Warlock Click Castsequence Macro

[Ualaa]

I'm using this for my Warlock.

She is Demo... http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#IZbGdhkAdVcsxuhoE
Heading towards... http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#IcZbGdhkAdVcsxuhoE00VM

The reason for no point in Demonic Pact, is I have an Elemental Shammy in her group, and Totem of Wrath is far superior until an obsene amount of spell power, I believe 2800 or so.



I personally spam at two clicks per second. So I have comma's in there for LifeTap every 40 seconds (Life Tap glyph), Agony every 24 seconds, Corruption every 18 seconds, Immolate every 15 seconds and then Shadow Bolt spam the rest of the time. I count the spell and second click (first comma) as 1 second of spam, and then add 2 comma's for each second until the spell should refresh.



Agony does more damage as it progresses, so I wanted it early. Corruption (via Glyph) allows for an occasional instant cast Shadow Bolt, so this is my next spell in the sequence. Immolate includes a DD portion, so this is last to allow for a bit of threat to already be generated by the tank. My last glyph will be Felguard.

So far at 70th (in T5/T6 BC raid gear), she doubles the DPS of my 73rd Elemental Shaman (mix of BC/Wrath quest rewards only), and edges out the Feral (bear) tank at level 75 usually by 10-20%.

I'm happy with the warlocks DPS, but am definitely open to improvement suggestions.



The master macro is:
/Assist TANK
/Click MultiBarRightButton5
/Click MultiBarRightButton6
/Click MultiBarRightButton7
/Click MultiBarRightButton8
/Click MultiBarRightButton9
/use 13
/use 14
/Petattack
/cast Demonic Empowerment


Macro on MBRB5:
#show Life Tap
/cast [mod, nochanneling] Drain Soul
/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=combat Life Tap,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,


Macro on MBRB6:
#show Curse of Agony
/cast [mod, nochanneling] Drain Soul
/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=target Curse of Agony,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,


Macro on MBRB7:
#show Corruption
/cast [mod, nochanneling] Drain Soul
/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=target Corruption,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,


Macro on MBRB8:
#show Immolate
/cast [mod, nochanneling] Drain Soul
/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=target Immolate,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,


Macro on MBRB9:
#show Shadow Bolt
/cast [mod, nochanneling] Drain Soul
/cast [nochanneling] Shadow Bolt

[Coltimar]

what are the spaces between the commas for?

[Svpernova09]

Thats just something this forum software does. There really isn't any spaces.

This is correct, it's an anti-spam measure so you can just paste a bunch of the same characters in a row.


I'll check out the destro lock macros after our raid week and report back :_D

[Greythan]

Elemental mastery? Isn't that a shaman ability? (At work so can't look up directly.)

[Greythan]

And "spirit" tap = life tap?

[Greythan]

No worries. My lazy butt simply hasn't messed with the /click.

Tried my demo spec with it tonight and workred pretty well wtih the timing above.

My sequence is CoA, Corruption, Immo, and SB spam. Gonna try it live tomorrow in a ToC.

[daviddoran]

I finally got my locks to 80, and started testing on dummies. Had them in Demo for the most part, lvled a bit as Afflic, but it was kinda slow. Just respecced one to Destro, and that one in shittty gear is almost out DPSing my epic'd out shadowpriest! Granded the shadowpriest brings a lot of other raid utility to the game (i noticed that the passive healing helps make up for all the life tapping, and replenishment never hurts) but this is great news so far. Since I run 3 locks, I am pondering leaving one in Demo spec so i get demonic empowerment.

Anyone know a way to get curse of Doom to work? I think i started to run out commas, as it has a longer cooldown. It would be great if I could put a modifier somewhere in the master /click macro to switch which curse I do. Id like one of em to do CoE in raids, but id like the ability to omit it if another toon casts a similar debuff.

Any other ways to improve this with 3 locks?

Update:

specced all 3 locks the same, identical macros, etc (copied macro cache file, worked like a charm, had to rearrange the buttons tho) DPS is comprable or exceeding that of my epic'd out priest on the lvl 80 dummies. The "boss" dummy is a different story, as my priest is hit capped, and did more dps than the locks, but just barely. Loks like I need to rethink my shadowpriest dps. Now that i got /click working I think it will be much easier.

[daviddoran]

Now that i got my locks tweaked, its time to tweak my shadowpriest. Her DPS is fairly inconsistent, AoE is insane because Mine Sear is OP, and easy to cast as a boxer, long boss fights are ok, same target, etc. Boss fights with Adds, or lots of movement messes up my macro. I currently just run one long /castsequence and tweaked it on a dummy for timers, and it works pretty well, but like I said, inconsistent in the real world. Also my macro wastes a lot of time recasting VE, as it lasts 5 minutes, so for most boss fights i would rarely need to cast it (maybe cast it separately on the pull macro?)

Anyways, thanks for posting this macro :)

PS. Whats the best way to incorporate Life Tap? manually do it when needed to avoid bad timing/dying? or throw it in the /click array?

[Greythan]

Any thoughts on curse of elements vs coa in a 3 caster DPS set up?

A quote from Wowwiki on the topic:


This should be the main curse of choice for Destruction warlocks. The damage it adds to your direct damage spells is higher than the damage inflicted by Curse of Agony (http://www.dual-boxing.com/Curse_of_Agony), and in a raid situation you should always leave the casting of that curse to an affliction lock anyway. The long duration of the curse also means you have to waste less time applying curses and can focus on casting your DD spells.

CoA seems to be such a slow developing spell that I'd rather get the 13% spell damage increase with coe. I *think* with my group its unique as there may be a druid effect that conflicts.

[daviddoran]

I just did a naxx 10 and OS 10, and CoA hardly did any dmg at all. Im gonna try to rework it to do 2 curses of Doom, and one CoE. I bet that will do more overall dps. And if im grouped with someone else applying a similar debuff 3 curses of doom. Ill probably just remove CoA alltogether from my main spam macro.

[Simulacra]

I just switched my aff lock to destro and have just been reading warlocks den re: coa vs coe, apparently coa is a bit lame and it's recomended to use coe instead.

Thanks for the click macros, going to pop them in now :)

[Niley]

ive been using click for awhile now, had to adjust comas to match my button mashing style, but ever since I got it all set up, my warlock has been my top dps, coming close to 8k dps on some heroic bosses, she has never entered any raid, its all badges gear with some pvp. She also alway does curse of the elements, so dps could be a bit higher with another curse.
here is spec and gear:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Stormreaver&n=Tikaty
grouped buffed shes at around 2900 spl dmg. I also picked stam purple gems instead of spirit ones, because of damage that goes around in some heroics, I like to have 60 stam vs 36 spirit.

[turdfurgison]

Hey everyone. I have been trying to get the macros plugged in as stated in the previous post, but cannot seem to get them to work very well. I can get one sequence off then CD's are triggered and cannot cast again for 10 sec. Even with button mashing I am still only around 4.5k dps. This is what my character looks like. http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Stormrage&n=Turdfurgison If anyone can help, I would greatly appreciate it.

[Coltimar]

Haste will make a difference. Did you try adding more commas?

[Multibocks]

ive been using click for awhile now, had to adjust comas to match my button mashing style, but ever since I got it all set up, my warlock has been my top dps, coming close to 8k dps on some heroic bosses, she has never entered any raid, its all badges gear with some pvp. She also alway does curse of the elements, so dps could be a bit higher with another curse.
here is spec and gear:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Stormreaver&n=Tikaty
grouped buffed shes at around 2900 spl dmg. I also picked stam purple gems instead of spirit ones, because of damage that goes around in some heroics, I like to have 60 stam vs 36 spirit.

Niley are you using Fur's click sequence with more commas or some other idea?

[Ualaa]

I've actually switched my warlock to affliction.
Basically the self heal from Siphon (percentage of Corruption) and Haunt are very nice.
Of the toons on the team, she was far and away the best geared (mid T6 last expansion).

Warlock is 73rd, Elem Shammy is 75th, Priest (Disc/Healer) is 76th, Mage is 73rd and Feral Tank is 77th. The Shammy and Lock fight for dps lead, but prior to Lava Burst the shammy wasn't even in the same ball park.

Using a Click Castsequence similar to the first post.
The priority is: Corruption, Haunt, Agony, Unstable Affliction and then Shadow Bolt as the fall through. Not really sure why, but Immolate as a 5th castsequence before Shadow Bolts didn't fire off regularly (whichever was in the 5th dot position only fired sporadically)... But four shadow dots and SB spam is pretty good dps.

[turdfurgison]

Ty for the help. I went in and plugged the macros in to my G keys ( Logitech G15 v.2) and have them set to G1-G6..... Shortened the commas to match button mashing style and now once i cast Imm. I cannot cast Conflag.... Am I butchering this whole thing? :P Also, the Main DPS rotation macro is not triggering..... Getting frustrated

[Ualaa]

With a click castsequence, you don't want these macro's on separate hotkeys.

You want a single hotkey for the master macro.
This master macro will have a lot of:
/Click MultiBarRightButton3
/Click MultiBarRightButton4
/Click MultiBarRightButton5

You can use:
/Click MultiBarBottomLeft
/Click MultiBarBottomRight
/Click MultiBarRight
/Click MultiBarLeft

And:
Button1 through Button12

You also need to know your personal spam speed.
Watch the clock or get a stopwatch and "spam" a key like 1 or X, for 15 or 30 seconds.
Pick a speed which is comfortable for you to maintain.
At least 2 presses a second and up to as many as you can comfortably maintain is your goal.

So take your first spell, the one which you want to have up always, and put it into your first spam macro.
I call this one DPS1 within the wow client.

A spell like say Agony can be recast every 1.5 seconds (or faster with talents/haste).
Spells like this, you want to insert comma's equal to the spells duration.
If your spell lasts 18 seconds and then expires, you need 18 seconds worth of spam comma's in the macro.
If you spam at 2 clicks per second, put in (2x18 = 36 - 1 = 35) 35 comma's.
If you spam at 5 clicks per second, put in (5x18 = 90 -1 = 89) 89 comma's.

Once you have the first spell done, pick the next spell.

The 2nd spell is the next most important.
If the 1st spell and 2nd spell are both not on the target, the first one will be applied initially and the 2nd one after that. The 2nd one gets applied before the 3rd.

Repeat for as many spells as you'd like to use.

If you have a spell with a recast delay, rather then a duration before it expires, add in as many comma's as the seconds of delay until you can recast.

The master macro, needs one click command per macro in your click sequence.
If you want Immolate, Conflagrate, Corruption, Chaos Bolt and Incinerate, then your initial spam macro will have 5 /click MultiBarWhateverButton# commands.
That is one per spell that you want to use.

If you want G1 to spam the 1 key, that's fine.
I will strongly recommend spamming G1 and not setting it to toggle at a speed.
Spamming gets you extra keys (G-keys) to use.
Activating a toggle gets your account banned for botting.

The point of these macro's is to be able to spam a single key, and based on macro construction have it reapply your spells as they expire or as they are off of cooldown.

If you put a macro on each G-Key or keybind, then you'd actually be better off with no castsequences but just the spell straight from the spell book. In this case, you have to time everything yourself, not have the macro do the timing based on your spam speed.

[wowphreak]

I've actually switched my warlock to affliction.
Basically the self heal from Siphon (percentage of Corruption) and Haunt are very nice.
Of the toons on the team, she was far and away the best geared (mid T6 last expansion).

Warlock is 73rd, Elem Shammy is 75th, Priest (Disc/Healer) is 76th, Mage is 73rd and Feral Tank is 77th. The Shammy and Lock fight for dps lead, but prior to Lava Burst the shammy wasn't even in the same ball park.

Using a Click Castsequence similar to the first post.
The priority is: Corruption, Haunt, Agony, Unstable Affliction and then Shadow Bolt as the fall through. Not really sure why, but Immolate as a 5th castsequence before Shadow Bolts didn't fire off regularly (whichever was in the 5th dot position only fired sporadically)... But four shadow dots and SB spam is pretty good dps.

Unstable Affliction and Immolation are now in the same exclusive category (both damage- over- time effects cannot be present at the same time by the same caster on a target)

cut-n.pasted from patch 3.1 thats the reason why yeh had problems.

[turdfurgison]

ok, I understand now. Went in and timed it all out.. had to add a few commas here and there, but overall result was VERY nice!! tysm for all the help