Cast spell if ready if not cast other spell macro?

[AppleOrange]

I am looking for a macro that will use a certain spell but if it cannot use that spell it will switch to another spell

Sort if like

/cast Ice Barrier (if not castable) /cast Mana Shield

etc

Is this doable at all?

[Deleted]

I think that enabling macros to check for cooldowns is something blizz is against. you should prob bind them separately or with modifiers

[Deleted]

Nope, not possible.

[Deleted]

I've seen videos of people using an spell and then another one hitting the same button (when one is on CD the other one shows) how do they do that?

[AppleOrange]

Hows it any different to using the flying/ground mount macros in 1? Thats still a script checking to see if you're in an area that you can fly or not. Dunno bout you but using a macro for a spell like this seems like exactly the same thing

[Deleted]

They likely use /castsequence.

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Hows it any different to using the flying/ground mount macros in 1? Thats still a script checking to see if you're in an area that you can fly or not. Dunno bout you but using a macro for a spell like this seems like exactly the same thing

Macros can decide based on conditions defined by Blizzard. flyable/noflyable is one. Buffs/cooldowns/action usable are not.

[AppleOrange]

I've seen videos of people using an spell and then another one hitting the same button (when one is on CD the other one shows) how do they do that?

cast sequence macroing but thats not something that will work for what i want

[Hviske10ske]

I've seen videos of people using an spell and then another one hitting the same button (when one is on CD the other one shows) how do they do that?

Modifiers perhaps. So they can press the same key, but perhaps holding "Alt" down while pressing it and it will do something else.
Or it could be a cast sequense

[Deleted]

Modifiers perhaps. So they can press the same key, but perhaps holding "Alt" down while pressing it and it will do something else.
Or it could be a cast sequense

it was def a castsequence as the icon was changing in function of the skills being used.

Thanks to all for your replies to my question!

[Sylenas]

I am looking for a macro that will use a certain spell but if it cannot use that spell it will switch to another spell

Sort if like

/cast Ice Barrier (if not castable) /cast Mana Shield

etc

Is this doable at all?

You could give this a try:

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=240 Ice Block, Mana Shield, Mana Shield, Mana Shield, Mana Shield, Mana Shield, Mana Shield,

I'm assuming the CD on iceblock is 4 minutes (hence reset=240 seconds) and the mana shield repetition is just to keep you covered until the iceblock resets.

Let me know if thats what you were sort of looking for.

[AppleOrange]

You could give this a try:

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=240 Ice Block, Mana Shield, Mana Shield, Mana Shield, Mana Shield, Mana Shield, Mana Shield,

I'm assuming the CD on iceblock is 4 minutes (hence reset=240 seconds) and the mana shield repetition is just to keep you covered until the iceblock resets.

Let me know if thats what you were sort of looking for.

Need ice barrier, not iceblock.

[ponth]

Replace ice block with ice barrier, change the value to whatever the cd on ice barrier is (in seconds), and you should be good to go.

[Sylenas]

Shoot, my bad.

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=30 Ice Barrier, Mana shield, Mana shield etc. To infinity and beyond.

I think that'll work for you.

[AppleOrange]

Shoot, my bad.

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=30 Ice Barrier, Mana shield, Mana shield etc. To infinity and beyond.

I think that'll work for you.

mm thanks - this SEEMS to work. Ill have to test it for a little while though.

[Sylenas]

No Problem.

[Jodah]

Unless they changed it recently every time you press that macro it resets the timer. So if you press it for mana shield you have to wait 30 seconds for it to reset.

[Sylenas]

Hmm, I'm not at home right now so I can't test the macro out for you but maybe someone else might know what's going wrong.

[AppleOrange]

Shoot, my bad.

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=30 Ice Barrier, Mana shield, Mana shield etc. To infinity and beyond.

I think that'll work for you.

This macro is a keeper i think.

Every time I use barrier, by the time ive used a few mana shields barrier is always back up and if i havent used the mana shields yet...it will reset back to barrier if the cd is up. This seems to be the best macro I've used so far. TYVM!

I should say though, shouldn't I put the reset at 26 seconds instead of 30?

[Sylenas]

Yeah I didn't account for Global CD or anything like that. Make sure to play around with it and find out what you like!

[Deleted]

Be aware that reset=x conditions for cast sequences trigger X seconds after the LAST execution.