Question about macro's and repeater regions

[dougie700]

Hey all,

Basically am using click sequences on my 4 shamen, 3 are elemental and 1 resto.
my question is:-

On my resto, he can have a lot of downtime not doing anything, so i put him on the same click sequence as my ele shamen, however, wen i need heals i tend to use vudoo and a repeater region on isboxer, but i don't allways get the heals when i need them because he is casting chain lighting or somthing. would i be able to make my vuudo cast macros instead of spells, and if so would it be along the lines of

/stopcasting
/tar=player x
/cast chain heal

a quick look at vuudo last night seems that the macro line in vuudo is for 1 line so how could i make the above macro on one line

many thanks

Dougie

[Ualaa]

I'm not overly familiar with Vuhdo.

An option I've used on some of my teams is two click macros.
Basically the tank and dps have identical click macros on say, 1 and 2.
However the Resto has a dps click on one of the keys but not on the other.
So... if you click 1, everyone does the dps.
But if you click 2, then everyone except the resto will do the dps.... which means you are free to heal as required.

I'd also consider running 4x Elemental, without any Resto.
And then go with 3 or 4x Lesser Healing Wave and 3 or 4x Chain Heal.
I'd lean to this as the stronger of the two methods.

My PvE team is Prot Paladin, 3x Elemental, 1x Demonology (Warlock).
And the 3x Elemental can easily heal all 5-man content.
Lesser Healing Wave is a complete heal on everyone else, but is maybe a 50% heal on the Paladin.
Chain Heal is used much less frequently, but it is pretty much the only other heal I use.

Mostly I run with Sanctuary on the Pally and Kings on the others.
But for more challenging content, its Sanctuary on the Pally and Wisdom on the others.
With a Runescroll for Fortitude to everyone and Drums for Mark of the Wild and Kings.
The scroll/drums aren't quite as strong as the real thing, but they're close.
And 3x Healing Stream is a lot of passive healing against AoE's.
Also resistance totems (and aura) help a lot as do the Cleansing Totems.

[dougie700]

Yeah I tried just running with 4 ele's, but was still taking a lot of damage in normal instances, probs be easier when they start getting 80's gear, but i still found that there would be a pause between them dps'in and wen they threw out the heals and it was genrally too late by then, some fights, i dont need a healer, throw on riptide and nuke the boss down but other fights i am constantly healing the shammies, the pally is not too much of a problem.

[deez]

To use a macro in vuhdo you just need the name of the macro.

The macro you use has to include target=vuhdo for it to work.

A /stopcasting may be required i'm not sure.

Mine looks like this:

/stopcasting
/target vuhdo
/castsequence reset=combat/target/5 chain heal, lesser healing wave

[Whowantstoknow]

1. Create a macro as normal in the nomal interface just replace target with vuhdu.
2. bind that Macro to a button assignment


example of macro in your case

/stopcasting
/cast [@vuhdo] chain heal

This will also work

/stopcasting
/cast [@mouseover] chain heal

[Ualaa]

Just curious.

There is an option in Vuhdo, where it will allow you to use a macro instead of a click?
Or are you hitting the macro, and then clicking the Vuhdo frame to determine target?

[deez]

Just curious.

There is an option in Vuhdo, where it will allow you to use a macro instead of a click?
Or are you hitting the macro, and then clicking the Vuhdo frame to determine target?


With Vuhdo, instead of the click calling a specific spell, it calls a macro (has to have target=vuhdo or [@vuhdo} in it). This way you can do most of your healing simply left clicking on the frame instead of trying to remember which mouse button does what.

Clicking the target both determines the target and calls the macro.

[Bloodcloud]

maybe a bit out of the box thinking, but why not define macros and assign keys on the healer.

I use HKN and have the Healbot area of the party members as Click areas.

e.g. If I press right mouse on an area in Healbot where the tank is (tank is my main, so it is always the first) HKN sends a key to the Healer client (I used the numpad keys for that .)

e.g. :
left mouse in area -> healer client press num 1 ==> flash heal on tank.
right mouse in area -> healer client press num 2 ==> greater heal on tank.
...

The only drawback is that the healer needs to be party1 (from the tank), so that I only have to take into account that player and party1 are swapped. For the rest party2, party3, party4 are the same.

Maybe something like this is also possible with IS. Copying mouseclicks from one window to another is a bit sluggy on my computer so I went to keypresses, which HKN can do perfect.

[Khatovar]

The only drawback is that the healer needs to be party1 (from the tank), so that I only have to take into account that player and party1 are swapped. For the rest party2, party3, party4 are the same.



In Pitbull, and probably other unitframes mods, you can add the player to the party frame to avoid that issue.

[Ualaa]

With Vuhdo, instead of the click calling a specific spell, it calls a macro (has to have target=vuhdo or [@vuhdo} in it). This way you can do most of your healing simply left clicking on the frame instead of trying to remember which mouse button does what.

Clicking the target both determines the target and calls the macro.


So I could make a click macro in Vuhdo...

/cast [stance:3,target=Vuhdo] Regrowth
/stopcasting
/cast [stance:0] Cat Form



Basically looking for an option, where Druids in cat form will Regrowth my selected target, and which I can double click.
A feral talent grants a 20% chance per combo point that the next nature spell cast is instant.
So, if the heal is instant it is done on click 1, and click 2 puts them into Cat Form.
But if the heal is not instant, click 1 will start it, and click 2 will stop it and do Cat Form.

Assuming it works like this, Vuhdo will be a nice option.
I've been considering ways to get this to work in IS Boxer, for my Feral pvp team (still leveling them).

[deez]

Don't forget the space before target=vuhdo. Also with vuhdo, if you change your macro, you have to reopen the vuhdo config (I just retype the macro to be sure), otherwise it continues to use the old macro.

/cast [stance:3, target=vuhdo] Regrowth
/stopcasting
/cast [stance:0] Cat Form