so help with a macro please...

[edandor]

back in the day when i played my priest, i was able to make a macro to use my prayer beads and cast a heal, and what was great was that the prayer beads would activate while the heal itself was casting, and i only had to hit the button once.

im trying to make a macro so that my AP trinkets on my warrior will atuo turn on when i charge or something, but no matter what i do i have to hit the button twice, which i think will just turn out to be annoying in arenas. i know that they changed the macro system a while back...but i dont see why i cant use something that doesnt start the cgd and then use an ability right away. anyone have any ideas?

also, not sure if this is the right forum for this, ther isnt any macro forum or anything, haha

[Dark Matter]

Try the /stopcasting command

/Cast Charge
/stopcasting
/Use <Item Name>

If that doesn't work (ie it stops you mid-chrage) make the macro use the item first, then charge.

/Use <Item Name>
/stopcasting
/cast Charge

My Orc hunter has a macro to cast Blood Fury (Racial talent to boost AP) and use Bladefist's Breadth (+200 AP)

#Show Blood Fury
/cast Blood Fury
/stopcasting
/use Bladefist's Breadth

The #show <spellname> or <item name> will show the icon for that spell or item IF you choose the red ? when picking an icon for your macro. The advantage of that is that it will show the cooldown of that spell/item on your hotbar.

# is a comment line in macros and enables them to show feedback.

DM

[Clavina]

The #show <spellname> or <item name> will show the icon for that spell or item IF you choose the red ? when picking an icon for your macro.
DM

It shows the tooltip for my macro's that don't use the red ?

[Dark Matter]

To show the tooltip you need to use the command line

#showtooltip <spell name/item name>

You don't need to use the red ? for the tooltip, you can use any icon, and hovering over it you will get the feedback tooltip as designated. Said tooltip will incl feedback such as remaining cooldown etc.

[edandor]

/Cast Charge
/stopcasting
/Use <Item Name>
DM

thats it i think

for some reason i thought i had to /use item first...so i kept having to hit it twice, but charge, stopcasting, use...allows me to to do both only having to hit the button once. ty :)

[Altaris]

Is the /stopcasting command a work around of the multi-function macro? Rather, I understood you could no longer activate multiple abilities with one button push. Is this an acceptable macro command, or is it a bannable offense?
And how does it work if it is acceptable?

[edandor]

it allows me to cast and use my trinket while only pushing one button one time

its acceptable, you can find stuff about it on the official forums

[Tunga]

Anything you can do in a macro is legal because Blizard determine what commands work in them. Yes, it's legal, and it won't let you cast multiple spells in the same macro.

The only working multiple spells macros are still the ones that don't trigger the GCD on all but one spell, e.g.:

/cast Nature's Swiftness
/Stopcasting
/cast Lightning Bolt

[Dark Matter]

Is the /stopcasting command a work around of the multi-function macro? Rather, I understood you could no longer activate multiple abilities with one button push. Is this an acceptable macro command, or is it a bannable offense?
And how does it work if it is acceptable?

Here's a list of commands that are accepted

* startattack
* stopattack
* cast
* castrandom
* castsequence
* stopcasting
* cancelaura
* equip
* equipslot
* use
* userandom
* changeactionbar
* swapactionbar
* target
* targetenemy
* targetfriend
* targetparty
* targetraid
* cleartarget
* targetlasttarget
* assist
* focus
* clearfocus
* petattack
* petfollow
* petstay
* petpassive
* petdefensive
* petagressive
* petautocaston
* petautocastoff
* stopmacro
* click

[nidanone]

I have a question about /Stopcasting

When do you use that, and when do you not?

What does it do exactly, does that first make sure the first command is complete before moving on to the next?


For example, I'm a Rogue, and I have this macro that I got for the Orsis guide:


/cast Pick Pocket
/stopcasting
/cast Cheap Shot
/cast Slice and Dice


Just trying to understand exactly what stopcasting does.


Thanks
NidanOne

[Jedidave]

#Show Blood Fury
/cast Blood Fury
/stopcasting
/use Bladefist's Breadth

The #show <spellname> or <item name> will show the icon for that spell or item IF you choose the red ? when picking an icon for your macro. The advantage of that is that it will show the cooldown of that spell/item on your hotbar.

# is a comment line in macros and enables them to show feedback.

DM

Ok i have so far on my macro for my hunter

/Use 13
/cast Arcane Shot(Rank 7)

and that works fine but i want to use the #Show Arcane Shot(Rank 7) line at the front so that the cool down that shows is for the Arcane Shot(Rank 7) not the item in the 13th slot any way of doing this
NOTE: I need to use the item first as it increases the Arcane Shot(Rank 7)

Any ideas??

[Tunga]

Like you say:
#Show Arcane Shot