macro-made. Since your macro still works, you might look into an error suppression mod.
<--snip-->
You might even be able to just
/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/cast Inner Focus
/stopcasting
/script UIErrorsFrame:Show()
/cast Greater Heal(rank 5)

Originally Posted by Margot

But it won't cast greater heal Apate if inner focus is cooling down. That's half the functionality gone.

Can someone confirm this? I don't currently have any characters where it applies, but I'm seeing macros like this being listed in all kinds of places as 2.0 compatible.

Bury · 12/08/06, 3:47 PM

Originally Posted by Apate

Originally Posted by heel

Official boards seem to be down . . . anyone know how to make a macro that attempts to cast a spell only if its cooldown is up?
For example,

/cast Inner Focus
/stopcasting
/cast Greater Heal(rank 5)

works fine, but gives an annoying error message any time Inner Focus is down.

That has been explicitly stated as being a decision that needs to be player-made, not macro-made. Since your macro still works, you might look into an error suppression mod.
<--snip-->
You might even be able to just
/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/cast Inner Focus
/stopcasting
/script UIErrorsFrame:Show()
/cast Greater Heal(rank 5)

Originally Posted by Margot

But it won't cast greater heal Apate if inner focus is cooling down. That's half the functionality gone.

Can someone confirm this? I don't currently have any characters where it applies, but I'm seeing macros like this being listed in all kinds of places as 2.0 compatible.

Odd.

I just copied and pasted this, the functionality worked perfectly--though the error messages would get annoying.

First cast: Inner Focus burnt, immediately cast GHeal5
Second cast: Spammed "Spell is not ready yet" to the center of my screen, but still cast GHeal 5
and so on.

I'm using this macro for prayer of healing from now on :D

Feorthas · 12/08/06, 3:58 PM

Originally Posted by Chicken

That would nearly work. I've made (and bolded) the fixes. Stances start counting as the first one as 1, not the 0 you'd expect from a coding point of view...

Odd, I'd swear that 'Caster Form' is [Stance:0]; all of the macros that I have that check for it work in that manner... maybe that's because 0 is 'no stance' and warriors can't not be in a a stance? (yes, the double negative is intentional)

Keltan · 12/08/06, 4:13 PM

Macros used to have a "fall through" logic. That meant with something like

/cast Revenge
/cast Overpower
/cast Shield Bash
/cast Sunder

If Revenge wasn't up, it would simply "fall" and try Overpower, then try Shield Bash, etc. It didn't care if it worked or not, it would just keep trying the next one in the list until it got to the end.

In 2.0, they introduced "short circuit" logic. As soon as one of your lines fails, the macro quits.
So in the above example, if Revenge isn't up, it quits.
If Revenge is up but you can't Overpower, it quits.

You can't have those handly "master macros" that will attempt to Bloodthirst, Overpower, Whirlwind, Mortal Strike, Heroic Strike and have it simply fire off the first one that isn't cooled down anymore.

Apate · 12/08/06, 4:14 PM

Originally Posted by Margot

Hm. So what's the difference with Inner Focus then?

/cast Revenge
/cast Sunder

Doesn't work anymore. The sunder isn't cast if the revenge isn't available. Is this behavior only for things that would trigger a GCD?

I was going by Blue posts and didn't bother to verify. :)

The first cast in a macro that fails will prevent further casts in the macro as if the 1.5 second global cooldown had been triggered.

It's because Inner Focus (Nature's Swiftness, Cold Blood, etc.) don't trigger the global cooldown, so there's nothing stopping the next spell.

/castsequence Inner Focus, Greater Heal

should fail if IF isn't up.

Bury · 12/08/06, 4:15 PM

Originally Posted by Keltan

Macros used to have a "fall through" logic. That meant with something like

/cast Revenge
/cast Overpower
/cast Shield Bash
/cast Sunder

If Revenge wasn't up, it would simply "fall" and try Overpower, then try Shield Bash, etc. It didn't care if it worked or not, it would just keep trying the next one in the list until it got to the end.

In 2.0, they introduced "short circuit" logic. As soon as one of your lines fails, the macro quits.
So in the above example, if Revenge isn't up, it quits.
If Revenge is up but you can't Overpower, it quits.

You can't have those handly "master macros" that will attempt to Bloodthirst, Overpower, Whirlwind, Mortal Strike, Heroic Strike and have it simply fire off the first one that isn't cooled down.

Then why did I keep casting Greater Heal with this macro?

/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/cast Inner Focus
/stopcasting
/script UIErrorsFrame:Show()
/cast Greater Heal(rank 5)

♦ Oggie · 12/08/06, 4:32 PM

Are you in combat Bury?

I honestly don't get why that macro works at -all-, but I am curious if some of the bypass code only kicks in in combat

♦ Oggie · 12/08/06, 4:47 PM

Tayanita · 12/08/06, 5:35 PM

Originally Posted by Bury

Then why did I keep casting Greater Heal with this macro?

/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/cast Inner Focus
/stopcasting
/script UIErrorsFrame:Show()
/cast Greater Heal(rank 5)

I suspect this is because Inner Focus does not activate the Global Cooldown?

Axelrod · 12/09/06, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by Axelrod

Originally Posted by Nisu

Originally Posted by Axelrod

I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with this one. Basically, I want to left or right click the button and it will cast either Freezing or Frost Trap.

/cast [button:1]Freezing Trap; [button:2]Frost Trap

However, nothing fires when I press either of the mouse buttons.

Put a space between the ] and the start of the spell name.

No go still. :( Any other ideas?

Well, it seems that other people I've spoken with were having problems with this type of macro, and narrowed it down to the Bongos action bars.

Krag · 12/09/06, 1:49 PM

I've started using the following macro style for fights with heavy curing.

/cast [target=mouseover,exists]Remove Curse;Remove Curse

Works by hovering over whoever needs curing and clicking whatever you bind the macro to (I have "C" for curses and "V" for poisons). If you have no target under your mouse pointer it'll cast on your selected target. It works really well with compact raidframes like Grid.

Elerion · 12/09/06, 5:11 PM

Has anyone been able to get /castsequence to work with pet abilities?

It's mostly for Razuvious, but I was testing it on my warlock for simplicity's sake.
/cast petability ----- works fine.
/castsequence petability1, petability2, petability3 ----- Only casts petability1 repeatedly

If I could get it to work, this should theoretically work for a one-button razuvious mash macro:

/target Razuvious
/petattack
/castsequence [reset=shift] Taunt, Shield Wall

Where shift is just a failsafe reset in case the castsequence bugs out and gets stuck on Shield Wall or something.