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Old 03/04/07, 6:55 PM   #1
ZProtoss
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Mod to take optimum advantage of procs? (skyfire diamond, quags eye, etc)

Simply put, when you're in a raid enviroment, you try and get your spells off as quick as possible. However that also ends up leading to really inefficent use of the skyfire proc and sometimes the quagmirran's eye proc. Was wondering if there's a mod (or if it's possible to make one), that upon getting the buff from either of these items, would switch what some of your hotkeys do. For example


You're casting incinerates and you gain Focus (skyfire proc)

As soon as you gain focus, your incinerate and immolate keys turn into hotkeys for soulfire to ensure that the most efficent spell is cast even when you're spamming your normal incinerate key.

Likewise, say your quagmirran's eye procs and you gain spell haste right before you're about to recast immolate. Ideally you'd still want to cast 3 incinerates at the reduced cast time rather than 1 immolate and 2 incinerates. However when you're hitting a certain key as fast as possible to ensure that your command gets through as soon as GCD is up, you don't always notice it in time and end up making inefficent use of it.

So is it possible to make a script that switches what a hotkey does upon receiving a certain buff?

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Old 03/04/07, 6:58 PM   #2
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While not exactly what you want I use Power Auras (http://wow-en.curse-gaming.com/files...7/power-auras/). It is fantastic.

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Old 03/04/07, 7:02 PM   #3
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Not possible, not going to be possible. Conditional spell selection is limited to a *very* small number of conditions, of which procs like Quag's or Skyfire are not. This is one of the things the 2.0 UI lockdown was specifically designed to combat.

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Old 03/04/07, 7:09 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Kalman View Post
Not possible, not going to be possible. Conditional spell selection is limited to a *very* small number of conditions, of which procs like Quag's or Skyfire are not. This is one of the things the 2.0 UI lockdown was specifically designed to combat.

Okay. How about a twist on the concept. Rather than switching a hotkey, would it be possible for one of those procs coming up disabling the use of your hotkeys until you hit a certain button to release it? Mainly for the focus (skyfire) proc which almost always gets eaten up by spamming to maximize GCD. So a mod to where if it were to proc your keys would lockout until you hit jump (as an example), which would unlock your keys and allow you to choose a spell that'd take max advantage of it. Since if you were quick that'd effectively serve the same purpose anyways.

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Old 03/04/07, 7:45 PM   #5
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No. Pushing a button will always result in no spell being cast (if it's a button that doesn't have spell(s) assigned to it, changable only out of combat), or a spell being cast based on the conditions set in the macro text, which is also not changable during combat. If you discovered a way around that, it would probably be fixed very quickly.

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Old 03/04/07, 9:06 PM   #6
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NeedToKnow and PowerAuras can both tell you when the buff procs and give you a timer. It'll be up to you to cast spells that make best use of the proc.

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Old 03/05/07, 1:02 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by ZProtoss View Post
Okay. How about a twist on the concept. Rather than switching a hotkey, would it be possible for one of those procs coming up disabling the use of your hotkeys until you hit a certain button to release it? Mainly for the focus (skyfire) proc which almost always gets eaten up by spamming to maximize GCD. So a mod to where if it were to proc your keys would lockout until you hit jump (as an example), which would unlock your keys and allow you to choose a spell that'd take max advantage of it. Since if you were quick that'd effectively serve the same purpose anyways.
No.

That's just an inverse conditional, which are under exactly the same restrictions as positive conditionals. If it isn't an available conditional, you can't selectively cast based on it. Buffs are not allowed as conditionals.

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Old 03/08/07, 4:54 PM   #8
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Your best bet is to make your SCT show up in a big flashy message (easily done like the Rampage and execute messages) when you get the buff, and not watch television while playing

One thing you could set up as a mod, is a timer that starts when you get the buff, and has a duration equal to three times the length of the buff. This would work to give you a window with which to be spam happy, due to the proc cooldown.

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