"LB > LB > LB > Heal > LB > LB > LB > Heal" sequence possible?

[Mokoi]

Hi, took a quick look through these forums didn't see this, but what i want, is for 2 of my shamans to cast a heal in their LB macro every once in a while on my tank.

anyone have a macro like this that works? anyone have a good explanation as to why its impossible? etc?

thanks in advance

[Tasty]

If it is impossible, its cause you can't switch targets in the middle of a cast sequence macro which is lame I know.

[algol]

Can we not exploit target=targettarget in /castsequence calls (or specifically, one per call not one per item)?

[olipcs]

We'll what might work, if you don't spam the button is:


/castsequence [harm,nodead] Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,
/castsequence [target=TankName] ,,,Lesser Healing Wave

[Kulzor]

I don't believe the above solutions will work, but here's one that might: (Edit: Olipcs's solution might as well, it's a similar idea.)

/castsequence reset=16 [target=focustarget,harm,nodead] LB,LB,LB,,LB,LB,LB,,LB
/cast [target=MyNameHere] Chain Heal

So when it hits the empty comma, it SHOULD skip casting on that castsequence, allowing it to actually cast another spell later in the macro. The second line might have to be /castrandom instead of /cast, but I'd try the first one first.

Note that if you spam the button this won't work. If you do that, add a bunch more commas after the third and sixth LB.

[Tynk]

the two line cast sequence should not work simply because wow views an empty cast sequence as a successful non-cast and thus will not go to the next line. Or at least it shouldn't work.
one I am not sure about is having a secondary target "might"

something like /castsequnce [target=target] [target=maintank] LB, LB, LB, Heal, LB, LB, LB, Heal

as when it hit's the lightening bolts it goes with the first target as long as it is a legit target for the spell. Once it hits the heal, the (presumably) harm target is no longer a viable target so it should go with the secondary target.
I have not tested this, but it is a theory. :P

[Marious]

Actually I am glad someone posted this since I was totally owned in Ramps because of not healing so much, kind of hard to stop DPSing to heal at least for me it is at this point. How about the following:

/castsequence [harm,nodead] Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,
/castsequence [target=TankName] ,,Lesser Healing Wave,
/castsequence [harm,nodead] Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,
/castsequence [target=TankName] ,,Lesser Healing Wave,

Might be out of room there at the end, but in essence it would be 3 LB's, Lesser Heal, 3 LB's, Lesser Heal, and then back to LB's. I would assume this would work but I have not tried it. But then again I guess it would screw stuff up since you cant really throw in CL since it would probably reset the castsequence so it would screw up your healing at one point.

[phara]

I did a lot of experimenting with multi line /castsequence.

/castsequence lb,lb,,
/castsequence ,,heal

The above will work, but ONLY if you don't spam the button, you have to wait for GCD to be up between LB casts (making this pretty useless). If you press before the GCD is over, the first /castsequence line fails (when you get "spell not ready" text) and the next one executes (before you ever get to the empty , in the first line).

[elsegundo]

castsequence to spam two spells.... -___-

/cast [target=tankname, mod:alt][target=targettarget, help] Lesser Healing Wave; [target=targettarget, harm] Lightning Bolt

[Sarduci]

1) Move tank closer to group and chain heal - heals bounce to party and heal up

This is what I do for Rockmar, I just pull him back into my group and chain heal. Mash one button, look away for 45 seconds, loot.

[elsegundo]

castsequence to spam two spells.... -___-

/cast [target=tankname, mod:alt][target=targettarget, help] Lesser Healing Wave; [target=targettarget, harm] Lightning BoltThats not what the OP was asking for.

Still an interesting option though. :)i know. my suggestion would take out the whole cast sequence thing. im personally against it unless its for some kinda of round robin action or two or three spells that always go well with each other.
in any case, i think the OP is free to try my suggestion and see if it works better. and ask what it does, since i think some people may not be clear as to what the macro actually does.

[Schwarz]

Macros Calling Macros ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=15647')

Had the same general questions. I haven't messed around with the 2 castsequences too much but it is possible. I would think if you put enough comma's in between where you want a heal to go you could have an number of options. As long as your spamming of the dps button stays somewhat consistant.


the two line cast sequence should not work simply because wow views an empty cast sequence as a successful non-cast and thus will not go to the next line. Or at least it shouldn't work.
one I am not sure about is having a secondary target "might"

something like /castsequnce [target=target] [target=maintank] LB, LB, LB, Heal, LB, LB, LB, Heal

as when it hit's the lightening bolts it goes with the first target as long as it is a legit target for the spell. Once it hits the heal, the (presumably) harm target is no longer a viable target so it should go with the secondary target.
I have not tested this, but it is a theory. :PThe 2 castsequences does work nesting 2 targets doesn't work

[Ualaa]

You can use comma's in a two cast sequences, as long as they're not trying to cast spells at the same time it will work.

So you could have:
/castsequence LB, LB, LB,, LB, LB, LB,,
/castsequence ,,, CH,,, CH

You could also do this with modifier keys fairly easily:
/cast [nomod, target=???] LB
/cast [mod, target=TANK] CH

Or another way:
/cast [help] CH; [harm] LB

[Gurk]

Assuming you have 4 shaman...

You are asking to have 1/4 of your casts to be a heal, the other 3/4 to be a nuke.

Solution = Have 3 shaman nuking, 1 shaman healing non-stop.

Result = Spamming 1 key yeilds 3 nukes to each heal.

[Gurk]

Also if you wanted to heal less then 1/4 casts you can use an idea other people mentioned and use a modifer key on your healing shaman.

/cast [mod:ctrl, target=TANK] Heal; [target=NPC/Assist Focus] LB

This way say you spam 2 to nuke. You could spam 2 still, then when you wanted to toss the tank a heal you hit Ctrl+2. So 2,2,Ctrl+2,2,2,Ctrl+2 would result in 11 nukes to evey 1 heal, give or take depending on latency. This could also be done for more then 1 shaman, even 2 like you originally asked. Or all 4.

[Schwarz]

Also if you wanted to heal less then 1/4 casts you can use an idea other people mentioned and use a modifer key on your healing shaman.

/cast [mod:ctrl, target=TANK] Heal; [target=NPC/Assist Focus] LB

This way say you spam 2 to nuke. You could spam 2 still, then when you wanted to toss the tank a heal you hit Ctrl+2. So 2,2,Ctrl+2,2,2,Ctrl+2 would result in 11 nukes to evey 1 heal, give or take depending on latency. This could also be done for more then 1 shaman, even 2 like you originally asked. Or all 4.Does this type of thing work. I thought you could only have 1 target in your macros. You are over simplifying the problem with your 1/4th of your casts being heals use 1 shaman to heal. While this does work out well wouldn't it be better if you could come up with some rotations so your healer can be dpsing also. How would you suggest taking 4 shaman and doing 1/28th of the casts heals?

If you use 2 castsequences in the same macro as suggested you can get something like this. I think the real key is trying to figure out how much healing your tank is going to need. I was talking this over with a buddy today and I think you might have to rewrite macros for every fight (ie more or less healing).

[Sam DeathWalker]

It appears this will do what you are looking for:

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7911-MacroSequence.html#comments

As each sequence can be a full macro you can change targets ...

Its written by Cogwheel so I assume its legal.

Boy this opens up some things ......

[robtest]

I got it to work with two /castrandom statements and commas ... :P

Trying to do a /castrandom [harm] spell1, spell2, spell3, [help] lesser healing wave ??? ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=15046')

It works well for a spam solution ...