Ask it! Macro Edition

[lawomous]

Hi my old Stormstrke makro seems to not be working anymore, any suggestions? I simply don't start autoattacking after switching targets, what have i missed?

Not sure, try this:

#showtooltip
/targetenemy [noexists][dead][help]
/startattack
/cast Stormstrike

[GGashok]

Not sure, try this:

#showtooltip
/targetenemy [noexists][dead][help]
/startattack
/cast Stormstrike

Thank you, but after a restart it works again, leftklicking the enemy works again to. If i find out what disrupted the normal behaviour, i'll report it ;-) (Don't misunterstand the smily, it really didn't work, i even thought about where to get another hotkey for autoattack)

[wolphe]

if i understod the function right you wont be able to use it like you want. think of a macro like going through diff filters:

mod = shift? if yes -> soul link, else go to the next step below
no felhunter or dead felhunter? if yes -> summon felhunter, else go to the next step below
you got a "nodead" (living) felhunter? if yes -> felhunter dispel

lets say you remove the [mod:shift], the macro will think:

key pressed? soul link, job's is done

Ye I got this so removed the soul link part, and only used the pet part of it, however, it still doesn't work correctly, as when the pet dies, it takes more then 10 seconds, before the pet bar goes away, and first when it goes away, it will see the pet as dead, hence, I won't benefit from the buff that last for 10 sec after my pet dies, making it an instant summon. any idea?

[GGashok]

Ye I got this so removed the soul link part, and only used the pet part of it, however, it still doesn't work correctly, as when the pet dies, it takes more then 10 seconds, before the pet bar goes away, and first when it goes away, it will see the pet as dead, hence, I won't benefit from the buff that last for 10 sec after my pet dies, making it an instant summon. any idea?

I don't know much about macros, but could you use something like targeting the felhunter by its name, and if the target does not exist...

[wolphe]

I don't know much about macros, but could you use something like targeting the felhunter by its name, and if the target does not exist...

thats the problem, when my pet dies, I get a buff for 10 seconds, making the next summon instant if cast within 10 sec, problem is, the pet bar is still around for more then 10 seconds after the pet is dead. so I can target it, like targeting a dead corpse. so the macro mention woun't summon a new one, until after the pet bar goes away, but by then, I have lost the buff, making me have to hard cast the summon, or spend a soul shard on it.

[Vayshan]

Using this atm:
#showtooltip Judgement
/assist target
/cast Judgement

Yet every time I use it, my target switches to what ever I Judged. Is there a line of code missing to prevent this or is this just to hinder us? So to be clear, I don't want to have to reselect the tank every time I use it to Judge whatever the tank is attacking.

[Deleted]

#showtooltip
/assist target
/cast Judgement
/targetlasttarget

Judgement forces a re-target onto its target since its coding is that of a melee ability. /targetlasttarget can be used to re-acquire the previous target.

[Taryble]

thats the problem, when my pet dies, I get a buff for 10 seconds, making the next summon instant if cast within 10 sec, problem is, the pet bar is still around for more then 10 seconds after the pet is dead. so I can target it, like targeting a dead corpse. so the macro mention woun't summon a new one, until after the pet bar goes away, but by then, I have lost the buff, making me have to hard cast the summon, or spend a soul shard on it.

It SHOULD work fine, if you're using the macro I gave you - it does have logic in there for "if I have a felhunter summoned already, but it's dead, summon a new one" - it's the [pet:felhunter, dead] conditional that handles that.

By the way, you mentioned you already have a shift bound to the keybind you're using for the macro. If you want to keep the Soul Link part, just change the modifier used - alt and ctrl work. Like so (I rearranged the two conditions that summon the Felhunter, just in case it was doing something wonky there).

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:ctrl] Soul Link; [pet:felhunter, dead][nopet:felhunter] Summon Felhunter; [pet:felhunter, nodead] Felhunter Dispel

If that doesn't work, try this

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:ctrl] Soul Link; [@pet, dead][nopet:felhunter] Summon Felhunter; [pet:felhunter, nodead] Felhunter Dispel

[Zayna]

Hey. Okay i was just wondering if there was a macro that would allow me to
1. Equip a set
2. Cast Guardian of Ancient Kings
3. Use Golemblood Potion
4. Equip another set

All in one macro. So far i have
/equipset Prot T12
/cast Guardian of Ancient Kings
/use Golemblood Potion
/equipset Ret
And all of it is working except equipping the last set and i cant figure out why. Any one can help me out?

[Schnackie]

Hey, I started doing arenas on my feral and was wondering if I can do that:
For example, It's 2v2, I'm focusing healer and going for dps, I need a macro that will target healer(focus), cast Cyclone, and target back the dps.
Thanks for your help!

#Showtooltip
/cast [@focus, harm, excist] Cyclone; Cyclone
/targetlasttarget

This should target your focus and cast cyclone; if no focus is found, it will cast cyclone on your current target. No need to explain the last line

[Deleted]

No need for the /targetlasttarget - with the exception of some specific spells (Judgement comes to mind), @ (and its equivalent, target=) will only cast the spell at the specified target without actually re-targeting. Thus:

#showtooltip
/cast [@focus,harm,exists][]Cyclone

[Schnackie]

Thanks for correcting me!

Happened to stumble upon your "My work" link in your signature, and I got the feeling you know your way around macros and addons quite well, so you might be able to answer this for me:

Is there a way to target a specific mob, say Shadowy Apparitions from shadow priest; cast a spell on the newly targeted mob, or on your current target if the desired mob is no where around?

Example 1:
I've targeted a Shadow Priest, and he has a couple of Shadowy Apparitions spawned, moving towards me. I want the macro to target the Apparitions, cast Judgement, and retarget my last target (aKa Shadow Priest).

Example 2:
I've targeted a Shadow Priest, and no Shadowy Apparitions are spawned. I then want the macro to cast Judgement on my current target (the Shadow Priest)

Is this macro createable?

[lawomous]

You can try this, haven't tested if it acts weird though.

#showtooltip
/cleartarget
/tar Shadowy Apparition
/targetlasttarget [noexists][help]
/cast Judgement

[andremello]

Tried searching for this but couldn't find anything, sorry if this has already been requested.

I'm looking for a way to keep Moonwell Chalice and Volcanic Pot in the same binding. The way I wanted it to be is, if I hit the bind once, it will just use my trinket. If I hit it twice in a row, it will use trinket + volcanic pot. Is that possible?

[kombucha]

Looking for a macro for my Dreamcloth CDs so I don't have to go into my tailoring window every week. Ideally I'd like to have 6 buttons on my bar, 1 for each Dreamcloth CD

[Nelinde]

hi there i did try searching without any luck for this macro but i'm trying to create a macro for my ret t12 4set bonus CD's. as ill be concentrating on the fight i cant really count the 5sec intervals so im trying to get the macro to /w me. i tried using dbm timers but each time i hit the macro it just reset the bars to the begining
so far i have got:
#showtooltip
/castsequence Zealotry, Guardian of Ancient Kings, Avenging Wrath
/startattack
/in 5.0 /w Nelinde cast Guardian of Ancient Kings
/in 10.0 /w Nelinde Use Golemblood potion
/in 15.0 /w Nelinde cast Avenging Wrath

but im not receiving any /w's. am i using the wrong code? does this even work?
any and all helpwould be really appreciated <3

[Deleted]

Looking for a macro for my Dreamcloth CDs so I don't have to go into my tailoring window every week. Ideally I'd like to have 6 buttons on my bar, 1 for each Dreamcloth CD

/run CastSpellByName("Alchemy") for r=1,GetNumTradeSkills() do if GetTradeSkillInfo(r) == "Transmute: Truegold" then DoTradeSkill(r,1) break end end CloseTradeSkill()

Replace "Transmute: Truegold" with whatever the name of the dreamcloth recipe in the trade window is.

[kombucha]

/run CastSpellByName("Alchemy") for r=1,GetNumTradeSkills() do if GetTradeSkillInfo(r) == "Transmute: Truegold" then DoTradeSkill(r,1) break end end CloseTradeSkill()

Replace "Transmute: Truegold" with whatever the name of the dreamcloth recipe in the trade window is.

Awesome. Is there a line that can be added that will make it display the icon, tooltip, and CD of the skill as well?

[Deleted]

Awesome. Is there a line that can be added that will make it display the icon, tooltip, and CD of the skill as well?

Can't think of any way, sorry.

[Frosthero]

I suck at macro's, Is there anyway i can have /cast Strangulate on my target and if i use alt i can have it cast onto my Focus target, all on 1 button?