Comments on: Answers To WoW Questions

By: Benbash

Benbash — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:38:20 +0000

There are still plenty of uses for macros — I have a /castsequence one for grinding with my Holy Priest (Holy Fire, Devouring Plague, SW:P; then those three mixed into a set of Smites to account for cooldowns and DoT timers).

I also have “/use 13; /use 14″ on my utility heal so that I don’t have to try to remember to use my trinkets; and I preface my Greater Heal with the non-GCD Guardian Spirit so it functions as an “oh sh*t” button. None of these are perfect, but they help more than they harm.

And Vinniej, you can use “/assist” (or more verbosely, “/targettargetstarget”) as a macro-able “F” key.

By: Lawbringer

Lawbringer — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:15:35 +0000

A little less caffeine would be good I think sig – lol.

By: Sigoroth

Sigoroth — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:03:16 +0000

Right ….. chaining 2 spells into the 1 button is game breaking and unfair whereas there is absolutely nothing wrong with that draenei shaman 5 boxing and having 5 lava bursts hit you at once. Yeah, real fair. Oh, and it’s also real fair that all those melee classes can walk through you to LoS your spell even though you’ve mouse turned perfectly; lag is not your friend.

While they allow 1 keystroke to unleash 5 spells SIMULTANEOUSLY, each of which designed to be only 1 every X seconds mind you, they’re claims of “botting” being unfair are a croc. And FFS add an AUTOTRACKING option to spell casts! There’s auto-tracking on channelled spells, you should be able to do it on casts too. &^%$ lag. %^* lack of collision detection.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:02:13 +0000

I don’t see any other real way to ask a question, and this blog post seemed to be the best spot.
My question is what is the best looking gear you can get for your little level 1 banker alt. I got tired of looking like every other level 1 warrior in stormwind, with the default shiled and shirt.
Any good banker alt should be just sitting there with 2-3k gold(like mine), and while i bought tux pants, and a Stylish Blue Shirt, im wondering if theres anything else i could look out for to make my banker look more unique.
I have a Tailor, so im wondering if theres any recipes i could look for that would look good.

By: Sandstar

Sandstar — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:35:40 +0000

Why you would EVER combine swiftmend with nourish is beyond me…I think you mean Healing Touch (Nourish is 1.5sec pre haste and talents and doesn’t hit for more than around 3k unless you’ve got hots up first whereas HT is more like 3sec, 20k healing or so)

By: Vinniej

Vinniej — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:58:10 +0000

Thanks for such a detailed response LAW!!

I guess i’ll just stick to using two macros . Curently I manually enter the 2 tank’s names i’m responsible for prior to the start of the fight. I was just wondering if there was some language I could copy/paste in the macro field to make this work as the G13 does without using the G13 but I think you have clearely answered that question. I have one more question if you don’t mind. I would like to know if I can alter my current macro to target whom ever my macro target is attacking. For example:
(My Macro currently is)
/target (whatever my MT’s name is for the fight)
/cast Sacred Shield
** at this point i would like to add a command that would target whomever this player is currently attacking. Right now I am just hitting the “F” key after the macro, but if possible I would like to incorporate this to make one less key stroke for me.**

By: Gaias

Gaias — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:29:12 +0000

I believe what you’re looking for is /castsequence.

Something such as…

#showtooltip
/castsequence Sacred Shield, [target=focus] Beacon of Light

…should work. You’ll have to hit the button a second time once the GCD is up, but that’s a given. Also helps to have the offtank as focus, or vice-versa with the target in the first half of the macro.

All this without identifiers, such as [noharm, exists], or a reset, such as [reset=shift] or [reset=5]. Castsequence macros are a great tool, and even greater is the lack of knowledge of them.

Now, then, I’m not advocating one-button Huntards here. Far from it. Just certain spell combinations that work excellently together.

By: Vix

Vix — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:05:05 +0000

Of course you could always use a /castsequence macro and just press the same button twice This would also enable you to not waste mana and another GCD casting the beacon if you decide at the last second that its not needed. Personally I find I use macros a lot. Although my laziness probably has a lot to do with it, I do enjoy the extra action bar space acquired by simply macroing 2 or more similar spells to the same button and having each activated by different modifiers – eg. holding the Shift or Ctrl key down while pressing the button. I do have a G15, but only use its macro buttons for things such as /roll. If you make it all too automated it just makes the game that little bit more boring.

By: tim

tim — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:16:01 +0000

Law, very well said. I agree wholeheartedly in as you put it, “checks and balances”. After all, things like huge zones that take forever to travel across are all a result of people finding advantages, sprinting through content with getting the top gear/rewards as fast as possible being only thing in mind as they miss the entire point. For me, reading quests became a chore, and I installed a quest helping addon. Okay, I still use it, but I felt that it made me overlook little clues that the helper failed to point out too often, and as I would go back thru the quest info, I realized that I also missed the story altogether…I enjoy the idea that my toon is “helping” out the NPCs, and it becomes rather dull if I am just randomly killing things. Once you eliminate the storylines in WoW it just becomes another meaningless game, might as well play Knighthood on facebook or something. I guess what I am saying, that though I empathize and even fall victim to addon/macro mania, it really is for everyones own benefit that they “nerf” things.

By: Fox

Fox — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:03:20 +0000

Yay for big heal, long cast Nourish!
Not too sure why you’d want that kind of macro when you could just do it by hand anyway, sure not as fast, but more flexible. If you cast the same spell on the MT everytime you can always use:
/cast [target=focus] [spell]
(where you’ve “/focus” on the MT beforehand) so you can cast on the MT while targetting someone else?
Automating much more kinda takes the whole point of “Game” away from WoW