Need help with a gear "use effect" Macro

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I need a macro to activate Nitro Boosts (gear slot #6 as it's on the belt now) normally but when I equip my Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite I want it to use them (gear slot #8) instead of Nitro Boosts.

I've tried everything I can think of but nothing seems to work.

[Sockgoblin]

Wouldn't something like
#showtooltip
/use 8
/use 6

Try to use boots and then go to belt if it can't since they share the same cooldown (I believe)?

[Deleted]

Usually, but they don't actualy share a cooldown so that just activates both at the same time.

For the moment i'm improvising with an awkward modifier.

[lawomous]

See if this works:

#showtooltip
/use item:35581
/stopmacro [worn:35581]
/use 6

[Deleted]

Pretty sure that [worn] doesn't take itemID as an argument.

[Deleted]

Naw, it tries to activate them both together.

I don't think [worn] or [equipped] can be used with specific items, only item types.


Thanks anyway

[lawomous]

Yeah then there's probably not a way without a modifier sorry.

[Lobsk]

/run UseItemByName(Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite) if IsEquippedItem(Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite) else UseContainerItem(6) end

I sat down and wrote some, I got absolutely no idea if this will work and it is the first time I write a script. xD
But give it a try and let me know how it went. (:

[lawomous]

I sat down and wrote some, I got absolutely no idea if this will work and it is the first time I write a script. xD
But give it a try and let me know how it went. (:

I tried to test out your code with what I had available to me and was getting LUA errors, so I moved it around to say this: (to test on using 2 different trinkets)

/run if IsEquippedItem("Medallion of the Alliance") then UseItemByName("Medallion of the Alliance") else UseContainerItem(17) end

and got the big red box saying A macro script has been blocked from an action only available from the Blizzard UI.

[Deleted]

I simply make a macro with /use 'shiftclick the item to add it's name here' for example when using the engineering gloves haste.

[Deleted]

local a =CreateFrame("Frame")
    a:SetScript("OnEvent", function(self)
        local index = GetMacroIndexByName("Nitro")
        if index == 0 then
            index = CreateMacro("Nitro", 1, "", 1)
        end
        local bootLink = GetInventoryItemLink("player", (GetInventorySlotInfo("FeetSlot")))
        local bootName, bootID = (GetItemInfo(bootLink)), tonumber(bootLink:match("|Hitem:(%d+):"))
        local beltName = GetItemInfo(GetInventoryItemLink("player", (GetInventorySlotInfo("WaistSlot"))))
        local macrotext
        if bootID == 35581 then
            macrotext = "#showtooltip\n/castsequence reset=300 "..bootName..","..beltName
        else
            macrotext = "#showtooltip\n/use "..beltName
        end
        EditMacro(index, nil, nil, macrotext)
    end)
    a:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")
    a:RegisterEvent("UNIT_INVENTORY_CHANGED")  

How to use. Un Tested. Report back with issues.

Should create a macro called "Nitro" that either does a /castsequence if boots are equipped, otherwise simply uses the belt.

EDIT: Tested, squashed two minor bugs.

[Lobsk]

Ay ay ay, too bad it didn't work.
Seems like Treeston made a nice little thing there. (:

[Deleted]

Thanks but this is overwriting and replacing existing macros, both in General AND character specific ones.

I'll just stick with a shift modifier...

[Deleted]

All it takes is a single empty macro slot in your per character page.

[Deleted]

I have several free slots, but when I tried this it replaced my most recently made macro in the character tab. It also seemed to create a 2nd macro when I equipped the rocket boots, one simply used the belt and another that started a /castsequence... maybe I did something wrong.

I gave it two attempts though, the 2nd time I tried to change the name & icon (i dont like using names on my macros, I usually just hit spacebar and click "ok" and it accepts a blank space as a name) but then this replaced my 1st and 2nd macros in the general tab.

[Deleted]

That's weird, it didn't do that for me when I tested it. Was the created macro named "Nitro"? Did you have any other macros named that?

EDIT: Add the following line before the EditMacro line:

print(index, GetMacroInfo(index))

This should print something into your chat frame every time you go through a loading screen or equip/unequip something. Report back with the values.