critique me!

[Lowcorn]

Ok. Wall o text.


I recently went from 2boxing to 5 boxing. Must say im enjoying myself. heres my current group
Pally-currently the tank
Lock-DPS
Shaman-DPS
Druid-DPS
Priest-Currently the healer

Im useing /assist macros for the 3 dps like this

/assist pally
/castsequence reset=18/combat shadow word: pain, mind blast, smite, smite, smite, smite, smite, smite, smite, smite,

healing the party and lock pet i use the 5-0 keys.They all have seperate target macros that look something like this
/target warlock
/cast gift of the naaru
/castsequence reset=target/16 power word: shield, renew, lesser heal, lesser heal, lesser heal, lesser heal, lesser heal, lesser heal, lesser heal, lesser heal
so basicly the same thing for the 5 toons and the lock pet

right now im useing the = key for any self buffs the characters have like the locks demon skin and the shaman lightning armor. problem with this is the shaman now has flametounge to weapon so i have to cast it twice causeing a mana waste on the toons who only use one spell

for buffing i just target a toon i want to buff hit 1 (my dps key for all my toons) and then hit 4 (the slot iv put all the buff abilitys) and repeat for my whole party.

im currently useing keyclone on a 2 comp setup. 3 on main and 2 on a side comp. I use Jamba, Grid, Item rack, Atlas loot(main only), carbonite, rateing buster, and recount.

Im pretty sure thats everything. Ill come back and repost if i remember anything else. Don't worrie about hurting my feelings lol if im doing something stupid let me know. . . . all i ask is that if you point out something wrong/stupid is that you give me an alternitive or better soulition to try :-D



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[alcattle]

When you have to use the same key twice, maybe a modifier=shift could work. But now that I type this, the other toons would still cast twice.

[Lowcorn]

maybe its possible to make all the toons have a modifyer and then have the 2nd set do something else? or nothing at all? i dont have any experence with mods in macros

[Khatovar]

Pally-currently the tank
Lock-DPS
Shaman-DPS
Druid-DPS
Priest-Currently the healer


right now im useing the = key for any self buffs the characters have like the locks demon skin and the shaman lightning armor. problem with this is the shaman now has flametounge to weapon so i have to cast it twice causeing a mana waste on the toons who only use one spell



Option 1 Smartbuff.
Option 2 complex macros and tons of hotkeys. I have the same group but swap the priest for a resto shammy. Making your own macros, you're going to end up with something like this for 30 min buffs :


/castsequence reset=10 Seal of Righteousness, Righteous Fury,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

/castsequence reset=10 Demon Skin,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

/castsequence reset=10 Flametongue Weapon,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

/castsequence [target=party1] Mark of the Wild,,,,
/castsequence [target=party2] ,Mark of the Wild,,,
/castsequence [target=party3] ,,Mark of the Wild,,
/castsequence [target=party4] ,,,Mark of the Wild,
/castsequence [target=player] ,,,,Mark of the Wild

and 10 min buffs on a separate key:


/castsequence [target=party1] Blessing of Kings,,,,
/castsequence [target=party2] ,Blessing of Kings,,,
/castsequence [target=party3] ,,Blessing of Wisdom,,
/castsequence [target=party4] ,,,Blessing of Wisdom,
/castsequence [target=player] ,,,,Blessing of Kings

/castsequence [target=party1] reset=10 Thorns,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

/castsequence reset=10 Lightning Shield,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

2 buttons/modifiers.

But what you'll eventually run into is your shaman needs to rebuff his shield well before any of the other 10 min buffs expire since it has expendable charges and the other buffs are duration, so that will want a separate hotkey. 3 buttons/modifiers.

And maybe sometimes you want to use water shield instead. That's another. 4 buttons/modifiers.

Your druid and priest will eventually get an hour long group buff, meaning another hotkey so you have hour long buffs, half hour buffs, and 10 minute buffs for a normal buff cycle. 5.

And you'll want your single-target buffs to rebuff a toon that dies...more hotkeys. 6.

Your Warlock will get weapon stones, soul stones and health stones, which will all need management...more keys. 7, 8, 9....274..ok, maybe not that many, but it gets absurd.

And a lot of this stuff uses reagents later on and blowing reagents that you don't need to waste by overspamming your hotkeys is going to hurt a lot more than the mana loss does now.

So, go with option 1 and download Smartbuff or PallyPower or one of the other buff management mods.

[Lowcorn]

ill get smartbuff tonight and test it out :-D why do you have so manny ",,," in those macros? does it change something to do with the sequence of the /castsequence macros?

[Khatovar]

The ,,,, are null casts, they tell the macro that it should cast nothing at this step.

[Lowcorn]

ok so when you have /castsequence smite,,,,, it will cast smite and then do nothing for 5 clicks?

[mikekim]

ok so when you have /castsequence smite,,,,, it will cast smite and then do nothing for 5 clicks?

correct the comma does as you think, even putting the five before the smite (ie. /castsequence ,,,,,smite) would mean that smite would not be cast until action 6

[Lowcorn]

AWESOME! thankyou!!!