Macro to mind freeze then strangulate isn't working

[Hachoo]

So I have this macro on my DK:

#showtooltip
/cast Mind Freeze
/cast Strangulate

Problem is it ALWAYS casts strangulate, even if the mob is right in front of me, none of my runes are on cooldown, i have plenty of runic power, etc, strangulate still gets cast.

I'm not sure if this is because mind freeze doesn't trigger the global cooldown, maybe its casting both? Any ideas on this? Is my only solution to put them on separate keys?

[JasonB87]

I think you might need a /castsequence

maybe something like /castsequence Mind Freeze, Strangulate

Weird that even standing next to the mob it does't trigger mind freeze.

[Hachoo]

Castsequence wont work because if it can't cast mind freeze (ie: mob is out of range) it will never go on to strangulate.

The main reason I wanted it like I have it above is so it would first try to mind freeze and then if the mob is out of range it would use strangulate, but it always uses strangulate. Like I said though, it might use mind freeze also (if mind freeze doesn't trigger the GCD) - its hard to tell.

[JasonB87]

Oh use /castrandom Mind Freeze, Strangulate

It should try mind freeze then strangulate regardless if mind freeze fails or not.

If it is doing something weird with the GCD you might be better off with 2 buttons.

[Hachoo]

castrandom wont work either because it might pick strangulate even if the mob is right in front of me. I always want to use mind freeze if im close to the mob, and always strangulate if I'm further away, so it looks like I'll be using 2 separate buttons unless someone else knows why this happens.

[JasonB87]

Are you always in combat or is one going to be used while out of combat then the other in or is it completely situational?

[Golle]

It seems modifiers is the answer here.

/cast [nomod] spell1
/cast [mod:shift] spell2

[elsegundo]

/cast [mod] mind freeze; strangulate

done. =]

[Hachoo]

Not so much - thats still effectively putting them on different keys. Would like to put them on the same key. Especially since ALL mod versions of the key that I'm currently using for the macro are already taken by other macros :)

[elsegundo]

the macro, as presented, doesnt work.
i dont know why, it just doesnt.

i think the other thing you can do is use a mouseover option to your macro.

[ghonosyph and the moocrew]

switch the position of mind freeze and strangulate.... it works that way because strangulate is an instant cast from ranged, hence why it fires first, you have to be in melee range and have frost rune for mind freeze... essentially you get strangulate always working if its up, and mindfreeze working when strangulate is on cd... there is no other way to do it, unless you use a modifier or perhaps there's a way to check for range in macro before firing... tho i dont know

i usually prefer it to cast strangulate first anyway, because you can use it to pull casters in pve, or hit a mage in pvp before they can frost nova, then you should be able to beatstick them through the silence before they know how to react lol :D



good luck!