Disclaimer: if this thread is useless, mod it to obscurity (/dung). If it's useful, I'll remove this disclaimer.

I'm quite interested in maximizing my usable space, and mess with my UI a lot. Part of this has led to hidden bars with keybinds, since there's little point in seeing my keybindings when they are inscribed on the very surface of my eyelids.

But I must admit to being a bit of a neophyte when it comes to macros. I use them in some sense, for /stopcasting and to do weapon swaps, but I've never delved deeply into the macro world.

Is there interest in having a compilation thread for macros and macro-writing, similar to the work that has recently gone on in the Class Mechanics forums where each class is writing a nifty informative thread (Beef's words, not mine ... nifty ... )?

I'd love to see sections for each class, or possibly divided into targetting, logic, etc sections.

Thoughts? Pointers to an equally valid setup that is already complete?

Wowwiki may have what you're looking for, not sure.
http://www.wowwiki.com/Useful_macros/Priest - is the priest one.

/stopcasting macros are redundant with 2.3.

Unless it's a situation where you are using it to cancel your currently casting spell in order to cast something else.

I didn't have time to check last night, but has anyone checked to see if it is possible to go from: casting a spell > stopcasting > instacast spell more or less instantly in 1 click since the 2.3 changes? I believe it had to be done in 2 clicks previously.

I have a problem with my stance-switch macro since 2.3 -
I had:

/cast Berserker stance
/cast Berserker Rage
/cast Defensive stance

before. Now, I get stuck in Berserker Stance. I think it's because the stanceswitch doesn't trigger a gcd anymore so I switch from Berserker stance to Defensive stance and immediatly back.
Using a castsequence macro just creates new Problems when Berserker Rage is not ready.
How do I work around this?

This is excellent news. No more need to jump/strafe/find the escape key to queue/cancel heals.

I think it still will have some use for DPS casters though. The one that comes to mind being to take advantage of clearcasting for mages.

EDIT: Finally got a chance to test it out during lunch. Queueing and cancelling casts works perfectly in a single click without the need to move/hit escape to stop it and start the next cast. Unfortunately though, attempting to cancel a cast then cast a spell made instacast via Nature's Swiftness requires 2 clicks. I'm unsure about spells though that are normally instacast such as Swiftmend. Have any druids/priests/paladins had an opportunity to test this?

Tys,

You should find that the following will work fine for what you are trying to do.


#showtooltip
/cast [nostance:3]Berserker Stance;Berserker Rage
/cast [nostance:2]Defensive Stance

By checking for your current stance first you will find that you won't get stuck in Berserker Stance.

EDIT: Spelling

Back in the day there was an Addon that allowed you to author more macros than the game UI normally allowed to. I think the name was SuperMacros.

Is this type of addon impossible now? I'm basically at the redline on my druid with respect to macro count

If you are using hidden bars with buttons, I recommend SpellBinder. It lets you bind spells/items/macros directly to keys with no need to use a hidden bar. I'm a big fan of it.

I've taken to only having visible buttons for actions that I either specifically need a combat cue from (cooldown finished, have enough energy), and I macro or use SpellBinder for everything else, except clickables (like poisons, or my "make highest rank of bandages" macro.)

This is still two clicks/presses to activate?

/cast [target=focus,exists,nodead] Viper Sting; Viper Sting