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Last night I decided to play with a couple macros, doing some reading, I saw that you can do everything from change gear, use trinkets and use spells. Since I use an addon to change gear, I didn’t need that, but the other things interested me.
After reading on the WoW Forums and BorkWeb some different examples of what you can do, I jumped right in and started my macro experience. My first try I wanted a macro that would, when I’m in stealth, I would pick pocket my target, activate my 2 trinkets, and then attack with one of my skills. This doesn’t work, OK it worked but I would pick pocket and when I activated my trinkets, I would be unstealthed, which defeats the entire process. Moving on, I decided to break my macros up, one for trinkets, one for stealth pick pocket and attack and one for hack and slash.
The trinket macro was easy, just use the trinket spot on your character:
/use 13
/use 14
Next I worked on my Pick Pocket, again a very easy macro:
/cast Pick Pocket
/stopcasting
/cast Cheap Shot
Then the hard part, How was I going to make my hack and slash macro, after further reading I saw a command called /castsequence in which you add what ever attacks you want in a row and then each time you mash that button it will do the next attack and better yet if you use the ? icon, it’s suppose to show the next attack you’ll use along with the cooldown timer. Sounded exactly what I wanted.
/startattack
/castsequence reset=target Sinister Strike, Sinister Strike, Sinister Strike, Sinister Strike, Sinister Strike, Eviscerate
Not exactly what I used but close enough. My first problem was I started to test it and as i’m mashing the button I see nothing happening, then I notice I’m completely spamming my guild channel with the entire macro like 10 times. Yes I was called a noob! I had a space in fromt of one of the slashes and it decided I wanted my guild to know what I was trying. Second problem, My icons never changed, so it only showed me my first attack and didn’t change after that, so I was flying blind on cool downs. Final and biggest problem, You don’t always want the exact same attack, for a rogue, you may sometimes miss or not get a CP for an attack, in which then you want to wait or add another attack, it takes the smart out of the attack and really isn’t much fun either.
I ended deleting the last macro and keeping the first 2, I’m not sure how often I’ll use the trinket one (I always forget the extra help) but the pick pocket/attack macro is nice, one button to do a couple things, I can then take over the attack from there and do what I need to do to bring the beast down.
Past Post on other blogs about Macros
by Brutux, on February 7 2008 @ 10:51 am
For my level 68 Warrior, I don’t have any macros, but I think I’ll add one to switch between my two-hander and my one-hander + shield.
Besides that, I didn’t sense that the need of macros was there. It would probably ease-up my experience, but I do great without it …
Oh wait, yeah, I do have one macro : /inspect.
by Conjude, on February 7 2008 @ 11:20 am
For changing gear I like to use the addon called outfitter, but need to learn it’s programming better. Right now if I mount up it will auto put the 3% faster trinket on me and when I dismount it will put my armor trinkets, but those are auto setup within the addon (if mounted do this.. and you setup your outfit) but if I knew the coding I could have it where if I use my bow, a trinket or armor that has +range will worn.
Does the inspect only work on other players or beast also?
by Conjude, on February 7 2008 @ 11:21 am
just look it up.. /inspect [allied player] (alias ‘/ins’) - Inspect an allied player. If no player is specified, inspect your current target.
thanks for the idea on a post on commands and emots
by Drotara, on February 7 2008 @ 12:25 pm
I have been kind of a macro junkie lately. I have two trinket macros, similar to yours, but just as simple.
#showtooltip 13
/use 13
and one exactly the same for 14. That way when I mouse over the icons on my bar, I get the tooltip for the currently equipped trinket.
by Bernard, on February 7 2008 @ 2:18 pm
A couple quick things.
What you want to do with outfitter can’t be done in combat but you can have several outfits that can be swapped outside of combat. You can make a “bow” outfit that should swap your bow and trinkets in for what ever was currently in their slots.
Also you don’t need /stopcasting anymore that was mainly used for dealing with latency issues which were cleared up in a recent patch.
My wife uses that pickpocket cheapshot macro as well as a follow macro (/follow mycharacter /t mycharacter I am following you) this will put her on follow and let me know that she is, we use this when one of us needs to go afk for a few.
On my priest I have a shackle undead macro that shackles my “focus” target or my current target if I don’t have a focus. On my warrior I have one that will switch me to battle stance and use mocking blow (in two button presses though) and also one for taunt that works the same way.
The best site for macro information though is the wowwiki.com macro page, it has every possible command you can use.
by Mcgoo, on February 14 2008 @ 4:47 pm
I use a BUNCH of macro’s.. As a lock its almost a necessity to stay organized..
Caster > curse of tongues, corruption, siphon life, lifetap, drain life
assist a tank > curse of weakness, corruption(adds shadow embrace which further weakens mob)
My hunter doesn’t really have any, but he’s a 49 twink so I don’t need to DO a lot to kill a lot..
Although I do have one that if I hit monkey aspect (for melee I can’t escape) it equips my 2 1hers.. (recently moved to NOT USED as my 1hers are now teh awesome)
My rogue is low to the ground still so I don’t know that I need a macro when I am mostly doing 1,1,1,1,2 (sin strike/evis).. We’ll see about the pickpocket one though.
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