Pally Retribution macro

[Tizer]

I've been moving away from multiboxing over the last few weeks and playing my Pally with Ret spec. Gear isnt great but im really enjoying the "break" from playing so many characters. I'll probably cancel my shaman once i've go over 100k gold on my pally which isnt far away, then i'll never have to worry about gold again \o/.

Anyway. While tanking on the pally i used to have a single button spam macro for tanking, making use of the /click ability.

I've been trying to come up with something similar for ret spec but realised there are a lot less abilities to worry about, so i've gone down the single button macro route using different judgements.

So far i've come up with this:

Bind to "Q" - Health Regen

/startattack
/console Sound_EnableSFX 0
/castrandom Crusader Strike, Divine Storm, Judgement of Light, hammer of wrath, divine plea, exorcism
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/console Sound_EnableSFX 1

Bind to "E" - Mana regen

/startattack
/console Sound_EnableSFX 0
/castrandom Crusader Strike, Divine Storm, Judgement of Wisdom, hammer of wrath, divine plea, exorcism
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/console Sound_EnableSFX 1

These are the two macros i've been messing around with in raids and i've managed to put out 2k+ dps which is ok considering my ret gear is shite.

I only just realised that because of my talent spec i get "the art of war" when i judge light, giving me an instant cast Flash of Light. (Art of War ('http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=53489') )

I thought it would be quite nice to make use of this within the macro so im trying to set it up to auto cast on a target of my choice. i.e.

/startattack
/console Sound_EnableSFX 0
/cast [target=xxxxxx] Flash of light
/castrandom Crusader Strike, Divine Storm, Judgement of Light, hammer of wrath, divine plea, exorcism
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/console Sound_EnableSFX 1

where xxxxx is hard coded into the macro, perhaps i might use on the MT in a fight, or myself in PVP.

This above macro doesnt work as it always attempts to cast FoL even if the Art of war ('http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=53489') buff isnt up, i've had to put

/cast [target=xxxxxx] Flash of light

Into another hot key macro and listen out for the sound the buff makes before i use it.

Anyway, waffle waffle, i think that gives enough info for what i want to achieve, any bright sparks out there able to comment?

Ta!

[Khatovar]

/startattack
/console Sound_EnableSFX 0
/cast [target=xxxxxx] Flash of light
/castrandom Crusader Strike, Divine Storm, Judgement of Light, hammer of wrath, divine plea, exorcism
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/console Sound_EnableSFX 1

Not sure if this will work, I've been away from the game a while, but those are all instant casts...would /stopcasting work to cancel FOLs with a cast time, or would that just fubar the whole macro?

[Oatboat]

you will not be able to put Flash of Light in there. I just had my flash of light macro'd or use Healbot to click heal someone.

/cast [target=player] flash of light

[Tizer]

/startattack
/console Sound_EnableSFX 0
/cast [target=xxxxxx] Flash of light
/castrandom Crusader Strike, Divine Storm, Judgement of Light, hammer of wrath, divine plea, exorcism
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/console Sound_EnableSFX 1

Not sure if this will work, I've been away from the game a while, but those are all instant casts...would /stopcasting work to cancel FOLs with a cast time, or would that just fubar the whole macro?Unfortunately it wont even get past the /cast line afaik

[Tizer]

you will not be able to put Flash of Light in there. I just had my flash of light macro'd or use Healbot to click heal someone.

/cast [target=player] flash of lightThats the other option, find an addon that screams at me when art of war is up and ready to use.

[Mikeyduece]

Power Auras is great for just that thing. I was hating the fact that it was hard for me to see when I had an instant cast FoL available. Power Auras has a bunch of different skins that you can configure to pop up and even play a sound when whatever buff comes up. It's also great for Rime procs on DKs.

[rahven32]

I know this is a somewhat older post but could you use click in there for FoL? Something like



/startattack
/console Sound_EnableSFX 0
/castrandom Crusader Strike, Divine Storm, Judgement of Light, hammer of wrath, divine plea, exorcism,
/click folbutton
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/console Sound_EnableSFX 1

FoL macro
/stopcasting
/cast [target=xxxxxx] Flash of light

Pretty sure you need the comma at the end of random for it to fall thru correct?

[Heenan]

Weird. I just dual-spec'd into Ret for PvP.

Anyway, this works for me... and works well:


#show Crusader Strike
/startattack
/stopcasting
/castrandom Judgement of Justice, Crusader Strike, Divine Storm, Hammer of Wrath, Cleanse, Flash of Light

The /stopcasting will halt the FoL if it tries to cast while standing still, but otherwise you're running around like a retard in PvP so it auto-cancels. This will also pop cleanse, which is critical for getting nasty spells off of you.

You would think that FoL'ing so much would drain mana, but glyph out Seal of Blood and you'll get tons of mana back through that. I have no mana problems at all spamming this.

Also, automatic HoWs, without worrying that they are < 20%, are really fun.

[Niley]

Ive made this macro for my pally just so i can do raids when someone else wants to tank, and still bring my shamans.

#show
/castsequence reset=6 Crusader Strike,Judgement of Light,Divine storm,Consecration,exorcism,Crusader Strike,Judgement of Light,Divine storm,Crusader Strike,Consecration,Judgement of Light,Crusader Strike,exorcism,Divine storm,Judgement of Light,Consecration

At the end all cd become available again withing 1-3s, so it resets.


This made me do over 4.4k dps, in partial prot/ret gear in voa
This is over 255 characters long so You will need This Add on ('http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10496-SuperDuperMacro.html') to use it.

[Simulacra]

Ive made this macro for my pally just so i can do raids when someone else wants to tank, and still bring my shamans.

#show
/castsequence reset=6 Crusader Strike,Judgement of Light,Divine storm,Consecration,exorcism,Crusader Strike,Judgement of Light,Divine storm,Crusader Strike,Consecration,Judgement of Light,Crusader Strike,exorcism,Divine storm,Judgement of Light,Consecration

At the end all cd become available again withing 1-3s, so it resets.


This made me do over 4.4k dps, in partial prot/ret gear in voa
This is over 255 characters long so You will need This Add on ('http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10496-SuperDuperMacro.html') to use it.Supa Dupa macro - awesome, thanks for posting that - I like the ability to send macros to targets - whoa!!!!