Google Polymorph Focus
Reviewing search terms used to reach you is always amusing. Now why I don’t have any leave-children-behind searches to puzzle about, the above search term still stands out.
I had posted a needlessly complicated Polymorph (Sheep) Macro before as a template for generic CC spells. Here’s a shorter version:
#showtooltip
/focus [target=focus, nodead, harm] focus; [harm][target=mouseover, harm][target=noexists] [...]
Heads-Up: Macro Theory and Practice
Kirk from Priestly Endeavors has an in-depth series on macros running, the latest post going into the meat of things. There’s plenty of good stuff in there, regardless of whether you’re a priest or not, including basic explanation of how to write working macros and gotchas.
Of course, if you are a pallie you have a [...]
Stopcasting, Quartz, and Patch 2.3
OK, so there appears to still be quite a lot of confusion on what the changes in patch 2.3 in regards to /stopcasting actually mean.
No, Sonny, Stopcasting doesn’t get rid of the Global Cooldown
Funny forum post, one player asked for a macro because he had seen another warlock “cast all DoTs instantly”, to which a reply was that the guy was certainly using /stopcasting
Doesn’t work that way. Of course, it begs the question, what is /stopcasting and why use it in your macros?
/stopcasting interrupts whatever spell is currently [...]
The Week-End wrapped up
Ah, Monday mornings, where the amount of coffee required to write up a coherent thought is amplified tenfold.
My tummy wouldn’t stomach this much, though, so here’s a series of more or less non-related snippets.
I was overly optimistic in my last post about instance runs on our belowed Ghost Town server. The weekend late evening is [...]
Macro Syntax change in patch 2.2
Quick note about macro options and conditionals in patch 2.2.x: they have become case-sensitive, only lowercase is recognized.
The macro below works:
/castsequence reset=target Spell, Spell
The macro below doesn’t:
/cast reset=Target Spell, Spell
Note that spells and items themselves are still capitalized.
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Offensive Hovercasting: Totem Disposal
Another nice application for hovercasting for ranged classes is getting rid of those pesky totems. Based on Wand-users, this simple macro allows you to kill a totem without deselecting your current target:
#showtooltip/cast [target=mouseover] Shoot/stopcasting
Bind it to a key, move your mouse over a totem, press the key, and voilà. You’re still having your normal target [...]
Leveraging Mouseover (Hover-) Casting
Several of my macros, in particular healing, cleansing and taunting, include the conditional [target=mouseover].
Provided you did bind the macros containing it to a hotkey, you can now do so-called hover-casting - basically just move your mouse pointer so it hovers above whoever you want to use the macro on and hit the shortcut key. To [...]
Paladin Macros Redux
After a 2 months hiatus and some more playtime, my Paladin macros require some improvements. OK, I’ll admit right off the bat, wowinsider just posted about them, and as is often the case, they are a ragtag collection of sometimes badly-written little tools which don’t necessarily suit most needs.
Servitude-like Macro for Warlocks
Here’s another quick and dirty one, this time for locks. It is inspired by the old add-on Servitude, which lost most of its functionalities in patch 1.10 (before that it had some automation to compensate the then-horrible minion AI), and has Seduce and Spell lock on one button:
#showtooltip
/clearfocus [modifier:alt]
/stopmacro [modifier:alt]
/cast [pet:succubus, target=focus, exists, nodead, harm] [...]
Quick and Dirty CC Macro
Since I got asked, here’s a simple Crowd Control macro which will set the controlled mob to your focus. We’ll use the mage’s sheep for that:
#showtooltip
/clearfocus [modifier:alt]
/stopmacro [modifier:alt]
/cast [target=focus, exists, nodead, harm][harm] Polymorph
/focus target
This will try to sheep your current focus provided it’s alive and an enemy. If not, it will sheep your current target [...]
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