macro for warriors (whats better)

[griffin01]

Currently I am using:

/castrandom heroic strike, whirlwind, bloodthirst, execute (dont mind spelling if it is wrong here)

is it better to use that? or use:

/cast heroic strike
/cast whirlwind
/cast bloodthirst
/cast execute

The end goal of course just being that the warrior uses whichever one is up at the time and has the rage for. The /castrandom one works, but i find from time to time I have to hit the button more than a couple times to get it to use a readily available skill. Or is there a better way in general?

[griffin01]

Thanks a bunch

[Tdog]

The first.

having more than two /cast lines in a macro will cause all following /cast lines to not work.

IE:

/cast
/cast
is ok

/cast
/cast
/cast <---- won't work, or any others.That's actually not at all how it works.

The reason that you can't cast certain spells at the same time is because they are on the same GCD.

The reason your macro...


/cast heroic strike
/cast whirlwind
/cast bloodthirst
/cast execute

will not work is because whirlwind/bloodthirst/execute are all on the same GCD. All this macro will do is cast Heroic Strike on the next swing and cast WW. It will not cast BT or execute.

The reason it will cast both Heroic Strike and WW is because they are not on the same GCD. The reason it will cast WW instead of BT or Execute is because WW is the first ability used on the macro that uses the same GCD. Some will say that its because they are instant cast abilites which is also not true. For instance...


/cast bloodrage
/cast heroic strike
/cast whirlwind

will work just fine even though Bloodrage is an instant cast ability because it is not a the same GCD as WW.



Now as far as some macro ideas for your warrior, assuming your warrior is a follower from the sound of it, this is what I ran with when my warrior was a fury follower...

Button 1


#showtooltip Heroic Strike
/assist party1
/stopmacro [noharm]
/use 13
/use 14
/cast bloodrage
/cast execute
/cast heroic strike
/startattack
/follow party1

HS/Execute button is for spamming HS when your warrior is generating alot of rage. It will cast HS till you are in execute range then it will cast execute. *NOTE*: Having execute before heroic strike in the macro will make sure that the macro will use execute before heroic strike. Also depending on your talents, if HS costs less rage then Execute don't spam this macro as it will case it to cast HS at times instead of Execute.

Button 2


#showtooltip Bloodthirst
/assist party1
/stopmacro [noharm]
/use 13
/use 14
/cast bloodrage
/cast [modifier:shift] victory rush; Bloodthirst
/startattack
/follow party1

Most people use button 2 for their main "spam" button as do I. Bind this to whatever your main "spam" button is. I use the shift modifier for using Victory Rush. Use it if you want and you can easily change shift to alt, ctrl, or w/e you want. If not simply use /cast Bloodthirst. *NOTE* Blizzard automatically binds alot of keys to shift+ w/e. If the modifier isn't working check to make sure it's not bound to something else.

Button 3


#showtooltip Whirlwind
/assist party1
/stopmacro [noharm]
/use 13
/use 14
/cast bloodrage
/cast [modifier:shift] cleave, whirlwind
/startattack
/follow party1

I use the shift modifier in this macro for cleave since WW is an AoE attack and so is cleave. Just kinda makes it easier to remember I suppose.


Macro lines

#showtooltip Main Ability - Shows the tooltip of a specific ability on the icon ONLY IF you choose the "?" icon in the macro screen.

/assist party1 - Makes your alt target the mob so you can be sure they are targeting the correct mob. You can switch this out with "focus" or w/e you use for targeting.

/stopmacro [noharm] - Stops the macro unless you have a enemy mob targeted. This will help to stop accidently wasting trinket and buffs CDs.

/use 13 - Uses equipment slot 13 which is your top trinket slot. I like to macro these so I don't even have to think about them since I forget to use them all the time.

/use 14 - Uses equipment slot 14 which is your bottom trinket slot. *NOTE* slot 13 will get used more often by default. I suggest putting your more powerful trinket in slot 14

/cast Buffing Abilites - This is where I put my buffing abilites. i.e. (Bloodrage, Icy Veins, Elemental Mastery, etc.) *NOTE* Make sure they don't use the same GCD on as the other abilites in your macro or it will cause your main abilite in the macro to not cast. If the macro does not work this is most likely the cause of it.

/cast Main Ability - This is where I put the main ability for the macro. i.e. Fireball, lightning bolt, bloodthrist, etc.

/startattack - This will start your toon's auto attack. It will not turn off the autoattack so you can spam it as much as you want. For warriors this is especially nice as it will start your warrior auto attacks even if they don't have any rage which will allow them to start building rage right away. *NOTE* This should only be used for melee followers as melee attacks break follow and you don't really need to be melee'ing with casters.

/follow party1 - This will automatically make your follower follow again after breaking follow from their melee attacks. I personally like this for melee followers especially for questing/grinding as you can keep running with your followers in tow as long as you spam one of the macros with this attached.


Hope this helps. I was running for awhile with 1xProt Pally 1xFury Warrior 3xElemental Shaman with this macro setup and the fury warrior did some pretty damn good dps. Not as high as the shamans, but she wasn't getting wasted on the dmg meters either.

[griffin01]

WoW!

thanks for the extensive reply, I'll be bookmarking this for reference.

[Tdog]

NP. I actually made these macros for my 4xwarrior 1xshaman team for all my warriors. I pretty much just tossed in one fury warrior in my prot pally/ elemental team and kept the same macros on her. If I really wanted to fine tune it I'm sure there's some tweaks that could be made but it worked fine for heroics so I just decided to leave it be. Even if you decide to change some things here and there it should help u get started out.

[heffner]

Is there anywhere you can direct me to that shows a list of which spells/abilities are on a GCD?

Cheers.

[Dread_Pirate]

Yea, I'm looking for a list of abilities that share their Global Cooldowns. Hmmm.

[Tdog]

Open your spellbook - cast - and watch want fires the GCD. ;)This^ or throw all your abilites on your castbars and start using abilites and watch and note which ones procs the same GCD's.

On a side note, if you want to try out experimental macros prior to going out in the field and using them, the best place to go would be to hit up the target dummies and try out what does and does not work instead of having to deal with mobs dying too fast to realize if your macros are working properly only to find out much later that they aren't.

[RobinGBrown]

Thanks hairy dog dude, I've been looking for some useful spam macros for my warrior followers for a while now and these are really great. will be trying them out real soon.

Cheers!

[Tynk]

Tdog, I hope you do not mind but I took the liberty....

http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Macro:Warrior_3_Button

[Ken]

I added some too:
http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Macro:Warrior_Aggro_with_defensive_build
http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Macro:Warrior_Crowd_control