brewswami
17-05-2008, 06:13 AM
I have always wondered how people are able to determine whether their wrath casts crit before they are going to cast another spell. For example, I see some people say, "I cast wrath until I proc Nature's grace, then I cast starfire. The problem I'm having is that, since wrath is a missle type spell, I will not know if it crits right away, you have to wait until it hits the mob. Therefore, I am already casting another wrath and approximately .7 secs into the cast until I realize it crit. At that time it would be impracticable to stop my 1/2 done cast and replace it with a starfire. This issue is obviously something that many people have encountered since the beginning of wow I just have never found a solution to the problem.
The only solution I could think of was to stand right next to the mob you are attacking, but almost in every case, there is a good reason why you stay 40 or so yards away from a mob. Does the combat log register the damage done to the mob as soon as the cast is complete even though the actual spell hasn't finished it's animation and made contact with the mob? If the combat log doesn't show it, is there a mod that will show it? I run wow generally at 110ms so the lag shouldn't be that bad. What i don't see is the nature's Grace proc buff until the spell has actually hit the mob. Could that just be lag, my crappy reaction time or do you need a mod to see the buff right when the cast is done.
What would make perfect sense is to make a macro such as this, and bind it to one key.
/cast wrath
/cast starfire [when the buff nature's grace is on]
Eventually, when I have better gear I wont be casting wrath at all, but for 5 mans, trash and farming it would always help too. I can't believe that I haven't found this info yet and I'm surprised that Blizzard would make wrath a missile type spell with a talent such as nature's grace. If someone has a macro such as that, thats a little cleaner than mine :p, could you post it? Also, could someone include the idol swapping macro into that macro??
The only solution I could think of was to stand right next to the mob you are attacking, but almost in every case, there is a good reason why you stay 40 or so yards away from a mob. Does the combat log register the damage done to the mob as soon as the cast is complete even though the actual spell hasn't finished it's animation and made contact with the mob? If the combat log doesn't show it, is there a mod that will show it? I run wow generally at 110ms so the lag shouldn't be that bad. What i don't see is the nature's Grace proc buff until the spell has actually hit the mob. Could that just be lag, my crappy reaction time or do you need a mod to see the buff right when the cast is done.
What would make perfect sense is to make a macro such as this, and bind it to one key.
/cast wrath
/cast starfire [when the buff nature's grace is on]
Eventually, when I have better gear I wont be casting wrath at all, but for 5 mans, trash and farming it would always help too. I can't believe that I haven't found this info yet and I'm surprised that Blizzard would make wrath a missile type spell with a talent such as nature's grace. If someone has a macro such as that, thats a little cleaner than mine :p, could you post it? Also, could someone include the idol swapping macro into that macro??