"9696" Pally Tanking in One Macro

[Vicker]

The popular tactic for pally tanking after level 75 seems to be this "696969" thing. The basic idea is that you have three spells that have 8 or 9 second cooldowns and two spells that have 6 second cooldowns:

9 ( or 8 ) second cooldowns:
Holy Shield
Consecration
Judgement (After spending one talent point.)

6 second cooldowns:
Hammer of the Righteous
Shield of Righteousness

If you alternate between 9 second cooldowns and 6 second cooldowns, you can make sure that you make use of every single global cooldown. My hope is to have this all consolidated into one spammable macro. So far I have a macro that will work if you press it once every 1.5 seconds. Here's that macro:

#showtooltip
/console Sound_EnableSFX 0
/castsequence [nocombat] reset=5/combat/target seal of vengeance,Avenger's Shield
/castsequence reset=combat Holy Shield,,Consecration,,Judgement of Wisdom,
/castsequence reset=combat ,Hammer of the Righteous,,Shield of Righteousness
/console Sound_EnableSFX 1

Edit: For needed clarity, the important part of this macro is the fact that it uses double commas to offset two castsequences, essentially jumping back and forth from the first in-combat castsequence to the second.

The lines about sound enable are to get rid of that irritating "BWANG!" sound that you get from spamming a button for a spell that's not ready yet. The nocombat line is for pulling.

The problem with this macro is that it is not spammable. This macro will only work if you press it once every 1.5 seconds. I would like to have a single button that I can spam for my mage dps and my pally tanking. The mage's spells should be ready at 1.5 second intervals, though, so perhaps I could get away with just pushing that button once every 1.5 seconds. I'm still a little worried that the button might get pushed too soon for one of the two chars, leaving him standing there doing nothing for a full global cooldown.

[wowphreak]

have yeh seen ?
http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=152587#post152587

[Vicker]

http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=152587#post152587

Oh! I didn't notice that you were using 9696 with that one. I guess it didn't catch my eye because you didn't mention the 9696 idea there.

Unfortunately, to have a full cycle of that stuff you need to go over the character limit of a macro. If you put that all into a text editor, stick in three "shield of righteousness"es, and take out every space you're allowed to take out, you get

/castsequence reset=combat Holy Shield,Hammer of the Righteous,Judgement of Light,shield of righteousness,Consecration,Hammer of the Righteous,Holy Shield,shield of righteousness,Judgement of Light,Hammer of the Righteous,Consecration,shield of righteousness

which is 258 characters. Three characters over the limit! If you replace the reset condition with a time condition, perhaps 5 seconds would do it (since you'll be spamming this in combat at least once every 5 seconds and if you go out of combat it would probably be longer than 5 seconds), that leaves:

/castsequence reset=5 Holy Shield,Hammer of the Righteous,Judgement of Light,shield of righteousness,Consecration,Hammer of the Righteous,Holy Shield,shield of righteousness,Judgement of Light,Hammer of the Righteous,Consecration,shield of righteousness

which just barely slides under the limit.

Thanks, wowphreak! I just assumed before that you couldn't actually fit the whole sequence into one macro. I guess I was wrong.

[ghonosyph and the moocrew]

yyou could also use a bar mod that lets you write larger macros, easy to set up, and SUPER DUPER customizable macaroon is the answer... i believe you can write up to 1040 characters or so



good luck! :D

[GizmoxLoW]

or you could just move judgment to another button. i use judgment of justice for the debuff on other things beating on me to slow them down or could even use judgment of light with seal of corruption and "dot" up your targets for a small HoT depending on how fast your blowing through trash..

the macros i use are

/cast [mod:shift] seal of corruption
/cast [nomod] judgement of justice
/cast [mod:alt] judgment of light


and my spam macro is
/castsequence [combat] reset=8 Consecration, holy shield, Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of Righteousness
/use [combat] 13

the trinket in my 13 slot is a 52 def trinket and when i use it it adds 152 block with a short cooldown so i spam that as well