Comments on: All You Ever Wanted to Know About Macros

By: Empoe

Empoe — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:27:56 +0000

I personal find a solid oh shit macro. For my lock is a simple two click cast macro. It heals you for about 22k Hp or so. yes it does seem bloated. I could not find a better way to make it work. Due to the gcd. If a better way is out there I would love to read about it.

/cast demon armor
/cast death coil
/cast Runic healing potion
/cast Health stone.

By: Audio Interconnect Cables

Audio Interconnect Cables — Sat, 15 May 2010 11:47:03 +0000

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By: Daily Links 7. May 2010 « My Workstation Blog

Daily Links 7. May 2010 « My Workstation Blog — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:23:34 +0000

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By: FertZane

FertZane — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:08:38 +0000

@FertZane (Yes, I am replying to myself) I have since found and addon, TargetForMe, that is a single rotating macro that changes based on what boss you are fighting. You can also change the macro and it will be the same when you come back to that boss the next time, good for customizing your macro for your particular needs.
FertZane´s last blog ..The Stash of the Week

By: derp

derp — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:02:03 +0000

You need to have Ace if you want to use /in.

Just thought I’d point that out.

By: Zuktaw

Zuktaw — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:26:02 +0000

I’ve been looking high & low for a macro to make Force of Nature useable.
I want to click a button or key & have my treants spawn. They can spawn near me, in front of me, whatever…I don’t care.

They’re not volley or blizzard (?) I don’t need to put them where they’ll be attacking, they’ll get there shortly.

I’m not the only one, but folks do disagree with me =D
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=22418639323&postId=233057336240&sid=1#10

Any ideas?

By: Go Read Something Good! « Jaded Alt

Go Read Something Good! « Jaded Alt — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:39:18 +0000

[...] All You Ever Wanted to Know about Macros–Yes, I still sucky at macros, but this one is a pretty good all-around look at how macros work and their flexibility and limitations. Worth a read if you want anything more complicated than /tar bad stuff. A la No Stock UI. [...]

By: Qi

Qi — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:03:04 +0000

See here: http://plusheal.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4591 for the research I have done on the subject so far in the past ;-)

By: Qi

Qi — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:27:20 +0000

Yup, true. But I am working on something more ambitious atm ;-) Try this on for size:
#showtooltip
/use [mod:ctrl,nostance]Inner Fire;[mod:ctrl,stance,@focus]Vampiric Touch;[mod:alt]Fear Ward;[mod:shift,nostance,@mouseover,help][mod:shift,nostance,help][mod:shift,nostance]Binding Heal;[mod:shift,stance]Dispersion;[nomod,nostance,@mouseover,help][nomod,nostance,help][nomod,nostance]Flash Heal;[nomod,stance]Vampiric Touch

Note: I haven’t tested it yet so it’s probably not correct, but I’m pretty sure I will get it working in some way. The hardest part is that for all the instances of the [help] function I want to have (cast @mouseover, @target and @player, but you don’t have to name those) I have to repeat every setting again which makes them too long very fast. This is something I found before and I am trying to use your article to make them into what I actually wanted, but I hope I can find a way of shortening them…

By: Nightfreeze

Nightfreeze — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:16:16 +0000

Oops, thx for catching that Qi. Alot of times I write macros in a text-editor first, then copy and paste them into the game (easier to see and catch typos). I did that for this article, but didn’t test it in game since I’ve used plenty of variations on different toons and knew it works, and forgot to word count that one.

In cases where your macro turns out too long, you usually have to chop out parts that aren’t necessary, like [nomod]. Chopping out one or both [nomod]‘s in the macro you refer to would shorten it enough:

#showtooltip [mod:ctrl] Bronze Drake;[mod:alt] Ritual of Summoning;[mod:shift] Summon Felguard;Summon Felguard
/use [mod:shift] Fel Domination
/use [mod:ctrl] Bronze Drake;[mod:alt] Ritual of Summoning;[mod:shift] Summon Felguard;Summon Felguard

Sometimes you also have to make compromises to squeeze it all in, like leaving out the long #showtooltip qualifier and just dealing with the wrong icon showing. At least the functionality is still there:

#showtooltip
/use [mod:shift] Fel Domination
/use [mod:ctrl] Bronze Drake;[mod:alt] Ritual of Summoning;[mod:shift] Summon Felguard;Summon Felguard