Macros - Page 52

Shakkenbake · 05/13/10, 12:32 AM

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,

/target shambling horror
/cast tranquilizint shot
/targetlasttarget

works just fine for me as well.

Nooska · 05/13/10, 5:23 AM

@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).

Leggo · 05/13/10, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by Nooska

@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.

/cleartarget
/target Shambling Horror
/cast [target, exists, nodead] Tranquilizing Shot
/target Ice Sphere
/stopmacro [target, exists, nodead]
/target Raging Spirit
/stopmacro [target, exists, nodead]
/target The Lich King

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.

Skhope · 05/13/10, 11:59 AM

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.

/cast [target=mouseover,exists] Tranquilizing Shot

Leggo · 05/13/10, 12:16 PM

Originally Posted by Skhope

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.

/cast [target=mouseover,exists] Tranquilizing Shot

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:

/cast [@mouseover,exists,harm,nodead][exists,harm,nodead] Tranquilizing Shot

Lilbitters · 05/13/10, 2:02 PM

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

Nooska · 05/14/10, 5:37 AM

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.

Bullshot · 05/14/10, 6:29 AM

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.

Skhope · 05/14/10, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by Lilbitters

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.

Leggo · 05/17/10, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by Nooska

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.