Best Paladin Tanking Macro Ever?

[EaTCarbS]

/castsequence reset=18 Shield of Righteousness,Holy Shield,Hammer of the Righteous,Consecration,Shield of Righteousness,Judgement of Light,Hammer of the Righteous,Holy Shield,Shield of Righteousness,Consecration,Hammer of the Righteous,Judgement of Light

254/255 Characters Used :D

[wowphreak]

only way to make it better would be to get macaroon or something else that'll allow larger macros and add

/use 13
/use 14

and change the reset to reset=combat

[Coltimar]

What happens when it gets to the end?

[EaTCarbS]

naturally, reset=combat would be alot better, but I couldn't fit it in due to the 255 character limit. From my experimentation, it took me 18 seconds to get to the end (yes, playtested :D)

EDIT: Though I should just get Macaroon

[Coltimar]

What happens when it gets to the end?It starts over.That was my question. I had some trouble, on my warlock, getting my castsequences to restart. They would finish the sequence and stop. For this reason I switch to castrandom with is less effective for some classes, because of cd's and pre-reqs for certain spells.

[Tonyx]

only way to make it better would be to get macaroon or something else that'll allow larger macros and add

/use 13
/use 14

and change the reset to reset=combat

And add a /cast Avenging Wrath too. Sure.. you may finish having it on CD during boss fights.. but is one fewer button to think about.

[Coltimar]

My 3rd team are 64. My destro warlock does fine on dps, right behind my mage who is right behind my tank. It's my shadow priest that is sucking hind tit :/ She is waaaay behind. I can't get a macro that I can spam the snot out of. I have 1 shotted the first 4 instances so I haven't replaced her yet, but I don't know how long I can keep her sucky dps in the rotation :/

Here is my DPS spam button:


#showtooltip
/use 13
/use 14
/target [target=party1target]
/castsequence reset=15/target/combat Vampiric Embrace, Vampiric Touch, Shadow Word: Pain, Shadow Word: Death, Mind Blast, Mind Flay, Mind Flay, Mind Blast

[Tonyx]

My 3rd team are 64. My destro warlock does fine on dps, right behind my mage who is right behind my tank.

Right behind the tank doesn't sound quite like an achievement.

Are you talking about trash here (not really comparable, as aoe damage dealers will get far ahead) or bosses?

[Coltimar]

Instances only. I don't AoE with my lock except in very few situations. I do spam AoE on my mage so being right behind him isn't bad at all. All will be behind my tank for a long time. They are just 64 and he is much better geared than the rest of my team.

[hibiki]

Coltimar,

Your spriest's macro might be stuck on Shadow word: pain. If you're specced into Mind Flay refreshing SW: P, the /use 13, 14 puts your first SW: P at a higher spellpower if the use effect is a spellpower increase and your following SW: P will not be able to overwrite the first one. That macro is going to be stuck at SW: P until the duration of the first cast runs out.

[Coltimar]

Thanks hibiki. That is the trouble. I didn't spec with the SW:P refresh and now I remember why. When the points were refunded I went into that talent :/ I may keep the talent and just move SW:P to a separate macro.

[Coltimar]

Here is a thread I started after this one. Sorry to hijack :( It shows my setup and my macros.

Pimp my Macros ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=199366#post199366')

[Starbuck_Jones]

I have a very similar macro. If you dont want to use an addon to get bigger macros. Wrap that in a /click. This is what ive done. I have my macro like the following.

/startattack
/use 13
/use 14
/whatever its that turns of ui error and noise.
/click leftsideactionbarwhatever (where my long cast sequence paladin macro is)
/turn back on ui error and sound.

[Cyndaen]

My tanking macro is as follows:
/sfx0
/startattack [harm,exists,nodead]
/castsequence [harm,exists,nodead] reset=combat Consecration,Hammer of the Righteous,Holy Shield,Shield of Righteousness,Judgement of Light
/cast Divine Plea
/use 13
/use 14
/sfx1

The "sfx" parts of the macro are command strings to trigger a mod called SlashToggleErrors. The mod basically just removes error sounds for spamming purposes. Much shorter command string to save macro space.

At any rate, this macro has been extremely sufficient for our tanking needs. I usually fluctuate from 4.5k to 6.5k+ TPS on all of the raid bosses we do. (12/15 Naxx, VoA, and OS) It is also quite easily changed for low mana situations by adding/removing things like JoW and Consecration. Adding Exorcism is fairly easy as well, but I use a macro extender to do so in order to keep everything moving without wasting global cooldowns.

(Disclaimer: Divine Plea is not a 100% uptime per cooldown. It is often skipped in favor of the macro resetting or moving on through the sequence as normal. If conditions are met, it will go off nicely. Conditions being, you are waiting on something to come off cooldown, or you have not yet changed target from a dead Mob. Hard to explain, but once you see the macro work, you will understand better how to make it happen.)

[Tonyx]

I don't get why nobody else adds /cast Avenging Wrath to their pala macro. What's wrong with it?

[Starbuck_Jones]

Because it has a long cooldown/debuff. You cant just add it to an existing macro as it will stall it out and if its part of a /castsequence when it loops it, it will just stall the macro till the cooldown is up.

[Cyndaen]

The reason I personally don't choose to put AW in my tank macro is that it inevitably goes off at a very inopportune time. Having Wrath up when a bubble wall would save the raid is quite bad in my opinion. As a general rule, Paladins don't have a lot of trouble with burst threat nor sustained, so I don't feel it's necessary for it to be up every cooldown. Not being snooty here or anything, it's just personal preference.

[Tonyx]

Because it has a long cooldown/debuff. You cant just add it to an existing macro as it will stall it out and if its part of a /castsequence when it loops it, it will just stall the macro till the cooldown is up.

Nope, it is off the GCD, it won't stall the macro.

[Tonyx]

The reason I personally don't choose to put AW in my tank macro is that it inevitably goes off at a very inopportune time. Having Wrath up when a bubble wall would save the raid is quite bad in my opinion. As a general rule, Paladins don't have a lot of trouble with burst threat nor sustained, so I don't feel it's necessary for it to be up every cooldown. Not being snooty here or anything, it's just personal preference.

Do you ever use it? If you are single boxing, I can understand wanting to time it right.. but when multiboxing I bet that, unless it is macroed with something else, you'll never use it.. so macroing it you'll use it always, sometimes wasting sometimes not.. at the end of the day is a bit of extra damage you woudn't have dealt the other way.

Anywar, personal preferences >> all. Just asking if there was an objective reason not to macro it.

[Catamer]

I just wonder if something like this wouldn't be better?
/castrandom holy shield,
/castrandom concecration,
/castsequence or random bla,bla,bla
/use 13
/use 14

I personally use
/castrandom holy shield,
/castrandom bla, bla, bla
/use 13
/use 14
and have concecrate on another botton.

[Cyndaen]

Do you ever use it? If you are single boxing, I can understand wanting to time it right.. but when multiboxing I bet that, unless it is macroed with something else, you'll never use it.. so macroing it you'll use it always, sometimes wasting sometimes not.. at the end of the day is a bit of extra damage you woudn't have dealt the other way.

Actually, I do use it quite a bit. When I'm multi-boxing, my paladin is my main so I often have full control over those cooldowns. This is not ALWAYS the case, but for the most part, true. I like having a little extra dps, but at the end of the day, whether we win or lose is not often due to 100-300 extra dps out of my tank over the course of the raid. Me surviving an emergency situation however, well, you see where I'm going. One thing we can both agree on is the part about personal preference being everything. We all play differently and somehow, nearly all of us are success stories in our own right. One of the coolest things about this game in my opinion.

Edit: Requires a different thread, but I do in fact macro AW on my Retribution paladin. My wife also runs AW in the macro on her Holy Spamadin if that helps.

[Havelcek]

I may be in the minority but I generally save Avenging Wrath for emergencies.

[Taliesin]

I may be in the minority but I generally save Avenging Wrath for emergencies.

I don't macro it either. If I want to use it, I'll manually click it. The fact that it interferes with the use of bubbles, especially Divine Protection, I don't like the idea that I am no longer in control of the timing that these abilities can be used. Divine Protection has saved me on numerous occasions, which I think offsets the 20% damage boost to the tank for a brief period of time.

Yeah, I don't think to use it a lot of times when I could, but in the greater scheme of things this spell has fairly low benefit to the group. I see it as more a retadin ability where DPS is the name of the game (or healadin for the healing buff), than a tankadin ability where survival is the goal. If we didn't have forbearance or other timers to worry about, then I'd use it all the time.

[offive]

Nice macro's and variations. We should toss in click to move and interact with target to really finish it off. :thumbup:

[David]

Am I the only person who plays paladin,4x shaman without cast sequence? I just buttonbash :thumbsup: (somewhat coordinated)

[Simulacra]

Because it has a long cooldown/debuff. You cant just add it to an existing macro as it will stall it out and if its part of a /castsequence when it loops it, it will just stall the macro till the cooldown is up.I use /click so have AW right at the start of my click sequence, I like to see wings so why not use it whenever available :) with /click it'll just pass through if it's still on cd so no issues

[Kayley]

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I use to press all my spells now I just use a standard castsequence to tank/dps. Avenging wrath is something I like to have manually clicked. I like a few others i'm sure would hate for it to go off only to need Divine Protection hehe - although I do forget about AW at times.

[Tdog]

The reason I personally don't choose to put AW in my tank macro is that it inevitably goes off at a very inopportune time. Having Wrath up when a bubble wall would save the raid is quite bad in my opinion. As a general rule, Paladins don't have a lot of trouble with burst threat nor sustained, so I don't feel it's necessary for it to be up every cooldown. Not being snooty here or anything, it's just personal preference.

Do you ever use it? If you are single boxing, I can understand wanting to time it right.. but when multiboxing I bet that, unless it is macroed with something else, you'll never use it.. so macroing it you'll use it always, sometimes wasting sometimes not.. at the end of the day is a bit of extra damage you woudn't have dealt the other way.

Anywar, personal preferences >> all. Just asking if there was an objective reason not to macro it.It's not about having Avenging Wrath up on ever CD. It's about not having Forberance when you need to pop Divine shield/protection.

[daviddoran]

My shadowpriests macro is
/assist focus
/stopmacro [channeling]
/castsequence [target=focustarget,harm] [target=target] reset=combat/10 vampiric embrace,vampiric touch,mind blast,Shadow Word: Pain,mind flay,devouring plague,mind blast,mind flay,mind flay,mind blast,mind flay

My priest is pretty well geared (shortage of priests on server and in guild, so i got into lots of pugs) and I can pull 3k dps on single targets. I know that the dps could be better given my gear, but getting it all into one macro would take a lot of massaging. Also, because my priest is dual specced holy, a lot of her gear has a lot of spirit and haste on it, and I have so much manaregen, from the vampiric effects, and all the spirit (almost have more spirit than int) most trash fights i end up at 100% mana. Knowing this, I bet I can start to get better itemization and tweak for more spellpower and crit, which should boost my dps immensely.

My trick for tweaking this macro was watching all the cooldowns on the longer CD stuff, and adding/removing mind flays as necessary. Usually mind blast,or devouring plague is just coming up when mind flay finishes. Also, the /stopmacro [channeling] is awesome. With that at the beginning, the macro wont stop for any other spell if its channeling. So I can safely start spamming my next dps key and not worry about messing up my sequence. I also use it on my mages for arcane missiles. Works like a charm.

[Ualaa]

For a warlock, I'd go with simplicity.
Some variation of the 0/41/30 build.
Fel Synergy 2/2, Demonic Knowledge 3/3.

Go with straight shadow bolt or immolate/incinerate spam.
You're not quite as good damage as a solo lock, but you're not far off of the mark either.

You have Seed of Corruption for very strong AoE.
Decent single target dps.
Soul Stone, Health Stones etc.
Curse of choice.

[Yagamoth]

For Warlocks:
I'm not exactly boxing (though, tried in once ^^) but I've set up a macro for my Warlock, deep destro. In some pugs it simply isn't enough heal on certain boss encounters. From time to time I play my druid on encounters like sapphiron to heal, so I basically needed a one-button-macro for my lock. (I've taken an old keyboard, extracted many buttons that I simply can tap the dps-button with my feet ^^). But you need macaroon probably. Here's the version in german:

/castsequence reset=5 Feuerbrand,Feuersbrunst,Chaosblitz,Verbrennen,Verb rennen,Verbrennen,Verderbnis,Feuersbrunst,Verbrenn en,Verbrennen,Feuerbrand,Chaosblitz,Aderlass,Senge nder Schmerz,Feuersbrunst,Verbrennen,Verbrennen,Verbren nen,Verbrennen,Verbrennen,Aderlass

Feuerbrand = Immolate
Feuersbrunst = Conflagerate
Chaosblitz = Chaos Bolt
Verbrennen = Incinerate
Aderlass = Life Tap
Sengender Schmerz = Searing Pain

Further I've got another macro I press at the beginning of the fight, and every now and then when I think about it.

/assist focus
/petattack
/cast Fluch der Verdamnis

Fluch der Verdamnis = Curse of Doom

I get to 3k dps on a boss dummy (0/1x/xx). You may need some tweaks here and there, since you may not exactly have as much haste as I do. Also it doesn't include any raidbuffs

The macro is set up, that it doesn't get stuck anywhere. For example, if Immolate would drop before Conflagerate is being cast, it gets stuck on conflagerate. Also in case you may think - "immolate should not be recast so late" --> it's better like this, since in case you get any trinket proc on one immolate, and you later on cast another immolate, clipping the first one, the dot will not be refreshed and expires, getting stuck again with conflagerate.