Macro help

I wanted to follow up a vent conversation from last night with information on Macros that was discussed. This is to help those suffering from the too many buttons issues with some classes.

Macros can only trigger a single ability and then exit the macro. This does NOT mean that you can not call multiple abilities, only that the first one that is available will be the one exicuted.

the following is the basic macro for most abilities. As i play warrior and rogue i do not have specific information on mage or cleric abilities.

#show ABILITY
suppressmacrofailures
cast ABILITY1
cast ABILITY2
cast ABILITY3

and so on.

the first line determines what ability icon is shown for the macro in your hotbar. It will also show that abilities status.

The second line allows the macro to work if the early abilities are not available

The remaining lines are the order you wish to cast abilities.

As an example, for an assassin's basic attack you have 3 choices, Backstab (requires you to be behind the target), Puncture (10 sec cooldown), and Savage Blow (instant, no cooldown). So i would list these abilities in my macro in the order they are named. This means if i am behind my target i will use backstab, if not puncture, if puncture is on cooldown (most of attacks in a fight) i will use Savage Blow.

Other considerations:
If you have reactive abilities you can put them on a single macro, or combine them early in a macro with normal attacks. If they are availble, they go off. If not the macro cycles through.
If you have ranged and melee abilities, you can put the ranged abilites after the melee. Then if you are out of melee range (happens in PvP alot) the ranged attack is triggered. (warning, in dungeons this can cause a ranged auto attack at the worst moment)

I hope this helps.

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I for one for a long time was too 'lazy' to do macros. Though once I started, it's an addiction =P It really does help clean up your UI. Just as the OP said, be sure to order your abilities by CD for best results. Also don't feel you have to put everying into 1 macro. Experiment, and you'll find something perfect for your playstyle :)

Also useful for changing quipment with roles... /SaveEquip 1 will save your current gear to slot 1 (or use 2 or 3, etc). The macro: #show --choose an icon-- /LoadEquip 1 /role 1 will load equipment set 1, then change to role 1. Use this and you won't forget to change your gear set. Only thing to be careful of is to make sure you use SaveEquip every time you update gear (and keep a record somewhere of which gear set is which so you don't have to inspect).

» Edited on: 2011-04-23 23:24:06

That gear/role macro is amazing! Thanks for sharing, never would of thought of that myself. :)

OK.. Excuse my ignorance... So, to make a macro that would use a final strike type blow with my warrior (say when I have 3 action points). There are 2 main ones I use: Deathblow if target is <30% or Punishing blow. The exact macro would be: (?) #show (icon chosen) is there an actually number I put there? suppressmacrofailures cast Deathblow cast Punishing Blow Thanks Treaa

In your example: #show (icon chosen) is there an actually number I put there? suppressmacrofailures cast Deathblow cast Punishing Blow i would put it this way: #show Deathblow suppressmacrofailures cast Deathblow cast Punishing Blow Since Punishing blow is always available, i would track deathblow.