A trick I learnt very early on in the piece is moving auto-attack to a vacant bind location (or onto its own separate bar (thanks actionbar addons)) and then move it to the tilde key. This way I can tell at a glance if I'm auto-attacking or not, and if I'm not it's on an easy enough to reach bind that I also wouldn't normally use.
I mostly say this if you don't want to have to write a macro for every ability. I found this to be a very easy and elegant way to sort AA.
Gallow I need some assistance in a macro to switch forms, or drop to human form if you press the form button you are already in.
Usually I would do:
#showtooltip
/cancelform
/cast Bear Form
This will instantly shift you from cat to bear, but the problem is if you are already in bear form, it will cancel and re-enter bear form, rather than just exiting out to human form. I just need a check to perform "if bear form, cancel form" "if anything else, cancel form, then enter bear form"
I did a little bit of digging around, but any assistance would be great - will save my some precious milliseconds during PvP fights.
Selexin Each stance for Druid (as well as Warrior) is numbered.
I think for Droods they are as follows:
0:No stance (Tauren/Troll form ;D)
1:Bear (or Dire bear)
2:Aquatic
3:Cat
4: Travel
5:Moonkin (or .... Tree..? Is that a thing in classic?)
Anyway! Now that we know the numbers for each stance, you can do the following:
/cast [nostance] Bear Form
which means, if you are NOT in stance 1 (Bear), cast bear form!
This can be applied to anything:
/cast [nostance] Cat Form
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The [XXX] is a modifier. You can do cool things like
/cast [stance] Maul; [stance] Claw
Which will cast Maul if you are Bear, or Claw if you are a cat.
There are tons of other modifiers out there (such as holding alt/shift/control to do other abilities) so go look for em! :D
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But,
"if bear form, cancel form" "if anything else, cancel form, then enter bear form"
Not sure if "cancelform" can be "/cast"...
try either
/cast [stance] cancelform
or
/[stance] cancelform
or
/cancelform [stance]
Once you sort that out, you can write the remaining!
Once you sort that out, you can write the remaining!
Yeh i'll do some testing tonight I think. I want to replace my form keybinds to be form macro keybinds so i can instant switch between forms, but also use the same button to exit the form if im already in it. I don't want to have to cast a spell to break form (like just talking to an NPC I need to exit form and i dont want to cast something to help 'cancelform'. I need a spell that essentially is 'Human Form' that I can cast haha, that will make it easy.
/cast [nostance] Bear Form, Human Form
Which is "If I'm not in bear form, get into it.... Otherwise, human form! Testing required.
Here is a good reddit thread for druid macros!
I'm using the same author's warrior macros. They are quite complicated though, and you'll need a (new) muscle memory to pull some of them off.
Here is a good reddit thread for druid macros!
I'm using the same author's warrior macros. They are quite complicated though, and you'll need a (new) muscle memory to pull some of them off.
Yeh I have seen these style of modifier keys to provide lots of options. I already use 1, alt+1, shift+1 and if necessary can do ctrl+1. Instead of putting it in 1 macro, i use bars to show the abilities individually and keybind them separately to have a visual reference to what is off-cooldown, mana available etc.
My macros/mousover macros etc. are currently being learned/expanded on my druid and shaman. I didn't rely on them in vanilla, but want to utilise some of them now, they are good but I am still learning all the syntax/rules/restrictions on macros.
Right-clicking on the target might work in an environment with very little clutter, but it's unsuitable for chaotic situations. When I don't even know where my mouse cursor is on the screen, it'll take me a second or two of waving the mouse around to find it, and then more time to mouse over the correct enemy and click... or I could just press 1 and fix the problem instantly.
To be clear, there is nothing wrong with being new and not knowing things about the game. But if you want to present like an informed player and try and post about your big ideas for Classic, you need to be informed. If you arent informed, stop making posts and go play the game... Go learn. Then come back when you have an informed opinion and make posts about your big ideas.
WHAT BIG IDEAS? Name one "big idea" that I've had for classic. Just fucking ONE. You can't, because I haven't had any.
Do you keyboard turn and backpedal as well?
No.
Your posts here have constantly been misinforned
That's super ironic considering that you started your post with a false assumption. Piss off and keep your lies to yourself.
show a general lack of understanding about what classic wow was and is.
Wrong again. Are you trying to set some kind of forum record for most times being wrong in a single post? Name one time when I said something about Classic WoW that turned out to not be true. I'll sit here and wait.
#showtooltip Disarm
/startattack
/cast [nostance] Defensive Stance
/cast Disarm
Is there any reason why "[nostance]" is added?
I understand what it does, I just can't see any reason why to include it.
Stances are off the Global Cooldown, so if you just have
/cast Defensive Stance
/cast Disarm
it's instant.
If you are already in Defensive Stance, it will not try to cast it again.
If you are in stance 1 or 3, it will cast it and instantly cast Disarm.
So to me the "[nostance]" seems redundant. Or maybe I'm missing something?
Well, this could be indeed redundant in this case.
Speaking of macros, I wrote a one button Overpower / Revenge macro but I would like to show it the current available abilities tooltip.
I tried
#showtooltip [stance] Overpower, [stance] Revenge
/startatttack
/cast [stance] Overpower
/cast [stance] Revenge
/cast [stance] Battle Stance
But it only shows the tooltip for one ability, even if in the correct stance. Any ideas?
Yeh i'll do some testing tonight I think. I want to replace my form keybinds to be form macro keybinds so i can instant switch between forms, but also use the same button to exit the form if im already in it. I don't want to have to cast a spell to break form (like just talking to an NPC I need to exit form and i dont want to cast something to help 'cancelform'. I need a spell that essentially is 'Human Form' that I can cast haha, that will make it easy.
/cast [nostance] Bear Form, Human Form
Which is "If I'm not in bear form, get into it.... Otherwise, human form! Testing required.
Try this:#showtooltip cat form
/cast [stance] bear form; [stance] aquatic form; [stance] travel form
/cast cat form
I just tested this, and it works.
Break it down:#showtooltip cat form
Show the tooltip for cat form when you mouseover the macro.
/cast [stance] bear form; [stance] aquatic form; [stance] travel form
Basically if you cast a form you are already in, then it cancels the form. So this line checks for certain forms and cancels the form if you're in one.
- If you're in bear form, cancel bear form by casting bear form
- If you're in aquatic form, cancel aquatic form by casting aquatic form
- If you're in travel form, cancel travel form by casting travel form
/cast cat form
Now that we have checked for other stances, cast cat form.
- If you are in cat form, then it returns you back to Night Elf / Tauren form.
- If you are not in cat form, then you will enter cat form.
End result is it lets you shift directly to cat form from any other stance, and if you're already in cat form, it drops form. If you're not in any form, it gives you cat form.
Just tweak the numbers and spell names to adopt macros for the other stances.
or I could just press 1 and fix the problem instantly.
Replace all attacks with macros that incorporate /startattack and you'll never have to press any other key to enter auto attack ever again.
or I could just press 1 and fix the problem instantly.
Replace all attacks with macros that incorporate /startattack and you'll never have to press any other key to enter auto attack ever again.
That would deliver acceptable results.
or I could just press 1 and fix the problem instantly.
Replace all attacks with macros that incorporate /startattack and you'll never have to press any other key to enter auto attack ever again.
That would deliver acceptable results.
What circumstance do you want to press heroic strike, not have enough rage, and not start auto attack?
wrote a one button Overpower / Revenge macro but I would like to show it the current available abilities tooltip.
I tried
#showtooltip [stance] Overpower, [stance] Revenge
/startatttack
/cast [stance] Overpower
/cast [stance] Revenge
/cast [stance] Battle Stance
But it only shows the tooltip for one ability, even if in the correct stance. Any ideas?
Try this:
#showtooltip
/startatttack
/cast [stance] Overpower
/cast [stance] Revenge
/cast [stance] Battle Stance
#showtooltip should make it show the tooltip of the first spell it finds. The different stance commands are conditional statements, and it won't display the tooltip for the stance you're not in.
I don't have a warrior right now with those skills, but I did write something similar to test on my druid with stances and it seemed like it worked.
FTHforever the comma after overpower should be a ; afaik.
I just right click on the target, never failed, always worked. Q E R, strafe A/D. Disarm Macro, B Rage Macro.
Best and worst thing about warriors, is that you need a lot of muscle memory. But once you get it, you're a god.
I didn't know anything about /startattack macro, that's a thing to keep in mind now I guess.
If I can give any tip for people in here, use this /script UIErrorsFrame:Hide() to hide the annoying "You're too far away", "Not enough mana" popup on the screen. That's as far as I go on macro knowledge D:
For the longest time I would just force auto-attack with right click every time I needed to. I'd heard about macros forever but never looked into them much. From the beginning of Classic this time around I decided to learn how to use them and man they make a huge fucking difference. You should give it a shot.
Here's an example of a macro I use. Sometimes I want to attack something in bear form, but don't have any rage. I press Maul and nothing happens. I press it again, still no rage, I'm still standing there. I'm sure that as a warrior you know this experience well. I could right click the mob to start attacking it, but I've already lost time and I'm getting behind in threat generation. It's a bad situation all around. So instead of putting maul directly on my action bar, I made a macro that looks like this instead:
#showtooltip maul
/startattack
/cast maul
I put this on my action bar instead of maul. This time if I go up to a mob and press my maul keybind without enough rage, I at least start swinging. I don't have to spend time to realize that I lack rage, I don't spend time realizing that I need to right click to start attacking, I don't lose any time at all. I immediately start attacking. I don't get my maul because I don't have rage, but I don't waste time just standing there either. No matter how good your muscle memory is, these macros save you time and saved time equates to better performance no matter what role you're in.
Note that the /startattack command starts attack. It does not stop attack. This means that pressing it twice in a row does not cancel auto attack. I bring this up because the stock keybind of 'T' for auto attack does switch auto attack on and off and cycles through on/off every time you press. The /startattack command does not behave this way. Every time you press the button for this macro it will ensure that you are auto attacking.
You should consider replacing every attack on your bar with a macro like the one above. Just replace 'Maul' with the name of whatever your attack is. And note that you just type out the name of attacks with multiple words, no use of quotation marks or anything. For example, this is what Heroic Strike would look like for you:
#showtooltip Heroic Strike
/startattack
/cast Heroic Strike
Also note that if you select the "?" macro icon and start the macro with #showtooltip <name of spell>, then the system will automatically replace the ? icon with the correct icon of the spell named in the #showtooltip command. This happens after you drag it to your action bar and close the macro interface. I just learned this trick last night and it's already saved me a lot of time trying to find the right icon manually.
@Black Monarch you should consider this too because it means you get your attack button off your action bar, you get another keybind back, and you don't lose time having to activate this. Just incorporate it into all of your attacks through macros like this.
I'll use this as soon as I get home for sure ! :D