Why does this kind of macro get stuck sometimes?

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I have a macro that triggers in a simple sequence of 3 lines of /cast, /cast, /cast, a Racial of 3min, a Cooldown of 1.5min and a cast of filler spell. However, sometimes the Cooldown of 1.5min for example might not trigger while the filler spell does. What might cause it?

I have tried changing the order of them.

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For instance

/cast Berserking(Racial)
/cast Arcane Power
/cast Arcane Blast

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It's mainly puzzling that sometimes it works as expected, sometimes it's not. And I figured it might be something with one of them being on CD but the other not, but that doesn't seem to affect it in most dummy tests.

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Spell queueing and being off the gcd. If you macro an instant off-gcd spell before a cast time spell and are spamming a cast time spell, instants do not get queued.

Like if you have a Natures Swiftness + Healing Touch macro and are already spamming Healing Touch, you start spamming your NS+HT macro and itll just keep doing cast time HTs.

You could try using /cqs (cancel queued spell) in there somewhere.

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Spell queueing and being off the gcd. If you macro an instant off-gcd spell before a cast time spell and are spamming a cast time spell, instants do not get queued.

Like if you have a Natures Swiftness + Healing Touch macro and are already spamming Healing Touch, you start spamming your NS+HT macro and itll just keep doing cast time HTs.

You could try using /cqs (cancel queued spell) in there somewhere.

I would imagine that means, it might be because there is another cast going during hitting the macro? Good idea about the cancelling. It might be all it needs.

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Oh, I see the /cancelqueuedspell command is a more esoteric method for keeping the current spell going but not queuing a next during a spam of the command. I guess I might have to test it.

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Hrm, the weird behavior persists. If I put /cancelqueuedspell on top of the macro, it appears to keep spamming the filler. However, it does eventually use the CD after 2-3 casts, which makes it even weirder.

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I might just try a total cancel if all else fails.

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Ah, /stopcasting can't be used because it just cancels the filler on a spam.

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Ah, success, it might need the cancelling of queuing both on the end and the start of the macro. Or just on the end basically. I started testing with putting it on the top.

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Yep, putting it at the end seems reliable. I might just keep it on top too in case it catches another queuing rarely.