Hi there,

I am not sure if I am in the right place here, but I'll give it a try ...

I am looking for a tutorial or in depth explanation of the "options" or "cases" you can use in macros - sorry but I even don't know how they are really called.

What I mean are the options in [] like [modifier:alt] or [flyable].

I have never seen a complete list of all that can be used and I have never found an explanation how the syntax should really be in order to use more than one option in a macro.

Thanks a lot for your help and please excuse my ignorance.

They are called conditions or conditionals. It's the mechanism that allows a certain restricted form of "if condition A then do X else if condition B do Y else Z" kind of things. Pre 2.0 one could use the scripting engine's expressions and write if then else statements directly in a macro. However that allowed automatisation of certain behavior (target selection, spell selection) on a level that Blizzard did not want and lead to these conditionals which basically allow the same thing but in a more limited scope.

You can get a good overview of this topic at Making a macro - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft. Note however that not everything written there is necessarily still current and true.

Thanks a lot for your help and for the linked article, I'll give it a thorough read.

One other question that came up just now is: has anyone found out if there is a condition that can handle [flyable] if you are not level 77 in Northrend or if you are in Dalaran?

I was using a quite useful mount macro e.g.
/cast [flyable] Albino Drake;Armored Brown Bear

but if you are in dalaran this doesn't work, since Dalaran is per se in a flyable zone, but you can not use the flying mounts there.
Same goes for Northrend if you are below Level 77. In these zones, flying is allowed, but only if you have Cold Weather Flying.
I haven't found any notes on how these two conditions could be bound in a macro.

It would probably be up to blizzard to add those things into the [flyable] check.

You could add a control modifier to the macro:

/use [modifier:Ctrl] Ground Mount; [flyable] Flying Mount; [] Ground Mount