Macroing Raid Target Symbols

Useful for PUGs, if you’re the MT and have marks, you can use the one-line macro below when you switch to another target to assign the skull sign to it so everyone + dog knows who they should be nuking right now

/script SetRaidTarget(”target”,8);

Note that the symbols are as follows, by numeric value:

0 = no icon [...]

Musings on tankadin future

Blessing of Kings has some interesting insights on how to fix the paladin protection tree.

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Thrown Towel

The author of Paladin Sucks calls it a day. We’ll certainly miss one of the more observant and well-spoken pallie bloggers out there.
Cheers, thanks for all the thoughts and insights.

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Things having Altitis will eventually teach you

I rolled my third mage a couple of days ago.
Mage is one of those classes I know rocks and would very much like to play to a high level, but for some reason I just cannot stick to them (priest and especially druids are the other two). But heck, from time to time, just plain [...]

Quick Macros - Rogues

One of the rogues in my guilds is very reluctant to use add-ons, and he’s going to ponder adding anything to the mix for a long while. So last night, he asked for a simple weapon swapping macro.

#show 16
/equipslot [nocombat] 16 {name of your slow dagger}
/equipslot [combat] 16 {name of your slow sword or mace}

The [...]

Macros in Wow 2.1

One of my recent pet peeves - also perhaps a reason to blog - is the kind of macro advice you get on various respected information sites these days - from wowinsider to the passionate BRK. Even the trusty WoWWiki hasn’t really been updated since good old patch 2.0
Let me hasten to add that currently, [...]

Hi. My name is Gwaendar…

… And I’m an Altoholic.
Not any kind of Altoholic. The World of Warcraft kind, which comes complete with a looong list of toons which I have played at various intensities.
I guess that’s as good as any introduction. To make it complete, at the time of creating this blog, I had:

A total of 27 characters spread [...]

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