Kitty Macro

[Deleted]

Hey i wanted to know if there is a Macro for Shred and claw..

Meaning a macro that will first prio Shred for when iam behind the target and use claw if the target is attacking me.

So i dont have to change thoes spells around everytime i do a quest or doing a heroic "for somehow the mobs allways end faceing me"

[Hosebee]

Why are you using claw?

[Nangz]

Macros cannot do "If Then" commands

(if i am behind my target then I will shred, but If i am behind the target I will claw)

Also, claw? I hope you mean mangle. If your 80 you shouldnt ever use claw.

[Kamata]

Macros cannot do "If Then" commands

(if i am behind my target then I will shred, but If i am behind the target I will claw)

Also, claw? I hope you mean mangle. If your 80 you shouldnt ever use claw.

Don't you mean level 50?

[Deleted]

if i remember correct

/cast shred
/cast mangle

should make you do shred when you can and mangle when you cant?

the macro doesnt look that much for the world but i think ive made it work with that.

[Nangz]

if i remember correct

/cast shred
/cast mangle

should make you do shred when you can and mangle when you cant?

the macro doesnt look that much for the world but i think ive made it work with that.

while that would work temporarily spamming it would make you shred then mangle.

[Hosebee]

Macros cannot do "If Then" commands

(if i am behind my target then I will shred, but If i am behind the target I will claw)

Also, claw? I hope you mean mangle. If your 80 you shouldnt ever use claw.

Actually, some can. Based on stance they can. I have ravage and rake macro'd to the same button. If I'm in prowl it will ravage, if I'm not it will use rake.

Also, that macro posted above would not shred then mangle, it would do one or the other. Because each uses a GCD once the macro does one or the other it cannot do the other as the macro attempts to do each immediately after the previous.

[Nangz]

Actually, some can. Based on stance they can. I have ravage and rake macro'd to the same button. If I'm in prowl it will ravage, if I'm not it will use rake.

The difference is that one is usable in stealth. As you list ravage first so it ravages. You don't spam that macro and it can't do ravage except as an opener.

[Zaktar]

Actually, some can. Based on stance they can. I have ravage and rake macro'd to the same button. If I'm in prowl it will ravage, if I'm not it will use rake.

Yeah, it would have been more accurate to say that this particular macro isn't possible.

Personally I have shred and ravage macroed to the same button with stealth/nostealth. There's no facing/notfacing toggles currently though.

The difference is that one is usable in stealth. As you list ravage first so it ravages. You don't spam that macro and it can't do ravage except as an opener.

I could be wrong but I think a simple:
/cast ravage
/cast rake

macro would not work that well.

[Deleted]

while that would work temporarily spamming it would make you shred then mangle.

Im pretty sure it would do the first string if it can since i didnt implement cast sequence but you may be right,

[Zaktar]

Im pretty sure it would do the first string if it can since i didnt implement cast sequence but you may be right,

No, you were right.

[Hosebee]

The difference is that one is usable in stealth. As you list ravage first so it ravages. You don't spam that macro and it can't do ravage except as an opener.

Both are useable in stealth. The macro has modifiers:

#showtooltip
/cast [nostealth] Rake; [stealth] Ravage

which is essentially an If, then macro. Rake is useable in stealth, however, the macro is stating that it only be used if I am not stealthed.

[Nangz]

Im pretty sure it would do the first string if it can since i didnt implement cast sequence but you may be right,

I'm 99% sure you don't have to do cast sequence in order for it to cast the 2nd spell after 2 key presses

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Both are useable in stealth. The macro has modifiers:

#showtooltip
/cast [nostealth] Rake; [stealth] Ravage

which is essentially an If, then macro. Rake is useable in stealth, however, the macro is stating that it only be used if I am not stealthed.

Same thing I believe as hitting the button once would trigger a "you cannot use that while not in stealth" response and then you would just rake.

[Zaktar]

Both are useable in stealth. The macro has modifiers:

#showtooltip
/cast [nostealth] Rake; [stealth] Ravage

which is essentially an If, then macro. Rake is useable in stealth, however, the macro is stating that it only be used if I am not stealthed.

Does that show the tooltips correctly? If so I am a moron, I've been exhaustively copying the full text to the #showtooltip line.

[Hosebee]

I'm 99% sure you don't have to do cast sequence in order for it to cast the 2nd spell after 2 key presses

You would have to wait for the GCD and then macro would once again do the first part of the sequence but not the second. If you added something off the GCD it would do both things simultaneously. But let's say you had this:

/cast mangle
/cast rake

You hit the button and you mangle, causing a GCD. You hit the button again while on GCD you get "Spell not ready" so you hit again after GCD and you get another mangle.

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Does that show the tooltips correctly? If so I am a moron, I've been exhaustively copying the full text to the #showtooltip line.

Yes it does. It shows only the tool tip of the correct spell for your current stance.

[Zaktar]

Same thing I believe as hitting the button once would trigger a "you cannot use that while not in stealth" response and then you would just rake.

The macro he wrote would work correctly without any error messages - I use ones like it all the time.

Yes it does. It shows only the tool tip of the correct spell for your current stance.

Argh! Good to know though.

[Nangz]

You would have to wait for the GCD and then macro would once again do the first part of the sequence but not the second. If you added something off the GCD it would do both things simultaneously. But let's say you had this:

/cast mangle
/cast rake

You hit the button and you mangle, causing a GCD. You hit the button again while on GCD you get "Spell not ready" so you hit again after GCD and you get another mangle.

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Yes it does. It shows only the tool tip of the correct spell for your current stance.

Ok, but what if you hit it twice within 1.5 secs and the first hit triggered a "could not be cast" error?

[Hosebee]

Yeah, Killarth, there is no error message because the macro reads my current stance and only uses the spell specific to that stance and ignores the other entirely. While they did remove many conditional macros (i.e. powershifting on XX energy or Mangle) they did not remove them from stances. Forms, stances, and stealth are all fair game for these conditional macros (for the most part I believe).

[calair]

But to the OP. NO, macros cannot determine your position or if a mob is attacking you. This sort of action was killed before BC was released. Macros can make desisions based on combat state, stance, stealth, or reaction of target, but not if you have agro or not.

[Hosebee]

Ok, but what if you hit it twice within 1.5 secs and the first hit triggered a "could not be cast" error?

You cannot bypass the GCD mechanic. So no matter how many times you hit that button during the GCD you will receive that error.