Hey guys, just wondering if i can improve this macro for the occasions when more than one shambling horror is up during the Lich King fight, to make sure it targets and tranqs the enraged one. Atm i am using this:
I've found a simple mouseover tranq macro works best for this situation. The enrage is very easy to see and you don't need to manually target them (which can also be a little tricky when there's two up and they're stacked).
Hey guys, just wondering if i can improve this macro for the occasions when more than one shambling horror is up during the Lich King fight, to make sure it targets and tranqs the enraged one. Atm i am using this:
If it targets the wrong shambling, i then have to manually do it, which at times can be cumbersome. Your help would be appreciated.
I have the exact same macro that I made for that purpose. However, when there is more than one shambling up, I simply spam the macro and it takes care of the right one. I'll get a "nothing to dispell" error on the first one, but it will hit the right target. I realize it's a little bit of a DPS loss (because of the multiple target switching), but I couldn't think of a better way of dealing with more than one shambling.
While I can't remember how (having never used it) there is a funtion that lets you call a hotbar function - where you place the macro you want to call.
/click ActionButton1
Actionbutton1 references the first ability you have in your bar. What would traditionally be your 1 keybinding with default wow ui.
I'm often the only hunter in our LK attempts, so for the first Shambling Horror, I do nothing as our OT stuns the guy and that works for that particular one. When the second one spawns, I do two things: target the new Shambling horror, make him my focus and MD it to my OT. I use this:
/focus
/cast [@OT'S NAME HERE] Misdirection
After that, I watch him from the corner of my eye as well as watch for the warning from DBM. When he enrages, I hit this macro:
/cast [@focus] Tranquilizing Shot
I only lose Arthas for a second while I focus the Shambling & MD him, after that I never have to target the horror to tranq again.
This works very well in both raids and instances. However, since the random dungeon finder groups people of different realms I have found this macro does not work consistently with tanks from different realms. It does, however, work flawlessly with tanks from my own realm, and does work with tanks from other realms occasionally. Anyone know why or how to fix it?
This works very well in both raids and instances. However, since the random dungeon finder groups people of different realms I have found this macro does not work consistently with tanks from different realms. It does, however, work flawlessly with tanks from my own realm, and does work with tanks from other realms occasionally. Anyone know why or how to fix it?
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It doesn't work with players from other realms because of the naming convention I would imagine. An easy fix is to set the tank as your focus and change the "[target=tanksname..." to "[@focus..." and it will work flawlessly.
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.. to clarify: the mob is running at me, i click the button and it MDs my pet..
No, for at least 3 reasons. You cannot check if an unit's targeting you in particular, you can only check conditions on a particular mob (your target, your focus, whatever), not on any mob around, and you cannot check conditions on an unit and cast on another unit (check conditions on your target's target and then cast on your pet).
I see so many people using these MD macros, when obviously most top end raiders are using some sort of grid or raid frames.
To stay on track w/ the MD aspect, I simply just click the tank Im MD by simply setting it up 1 time on healbot. This also works well if a Paladins HoF is down and a rad member needs a freedom ability, one can simply cast Master's Call on a raid member without ever loosing your focus target and DPS time.
I tried to make a Volley macro that would let me spam it without clipping previously casted Volley. The best result I got was modifying shadowpriest Mind Flay macro:
I would like to change it so that I get the targeting circle while the first Volley is rolling (and I'm spamming the macro), but the actual channeling starts only after the previous one has ended.
Could someone point me to right direction please?
I tried to make a Volley macro that would let me spam it without clipping previously casted Volley. The best result I got was modifying shadowpriest Mind Flay macro:
I would like to change it so that I get the targeting circle while the first Volley is rolling (and I'm spamming the macro), but the actual channeling starts only after the previous one has ended.
Could someone point me to right direction please?
im not able to test it, but for me it looks like your condition ([nochanneling:Volley]) prevents the circle from popping up
just add "!" in front of Volley (without the condition) and you will see the circle where to put your next volley.
this was very helpful in the anub'arak fight... here you can see how it works. the "!" in front of volley prevents you from cancelling your actual cast and so you can place your next volley while you are still channeling
maybe im getting it completely wrong, please let me know if i do so
im not able to test it, but for me it looks like your condition ([nochanneling:Volley]) prevents the circle from popping up
just add "!" in front of Volley (without the condition) and you will see the circle where to put your next volley.
this was very helpful in the anub'arak fight... here you can see how it works. the "!" in front of volley prevents you from cancelling your actual cast and so you can place your next volley while you are still channeling
maybe im getting it completely wrong, please let me know if i do so
FWIW, I don't use any macro for volley, and can target my next volley just fine while the previous one is still channeling - it's not until I actually click on the ground with the targetting circle that the previous one stops and the new one starts - I'm pretty sure that's the standard behaviour.
If you guys are trying to make it so that you can volley, target the next one on the ground and have it not go off till the first one has finished, that isn't how ground targetted spells work, so I'm almost certain you can't do that - completing the targetting of one will interrupt casting of any other spell you're already channelling.
Putting ! in front of Volley in a macro makes it so that hitting the key multiple times won't toggle it. It's equivalent to the old !Auto Shot macro -- rather than the first hit activating Auto Shot, and the second deactivating it, it always activates it, even if it's already active. In this situation, "activate it" means "show the targeting reticule," not actually casting the spell. So if you're in the habit of spamming keys, you won't get an on-again, off-again targeting circle while you're trying to position the spell.
With regards to Misdirecting tanks, I find that a simple macro coupled with a Grid keybind works great for me. I have shit-right click bound to set focus. I then use this macro do MD to my focus
/tar focus
/cas misdirect
/targetlasttarget
This seems to work fine for me. You can just set up who your Misdirecting to first before the fight by focusing them with a quick shift right click, and then if you need to change that MD target during the fight you can easily change your focus in between GCD's with another.
And with regards to the shambling horrors in the LK fight,
@Shakkenbakke
you can clean up the first macro by simply making it;
/cast [@focus] Misdirect
that will prevent targetswitching and whatever possible downsides targetswithing can have today or in the future. You could add other targetting variables in it to prioritize, like shown above.
In regards to the second macro, I am using one very similar and I'm wondering if anyone has a quick fix so it doesn't target a drudge ghoul if no horrors are up (I sometimes target the drudge ghouls when clicking LK, meaning my lasttarget gets set to said drudge ghoul and I get back to it if I either misclick my tranq hotkey or I click it too late (enrage hitting a horror that dies between enrage and me tranqing it, since it can take an additional 1 or 2 gcd's before I can hit my tranq).
@Shakkenbakke
you can clean up the first macro by simply making it;
/cast [@focus] Misdirect
that will prevent targetswitching and whatever possible downsides targetswithing can have today or in the future. You could add other targetting variables in it to prioritize, like shown above.
In regards to the second macro, I am using one very similar and I'm wondering if anyone has a quick fix so it doesn't target a drudge ghoul if no horrors are up (I sometimes target the drudge ghouls when clicking LK, meaning my lasttarget gets set to said drudge ghoul and I get back to it if I either misclick my tranq hotkey or I click it too late (enrage hitting a horror that dies between enrage and me tranqing it, since it can take an additional 1 or 2 gcd's before I can hit my tranq).
Since you are just wanting to target the Lich King you can do
/target Shambling Horror
/cast Tranquilizing Shot
/target The Lich King
That isn't going to be ideal during transition phases though. A good solution would be to select the Shambling Horror when it spawns and set it to your focus. Then you can use an @focus condition.
/cast [@focus] Tranquilizing Shot
If you really don't want to use a focus macro here is a final solution. You can think of the priority you want to kill your targets with and then do a macro like the following.
This macro will does the following:
- Attempts to target a Shambling Horror, if it targets one that isn't dead, it will try to fire Tranquilizing Shot
- Then it will attempt to target an Ice Sphere, if it finds one that isn't dead the macro will stop and the Ice Sphere will be your target.
- If it can't find an Ice Sphere it will look for a Raging Spirit and use the same behavior.
- If it can't find a Raging Spirit then it will target The Lich King.
*edit: Doing a preemptive edit to catch people trying to say I can shorten the macro by taking out the /stopmacro lines and reordering it. The reason I use this method is because it will not target dead units. I will also go ahead and throw out the name of an addon called SuperDuperMacro. It allows you to create macros of any length and you could therefore use it to create a very long priority list of targeting using the method above.
A mouseover macro is the best for Shambling Horrors since you never need to target or focus them. All you need to do is hover your mouse over the enraged add and hit the macro. You will not lose your current target.
A mouseover macro is the best for Shambling Horrors since you never need to target or focus them. All you need to do is hover your mouse over the enraged add and hit the macro. You will not lose your current target.
This also works well but I would adjust the macro to also shoot at your current target so you can use the macro as a normal Tranq Shot or as a mouseover. The syntax would like like this:
One thing I would recommend is to not use a @mouseover Tranquilizing Shot macro if you're working on Heroic Lich King, because if they get off 1 swing, it's too late.
In Heroic 25 Lich King:
Enraged Shambling Horrors hit for 60-75k.
Frenzy + Enraged hit Shambling Horrors hit for 120-150k.
In Heroic 10 Lich King:
Enraged Shambling Horrors hit for 40-50k.
Frenzy + Enraged hit Shambling Horrors hit for 80-100k.
Even with Shield Wall up, with 2 Horrors up in 10 man and some unlucky RNG we had 1 Enraged add get tranq'd by me and while it was still on CD when the other one Frenzy+Enraged and it hit the tank for over 100k damage in 1 GCD. Since then I just always focus the first add and spam Tranq @Focus when I see the focus bar casting Enrage and the OT stuns the second add through Enrages when there are two up at a time. In 25 man I get first Shambling, 2nd hunter gets 2nd, and then I again get the 3rd if there is one. And if there happened to be 3 up at once, it's a wipe anyways =p
I really like the focus dependant tranq macro (I would add a fallthrough to my current target though so I don't have to switch macros all the time, I'm a bit full on macros already) but it would interfere a lot with my MD macro since I focus the tank I should be MD'ing to. In regards to the mouseover, how do you guys (that are using if) get it to work - faceplates? - we stand in the right "corner" on the outside rim during phase 1 and I have so many faceplates up (if I have them on) that I just can't be sure I keep my mouse over the right target.
Ideally the shambler tank shouldn't have too many ghouls on him at once anyway, but if he does and you're finding it hard to pick out the shambler's nameplate, you could use DocsUI Nameplates 3.0 : Unit Mods : WoWInterface Downloads and filter out the Drudge Ghoul nameplates.
One thing I would recommend is to not use a @mouseover Tranquilizing Shot macro if you're working on Heroic Lich King, because if they get off 1 swing, it's too late.
Your Shambling tank should be stunning them when they see them casting enrage, which should give you enough time to tranq them.
I really like the focus dependant tranq macro (I would add a fallthrough to my current target though so I don't have to switch macros all the time, I'm a bit full on macros already) but it would interfere a lot with my MD macro since I focus the tank I should be MD'ing to. In regards to the mouseover, how do you guys (that are using if) get it to work - faceplates? - we stand in the right "corner" on the outside rim during phase 1 and I have so many faceplates up (if I have them on) that I just can't be sure I keep my mouse over the right target.
I ended up just using 3 misdirect macros.
Macro 1: Misdirect to tank 1
Macro 2: Misdirect to tank 2
Macro 3: Misdirect to mouseover > target > focus > pet
This has been the best setup for me so far but I also have the ability to have 48 different keybinds which isn't very common for others. Maybe this will be a solution that could work for you.
This setup has been very strong because it makes it very easy for me to change misdirect targets on the fly without any need to change my focus target.
03/25/10, 11:14 PM
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