Does anyone have knowledge on how to convert the following macro over to the new Classic system:
#showtooltip Flash Heal
/cast [@target, help, nodead] Flash Heal; [@target, harm, nodead] Smite; Shadow Mend
What it does on Retail WoW is cast Flash Heal if the target is friendly and not dead, Smite if the target is an enemy, and if both conditions were false, cast Shadow Mend on myself. Testing a macro like the following on the Stress Test server didn't work for me, probably for obvious reasons, but I don't know how to fix it:
#showtooltip Smite (Rank 1)
/cast [@target, help, nodead] Lesser Heal (Rank 1); [@target, harm, nodead] Smite (Rank 1)
Any hints are very much appreciated!
Classic basically uses the same macro system as bfa. Your macro should work fine.
Actually, after checking your macro I noticed you put a space between the spell and the rank. It should be:
#showtooltip Smite(Rank 1)
/cast [@target,help,nodead] Lesser Heal(Rank 1) ; [@target,harm,nodead] Smite(Rank 1)
You should just shift-leftclick on the spells in your spellbook when typing the macros to avoid small mistakes like these.
Last edited by lonely zergling; 2019-05-23 at 06:07 PM.
what about addons like decursive in vanilla? didn't they auto-pick who to dispel if they had an applicable debuff (so druid would hit his decursive button and it would poison dispel the poisons on a person that had poisons?)
There were macros and add-ons to automate everything, including fishing. You could literally AFK fish in Vanilla. An old guildmate had rigged up an autopather with Tomtom (or equivalent) to auto-walk to a set coordinate.
Yeah. I can definitely see Blizz not wanting some of the macro and add-ons systems that they consciously killed returning. Most of these were dead by 1.12 anyways, so...
But that was an integral part of WoW for many players!
But your duty to Azeroth is not yet complete. More is demanded of you... a price the living cannot pay.
Why play if you “automate” everything.
This, the new system is a billion times better than the old one. I've played on some private servers and I fucking hate having to deal with macros there, especially targeting ones.
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Also, if you don't include the rank of the spell, it'll default to the max rank.
As much as my hunter will miss its "one button macro for every damage dealing ability on a priority basis" which would sit on scroll wheel and see me top dps with ease, its one of those things which will necessarily be absent due to changes in the underlying platform on which the game is being built. Other examples would be "unlimited button-frames", and "wall-walking", no matter how much these were part of the vanilla experience.
Its going to be much easier to create macros now compared to private servers, slight change but addons like supermacro did this job anyway