Ask it! Macro Edition

[Nonslid]

You can use /castsequence to set up a rotation, but it's really really bad to do so, at least I can think of no class where it would be useful.
There used to exist specs where it was kind of viable, but nowadays there are no rotations but rather priority lists, where you have to react to certain things, procs, whatever. A castsequence macro is totally inflexible, and therefore only recommended for.... actually I can't really think of a thing, at least not combat-related.

Yeah thought so :P

[darkwarrior42]

Is there a way to use a macro (or addon) to swap Action Bar buttons when I change talents? I main a hunter, and I frequently swap between Lynx Rush and A Murder of Crows, as well as between Glaive Toss and Barrage, and I find it annoying to have to go into my spellbook everytime I swap talents to drag the new abilities onto my bars, particularly since I keep the abilities in the same place (glavie toss/barrage is always in the same place, AMoC and Lynx Rush are always in the same place, it's just a matter of which one I have at the moment.)

[bOOURNS]

get the addon http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/talentmacros it will make macros for each talent tier so each tier is just 1 button depending on which talent you selected.

[darkwarrior42]

Awesome, exactly what I wanted. Thanks a lot

[papajohn4]

I have a macro for my rogue but does not working...what I did wrong?

#showtooltip [stealth] Ambush; [spec:2] Sinister Strike; Mutilate
/targetenemy [noexists][help][dead]
/cast [nostealth,nocombat] !Stealth
/cast [stealth] Ambush; [spec:2,combat,nostealth] Sinister Strike; [combat,nostealth] Mutilate

My spec:1 is Assassination and spec:2 is combat.
-It targets an enemy for me if I don't have on already.
-It goes stealth if I am not in stealth and out of combat
-it uses Ambush from stealth.

After that it does not cast Sinister strike or Mutilate. I have [combat] for Sinister strike because for som reason the macro was trying to do sinister before go stealth and it turned Auto-attack for the targeted mob make me sometimes go out of stealth because auto-attacking before being able to use Ambush. With [combat] it does not do it but also it doesn't use Sinister Strike at all, even if I am not stealth and in-combat.

Any thoughts? thanks in advance

[Pandragon]

Not sure what the best buttons would be for this macro. But can a macro be made so when normally pushed I roll. If alt is used I'll activate Tiger's Lust, and if I right click then hit the macro I'll Flying Serpent Kick?

[Treeston]

The first one I'm not quite sure about. What do you mean by "right click, then hit the macro"?

Second one is fairly simple:

#showtooltip [flyable]Red Flying Cloud; [swimming]Azure Water Strider; Swift Red Hawkstrider
/cast [nomounted,flyable]Red Flying Cloud; [nomounted,swimming]Azure Water Strider; [nomounted]Swift Red Hawkstrider
/dismount [mounted]

[Pandragon]

Thx for the mount macro.

Yeah I confused myself talking about the macro. Basically I want the macro to do this. If bound to say, mouse wheel. Pressing it normally uses roll. alt + wheel = Tiger's Lust. Right Click + wheel = Flying Serpent Kick.

[Taryble]

Right-clicks can't be used as a modifier, which is what you're asking for there.

Only Alt, Shift, and Ctrl (and combinations of those three) can be used to modify another action.

[papajohn4]

Right-clicks can't be used as a modifier, which is what you're asking for there.

Only Alt, Shift, and Ctrl (and combinations of those three) can be used to modify another action.

no they can...its [btn:2]

Example:

cast [btn:2] Deadly Poison; Leeching Poison

[dooffie66]

Does any one know a site where I can learn advanced macro use and scripts that are legal to use ingame?

[Treeston]

no they can...its [btn:2]

Example:

cast [btn:2] Deadly Poison; Leeching Poison

He doesn't want to right click the button (that would be [btn:2]), he wants to right click the world, then hit a button and modify that button based on his previous right click.

[papajohn4]

Does any one know a site where I can learn advanced macro use and scripts that are legal to use ingame?

http://www.wowwiki.com/Making_a_macro

He doesn't want to right click the button (that would be [btn:2]), he wants to right click the world, then hit a button and modify that button based on his previous right click.

ah..my bad then I didn't understand it..

[Taryble]

no they can...its [btn:2]

Example:
cast [btn:2] Deadly Poison; Leeching Poison

What he stated in his second post is that he wants to use Button 2 to modify his Mouse Wheel Bind. That's not possible, and is why I answered the way I did.

Yes, if you're writing a macro that you're going to click on, you can have it do something different for each of the 5 standard mouse buttons that WoW recognizes. That's not a modifier, though, that's reacting to a different action entirely (clicks instead of keypresses).

[KeirAdish]

Ok, got a couple of macro's I need help with, I'll post how they appear in my head but don't work in the game...

#showtooltip
/cast Bestial wrath
/cast Rabid (Not part of macro: This is pet ability.)

other way I tried was

#showtooltip
/cast Bestial Wrath
/petcast Rabid

Neither worked... >_<


I'm also having trouble with stopcasting, I put it in my instant cast macros such as arcane shot(seen below) and it works if its a new target, but once I've used the ability on that target once the stopcasting part stops working, I want to on for instance a single target boss fight to be able to start a Cobra shot and then stop it to use another ability which i can if I've changed targets but I won't always be able to do that.

#showtooltip Arcane Shot
/stopcasting
/petattackg
/cast Arcane Shot

[Haxx0rcist]

#showtooltip Dreadful Gladiator's Leather Gloves
/cast [modifier:shift] Dreadful Gladiator's Leather Gloves (rocket gloves)
/cast [nomod] Shuriken Toss

I can't seem to get this to work, not really experienced with macros. Anyone please?
Just shoots the rocket even without shift pressed.

[Nonslid]

/use [mod:shift] gloves..
/cast Shuriken Toss

Not sure, but try that one Pretty new to making macros and not just copy/paste x]

[Haxx0rcist]

Nevermind, works that way. Thanks!

[sshika]

Ok, got a couple of macro's I need help with, I'll post how they appear in my head but don't work in the game...

#showtooltip
/cast Bestial wrath
/cast Rabid (Not part of macro: This is pet ability.)

other way I tried was

#showtooltip
/cast Bestial Wrath
/petcast Rabid

Neither worked... >_<


I'm also having trouble with stopcasting, I put it in my instant cast macros such as arcane shot(seen below) and it works if its a new target, but once I've used the ability on that target once the stopcasting part stops working, I want to on for instance a single target boss fight to be able to start a Cobra shot and then stop it to use another ability which i can if I've changed targets but I won't always be able to do that.

#showtooltip Arcane Shot
/stopcasting
/petattackg
/cast Arcane Shot

#showtooltip
/cast Bestial wrath
/cast Rabid

It should work, don't see anything that could cause an issue.

#showtooltip Arcane Shot
/stopcasting
/stopcasting
/petattack
/cast Arcane Shot

For the stopcasting you need it twice (has ever been like that since aspect of the fox, I don't know why to be honest).

[SmallfryBL]

#showtooltip Lullaby
/cast [@focus, modifier:ctrl][harm] Lullaby
/cast [@mouseover, modifier:alt][harm] Lullaby

I have this for my crane right now, and it works perfectly, I was wondering if someone more suave can help me add to it though.

I want it to change depending on the pet I have active at that moment.

Meaning, If I have a shale spider out I want it to change to Web Wrap

If the pet is a Dragonhawk then I want it to change Fire Breath

etc
etc

Any help Would be appreciated, thanks!

Edit: /click [@focus, modifier:ctrl][harm] PetActionButton6 I now tried this, but the modifier doesnt work now =(, but If I replace /click with /cast and PetActionButton6 with the actual spell it works fine.