WoW Macro Help
Saturday, July 16th, 2005 - 2:29pm
I need a couple macros to make group communication of my actions better. I'd like one that announces my pulls to the group, and one that announces before I charge. So "Pulling Gardoc Brute", etc. I know a lot of you use these for heals and a variety of other things. If you know the code and can post it, I would really apprecite it!
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You could set a macro button which you could hit that would announce who you currently have targeted. I think the casters' plugin announces it when they click on the spell.
EDIT: This was in the macro forums:
/script SendChatMessage("Pulling "..UnitName("target"),"party")
I believe that would send a message to the party telling them who you have targeted. If there are a bunch of them, I'm not sure how you would differentiate. You could probably go ahead and script the charge in there with it, but it seems you want it for purely party FYI.
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You could just use ventrilo, skype, or teamspeak.
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Yes, because we all know how often everyone in a pickup group uses the same VoIP program...
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There is a simpler way, if you're pulling, you're using Shoot right?
Make a macro for:
/p Pulling %t, get ready
/cast Shoot()
This should announce to your party you're pulling your target (%t is a variable) and then shoot.
Another example, raiding and charge:
/raid Charging %t, get ready
/cast Charge(Rank 3)
or whatever rank you have.
You know Shatter,last night inm our 5000th unsuccessful DM Tribute run you communicated excellently without using any macros. The other 4 of us were in Skype (until the DM tribute demons found out and screwed that up for us) and having both healers on Skype was absolutely invaluable. I feel that was actually one of the best played group sessions I've been in. That we failed all the same makes the sting even more... stingy.
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Yeah, I was letting everybody know when pulling, it just gets tiresome to type it every time. Hitting a button is much easier.
Thanks, Leaping. That's exactly what I wanted!
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I did my first DM tribute run last night and my god was it frustrating. It took over an hour to get started between people not having the FP, going to the wrong place, going AFK, zoning into the instance which hadn't been reset and getting ported back to IF, before which someone said three times it needed to be reset.
And then inside the instance the fighting itself wasn't bad, everyone was competent, but looting sucked because people didn't speak or respond for like 30 seconds at a time. We had two wipes, one where a patrol came in, and another where Isplik or however you spell it aggrod. Of course on the second one the druid just ran away back to the exit, so the paladin couldn't DI him, and the guards followed him to the entrance, meaning another 5+ minute wait while waiting or the guards to return to their posts. If he had just died or been in DI range as instructed, it would have been much faster.
We did end up winning, and then of course looting took another 10 minutes. Rod of the Ogre Magi dropped and for like five minutes I was asking if I could take the rod. Everyone kept asking the druid do you want it, do you want it. Finally after five minutes he says "I wouldn't mind having it" and random rolls. I rolled and won.
The other thing that made me a little annoyed was I gave the mats for the ogre suit, but no one offered anything. Like I was just expected to give up about 4g in materials for the group, and they just went on looting the runecloth off their corpses as normal. I guess I was expecting a little to much consideration for a pickup group, I would have at least liked to have the runecloth costs covered.
All in all, my first tribute run took THREE HOURS.
At least you actually killed the King. I've been within sight of him 5 times now, only to fail. I don't think I'll be back for quite some time.
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Well Leap you got the Rod of the Ogre Magi which I have been after every single time I've been in DM. It's never even dropped on the rare times I have finished a tribute. For me, three hours 4G in mats and all the grief would definitely be worth finally getting the Rod.
It's interesting, Nekar and I were commenting that you need virtually every profession to do the tribute, engineering for widget, skinning for rugged leather, tailoring for bolts of runecloth, alchemy for the frost oil. Also, classes other than the big three are very useful in DM tribute. Rogue for lock picking and sap, Warlock for banishing demons and AOE.
One very cool thing that Branes found out is the inner door key can be picked with a Truesilver key that Blacksmiths make, so if you wipe after the first door you're not screwed if you don't have a rogue. The first door needs the real key unfortunately (or a rogue maybe)
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Giving blood, keeping faith
First door can't be picked I don't think, only the second. The second is truesilver key or large seaforium charge or pick. We had mage, paladin, rogue, druid, warrior (all 60). I had all the ogre suit mats, the warrior bought the widget and made the frost oil. We had good crowd control, on groups of two I sheep pulled, on groups of three sap then sheep. Kill the demons first.
Hey ihave a priest and i really think it could be cool if icould have a macro where
When ihave targetet a person and then its shall whisper that person witha message ihave tryed
/w %t Just healed you
but that dosent work can you please help me?
Why would you need to do that? it tells you in big letters who healed you on the screen? Also /t in the middle of a battle is annoying.
But anyway..
/cast HealingSpellName(Rank X)
/t %t I healed you.
that should work. I'm not sure though that you can use %t in a /t or /w command to pick who you are telling info to. I'd use /p or /ra instead but be warned that its annoying.
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No its not like that its more like when iam ressing one then iwant to ress the person but also give a whisper whith some like you nied nub now i need to spend mana on you, ot something but idont know how to make the macro. macro you gave me is not whispering my target with a message, its saying That the player %t now curently is playing.
I'm a warrior, and I'm trying to get my macros to do an emote at the same time as I do the attack.
Eg: "Kill"
/cast Execute (Rank X)
/e swings his axe at %t. In one mighty blow, %t's head is severed cleanly from the neck.
"Fear"
/cast Intimidating Shout
/e unleashes a bone-shaking roar. His enemies flee in terror!
Now, those scripts work, but the problem is that even if my Execute or Intimidating Shout is not capable of being cast (not enough rage, out of range, etc.), I still do the emote, which is rather annoying. I want to know if it is possible to make it so that the macro button has the same restrictions for activating as the spell that it is slaved to? (example: Make it so that my "Kill" macro will only trigger when I press it if I have at least 15 rage. Or so that my "Fear" macro will trigger only if I have at least...30 Rage, I think is the casting cost of Intimidating Shout)
Can anyone help me?
Shinobi, I believe this will work for you:
/aftercast /e swings his axe at %t. In one mighty blow, %t's head is severed cleanly from the neck.
/cast Execute (Rank X)
and,
/aftercast /e unleashes a bone-shaking roar. His enemies flee in terror!
/cast Intimidating Shout
This makes it so the emote comes after the cast, instead of the other way around. This isn't a standard WoW command though, so you'll need to download the addon AfterCast.
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I love those kinds of emote macros, although I haven't made any. The only macros I've used are one to send out my trade call, and one to make Righteous Defense act like a regular taunt.
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Can't you just use
/castsequence reset=5 Intimidating Shout
/e unleashes a bone-shaking roar. His enemies flee in terror!
what this does or should do I am a bit rusty with the new macros is, it should emote 5 seconds after Intimidating Shout is cast.
Don't quote me on that. I am at work and can't really look up the new style of macros but I believe that will work.
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5 seconds after? Don't you want them to be kind of simultaneous?
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Castsequence doesn't work in that manner, actually. That macro will do the first action, and if you don't press it again until 6 seconds from the first, it will recast intimidating shout.
As to getting an emote to work when the ability is used, I can't think of anything in the built in system that will do that, so it looks like Pur's solution is about the best you'll get.
Side note on emotes in macros: I hate them. They were moderately useful in FFXI when you had to time skillchains fairly precisely, especially if you wanted to burst ancient magic. In WoW and games like it, I find them useful for nothing but spamming your groupmates. Just a little pet peeve of mind, carry on, rant over.
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Well that also takes into account the casting time required by the skill. I don't play a Warrior so I don't know if Intim Shout has a cast time or if it is instant. If it is instant you just need to put
/cast Intimidating Shout
/e 'blah blah blah'
Only problem is if it is on CD it will spam the /e but not the skill.
I had this issue with my Feign Death macro.
I had:
/cast Feign Death
/e is not dead he is just avoiding a repair bill.
But when I would spam it because I ripped aggro from the tank it would look like,
Fathgar is not dead he is just avoiding a repair bill
Fathgar is not dead he is just avoiding a repair bill
Fathgar is not dead he is just avoiding a repair bill
Fathgar is not dead he is just avoiding a repair bill
Fathgar is not dead he is just avoiding a repair bill
People would get kind of annoyed but also laugh at the same time because they can just picture a person spamming the hell out of the key to activate the spell.
**EDIT**
Well as AnimeJ pointed out cast sequence does not count in this case and yes the emote will get annoying as I have pointed out. But every now and again it is refreshing to see something like that.
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I don't think they are supposed to be useful, though they can be - they're supposed to be RP. I, for one, enjoy them, though I still haven't made any. I see them very rarely, but when I do I think "There's a person who is having fun and getting in to their character!"
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On the subject of warrior skills, Slam is the only one with a cast time. The reset option is there strictly for a multiple keypress macro, IE one where there's a global cooldown inbetween abilities. The reset timer is used mainly for stuff like this:
/castsequence reset=120 --this will give you a 2 min timer on the key before it repeates itself
/cast Rampage,
/cast Battle Shout
/cast other warrior buff here
That's what castsequence is best used for. Overall, WoW's macro system is kind of weak compared to what I'm used to. There's some useful commands(focus and targettarget are a couple that come to mind), but there's no wait command, which I would really like to have. The part of me wanting that is rooted in FFXI however, where I had very complex macros.
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