Possible Auto Purge/Dispel

[Phanes]

I was recently reading threw some threads and there was some people talking about some warlock macro that went like this.

/castsequence some sequnce of spells with lots of commas
/cast Some Insta Nuke

The claim was there is some way to have that insta nuke in the same macro and it will go off while the castsequence is trying to clear commas.

I have tried something like this.

/castsequence some sequence
/cast Dispel Magic

The castsequence still works but I never see a message saying nothing to dispell.

In the thread I am talking about one person, I think it was MMCookies, even came in and said there is a way to have instas cast but he/she was not going to reveal it for fear of it being nerfed.

If we could figure out what the locks are doing we could probably have auto dispell/purges going on.

Any thoughts?

[Greythan]

No clue here, but interested.

Would love to have spellsteal in my mage macro. :)

[Phanes]

Well one thought I had was in one of your main macros you could just have

/cast [modifier:ctrl] (not sure if I did that right) Spell Steal
/castsequence Whatever your sequence is

Then you can simply hold down the Ctrl button while masing your main nuke button.

I wish I could dig up that thread but my search fu is weak tonight.

[Phanes]

Here is the thread

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=24293&highlight=castsequence+full+holes

[Phanes]

Yeah I have something like that now but it requires pushing another button and I am trying for the laziest setup possible. :)

[Maxion]

adding a comma at the end of your regular dps castsequence and adding a "/castsequence ,instant thing" below it works fine for me i think.

[Coyote]

As the other thread explains, having a macro like:

/castsequence Nuke1, Nuke2, Nuke3
/cast Purge

.. will actually attempt to purge the target pretty regularly. The problem is that the reason it works is the same reason why a plain /castsequence does bad things to your dps. The above macro will attempt to purge in the dead time between the nukes in the cast sequence. While this makes for nice lazy purging, having those dead periods between your nukes is pretty bad news for your dps.

[Phanes]

As the other thread explains, having a macro like:

/castsequence Nuke1, Nuke2, Nuke3
/cast Purge

.. will actually attempt to purge the target pretty regularly. The problem is that the reason it works is the same reason why a plain /castsequence does bad things to your dps. The above macro will attempt to purge in the dead time between the nukes in the cast sequence. While this makes for nice lazy purging, having those dead periods between your nukes is pretty bad news for your dps.

Currently I am using /click sequences on my nukers and a castsequence on my healer. I put /cast !Dispel Magic at the end of my healers castsequence but I never see a message "nothing to dispell" so it appears that it does not work.

I do have a button I just mash and it purges enemies and dipels party members I was just hoping for something a little more automated.

[SmartJelly]

To see the effect in action, you could mash something like:

/castsequence Greater Heal
/cast Lesser Heal

Which should alternate between the two (if you're running the macro frequently enough). Then replace the lesser heal with "/cast Dispel Magic" and see if you get the "nothing to dispell" message. From there you can build up your sequence.

What's your healers cast sequence?

[SmartJelly]

This won't be suitable to everyone's pallet (especially a priest), but I'm currently running with this as my lazy auto purge/interrupt mash macro (mainly for av).

Optional starter:
/castsequence Wind Shear
/cast Purge

Main course:
/castsequence Flame Shock, Lava Burst, Winds Shear, Wind Shear
/castsequence Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning
/castsequence Purge

Season to taste with target, reset, click etc. However, for dps this is more korma than vindaloo. If you prefer to tenderise the meat before cooking, just rotate flame/lava right one or two places:

/castsequence Wind Shear, Flame Shock, Lava Burst, Wind Shear
/etc

[Phanes]

His rotation is
/click<spam button>
/castsequence Prayer of Mending, Greater Heal,,,,, ,,,,, Prayer of Healing,,,, ,,,,
/cast Dispel Magic

This keeps his mending bouncing around drops the big bomb heal on the tank every 10 seconds or so and drops the big bomb group healing every 10 seconds or so depending on how fast or slow I am clicking. I find this works great as a general all around heal platform.

I do have an Oh Poop button that does like shield, renew, flash, gheal type of thing.

I will have to try some of your suggestions.

[SmartJelly]

Hiya, sorry I'm a little confused by the 1st line:



/click<spam button>
/castsequence Prayer of Mending, Greater Heal,,,,, ,,,,, Prayer of Healing,,,, ,,,,
/cast Dispel Magic


If the last two lines are your <spam button> then I'd expect there to be no problems, but if the "/click <spam button>" is calling/clicking another castsequence then that may be why its not performing as desired.

Are these cast every 10ish seconds because you're pressing the button every half second (20 commas), or are you mashing some other spell first (<spam button>?) and the 10 seconds is basically due to the cooldown on PoM? I suspect it's not the latter as that's not the /click way (as i understand it), so I'm at a loss as to why you don't get atleast one dispel after the two heals. :confused:

Sometimes, if I'm not sure that a spell is casting, I'll replace it with another that I'm not using and has a long cast time so I can see if that part of the macro ever gets hit. :)

Anyway, I hope you find a solution, if not you'll just have to give another finger a workout :)

[Phanes]

Hiya, sorry I'm a little confused by the 1st line:



If the last two lines are your <spam button> then I'd expect there to be no problems, but if the "/click <spam button>" is calling/clicking another castsequence then that may be why its not performing as desired.

Are these cast every 10ish seconds because you're pressing the button every half second (20 commas), or are you mashing some other spell first (<spam button>?) and the 10 seconds is basically due to the cooldown on PoM? I suspect it's not the latter as that's not the /click way (as i understand it), so I'm at a loss as to why you don't get atleast one dispel after the two heals. :confused:

Sometimes, if I'm not sure that a spell is casting, I'll replace it with another that I'm not using and has a long cast time so I can see if that part of the macro ever gets hit. :)

Anyway, I hope you find a solution, if not you'll just have to give another finger a workout :)

The spam button is like

/use 13
/use 14
etc etc

Yeah I find my natural no pressure cruising speed finger puts that cycle at about 10 seconds. When I get home tonight I am going to try building it up like,

/castsequence Greater Heal
/cast Dispel Magic

if that works I will do,

/click spambutton
/castsequence Greater Heal
/cast Dispel Magic

and keep building on it till it breaks. Once it breaks I will figure out if I need whatever is breaking it more than I need an auto dispel.