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[Malmmoc]

I am trying to make a 1 button shifting macro for my boomkin spec for 6.0 ptr (and the upcoming live patch) and hoping someone might have have insight.

What I want it to do, in order of descending priority is:

1 - activate moonkin form if I am not in moonkin form
2 - if I am already in moonkin form, activate travel form (flight / stag / aquatic) if possible based on where I am
3 - if I am already in moonkin form, activate cat form if I am indoors and travel form is unavailible.

Is this possible?

[Deleted]

I am trying to make a 1 button shifting macro for my boomkin spec for 6.0 ptr (and the upcoming live patch) and hoping someone might have have insight.

What I want it to do, in order of descending priority is:

1 - activate moonkin form if I am not in moonkin form
2 - if I am already in moonkin form, activate travel form (flight / stag / aquatic) if possible based on where I am
3 - if I am already in moonkin form, activate cat form if I am indoors and travel form is unavailible.

Is this possible?

Yep.

#showtooltip
/cast [noform:5]Moonkin Form;[combat,indoors]Cat Form;[swimming]Aquatic Form;[noflyable]Travel Form;Swift Flight Form

Untested but should work; you might have to adjust the spell names.

[Malmmoc]

Yep.

#showtooltip
/cast [noform:5]Moonkin Form;[combat,indoors]Cat Form;[swimming]Aquatic Form;[noflyable]Travel Form;Swift Flight Form

Untested but should work; you might have to adjust the spell names.

I tried it on PTR. What it did was put me in moonkin form with one press, and caster form on next press. I tried removing everything but moonkin and travel form but it didn't have any effect. The form names look right to me, but I am pretty clueless with macros. Thank you for trying

[Juvencus]

#showtooltip
/cast [noform]Moonkin Form;[stance5,indoors]Cat Form;[stance5,outdoors]Travel Form

Will go to Moonkin Form (anywhere) if you don't have a form (caster)
If you are in Moonkin Form + Indoors it will go to Cat Form
If you are in Moonkin Form + Outdoors it will cast Travel Form (PTR+WoD use the unified travel forms system)

If you are in Cat Form the macro will unshift you first and the next press will take you in Moonkin Form.
If you are in any mode of the Travel Form the macro will unshift you first and the next press will take you in Moonkin Form.

the above "cons" of the macro might affect negatively your dps if you are using the macro in raids so I made another one as well

#showtooltip
/use [noform][form:1][form:2][form:3]Moonkin Form;[form:5,indoors]Cat Form;[form:5,outdoors]Travel Form

Same as above but it allows you to enter Moonkin form immediately from any form (or no form).


Only difference of the 2 macros is that the first allows Cat Form <-> Travel Form immediately if you change environments but loses a global when going to Moonkin form from those affecting DPS. The second allows for instant Moonkin Form but you can't do the Cat Form <-> Travel Form as it introduces a Moonkin form cast in between. Still dynamic as far as environments go, just with extra cast in between to prevent lost globals in raids.

[Malmmoc]

#showtooltip
/use [noform][form:1][form:2][form:3]Moonkin Form;[form:5,indoors]Cat Form;[form:5,outdoors]Travel Form

Thanks for taking the time to help. I tested both on PTR, the first one worked exactly as planned, but the raiding one would only put me in moonkin form, if I wasn't, it had no other effect. I loved the idea of having it to preserve those globals in raids. Any thoughts on how it needs to be adjusted?

[Juvencus]

Thanks for taking the time to help. I tested both on PTR, the first one worked exactly as planned, but the raiding one would only put me in moonkin form, if I wasn't, it had no other effect. I loved the idea of having it to preserve those globals in raids. Any thoughts on how it needs to be adjusted?

I dun goofed >.<

Raid

#showtooltip
/use [noform][form:1][form:2][form:3]Moonkin Form;[form:4,indoors]Cat Form;[form:4,outdoors]Travel Form

Original

#showtooltip
/use [noform]Moonkin Form;[form:4][indoors]Cat Form;[form:4][outdoors]Travel Form

You will notice that now I use form:4 instead of 5. That's because I had the Treant Glyph that makes Moonkin Form 5th in the bar. If you have the glyph make them form:5, otherwise 4 is correct.
Not sure why the other macro worked but now both should work properly.

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I tried it on PTR. What it did was put me in moonkin form with one press, and caster form on next press. I tried removing everything but moonkin and travel form but it didn't have any effect. The form names look right to me, but I am pretty clueless with macros. Thank you for trying

Yeah, sorry. I might thought it out too superficially.

[Malmmoc]

both should work properly.

Many thanks, much shifts



For feral spec, how would I adjust it to shift back and forth between cat and the travel forms, power shifting cat form indoors to clear roots?

[Juvencus]

Many thanks, much shifts



For feral spec, how would I adjust it to shift back and forth between cat and the travel forms, power shifting cat form indoors to clear roots?

#showtooltip 
/use [noform]Cat Form;[form:2][indoors]!Cat Form;[form:2][outdoors]Travel Form

See if this works

It's really easy to make shapeshift macros (or macros in general) once you understand the limitations and also realise that there is logic in the conditions and the names of the words

[Malmmoc]

#showtooltip 
/use [noform]Cat Form;[form:2][indoors]!Cat Form;[form:2][outdoors]Travel Form

See if this works

The indoor part worked perfectly, but outside, it still just power shifted me. No travel form. Sorry for so many posts. Starting to feel like a vagrant down town, spamming requests for change.. "can you spare some macro's, sir?"

[Deleted]

#showtooltip 
/use [noform]Cat Form;[form:2][indoors]!Cat Form;[form:2][outdoors]Travel Form

See if this works

It's really easy to make shapeshift macros (or macros in general) once you understand the limitations and also realise that there is logic in the conditions and the names of the words

The problem in this macro is that the two conditionals in the middle need to be in one bracket. Otherwise the middle part is performed ANY time you're in form:2.

#showtooltip 
/use [noform]Cat Form;[form:2,indoors]!Cat Form;[form:2, outdoors]Travel Form

Just wondering, this macro will shift you to Cat only from Caster form (noform), if you want it to put you in Cat form from any other form, you could use

#showtooltip 
/use [noform:2]Cat Form;[form:2,indoors]!Cat Form;[form:2, outdoors]Travel Form

[Malmmoc]

That worked perfectly. The benevolent macro gurus come though again, tyvm.

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That worked perfectly. The benevolent macro gurus come though again, tyvm.

Which one, if I may ask?

[Malmmoc]

Your last one

[denisgsv]

http://i.imgur.com/WJ56nkS.jpg


on this screenshoot , its elvui or tukui or smthing similar .
Any possible way to get the addon which is responsible for the buff/debuff bars ? Its exactly what i am looking for , i dont want all ui , just those bars :|

[eyrie]

That's ElvUi.

You can get similar aura bars with Raven:
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/raven

[denisgsv]

That's ElvUi.

You can get similar aura bars with Raven:
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/raven

tryed those , weak aura , and quartz didnt liked them ... wanted the ones like those

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tryed those , weak aura , and quartz didnt liked them ... wanted the ones like those

a) wrong thread
b) the difference you mention is purely in looks. I'm sure you can change any of the above to look like you want.

[Gracin]

Okay, so somewhere along the way I managed to delete my mount macro that I've grown so accustomed to, and now I cant remember how to rewrite it.

Left click=Ground/Flying depending on if able
Right click=Vendor Mount
Shift Right=Water walking mount
Shift Left= Forced Ground Mount

I kept trying to rewrite it last night because I know it's simple, but I couldn't get it to come out right. Thanks in advance.

[Deleted]

Okay, so somewhere along the way I managed to delete my mount macro that I've grown so accustomed to, and now I cant remember how to rewrite it.

Left click=Ground/Flying depending on if able
Right click=Vendor Mount
Shift Right=Water walking mount
Shift Left= Forced Ground Mount

I kept trying to rewrite it last night because I know it's simple, but I couldn't get it to come out right. Thanks in advance.

I think this should work:

#showtooltip
/use [btn:2,mod:shift]Water Walking Mount Name;[btn:2]Vendor Mount Name;[flyable,nomod:shift]Flying Mount Name;Ground Mount Name