Ask it! Macro Edition

[crazed]

Hi, looking for a pretty complicated macro. I'd like it to do the following:

1. Let me mouseover a target to heal them.
2. If no mouseover target is there, to heal myself.
3. If I have a friendly target targeted, to take priority over the mouseover so i heal that target.
4. If I want to heal myself while targeting that friendly target, to use a shift modifier.

is this possible? I will be so grateful if someone gives me one that works. This is an all in one macro btw that I can use for most healing spells and buffs.

[lawomous]

Hi, looking for a pretty complicated macro. I'd like it to do the following:

1. Let me mouseover a target to heal them.
2. If no mouseover target is there, to heal myself.
3. If I have a friendly target targeted, to take priority over the mouseover so i heal that target.
4. If I want to heal myself while targeting that friendly target, to use a shift modifier.

is this possible? I will be so grateful if someone gives me one that works. This is an all in one macro btw that I can use for most healing spells and buffs.

This should cover all the things you ask for:

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift,@player][help][@mouseover,help,nodead][@player]Heal

[crazed]

you rock man!

[Deleted]

Any input on why this macro shouldn't work? My character is an Undead DK (working on the assumption I don't need to Lichborne in order to benefit from the healing of Deah Coil)

/cast [nomod:shift] Death Coil
/cast [mod:shift, @player] Death Coil

Thanks.

[Tural]

Any input on why this macro shouldn't work? My character is an Undead DK (working on the assumption I don't need to Lichborne in order to benefit from the healing of Deah Coil)

/cast [nomod:shift] Death Coil
/cast [mod:shift, @player] Death Coil

Thanks.

If you're suggesting that being of the Undead race makes you an undead target, that's incorrect. All players are humanoids in normal form.

[Taryble]

Any input on why this macro shouldn't work? My character is an Undead DK (working on the assumption I don't need to Lichborne in order to benefit from the healing of Deah Coil)

/cast [nomod:shift] Death Coil
/cast [mod:shift, @player] Death Coil

Thanks.

The Undead Race is not of the "Undead" monster type - all players are considered "Humanoid" except while in shapechange forms (druids and shamans become beasts under bear/cat and wofl, frost dk's become undead under lichborne, etc).

This has been true since some time in Vanilla Beta - until it became obvious that players-as-undead had too many bonuses and too many vulnerabilities to be balanced properly, so they made them into creature-type "Humanoid".

[Deleted]

Tural, Taryble - thanks for the answers. I hadn't realised such a caveat applied (1st time I've rolled/taken an interest in a DK).../looks for my Newb Hat ;p

[batman13cr]

#showtooltip polymorph(rabbit)
/cast Presence of Mind
/cast Polymorph(Rabbit)
/sw reset
/sw play

this will cast PoM then sheep and start the stopwatch timer so you can watch for the 45 seconds to be up without having to focus target
even if you dont have the stopwatch active it will bring it up and reset it when you sheep again

[Mordret]

#showtooltip polymorph(rabbit)
/cast Presence of Mind
/cast Polymorph(Rabbit)
/sw 45
/sw play

this will cast PoM then sheep and start the stopwatch timer so you can watch for the 45 seconds to be up without having to focus target
even if you dont have the stopwatch active it will bring it up and reset it when you sheep again

I've fixed it for you. It sets timer for 45sec and countsdown to 0.

[batman13cr]

I've fixed it for you. It sets timer for 45sec and countsdown to 0.

a simple but effective change, i like it. in fact ive already made the change.

[personn5]

A friend of mine is asking me if I know how to make a macro, came here to ask.
His question was: "Can you make a macro that will use trinkets if they are equipped, but not equip/switch them out of its not?"
He wants to add it to his cooldown macros, and soemtimes he's not in combat when he hits it, so it sometimes will mess up his trinkets trying to equip ones he doesn't want.

[lawomous]

A friend of mine is asking me if I know how to make a macro, came here to ask.
His question was: "Can you make a macro that will use trinkets if they are equipped, but not equip/switch them out of its not?"
He wants to add it to his cooldown macros, and soemtimes he's not in combat when he hits it, so it sometimes will mess up his trinkets trying to equip ones he doesn't want.

The easiest way to incorporate trinkets like that in macros is to put a combat condition like...

#showtooltip
/use [combat]Moonwell Chalice
/cast Shadow Bolt

Or whatever... By having the combat condition, it won't swap or even use them out of combat, and will just use them if they are equipped in combat.

[personn5]

The easiest way to incorporate trinkets like that in macros is to put a combat condition like...

#showtooltip
/use [combat]Moonwell Chalice
/cast Shadow Bolt

Or whatever... By having the combat condition, it won't swap or even use them out of combat, and will just use them if they are equipped in combat.

That would be nice, however he ALSO wanted it to work for when when he's out of combat (only use the trinkets), since he hits the macro before he enters combat.

[lawomous]

Whats the point of using trinkets out of combat? The next time he does something while in combat the trinket will have it's full duration used up.

Also sorry that I gave Moonwell Chalice as an example. They already fixed that to remove your Mastery when you take the trinket off, I just used an example of an on use trinket.

[Judge40]

Best way would be to use '/use 13' and '/use 14' in the macro as the trinket slot instead of the trinket name.

It won't incorrectly equip a trinket outside of combat but will have to be managed to make sure the correct trinkets are equiped prior to using the macro.

[Deleted]

Also sorry that I gave Moonwell Chalice as an example. They already fixed that to remove your Mastery when you take the trinket off, I just used an example of an on use trinket.

About this part, do you happen to know if that removal also applies to the mastery snapshot of a WLs Metamorphosis?
I.e., you use trinket, gain mastery, (fire meta, mastery is snapshot), remove trinket, lose mastery - will the Metamorphosis snapshot still be in effect (as I assume)?

[lawomous]

Not sure, I guess it will snapshot the mastery if you use everything out of combat.

[prodruidlol]

hey again,
So i made this macro for my kick but it doesnt seem to work any ideas where i went wrong?

#showtooltip Skull Bash(Cat Form)
/cast [@focus,exists, stance:3] Skull Bash(Cat Form);[@focus,exists] Skull Bash(Bear Form)

its ment to kick my target if i dont have a focus target, it only kicks my focus target though

[lawomous]

hey again,
So i made this macro for my kick but it doesnt seem to work any ideas where i went wrong?

its ment to kick my target if i dont have a focus target, it only kicks my focus target though

Try this:

#showtooltip [form:3]Skull Bash;Skull Bash(Bear Form)
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead,form:3][form:3]Skull Bash;[@focus,harm,nodead][]Skull Bash(Bear Form)

[Deleted]

hey again,
So i made this macro for my kick but it doesnt seem to work any ideas where i went wrong?

#showtooltip Skull Bash(Cat Form)
/cast [@focus,exists, stance:3] Skull Bash(Cat Form);[@focus,exists] Skull Bash(Bear Form)

its ment to kick my target if i dont have a focus target, it only kicks my focus target though

Lawomous has providedthe answer I would have given already, let me just explain to you that the macro you wrote will not do anything if you don't have a focus target, due to the simple reason that in your macro, no conditional would be true if you didn't, so it doesn't do anything.
That's why Law added the [form:3] and [] that return true also if you don't have a focus, so the macro has a reason to execute the spell.