Death Knight Macros - Page 2

slant · 02/05/09, 12:19 AM

Why would you need that macro? You don't need to target to raise a player as a ghoul. When I see a DPSer dead, I just hit the button and if they're in range, up they go.

sarf · 02/05/09, 7:53 AM

Originally Posted by slant

Why would you need that macro? You don't need to target to raise a player as a ghoul. When I see a DPSer dead, I just hit the button and if they're in range, up they go.

The main benefit, I suppose, is that you can just mash the macro - if no one is dead, it won't give an error message. However, I mostly just made the macro because someone asked for it - my DK isn't high enough to raise players yet.

zeheres · 02/05/09, 8:04 AM

/use 13
/use 14
/cast [target=player] Hysteria
/cleartarget
/cast Dancing Rune Weapon
/cast Raise Dead

That's my DRW macro, which for some reason doesn't work 100 % properly. Trinkets + Hysteria work perfectly, DRW + Raise Dead do not. I do have to cast these two manually all the time and I just don't know why. If I removed that cleartarget thingy DRW works indeed but attacks from the front instead of from behind. Raise Dead doesn't work under no circumstances.

If anyone could fix this I guess this addon might be a good help for many people.

Cheers

oll · 02/05/09, 12:52 PM

As said in the blood forum, using /cast [target=player] Dancing Rune Weapon solves the "DRW attacks from the front" bug. Raise Dead doesn't work anymore with DRW since the last patch.

thevidon · 02/05/09, 3:16 PM

Originally Posted by Except

bind it to a key(or mouse wheel), put your mouse over a target and use the bind...BAM there silenced and you never even have to switch targets.

/cast [target=mouseover,exists,harm,nodead] Strangulate

How can you make this macro work so that it will use strangulate on your current target if you aren't mousing over someone? Can you just add "/cast Strangulate" at the beginning?

Leperchaun · 02/05/09, 5:12 PM

Originally Posted by Cloudgatherer

It will cast both if you have 60+ RP. My Frost Strike Macro is simply:
#showtooltip Frost Strike
/cast !Rune Strike
/cast Frost Strike

This means if I have 40 RP, the button lights up (because the icon is for Frost Strike), however if I could cast Rune Strike and I have less than 60 RP, then only Rune Strike is cast. If I have 60+ RP, Frost Strike is cast and Rune Strike is queued for the next attack swing. Remember, Rune Strike works just like Heroic Strike, it applies on next auto-attack but you queue it up just before.

For my macro of rune strike, death coil, this does not happen, I've tested it out at 60+ rune power. It will only do one or the other, but definitely does not do both, I'm not sure why.

I might need to test this out more and check the combat log, but my MSBT does not register a death coil when using it.

Khaosknight · 02/05/09, 5:29 PM

Originally Posted by zeheres

That's my DRW macro, which for some reason doesn't work 100 % properly. Trinkets + Hysteria work perfectly, DRW + Raise Dead do not. I do have to cast these two manually all the time and I just don't know why. If I removed that cleartarget thingy DRW works indeed but attacks from the front instead of from behind. Raise Dead doesn't work under no circumstances.

If anyone could fix this I guess this addon might be a good help for many people.

Cheers

Thats because Hysteria/Trinkets share the same length cooldown, but DRW is on a 3 minute Cooldown, so since you have the ability Hysteria placed first, it will light up every 2 minutes, even if you can't use DRW yet. Switching DRW and Hysteria *might* solve the problem. Adding a #showtooltip command could help too.

CoroHD · 02/05/09, 7:12 PM

Rather than make a macro to bind horn of winter or rune strike to all my abilities, I just added specific triggers to the Parrot scrolling combat text addon.

See: here and here.

Adding a trigger is as simple as selecting triggers in the drop down menu and clicking new trigger, giving the trigger an output and designating it a death knight trigger, and giving it an event to trigger off of (in this case rune strike is an incoming parry).

Then you just enter what the icon is (just enter the name of whatever ability the trigger is, ie horn of winter for horn of winter falling off) and check it as a sticky and your pretty much golden. I use this for Rune Strike, keeping up Horn of Winter, Death Trance Proc's, and freezing cold or whatever the free howling blast proc is. I'm sure there are other useful triggers you could add (bone shield charges used up, etc), but my DK is only an alt and lvl 70 so those four are the only ones I've encountered so far.

oll · 02/06/09, 7:19 AM

I didn't know this addon. Thank you for linking it : it looks very powerful.
For the moment, I used TellMeWhen for telling me if Horn of Winter is down, but I was looking for something that warns when "HoW is down AND I've no strength of earth totem buff" : looking at your screenshots, it seems that Parrot can do the trick.

Bigwang · 02/06/09, 7:42 AM

I am looking for a macro which casts FS on normal button (like 5) and casts DC on shift.

Unfortunately the search function doesn't find abbrevations, so I was unlucky there.

Ghaash · 02/06/09, 9:03 AM

Originally Posted by Bigwang

I am looking for a macro which casts FS on normal button (like 5) and casts DC on shift.

Unfortunately the search function doesn't find abbrevations, so I was unlucky there.

Maybe you should read up some macro basics here: Making a macro - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft

The "!" prevents Rune Strike from being toggled off in case you were to hit the button twice by accident before your next auto attack landed.

Rune Strike can't be toggled off by clicking a "/cast Rune Strike" macro multiple times.

mahal · 02/06/09, 2:05 PM

Originally Posted by thevidon

How can you make this macro work so that it will use strangulate on your current target if you aren't mousing over someone? Can you just add "/cast Strangulate" at the beginning?

If you add an empty set of brackets after the mouseover part, it will strangulate your current target assuming you dont have the mouse hovering over anything.

/cast [target=mouseover,exists,harm,nodead] [] Strangulate

SirLagsalot · 02/07/09, 2:36 PM

#showtooltip
/castsequence [mod] reset=45 Anti-Magic Shell, Anti-Magic Zone
/castsequence [nomod] reset=10 Mind Freeze, Strangulate
/cast leap
/cast gnaw

dkRekki · 02/09/09, 1:33 AM

Originally Posted by thevidon

How can you make this macro work so that it will use strangulate on your current target if you aren't mousing over someone? Can you just add "/cast Strangulate" at the beginning?

I personally use :

#showtooltip
/cast [target=mouseover,exists,harm,nodead] Strangulate; [nomod] Strangulate; [mod:shift] Mind Freeze; [mod:ctrl] Arcane Torrent;

it will strangulate the mouseover target, if there is none it will strangulate ur current target. if you hold shift it will mind freeze, and if you hold ctrl it will arcane torrent.

if you just want to for strangulate try:

#showtooltip
/cast [target=mouseover,exists,harm,nodead] Strangulate; Strangulate;

endles · 02/09/09, 10:57 AM

I noticed that some death knight uses this macro:

/cancelaura freezing fog

I can understand that it is a macro for DW specc but what i dont understand is what it does
and why it is useful to cancel freezing fog which is a free howling blast?