Macro idiot needs help, please

[Mollymog]

I am a complete dunce at creating macros. I read everything I could find but there seems to be no Macros For Dummies anywhere. What I want to do is create four different chat macros and I honestly don't know how. I want one that says 'Hello, all' to my guildmates, one that says 'Goodbye, all' to the same group of people, one that says 'Ding' to announce levelling up, and one that says 'Congratulations' in the same way. I'd really just like to be able to hit a key for each of these things. I know there are addons for the levelling and congratulating, but they're awful! Can someone tell me, please, in very simple terms how I go about this? Now I'll crawl off in embarrassment....... :embarassed:

[Dhoum]

You might want to give the following a go:

/g [nomod] Hello all
/g [mod:alt] Goodbye

Or, for variable channels:

/g [nomod] Ding
/p [mod:alt] Ding
/1 [mod:ctrl] Ding

I found http://www.wowwiki.com/Making_a_macro quite useful when starting out writing macros.

[Mollymog]

You might want to give the following a go:

Thanks very much. One more incredibly ignorant question: can I somehow attach these things to keys? Or do I use those symbols from the Macro thing? Sorry to sound so abysmally stupid. I'm a physician. I could tell you a lot about your liver and its functions, but things like this leave me baffled. :embarassed:

[elsegundo]

when you make the macro, you need to select an icon for it. this icon can be dragged to any actionbar button.

[kit]

hi im the same cant work anything just bye yourself a zboard it does it all for you:grin:

[elsegundo]

zboards are horrible. thats just my opinion coming from a guy who uses a N52 instead.

[Mollymog]

when you make the macro, you need to select an icon for it. this icon can be dragged to any actionbar button.

Thanks. I actually created some macros. I feel inordinately proud of myself - first time in 3 years of play I've done so successfully. And they work!!

[clevins]

A couple of other amusing/fun ones.

/castrandom (mounts).

Since mounts are spells, you can put them where I've entered (mounts) with commas between them like this:

/castrandom Armored Brown Bear, Black War Mammoth, Swift Palomino

That will invoke one of your mounts randomly. You can use that for pets too since they're also spells now.

If you have trinkets with a Use: function and you're bad at remembering to use the trinket during fights, try this:

#showtooltip (spellname)
/use 13
/use 14
/stopcasting
/cast (spellname)

and just sub in the name of the spell for (spellname)

If you're melee and the ability needs a certain amount of a resource to work prepend that with /startattack so that, if you're opening and don't have enough rage or energy you start with white attacks.

[hawkmaniaceye]

When writing a macro, it's treated like in the chat, except that a macro can chain the functions together, and have an action bar button for it.

[Mollymog]

Having gained this new ability, I now plan to experiment and try all sorts of things with it. So thanks to all of you.