Macros - hopelessly complex :-(

On 18 Feb, 04:52, li....TakeThisOut@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote:
> So I'd like to target the nearest enemy, send forth my Warlock's pet,
> then cast Immolate, finally attack the enemy. Buggered if I can get the
> last bit to happen. /attack and /startattack do _nothing_.
>
> I began with my Hunter's macro:
>
> /targetenemy [noharm]
> /stopmacro [noharm]
> /petattack
> /cast Hunter's Mark
> /startattack
>
> and just changed Hunter's mark to Immolate. But Immolate is all it ever
> does. I just stand there looking stupid not attacking while I'm beaten
> up. Better yet I'd like to chain spells together, but I discovered with
> my hunter that's impossible. *sigh*

What else would you want it to do? You can't chain spells together so
you can't cast another spell. I suppose that the equivalent to a
hunter's autoattack is the wand. You *might* be able to do "/cast
shoot" at the end to start wanding because your wand isn't affected by
a spell's global cooldown but that wouldn't be best anyway because
you'll probably want to cast a curse or corruption next.

> Any help appreciated. A good guide for macros would also be cool. The
> stuff on Blizz's site is hopelessly obscure.

www.wowwiki.com/macros

If that's not the correct link then just go to www.wowwiki.com and
search for macro. There are a number of pages on there including a
general guide and a class specific guide for each class. It's very
good. The class specific guides are a good place to go to find useful
macros that you'd not even thought you were missing.

steve.kaye
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On Feb 17, 11:52 pm, li... RemoveThis @wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet)
wrote:
> So I'd like to target the nearest enemy, send forth my Warlock's pet,
> then cast Immolate, finally attack the enemy. Buggered if I can get the
> last bit to happen. /attack and /startattack do _nothing_.
>
> I began with my Hunter's macro:
>
> /targetenemy [noharm]
> /stopmacro [noharm]
> /petattack
> /cast Hunter's Mark
> /startattack
>
> and just changed Hunter's mark to Immolate. But Immolate is all it ever
> does. I just stand there looking stupid not attacking while I'm beaten
> up. Better yet I'd like to chain spells together, but I discovered with
> my hunter that's impossible. *sigh*
>
> Any help appreciated. A good guide for macros would also be cool. The
> stuff on Blizz's site is hopelessly obscure.
>
> TIA,
> Jamie Kahn Genet
> --
> If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

I prefer to keep my pets attack separate from my macros, as that would
cause some problems in a group since I don't always use my pet to
attack, and sometimes my pet is busy seducing a mob, definitely don't
want her stopping to go attack another mob during that.

However, you can try this.

/targetenemy
/castsequence reset=10 Immolate, Corruption, Curse of Agony, Shoot
/petattack

Each press of the macro button gives your pet the attack command,
which doesn't really hurt anything. The first time you press the
button, you cast Immolate, 2nd time Corruption, 3rd time Curse of
Agony, and 4th time (presumably this will work but I never tried
macroing my wand) shoot your wand.

Putting the cast sequence above the pet attack command and using the ?
macro icon will show you the next spell in the cast sequence.
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lists.DeleteThis@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) writes:
>/targetenemy [noharm]
>/stopmacro [noharm]
>/petattack
>/cast Hunter's Mark
>/startattack
>
>and just changed Hunter's mark to Immolate. But Immolate is all it ever
>does. I just stand there looking stupid not attacking while I'm beaten
>up. Better yet I'd like to chain spells together, but I discovered with
>my hunter that's impossible. *sigh*

It's intentionally impossible to avoid the 'tiltowait macro' effect, where
with one keypress you could send off a jillion spells. The macro language
used to have all sorts of tricks to make everything single keypresses -
these were purposely broken by blizzard by the tainting mechanism. And that
was a good thing.

A macro stops when it first encounters an activity that it can't do. The
immolate triggered a global cooldown, so I think startattack is locked out
momentarily. Note that you have absolutely ZERO reason to be meleeing with
your warlock after about level 5, and you shouldn't be in melee range at
all, but if you're doing it at a low level, swap the last two commands
around. *
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* PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
like corkscrews.
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On Feb 18, 8:19 am, pv+use...@pobox.com (PV) wrote:
> Lewis <gkr... DeleteThis @gmail.com> writes:
> >Does immolate trigger the GC?
>
> Most definitely. All offensive warlock spells do. *
> --
> * PV   something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
>        like corkscrews.

Amplify Curse does not. But I'm pretty sure that's the only one.
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On Feb 18, 1:24 pm, nrobert... RemoveThis @gmail.com wrote:
> On Feb 18, 8:19 am, pv+use...@pobox.com (PV) wrote:
>
> > Lewis <gkr... RemoveThis @gmail.com> writes:
> > >Does immolate trigger the GC?
>
> > Most definitely. All offensive warlock spells do. *
> > --
> > * PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
> > like corkscrews.
>
> Amplify Curse does not. But I'm pretty sure that's the only one.

I'm pretty sure fel domination does not trigger a GCD either.
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On Feb 18, 1:57 pm, pv+use...@pobox.com (PV) wrote:
> lcpltom <lcpl....RemoveThis@gmail.com> writes:
> >> > Most definitely. All offensive warlock spells do. *
> >> > --
> >> > * PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
> >> > like corkscrews.
>
> >> Amplify Curse does not. But I'm pretty sure that's the only one.
>
> >I'm pretty sure fel domination does not trigger a GCD either.
>
> Also not an offensive spell. As in casts something that causes damage or
> causes threat. *
> --
> * PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
> like corkscrews.

But both Amplify Curse and Fel Domination give the warlock a short
duration self buff. Every other buff I know of triggers a GCD. And
the whole purpose behind Amplify Curse is to increase the effect of an
offensive spell, so while not directly offensive, it still plays a
role in offense.
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On Feb 18, 3:49 pm, pv+use...@pobox.com (PV) wrote:
> lcpltom <lcpl....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> writes:
> >But both Amplify Curse and Fel Domination give the warlock a short
> >duration self buff.
>
> Possibly without exception, self buffs like that (either from spells or
> items) never trigger the GCD. They usually also don't cause threat, which
> is the best definition to "offensive spell" I can think of. *
> --
> * PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
> like corkscrews.

Detect Invisibility and Unending Breath do trigger a GCD, and I
wouldn't consider either of those offensive spells.
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Lewis <gkreme.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> writes:
>Does immolate trigger the GC?

Most definitely. All offensive warlock spells do. *
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* PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
like corkscrews.
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nroberts33 DeleteThis @gmail.com writes:
>Amplify Curse does not. But I'm pretty sure that's the only one.

Amplify curse isn't an offensive spell! *
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lcpltom <lcpltom.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> writes:
>> > Most definitely. All offensive warlock spells do. *
>> > --
>> > * PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
>> > like corkscrews.
>>
>> Amplify Curse does not. But I'm pretty sure that's the only one.
>
>I'm pretty sure fel domination does not trigger a GCD either.

Also not an offensive spell. As in casts something that causes damage or
causes threat. *
--
* PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
like corkscrews.
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lcpltom <lcpltom RemoveThis @gmail.com> writes:
>But both Amplify Curse and Fel Domination give the warlock a short
>duration self buff.

Possibly without exception, self buffs like that (either from spells or
items) never trigger the GCD. They usually also don't cause threat, which
is the best definition to "offensive spell" I can think of. *
--
* PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
like corkscrews.
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