Mecurio's Cataclysm Multiboxing Macros

[Mercurio]

After doing quite a bit of research and testing on the training dummies, I thought I'd post my DPS macros for post patch 4.0.1. I hope they are useful and as always, feel free to improve them. All my macros are created in standard WoW.

To cope with the increased complexity of talents and procs in Cata, I set up a new step system in ISBoxer. One button toggles between two key maps: one that simply sends "2" when I hit the "2" key (my main spam key) and the other that alternates between sending "2" and sending ";" when I hit the "2" key. When entering combat, I always make sure the alternating key map is active. This is quite easy to set up using the Step and New Map Key State Action tools in ISBoxer.

I then created a DPS Sequence Macro that I attached to "2" and a DPS Proc Macro that I attached to ";" for each type of DPS.

EDIT: Since these macros seem to be of help to a number of folks, I've added more instructions for how to set the "2 Step" up in ISBoxer here:

If you are using Lax's "FTL DPS Keys" keymap, you already have a "DPS 2" mapped key that simply sends the keypress of a "2" to all windows when you press "2".

Create another mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" called "2 Step" that is also called when you press "2" but has two steps - the first sends "2" to all windows (exactly as above), while the second step sends ";" to all windows.

Now all you need to do is set up a new mapped key in your "Control" key map. I called mine "2 Step Toggle" and associated it with the "Insert" key. It will have two steps in it.

Step one has 3 actions:

1) A new mapped key state action (one of the options when you add a new step) that toggles the "DPS 2" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to On
2) A new mapped key state action that toggles the "2 Step" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to Off
3) A popup text with a message like "2 Step Turned OFF"

Step two has 3 actions:

1) A new mapped key state action that toggles the "DPS 2" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to Off
2) A new mapped key state action that toggles the "2 Step" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to On
3) A popup text with a message like "2 Step Turned ON"

That's it! Use "Insert" to turn your toggle on or off.

Attach the sequence macros to your "2" key in WoW and the proc macros to your ";" key in WoW. Done.

(Of course, you may want to associate your proc macros with something other than ";" - Pinot used "9" and sent the 2nd step of his "2 Step" mapped key action to "9".)

Also, Va1entines was good enough to post a couple of screenshots of this set up in ISBoxer (thanks Va1entines!):

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/9224/firstle.jpg (http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/9224/firstle.jpg)
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3739/secondtq.jpg (http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3739/secondtq.jpg) NOTE: This is *not* correct - it should show two steps in the macro: the first step sending "2" to all windows and the second step sending ";" to all windows - sorry I didn't initally notice this!


Destro Lock

Destro Sequence Macro (Target Based)


/tar party1
/tar raid1
/stopmacro [channeling]
/castsequence [@targettarget] reset=5 Soul Fire,Immolate,Corruption,Incinerate,Incinerate,Inc inerate,Soul Fire,Immolate,Incinerate,Corruption,Incinerate,Inc inerate,Incinerate
/cast [@targettarget] Firebolt
/cast [@targettarget] Chaos Bolt
/cast [@targettarget] Shadowburn
/use 13
/use 14


Destro Sequence Macro (Focus Based)


/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/castsequence reset=target/5 Soul Fire,Immolate,Corruption,Incinerate,Incinerate,Inc inerate,Soul Fire,Immolate,Incinerate,Corruption,Incinerate,Inc inerate,Incinerate
/cast Firebolt
/cast Chaos Bolt
/cast Shadowburn
/use 13
/use 14


Destro Proc Macro (Target Based)


/tar party1
/tar raid1
/stopmacro [channeling]
/castsequence reset=7 [@targettarget] Conflagrate,Curse of the Elements,Bane of Doom,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagra te,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagrate ,Bane of Doom,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagra te,Conflagrate,Conflagrate
/cast Demon Soul
/cast Summon Doomguard

Destro Proc Macro (Focus Based)


/stopmacro [channeling]
/castsequence reset=7 Conflagrate,Curse of the Elements,Bane of Doom,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagra te,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagrate ,Bane of Doom,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagra te,Conflagrate,Conflagrate
/cast Demon Soul
/cast Summon Doomguard

Demonology Lock

Demonology Sequence Macro


/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/castsequence reset=12 Immolate,Corruption,Incinerate,Bane of Doom,Hand of Gul'dan, Curse of the Elements,Incinerate, Incinerate, Incinerate, Incinerate,Life Tap,Corruption,Hand of Gul'dan,Incinerate, Incinerate, Incinerate, Incinerate,Incinerate, Immolate,Incinerate,Hand of Gul'Dan,Corruption,Incinerate, Incinerate, Incinerate, Incinerate, Incinerate,Hand of Gul'Dan,Incinerate,Incinerate, Incinerate
/cast Metamorphosis
/cast Summon Doomguard
/petattack [@target]
/cast Demonic Empowerment


Demonology Proc Macro


/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/castsequence reset=30 SoulBurn,Soul Fire
/cast Shadow Bite
/cast Demon Soul
/cast Shadowburn
/use 13
/use 14

Shadow Priest

Shadow Sequence Macro


/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/castsequence reset=3 Vampiric Touch,Devouring Plague,Shadow Word: Pain,Mind Flay,Shadow Word: Death,Mind Flay,Mind Flay,Vampiric Touch,Mind Flay,Mind Flay,Devouring Plague,Mind Flay,Mind Flay,Vampiric Touch,Mind Flay,Mind Flay,Shadow Word: Death,Mind Flay

Shadow Proc Macro


/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/castsequence Mind Blast,Mind Blast,Archangel,Mind Blast,Mind Blast,Mind Blast,Dispersion,Mind Blast,Mind Blast,Mind Blast,Shadowfiend,Mind Blast
/use 13
/use 14

Smite (Healing/DPS) Priest - note that these are focus based instead of assist based like the other macros on this page - feel free to modify as needed for your preferred method

Smite Priest Sequence Macro


/stopmacro [channeling]
/cast [@focustarget,harm,exists][harm] Smite
/cast [@focus,exists,help] Prayer of Mending
/cast Inner Focus
/cast Archangel
/cast [@player] Power Infusion

Smite Priest Proc Macro


/stopmacro [channeling]
/cast [@focustarget,harm,exists][harm] Holy Fire
/cast [@focus,exists,help] Power Word: Shield


Ele Shaman

Ele Sequence Macro


/assist focus
/castsequence reset=combat/8 Flame Shock,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Earth Shock,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt
/cast Elemental Mastery

Ele Proc Macro


/castsequence reset=combat/8 Call of the Elements,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Searing Totem,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst
/use 13
/use 14


Survival Hunter

Surv Sequence Macro


/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/castsequence Hunter's Mark,Serpent Sting,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot,Serpent Sting,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot
/cast Rapid Fire

Surv Proc Macro


/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/cast Explosive Shot
/cast Black Arrow
/use 13
/use 14


Balance Druid (do not take the Sunfire talent!)

Balance Sequence Macro


/assist focus
/castsequence Moonfire,Insect Swarm,Wrath,Wrath,Wrath,Wrath,Wrath,Wrath,Wrath, Wrath, Wrath,Moonfire,Insect Swarm,Wrath,Wrath,Wrath,Starfire,Starfire,Starfire ,Moonfire,Insect Swarm,Starfire,Starfire,Starfire,Starfire,Starfire ,Starfire

Balance Proc Macro


/assist focus
/castsequence Starsurge
/cast [noform] Moonkin Form
/use 13
/use 14


Continued next post...

[Mercurio]

Arcane Mage

Arcane Sequence Macro


/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/castsequence reset=6 Arcane Blast,Arcane Blast,Arcane Blast,Arcane Blast,Arcane Blast,Arcane Blast,Arcane Barrage
/cast Presence of Mind

Arcane Proc Macro


/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/castsequence reset=6 Arcane Blast,Arcane Blast,Arcane Blast,Arcane Missiles
/click BT4Button75
/cast Arcane Power
/use 16
/use 13
/use 14

BTW, BT4Button75 holds another macro (below). I find that is it nice to be able to simply remove it from my bar if I don't want "pet" type DPS (around guards, when saving mirror image for a boss, etc).


/cast Mirror Image
/cast Flame Orb


Frost Mage (extremely complex to try to optimize. What I have here is courtesy of Fishbeak)

Frost Sequence Macro:


/assist focus
/castsequence Frostbolt,Frostbolt,Frostbolt,Frostbolt,Frostfire Bolt

Frost Proc Macro


/castsequence Deep Freeze
/cast [nopet] Summon Water Elemental
/cast Early Frost
/cast Mirror Image
/cast Icy Veins
/use 13
/use 14


Protection Pally (all credit to Pinot for this one, works great)

Prot Sequence Macro


/startattack
/tar Chains of Woe
# /tar Ascendant
/castsequence reset=5 Hammer of the Righteous,Judgement,Hammer of the Righteous,Word of Glory,Hammer of the Righteous,Shield of the Righteous,Judgement,Hammer of the Righteous,Shield of the Righteous,Hammer of the Righteous,Shield of the Righteous
/cast Avenger's Shield
/cast Holy Wrath
/use 13
/use14
/use 10

Protection Pally Proc Macro


/castsequence reset=20 Consecration,Divine Protection,Consecration


Protection Warrior

Prot War Sequence Macro - Single Target


/startattack
/castsequence reset=combat/6 Devastate,Devastate,Thunder Clap,Demoralizing Shout,Devastate,Devastate,Devastate,Devastate,Deva state,Devastate,Devastate,Devastate,Devastate,Deva state,Devastate
/cast Shield Slam
/cast Shield Block

Prot War Sequence Macro - AOE/Trash Targets


/startattack
/castsequence reset=combat/6 Shield Slam,Demoralizing Shout,Shockwave,Rend,Thunder Clap,Shield Slam,Devastate,Devastate,Devastate,Thunder Clap,Shield Slam,Devastate,Devastate,Devastate,Thunder Clap

Prot War Proc Macro


/cast Revenge
/use 13
/use 14


Fire Mage

Fire Sequence Macro


/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/castsequence reset=target/5 Scorch,Fireball,Fireball,Fireball,Living Bomb,Fireball,Fireball,Fireball,Fireball,Living Bomb,Fireball,Fireball,Fireball,Fireball,Living Bomb,Fireball
/cast Pyroblast!

Fire Proc Macro


/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/cast Mirror Image
/cast Combustion
/use Mana Gem
/use 13
/use 14



As for how 4.0.1 is working out, I was amazed when I did my weekly 3D Sarth and he fell in 45 seconds. Two toons were above 10K DPS and my boomkin was even at 8600 DPS. Of course, this was with heroism, but still.

I ran a bunch of heroics as well and am amazed at how much more quickly things are going down.

I hope all of you are doing as well and enjoying our new DPS uberness.

[Zub]

thanks for sharing!

just so i understand the alternating bit between your normal and proc keys.
Does this mean all your toons will try and cast your proc key at the same time? or do you have a separate "toggle" key for each toon?

[Zub]

thanks for sharing!

just so i understand the alternating bit between your normal and proc keys.
Does this mean all your toons will try and cast your proc key at the same time? or do you have a separate "toggle" key for each toon?

I've just re-read the thread and think i misunderstood you, as you said you always start a fight with the alternating key on.
(which basically sends "2" (spam) then ";"(proc) then "2"(spam) etc

Considering your mage macro below

Arcane Mage

Arcane Sequence Macro
/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/castsequence Arcane Blast
/cast Presence of Mind
/cast Mirror Image
/use Mana Gem

Arcane Proc Macro
/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/castsequence reset=6 Arcane Blast,Arcane Blast,Arcane Missiles


Does that mean that using the alternating keymap you will cast the following?
- Arcane Blast (from spam)
- Arcane Blast (from proc)
- Arcane Blast (from spam)
- Arcane Blast (from proc)
- Arcane Blast (from spam)
- Arcane Missiles (from proc)
- repeat (not including the other buff casts)

at what point do you use your spam-only keymap?
Also, what happens if you get a streak of mroe than 5 AB that don't proc missiles? wont the proc castsequence lock?

at the moment my mage is using a single key:
/castsequence [nochanneling] Arcane Blast
/cast Arcane Missiles
/cast Presence of Mind
/cast Mirror Image

That seems to work ok for me (casts missiles whenever it procs, AB otherwise). What are the advantages of your macro?
thanks for your help.
-Zub

[Bollwerk]

I'm also confused why you have "/assist focus" in your macros if you're using ISBoxer.

[Coltimar]

He has ISBoxer and KC.

[pinotnoir]

/assist focus is in there because when you do 10 man raids boxing you need to have dps attacking targets that are different than your tanks. This is an issue I have with Isboxer right now. I need to have my dps focus Merc while I offtank and using FTL will not work because it always uses your mains target. I just sent a message about how to fix that problem. With Cat we will need crowd control and if my alts only target what my tank targets it wont work. BTW Merc has disabled FTL and just uses focus because trying to focus on others with FTL is a pain in the ass. I am trying to get it figured out because it's not working with the new macros now.

[Mercurio]

I've just re-read the thread and think i misunderstood you, as you said you always start a fight with the alternating key on.
(which basically sends "2" (spam) then ";"(proc) then "2"(spam) etc

Considering your mage macro below

Does that mean that using the alternating keymap you will cast the following?
- Arcane Blast (from spam)
- Arcane Blast (from proc)
- Arcane Blast (from spam)
- Arcane Blast (from proc)
- Arcane Blast (from spam)
- Arcane Missiles (from proc)
- repeat (not including the other buff casts)

at what point do you use your spam-only keymap?
Also, what happens if you get a streak of mroe than 5 AB that don't proc missiles? wont the proc castsequence lock?

at the moment my mage is using a single key:
/castsequence [nochanneling] Arcane Blast
/cast Arcane Missiles
/cast Presence of Mind
/cast Mirror Image

That seems to work ok for me (casts missiles whenever it procs, AB otherwise). What are the advantages of your macro?
thanks for your help.
-Zub


Zub, the sequence of five Arcane Blasts then an Arcane Missiles is exactly what you would expect the alternating macro to produce. However, since I'm spamming the key much more quickly than the cast time of Arcane Blast, it is almost random which of the two macros actually executes when my toon can next cast. Therefore, at minimum he casts 2 Arcane Blasts (assuming only the proc macro triggers) before hitting Arcane Missiles and at the other extreme my toon can cast many more Arcane Blasts (in practice, 8 or so is the most I've seen) before casting Arcane Missiles.

Here is why it is better than just casting Arcane Missiles whenever they proc: Arcane Blasts put a stacking increase in arcane damage of the next arcane spell cast (up to four) that is used up when Arcane Missiles is cast. This buff also increases the mana used for each Arcane Blast. To optimize for max DPS, you'd just chain-cast Arcane Blasts, meaning you'd be at the max damage buff for all casts after the first four, but you'd run out of mana very quickly that way.

The optimum number of Arcane Blasts without running out of mana too quickly is five before each Arcane Missiles. Casting Arcane Missiles whenever they proc leads to poor DPS b/c you aren't building up much of the stacking damage buff before starting the cycle over again. I tried this and a number of other cast patterns, including some using Arcane Barrage, and what I recorded gives the the best DPS / resonable mana usage rate I found.

The reason I did it this way is that it will rarely cast Arcane Missiles before three or four Arcane Blasts have gone off (even if it Missiles becomes available early), yet it also allows you to just keep casting Arcane Blasts until Arcane Missiles does proc (because the proc macro gets stuck on an uncastable Missiles but the sequence will keep casting Blasts). I first tried setting up just one macro to do 6xBlast then 1xMissiles which worked well but would rarely (but devestatingly) not proc Missiles in the string of blasts and leave the mage doing nothing until he got out of combat and the macro reset.

So using my above macros you end up with a near-optimum situation where you average casting 5 or 6 Blasts before each Missiles.

One other note: when Pinot set this up, for some reason he would tend to get more sequence macro steps than proc macro steps, causing him to cast 9-10 Blasts per Missile and eat up his mana too quickly. So he deleted one of the Arcane Blasts in the proc macro and was very happy with the results - ending up casting about 5-6 Blasts per Missile - exactly what you want.

[deadca7]

Could you be so nice and take some print screens from ISBoxer, or right click and copy to clipboard and paste the settings here. I would love to try out your macros, but I'm just confused about the ISBoxer settings.

[Zub]

alright, that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.
I'll give it a try and see if I get a nice difference in numbers.

One last thing, when do you use the non-alternating state? if for whatever reason you get stuck on missiles?

[Toned]

Test your balance macro closely unless they hotfixed it when you get solar eclipse your shit will hang on sunfire.

[shadewalker]

I think that was his reasoning for not taking the sunfire talent.

[Mercurio]

alright, that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.
I'll give it a try and see if I get a nice difference in numbers.

One last thing, when do you use the non-alternating state? if for whatever reason you get stuck on missiles?

The only time I ever use the non-altering state is when I'm typing in my authenticator codes or typing messages to others in-game and need to use the number 2 (otherwise, half the time it ends up as a ";").

In-game I'm always using the alternating state.

[Mercurio]

I think that was his reasoning for not taking the sunfire talent.

Yep, the Sunfire talent screws up all the balance macros. Fortunately, there are still enough filler talents in the balance tree that you can avoid it and still get to the mandatory 31 points so you can branch out to the other trees. If that was a problem for me, there is no way my boomkin would have hit 8600 DPS on 3D Sartharion.

Once sunfire is not a problem, it is simply a task of using enough wraths to get you to one side of the eclipse bar consistently followed by enough starfires to get you to the other side consistently. Since the bar state saves from fight to fight and there is no reset in the macro, you get to an eclipse state pretty quickly in each new fight and stay there the whole time. Of course, you also want Insect Swarm and Moonfire going off just before they expire and your Starfire going off as often as it procs (proc macro does this for me, though a fall-through in the sequence macro might also work).

[Mercurio]

This used to be a post about how to set up the 2 Step in ISBoxer - I moved to first post in green and deleted it from here to make this thread pretty(er). :p

[Toned]

Guess I should have checked your talents lol I did the samething with my boonkin. In the end he ended up resto and my priest went shadow that's still up in the air.

[Bollwerk]

Here is why it is better than just casting Arcane Missiles whenever they proc: Arcane Blasts put a stacking increase in arcane damage of the next arcane spell cast (up to four) that is used up when Arcane Missiles is cast. This buff also increases the mana used for each Arcane Blast. To optimize for max DPS, you'd just chain-cast Arcane Blasts, meaning you'd be at the max damage buff for all casts after the first four, but you'd run out of mana very quickly that way.
http://elitistjerks.com/f75/t106141-arcane_cataclysm_updated_4_01_a/
Seems to indicate -
Arcane Blast no longer buffs the damage of all Arcane spells. Instead, it only buffs its own damage. The Arcane Blast stack still stacks to 4 and is still cleared with the casting of any other Arcane spell.

Are they wrong?
I haven't really taken the time to test this.

[ZorbaTheGeek]

If you are using Lax's "FTL DPS Keys" keymap, you already have a "DPS 2" mapped key that simply sends the keypress of a "2" to all windows when you press "2".
Create another mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" called "2 Step" that is also called when you press "2" but has two steps - the first sends "2" to all windows (exactly as above), while the second step sends ";" to all windows.

Now all you need to do is set up a new mapped key in your "Control" key map. I called mine "2 Step Toggle" and associated it with the "Insert" key. It will have two steps in it.
Step one has 3 actions:
1) A new mapped key state action (one of the options when you add a new step) that toggles the "DPS 2" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to On
2) A new mapped key state action that toggles the "2 Step" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to Off
3) A popup text with a message like "2 Step Turned OFF"
Step two has 3 actions:
1) A new mapped key state action that toggles the "DPS 2" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to Off
2) A new mapped key state action that toggles the "2 Step" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to On
3) A popup text with a message like "2 Step Turned ON"

That's it! Use "Insert" to turn your toggle on or off.

Attach the sequence macros to your "2" key in WoW and the proc macros to your ";" key in WoW. Done.

(Of course, you may want to associate your proc macros with something other than ";" - Pinot used "9" and sent the 2nd step of his "2 Step" mapped key action to "9".)

Hope that helps. :p

Thanks for this, I've just come back after a two year break from WoW and changed over to ISBoxer from Keyclone in the process. Still learning the new system but little tricks like this are superb.

But a quick note for the unwary. If, like me, you're in the habit of changing keymap settings in ISBoxer and uploading the changes while your sessions are running PLEASE remember to hit the "two step toggle" key straight away. Until that toggle is used IS will send "22" and then "2," with each alternate press while both keymaps remain active.

Can anyone tell me how to setup a keymap that begins in a state of "off"?

[Ualaa]

Can anyone tell me how to setup a keymap that begins in a state of "off"?

If you click on Advanced, under the name of the Mapped Key and above the Steps, the bottom option lets you not load the mapped key initially.

[Toned]

/assist focus is in there because when you do 10 man raids boxing you need to have dps attacking targets that are different than your tanks. This is an issue I have with Isboxer right now. I need to have my dps focus Merc while I offtank and using FTL will not work because it always uses your mains target. I just sent a message about how to fix that problem. With Cat we will need crowd control and if my alts only target what my tank targets it wont work. BTW Merc has disabled FTL and just uses focus because trying to focus on others with FTL is a pain in the ass. I am trying to get it figured out because it's not working with the new macros now.

My raiding setup uses ISBoxer and I use a combination of FTL , StickyTargeting, DPS on Focus, and Manual Assisting.

[ZorbaTheGeek]

If you click on Advanced, under the name of the Mapped Key and above the Steps, the bottom option lets you not load the mapped key initially.

Thanks, that got it =D

[pinotnoir]

My raiding setup uses ISBoxer and I use a combination of FTL , StickyTargeting, DPS on Focus, and Manual Assisting.


I would be interested to see how you set it up. With the old click macros I was able to set a focus and dps other targets. Now I have to use this proc macro setup I cannot use my old focus method. I really don't want to lost FTL because its amazing.

[nauren01]

great work - thank you!

I assume that the macros are maximizing dps for long (>20 sec) single target boss fight.

Do you also have a recommendation for short (<5sec) multi target trash fights?

[nauren01]

just tested the destro macro and I have one question: why are you not using soul fire?

maybe I am doing something wrong, but with your setup I do about 1900 dps @ lvl 73, all spells seem the cast & proc as inteded

with this simple macro (just 1 button) I do 2300 dps:

/castsequence reset=target Curse of the Elements, Immolate, Conflagrate, Chaos Bolt, Corruption, Bane of Doom, Soul Fire, Soul Fire
/cast [@target] Firebolt

might not be most mana efficient (recasting curses far before finish), but mana seems not to be an issue

any thoughts? what am I missing? is the reason that the toon is below 80?

[pinotnoir]

just tested the destro macro and I have one question: why are you not using soul fire?

maybe I am doing something wrong, but with your setup I do about 1900 dps @ lvl 73, all spells seem the cast & proc as inteded

with this simple macro (just 1 button) I do 2300 dps:

/castsequence reset=target Curse of the Elements, Immolate, Conflagrate, Chaos Bolt, Corruption, Bane of Doom, Soul Fire, Soul Fire
/cast [@target] Firebolt

might not be most mana efficient (recasting curses far before finish), but mana seems not to be an issue

any thoughts? what am I missing? is the reason that the toon is below 80?

The warlock macro got changed to do soul fire. Merc may post it later I am at work.

[nauren01]

The warlock macro got changed to do soul fire. Merc may post it later I am at work.

thank you :)

[Mercurio]

Just updated all the macros based on a few more days of testing and some good work from Pinot to help optimize.

The updates are in purple. We're particularly proud of the destro lock macro now. One surprising note: make sure you don't use the Incinerate glyph - it actually decreases your DPS!

[Mercurio]

great work - thank you!

I assume that the macros are maximizing dps for long (>20 sec) single target boss fight.

Do you also have a recommendation for short (<5sec) multi target trash fights?

I typically set up for longer fights since they can be a challenge and trash never is, although I try not to put up longer term spells in the first few casts since it is a waste on trash (like curse of elements).

Been running heroics with these macros and I'm blowing through them faster than ever. I'm doing some of the tougher acheivements (like Less-Rabi) without even thinking about it b/c my DPS is so high. From my perspective, I have no need to optimize them for non-bosses since everything melts. :D

[deadca7]

Could someone who has this working please post print screens of the settings you have in ISboxer.

[Va1entines]

Ele Sequence Macro
/assist focus
/castsequence reset=combat/8 Flame Shock,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Earth Shock,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt
/cast Elemental Mastery

Ele Proc Macro
/castsequence reset=combat/8 Call of the Elements,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Searing Totem,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst
/use 13
/use 14


great work - thank you!

I assume that the macros are maximizing dps for long (>20 sec) single target boss fight.

Do you also have a recommendation for short (<5sec) multi target trash fights?

For the above poster who requested something for trash you can simply edit the sequence macro to include your ae abilities. I for one changed every other lightning bolt to chain lightning and increased my dps by quite a bit. on trash of course.

[Va1entines]

Could someone who has this working please post print screens of the settings you have in ISboxer.


http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/9224/firstle.jpg

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3739/secondtq.jpg

hope that helps.

[deadca7]

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/9224/firstle.jpg

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3739/secondtq.jpg

hope that helps.

Thank you! Gonna try it out now :)

EDIT: Do you guys manually use Divine Plea and Heroism, since they are not in the macros ?

EDIT2: Wow, my shaman went from 2900 dps to 5000+! Your macros are amazing !

[Coltimar]

Merc, I know there is much to them but do either you or Pinot run a Frost Mage?

[Va1entines]

Thank you! Gonna try it out now :)

EDIT: Do you guys manually use Divine Plea and Heroism, since they are not in the macros ?

EDIT2: Wow, my shaman went from 2900 dps to 5000+! Your macros are amazing !

NP Glad I could help =)

and yes i manually use heroism.

[Fishbeak]

I will put in my frost mage macro let me know how it works for you.

Frost Mage Cast DPS Macro
/castsequence frostbolt,frostbolt,frostbolt,frostbolt,frostfire bolt


Frost Mage Proc Macro
/castsequence Deep Freeze
/cast [nopet] Summon Water Elemental
/cast Early Frost
/cast Mirror Image
/cast Icy Veins
/use 13
/use 14

[Tranzic]

I'm a bit confused. I've been away from MB for roughly 9 months and thought of giving it a go again
pre-cata expansion. However with all the procs going on I find it really hard to do any decent dmg.

This post was a big eye opener but I fail to see how sending ';' will do wonders for my dps.

I mean... There is no way I can keep track of all procs from 5 dps, and send the proc macro to
the one that is currently under the effect. Unless automated, and (ideally) linked to the same key
it simply won't happen. Will this toggle effect acomplish this?

Pardon me for being thick but I simply don't get it :)

//Tranz

[pinotnoir]

Merc, I know there is much to them but do either you or Pinot run a Frost Mage?

Arcane mage for me.

[Fishbeak]

I'm a bit confused. I've been away from MB for roughly 9 months and thought of giving it a go again
pre-cata expansion. However with all the procs going on I find it really hard to do any decent dmg.

This post was a big eye opener but I fail to see how sending ';' will do wonders for my dps.

I mean... There is no way I can keep track of all procs from 5 dps, and send the proc macro to
the one that is currently under the effect. Unless automated, and (ideally) linked to the same key
it simply won't happen. Will this toggle effect acomplish this?

Pardon me for being thick but I simply don't get it :)

//Tranz

All merc has done is group his spells into two categories. 1. Those without cooldowns 2. Those with cooldowns.

Now if you have 2 macros (but 1 key that alternates triggering macro 1 and macro 2) then even even macro 2 (those spells with cooldowns) fails, macro 1 will still fire, meaning your toon is not sitting around doing nothing.

Make sense?

[Tranzic]

Ah, so basically if using elemental shm the actually "2" button would acomplish the following:

Flame shock, Call of the Elements, Lightning Bolt, Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt*3, Lava burst...

Or? (Assuming nothing procs that alters any cooldowns of any spells)

//Tranz

[Fishbeak]

Ah, so basically if using elemental shm the actually "2" button would acomplish the following:

Flame shock, Call of the Elements, Lightning Bolt, Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt*3, Lava burst...

Or? (Assuming nothing procs that alters any cooldowns of any spells)

//Tranz


Yep (Mercs macro isn't what you indicated exactly but the concept is there )

[Mercurio]

I'm a bit confused. I've been away from MB for roughly 9 months and thought of giving it a go again
pre-cata expansion. However with all the procs going on I find it really hard to do any decent dmg.

This post was a big eye opener but I fail to see how sending ';' will do wonders for my dps.

I mean... There is no way I can keep track of all procs from 5 dps, and send the proc macro to
the one that is currently under the effect. Unless automated, and (ideally) linked to the same key
it simply won't happen. Will this toggle effect acomplish this?

Pardon me for being thick but I simply don't get it :)

//Tranz

Hey Tranz, you may already know this, but the ";" that you get ISBoxer to send half the time won't do anything unless you associate the ";" keypress to a button on your quick bars that fires off the Proc Macro for whatever toon you are running.

Once you associate the "2" key with the Sequence Macro and the ";" key with your Proc Macros, you never have to keep track of any procs for any of your toons. The macros are set up to optimize your DPS when you simply spam "2" on your keyboard. ISBoxer alternates your keypresses and you end up with great DPS.

[Mercurio]

EDIT2: Wow, my shaman went from 2900 dps to 5000+! Your macros are amazing !

WOOT! That's the kind of results I like to see! :D

[Mercurio]

I will put in my frost mage macro let me know how it works for you.

Frost Mage Cast DPS Macro
/castsequence frostbolt,frostbolt,frostbolt,frostbolt,frostfire bolt


Frost Mage Proc Macro
/castsequence Deep Freeze
/cast [nopet] Summon Water Elemental
/cast Early Frost
/cast Mirror Image
/cast Icy Veins
/use 13
/use 14

Dude. Just watched a 30 minute video on the optimum Frost Mage rotation. Good crap, that is complicated. Frost is sooo dependent on Fingers of Frost procs and Brain Freeze to determine if Frost Bolt, Frostfire Bolt, or Ice Lance is the best DPS at any point in time and any of those three spells are castable any time, so macroing this to be near optimal is impossible. The other major factor is that you want to cast your PET's TARGETED AOE spell Freeze every time it is off cooldown (25 s) to do good damage. What a pita. :mad:

The other thing is that with my arcane macros my mages do 2nd-best damage in my group (just behind my locks), so I don't have a need to mix things up. I was going to spend some time trying to optimize things for frost, but for now, I'll trust that you have done your homework and just post your macro in the compendium. Thanks for sharing.

[Fishbeak]

Dude. Just watched a 30 minute video on the optimum Frost Mage rotation. Good crap, that is complicated. Frost is sooo dependent on Fingers of Frost procs and Brain Freeze to determine if Frost Bolt, Frostfire Bolt, or Ice Lance is the best DPS at any point in time and any of those three spells are castable any time, so macroing this to be near optimal is impossible. The other major factor is that you want to cast your PET's TARGETED AOE spell Freeze every time it is off cooldown (25 s) to do good damage. What a pita. :mad:

The other thing is that with my arcane macros my mages do 2nd-best damage in my group (just behind my locks), so I don't have a need to mix things up. I was going to spend some time trying to optimize things for frost, but for now, I'll trust that you have done your homework and just post your macro in the compendium. Thanks for sharing.

Link the vid ;)

Frost does seem to be a pita atm and my macros are not super optimized but I can tell you that a 3x frostbolt 1x frostfire bolt seems to work pretty well. I will read up on when to icelance. I haven't touched the pet ability yet and if I have to manage that as well then it might be time for me to spec arcane. We have other forms of replenishment in raid and so frost would only be nice for my 5-man.

[Coltimar]

I ditched Frost. Well, I Dual Specced him. I really want to have one of my mages be Frost but they will both be arcane for now. DPS went from 2100 to 3900 just by respeccing, lol. My shaman are about the same as they were pre 4.0.1 but my warlock went off the charts. Sweetness.

Now i'm wrestling with my assassination rogue macro, but I intend to only play him solo. I can't imagine boxing a with a rogue. I know some do it just fine but it's outside of what I want to do, I think.

Thanks for sharing!

[Mercurio]

Link the vid ;)

Frost does seem to be a pita atm and my macros are not super optimized but I can tell you that a 3x frostbolt 1x frostfire bolt seems to work pretty well. I will read up on when to icelance. I haven't touched the pet ability yet and if I have to manage that as well then it might be time for me to spec arcane. We have other forms of replenishment in raid and so frost would only be nice for my 5-man.


Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3HbjJcc1Oc

[Prega]

EDIT: Since these macros seem to be of help to a number of folks, I've added more instructions for how to set the "2 Step" up in ISBoxer here:

If you are using Lax's "FTL DPS Keys" keymap, you already have a "DPS 2" mapped key that simply sends the keypress of a "2" to all windows when you press "2".
Create another mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" called "2 Step" that is also called when you press "2" but has two steps - the first sends "2" to all windows (exactly as above), while the second step sends ";" to all windows.

Now all you need to do is set up a new mapped key in your "Control" key map. I called mine "2 Step Toggle" and associated it with the "Insert" key. It will have two steps in it.
Step one has 3 actions:
1) A new mapped key state action (one of the options when you add a new step) that toggles the "DPS 2" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to On
2) A new mapped key state action that toggles the "2 Step" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to Off
3) A popup text with a message like "2 Step Turned OFF"
Step two has 3 actions:
1) A new mapped key state action that toggles the "DPS 2" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to Off
2) A new mapped key state action that toggles the "2 Step" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to On
3) A popup text with a message like "2 Step Turned ON"

That's it! Use "Insert" to turn your toggle on or off.

Attach the sequence macros to your "2" key in WoW and the proc macros to your ";" key in WoW. Done.

really interesting idea, thx a lot for share

i m trying to setup a viable method to manage multi-independent-targets, temporarly disabling ftl and your idea is good base

[Littleburst]

/cheer
Copied your protadin macro for the time being and will probably do the same for firemage and destro lock. Lovely to just be a lazy ass and copy you :D

[Littleburst]

You still have not yet made use of the Soul Fire instant cast proc?

I noticed the firemage will use it with /cast pyroblast!, but /cast soul fire! won't work like that. You left it out because it's impossible to put in?

[rootz]

Using the 2 step and working like a charm, nice quick way to get my 5 man team up and running again.

Thank you very much :)

[Coltimar]

These macros need a disclaimer. I was doing WG solo on my mage the other day and my damage was really bad. Then I realized I was ONLY running WoW, no ISBoxer, lol.

Disclaimer: Use of these macros without multiboxing software could result in the need to press TWO buttons *GASP*.

[remanz]

Hey Tranz, you may already know this, but the ";" that you get ISBoxer to send half the time won't do anything unless you associate the ";" keypress to a button on your quick bars that fires off the Proc Macro for whatever toon you are running.

Once you associate the "2" key with the Sequence Macro and the ";" key with your Proc Macros, you never have to keep track of any procs for any of your toons. The macros are set up to optimize your DPS when you simply spam "2" on your keyboard. ISBoxer alternates your keypresses and you end up with great DPS.

Hmm I am still not very clear on how ";" will fire off and where the "alternating" happens. The toggle we setup as "insert" is not part of my DPS spam right ? It is there for me to disable to function or enable it.

when it is enabled , it is not a 2 step key spam as shown in. For 2 steps, you need to have 2 steps each send 1 key stroke, not 1 step that send 2 key strokes.
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3739/secondtq.jpg

So question NO.1

It is 1 key spam that sends two key strokes. So when I spam "2", it will fire off both "2" and ";" and sending them to all windows at the same time? And this is equivalent to spam "2" and ";" at the same time , not alternating between the two.

question NO.2

How would the proc ever fire off ? If "2" is always spammed, by chance, it might always fire Lightning bolt, not lava burst.


I understand this 2 step macro works as many have tested. Just trying to understand the mechanism behind it.

[Heenan]

I must also be doing something wrong. I have mine set up like this:


2-step set to toggle between hotkeys 9 and 10
2-step bound to hotkey 3
Insert toggles 2-step on/off
Spell macros copied to 9
Proc macros copied to 10


Doing the above I dropped from 4.5k dps to 1.9k dps on the one shaman that I did it for. It looks like the toggle is working fine, and I see the spells rotating between each hotkey.

Am I missing something?

[Coltimar]

A couple of things i see remanz. You don't have ' setup in your macro, you have ; instead. So when your toggle is on you are spamming 2 and ; Also, the way this is setup, it looks at least, like it will spam both keys at once, not alternating. So 2 and ; will be spammed over and over. Sometimes your ; gets through and your procs fire off. I use this system and almost doubled my dps on 4 of my 6 dps toons and the other two showed slight improvement (both shaman).

All of that said, the macro that you put on your action bar in the 2 spot and the key that you have ; bound to will fire off. If you don't bind the right key to your proc marco it will never fire off.

[Coltimar]

I must also be doing something wrong. I have mine set up like this:


2-step set to toggle between hotkeys 9 and 10
2-step bound to hotkey 3
Insert toggles 2-step on/off
Spell macros copied to 9
Proc macros copied to 10


Doing the above I dropped from 4.5k dps to 1.9k dps on the one shaman that I did it for. It looks like the toggle is working fine, and I see the spells rotating between each hotkey.

Am I missing something?

What is hotkey 3? Is this your action bar button 3? You copy your existing FTL DPS Keys DPS 9 and rename it 2 step (or whatever) then modify it to ALSO spam 10. Then make sure your toggle, Insert key in this case, is set to activate the 2 step FTL DPS Key that you made. So when you press Ins it will activate that keymap and pushing the 9 key on your keyboard will spam the macros on 9 and 10.

[Heenan]

Ah, I see. Yes, hotkey 3 is just action bar 3. I was leaving it blank, and letting it spam hotkeys 9 and 10. I'm assuming there's something with that that's giving the DPS drop.

I'll try it again tonight.

[Johalak]

I have used this method quite successfully, thank you to all who contributed to this, however I just have one question I would like clarified.

In the original instructions, you have stated that the hotkey will require two steps. I took this to mean that when I press my spam key, the first press sends a 2 to all windows (or whatever we have setup as our dps macro key) and the second press will send a ' (or whatever we have setup as our proc macro key) to all windows. So, if we were to do slow, deliberate key presses we would get alternating 2 ' 2 ' 2 '...

However, I just happened to notice in one of the submitted screen shots, it is setup as one step, sending both keys on one key press. Am I reading this correctly? Is the original intent of this method to send both keys on one key press, or alternating keys?

[ebony]

I have used this method quite successfully, thank you to all who contributed to this, however I just have one question I would like clarified.

In the original instructions, you have stated that the hotkey will require two steps. I took this to mean that when I press my spam key, the first press sends a 2 to all windows (or whatever we have setup as our dps macro key) and the second press will send a ' (or whatever we have setup as our proc macro key) to all windows. So, if we were to do slow, deliberate key presses we would get alternating 2 ' 2 ' 2 '...

However, I just happened to notice in one of the submitted screen shots, it is setup as one step, sending both keys on one key press. Am I reading this correctly? Is the original intent of this method to send both keys on one key press, or alternating keys?


ya same i think its alternating keys after reading it a few times over and over i find out a 2step is two steps.


more like this SS

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_qtt3RZdN04g/TNm5VR0Cf6I/AAAAAAAAAg0/_w2LOlNpcpw/s912/2step.jpg (http://lh5.ggpht.com/_qtt3RZdN04g/TNm5VR0Cf6I/AAAAAAAAAg0/_w2LOlNpcpw/s912/2step.jpg)

[Bollwerk]

At least one of the screenshots in the OP is not setup correctly, from what I've found.
Also, make sure you include the FTL assist step when creating the 2 step macro (unless you have an /assist command in your macro already)

[remanz]

Ok that answered my question number 1

it is 2=> ; => 2 => ; => 2 => ; spam, and the initial screen shot was incorrect

The toggle confused me quite a bit. I thought I have to toggle on the fly while I was spamming.



I still don't quite get number 2. But I guess it is just like click macro, which I never fully understand how it fires off.

i.e. I am half way through my lightning bolt, I spam 2=> ; like no tomorrow. When lightning bolt done, how do I know if the next spell is lava burst, not another lightning bolt.

[Mercurio]

At least one of the screenshots in the OP is not setup correctly, from what I've found.
Also, make sure you include the FTL assist step when creating the 2 step macro (unless you have an /assist command in your macro already)

Bollwerk is correct - the second screenshot is not correct. It should contain two steps that alternate "2" and ";", not one step sending both at once.

I updated the first post accordingly.

[Shodokan]

While I am just starting to come back into things

The optimal thing to do in order to take advantage of art of war for ret paladins is as follows

/castsequence crusaderstrike,blah,blah,blah,blah
/cast exorcism
/stopcasting

this will only use the exorcism when it is procced... also good for soloing by just adding it like this to any macro

/cast crusader strike
/cast exorcism
/stopcasting

[Ualaa]

The problem with the /stopcasting, is that it resets the swing timer.
Or so earlier tests in one of the pally DPS threads has shown.

[Tin]

Thanks Mercurio - my Destro lock do close to 11K on the raid dummy with this marcos.

- only doing refersh of Soul Fire everytime it fall off.

[kate]

I implemented a simplified version of the ISBoxer step keys this weekend, and it's quite lovely. Here's how I have it set up:

Hotbar 1:
1: Main attack sequence macro for SINGLE TARGET
2: Proc macro for SINGLE TARGET
3: Main attack sequence macro for AOE
4: Proc macro for AOE (usually the same as single target)

I set my 1 key to have 2 steps - first sends 1 to all, 2nd sends 2 to all; my 3 key does the same - sends 3 and then 4 to all. I'm happy to say it all seems to be working well; no real DPS increase, but it is more convenient than what I had been doing, which is a huge plus.

[Va1entines]

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3739/secondtq.jpg[/COLOR] (http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3739/secondtq.jpg) NOTE: This is *not* correct - it should show two steps in the macro: the first step sending "2" to all windows and the second step sending ";" to all windows - sorry I didn't initally notice this!

It works the same way, it will still send both 2 and ; to all windows, but does it in a single keystroke rather than 2. Iv'e been using it since you made the macros and have never missed a proc.

[tanknspanker]

think I'll be trying these things out tomorrow on my druids, however it seems VERY complicated to me to setup cause i don't really understand anything of it xD but i'll just copy it ^^

greetingz

[Lyonheart]

It works the same way, it will still send both 2 and ; to all windows, but does it in a single keystroke rather than 2. Iv'e been using it since you made the macros and have never missed a proc.

I think you NEED the steps to keep it legal, ie one press=one action per account. You are getting two actions per one press. ( correct me if I'm wrong )

[Ualaa]

If you were to glue a quarter across two keys (and bind the first macro to one key, the second macro to an adjacent key), pushing the quarter will push both keys together.

One will push slightly before the other, on each push.

But warcraft has a thing called the Global Cool Down; because of the GCD, even if you were to push 23 buttons all as the result of a single input, you would only get one action in the game as the result of the one key press.

Every spell that triggers the GCD cannot be cast at the same time as another ability that also triggers the GCD. So even though both macros are pushed at once, unless one calls something off of the GCD then two things cannot activate.

The click based macros, which on a single keypress on our part, click two different macros do the exact same thing, except instead of doing it at the software multiplexer level, this is occurring at the warcraft level. Exactly the same thing though.

The actions that Blizzard cares about are governed by the GCD. They don't give a shit if you jump while doing something else. Similarly, it is ok to move both forward and strafe at the same time, there's nothing in the game that prevents you from moving while doing something else.

Blizzard does not want Bot type activity, which if anyone takes the time to read the post where the 1 press = 1 action was stated, the blue elaborated.. They don't want you to push one key, have one thing occur and then 3 seconds later without another push, something different, which can continue onwards for a lengthy process.

You're better off with two steps and alternating between them. This way you're guaranteed each castsequence advances as quickly as possible. If you mash both together, you could theoretically get one sequence several presses in a row, and it might be a sequence which is stuck. The whole point of two sequences, is that even though one of them cannot fire for whatever reason, the other can fire off fine.

[tanknspanker]

If you were to glue a quarter across two keys (and bind the first macro to one key, the second macro to an adjacent key), pushing the quarter will push both keys together.

One will push slightly before the other, on each push.

But warcraft has a thing called the Global Cool Down; because of the GCD, even if you were to push 23 buttons all as the result of a single input, you would only get one action in the game as the result of the one key press.

Every spell that triggers the GCD cannot be cast at the same time as another ability that also triggers the GCD. So even though both macros are pushed at once, unless one calls something off of the GCD then two things cannot activate.

The click based macros, which on a single keypress on our part, click two different macros do the exact same thing, except instead of doing it at the software multiplexer level, this is occurring at the warcraft level. Exactly the same thing though.

The actions that Blizzard cares about are governed by the GCD. They don't give a shit if you jump while doing something else. Similarly, it is ok to move both forward and strafe at the same time, there's nothing in the game that prevents you from moving while doing something else.

Blizzard does not want Bot type activity, which if anyone takes the time to read the post where the 1 press = 1 action was stated, the blue elaborated.. They don't want you to push one key, have one thing occur and then 3 seconds later without another push, something different, which can continue onwards for a lengthy process.

You're better off with two steps and alternating between them. This way you're guaranteed each castsequence advances as quickly as possible. If you mash both together, you could theoretically get one sequence several presses in a row, and it might be a sequence which is stuck. The whole point of two sequences, is that even though one of them cannot fire for whatever reason, the other can fire off fine.

so what you are trying to say is.. it's legal? ^^
or not? Ö
sorry if i'm being kind of nub now but long text confuse me, aint a english man here ^^

greetingz

[Sam DeathWalker]

Its legal ....

Why not check the cooldown procs on the down press of the key and the gcd only spells on the up press ..... ?

This is very very good, but because I do a lot of round robin with 36 guys I still have to make 21 or so step commands for each key. My IsboxerNewSettings.xml file is 702K ....

[Ualaa]

Blizzard won't care, if you push two buttons together, where only one can fire.
There is no delayed actions, where one push does something now and something else later.

You're better off with two steps (alternating outputs) or two distinct pushes (one after the other).

[Mercurio]

When I first came up with the concept of the 2 Step, I actually messed up the ISBoxer code and ended up sending two key presses at once (both "2" and ";"). This worked just fine as far as DPS went, but I wasn't absolutely sure about the legality of it so I fixed it to alternate which ISBoxer sends each time I hit 2 on the keyboard. This way it only sends one action per keystroke and I was 100% sure that Blizzard wouldn't have a problem with it.

From what Ualaa says, either method may be fine with Blizzard, but I just wanted to make sure. I have too many accounts and time invested to do anything that I wasn't sure was OK. :o

[stingc]

see post under this one

[stingc]

Prot warrior single target macro does not seem to work.
It stops the sequence once it has finishes it. Then it starts waiting for shield slam to work.
Am I doing something wrong or is it a macro malfunction.
I did remove shockwave because im just level 58.
The AOE macro does work tho.
thanks

[Ualaa]

Most of the macros in this thread are dependent on having two macros, and alternating between them.

Quite frequently, one will reach a point where it locks up.
You might not have Rage/Energy/Runic Power.
You might not have a Rune available.
Etc...

But by having two macros together, and alternating between them.
Even if you reach a point where the first locks for whatever reason.
The second should be able to fire (or if the second locks the first can fire).
One of them doesn't have anything that can stick or get locked up.
So by executing both, you hit all the stuff that you want.

And if one gets stuck, since you're spamming 1-2-1-2-1-2....
You won't sit there doing nothing, when "1" is stuck at some point in its sequence.

[tanknspanker]

Survival Hunter

Surv Sequence Macro
/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/castsequence Hunter's Mark,Serpent Sting,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Serpent Sting,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Steady Shot
/cast Rapid Fire

Surv Proc Macro
/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/cast Explosive Shot
/cast Black Arrow
/use 13
/use 14


that's it?
just steadyshot spamming

[Ualaa]

The first macro is your opening spells.
Hunter's Mark and Serpent Sting.
It also fires off Rapid Fire at every cooldown.
After that Steady Shot is +Focus, and will never get stuck.

The second macro fires off your cooldown effects.
And can get stuck often, but when it does the first macro fires off a Steady Shot.
At every opportunity Explosive Shot and Black Arrow both fire off.

So overall, you get ES and BA on every cooldown.
And then HM/SS initially, with SS whenever ES/BA cannot fire off.

[tanknspanker]

The first macro is your opening spells.
Hunter's Mark and Serpent Sting.
It also fires off Rapid Fire at every cooldown.
After that Steady Shot is +Focus, and will never get stuck.

The second macro fires off your cooldown effects.
And can get stuck often, but when it does the first macro fires off a Steady Shot.
At every opportunity Explosive Shot and Black Arrow both fire off.

So overall, you get ES and BA on every cooldown.
And then HM/SS initially, with SS whenever ES/BA cannot fire off.


might make 3 seperate macro's then?
1 with that steady shot ss and hm
2 with explosive shot
3 with Black arrow

cause explosive shot has a shorter cooldown?

[stingc]

Most of the macros in this thread are dependent on having two macros, and alternating between them.

Quite frequently, one will reach a point where it locks up.
You might not have Rage/Energy/Runic Power.
You might not have a Rune available.
Etc...

But by having two macros together, and alternating between them.
Even if you reach a point where the first locks for whatever reason.
The second should be able to fire (or if the second locks the first can fire).
One of them doesn't have anything that can stick or get locked up.
So by executing both, you hit all the stuff that you want.

And if one gets stuck, since you're spamming 1-2-1-2-1-2....
You won't sit there doing nothing, when "1" is stuck at some point in its sequence.

It is not that the resource i use, Rage, is the problem. The macro just locks up, while with castsequence and reset=combat/6 it should not happen.
So even with me spamming 2 macro's after the sequence is done I will only be avaible to use 1 of the 2 macro's regarding the amount of rage I have.
So it's the macro that causes the problem. And I think this is because of the /cast shield slam in the end.
I will do some testting later this evening to see what causes it and come with any alternative.

[jeepdriver]

do you have one set up for a disc priest by chance? :)

[Ualaa]

You'd want Penance, Holy Fire and Smite as your holy DPS.
But SW: Pain, SW: Death, Devouring Plague and Mindblast are decent shadow DPS.

I am rather partial to Smite, since it heals (talented).
And tend to use Penance the most when questing.

It all depends on whether you want the priest to be the healer, or a DPS/heal support.

[Mercurio]

Thanks Ualaa for all the above replies. As usual, you are correct on every point and have done a nice job explaining things.

Stingc, to be honest I haven't messed with the Prot Warrior macros very much. The only thing I really use the single attack on is when I'm using him to tank the 3D Sarth. The macro works well enough to keep threat even when three of my DPS are putting out over 10K damage, so it's got to be pretty good :rolleyes:

As to it getting hung over the long hall, I guess that's possible - I never use that macro for more than a minute at a time (if Sarth is up for more than a minute, it is a wipe), so I haven't tested over the long term. I'm also out of town visiting family so can't test it for the next five days.

Then again, in the PM you sent me this morning, it looks like your 2 Step setup isn't quite correct, so that could be the problem as well. Let's work it from two angles - I'll send you a reply to try to get your 2 Step fixed, and if you find something in your testing to optimize the tank macro, just post it here.

[deadca7]

Experimented a little on my Holy Priest today

I made this macro on my second step key "e"

/click ActionButton3
/click ActionButton4
/click ActionButton4
/click ActionButton5On ActionButton3 i got Chakra

On ActionButton4 i got this macro

#showtooltip
/tar TANK
/cast Guardian SpiritOn ActionButton5 i got Desperate Prayer

So when I spam my 2Step key, my priest try to cast these spells when available

[Harrypott]

Thanks Mercurio (http://www.dual-boxing.com/member.php?u=5880), These own!

[tanknspanker]

do you perhaps got any worked in evocation macro forthe mage? ^^

also for the warlock ^^

[Coltimar]

Would you really want to macro evocation? I think it works much better as a separate key so you can use it when you need it. Life Tap is already in Merc's macros but you could put it on a separate button as well to use when needed. You shouldn't have mana problems with a destro luck.

[tanknspanker]

Would you really want to macro evocation? I think it works much better as a separate key so you can use it when you need it. Life Tap is already in Merc's macros but you could put it on a separate button as well to use when needed. You shouldn't have mana problems with a destro luck.


I aint playing on high lvl yet ^^
only 40 atm.. so then mana is a little problem ^^
however on low lvl my lock really slacks on dps compaired to my others.
I hope that changes fast..

[Kris1234]

I aint playing on high lvl yet ^^
only 40 atm.. so then mana is a little problem ^^
however on low lvl my lock really slacks on dps compaired to my others.
I hope that changes fast..

My Guys are currently level 57 and using these macros, my prot warrior does 3 times the damage over my other guys (ele shaman, dest lock, arc mage) although the mage does a bit more damage over the lock and shaman. so im also hoping things change soon :)

[daanji]

Ele Shaman

Ele Sequence Macro
/assist focus
/castsequence reset=combat/8 Flame Shock,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Earth Shock,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt
/cast Elemental Mastery

Ele Proc Macro
/castsequence reset=combat/8 Call of the Elements,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Searing Totem,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst
/use 13
/use 14



For the proc macro, why do you do the Lava Burst as another cast sequence? I tested the 2 step macro above and its works ok, but I've found that Lava Burst doesn't always go off immediately when its ready. Usually I get 2-3 extra LB's before Lava Burst goes off. I spam my keys, so perhaps this is causing the issue?

However, I've been using this macro

/castsequence reset=combat/8 Flame Shock,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Earth Shock,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt
/cast Lava Burst

When I test this, Lava Burst goes off immediately on the next cast when its ready. Overall, it is a DPS increase.

[Mercurio]

daanji,

Great, I wasn't aware that having Lava Burst as a /cast wouldn't crater the macro. Since Lava Burst is an important part of Ele Shaman DPS, I'm sure having it cast on every cooldown (as compared to *almost* on every cooldown) is better for your shaman's DPS.

However, there are a couple of nice things about having Lava Burst split into the proc macro: it causes your shammies to drop their totems every once in a while (nice for movement fights) and more importantly, will cause your shammeis to ensure that their searing totem is always up. Not having a fire totem up would be a have a large impact on your team's overall DPS. If you use the current proc macro you will mindlessly always have the totem buffs even though you suffer a bit of a DPS loss on your Ele Shaman.

So the question is, can we figure out a good way to use your sequence macro with Lava Burst in it (for better Ele Shaman DPS) and combine it with a different proc macro that automatically casues you to refresh your totems every so often and your fire totems every 60 seconds? Would something like moving Elemental Mastery into the proc macro work? The new proc macro would look like:
/castsequence reset=combat/8 Call of the Elements,Elemental Mastery,Searing Totem,Elemental Mastery
The normal cooldown on Call of the Elements is 3 minutes. This is reduced by the Feedback talent by 3 sec per cast of Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning, but I don't think this is enough to get the cooldown near 1 minute (what we'd like it to be so totems are refreshed every minute by the above proc macro). I'm out of town for the holidays or I'd test some things out.

If you'd like to do some testing on this and figure out a nice solution, I'd be happy to update the master post accordingly. In the meantime, I will probably keep my proc macro as it is so the totems are managed automatically.

[naPS]

The problem with automatically dropping the fire totems is that it will cause your Fire Elemental to despawn if you currently have one up. And the Fire Elemental is a huge part of the shammy DPS sequence, and something you don't want to overwrite if possible.

[Aragent]

The problem with automatically dropping the fire totems is that it will cause your Fire Elemental to despawn if you currently have one up. And the Fire Elemental is a huge part of the shammy DPS sequence, and something you don't want to overwrite if possible.

I would then Recomend not adding a Fire totem to Call of the Elements and have a added /cast for the Fire Elemental in proc so it will be cast when its timer is up.

[naPS]

I would then Recomend not adding a Fire totem to Call of the Elements and have a added /cast for the Fire Elemental in proc so it will be cast when its timer is up.

But the point of Mercurio's post was so that you didn't have to manually re-cast the Searing Totem, which that would effectively be doing.

[Hyper]

I then created a DPS Sequence Macro that I attached to "2" and a DPS Proc Macro that I attached to ";" for each type of DPS.



Please forgive me for sounds newbish. I believe I understand the the overall concept pretty well, I can follow the directions to creating the Key mappings in ISBoxer fairly well, but the part that is confusing me is putting a macro on the ; key. :confused:

The main spam key on 2 is not an issue. Use the in-game macro tool, type the text of one (or several) of the wonderful macros supplied in this thread, then drop the icon on the number 2 of my action bar.
Now, after I use the same in-game tool to make the Proc macro, just how do I bind that macro to the ; key?

Edit:
After reviewing previous posts, I see your reply to someone else's issue stating that you needed to bind the ; key to some button on some actionbar. I was hoping that there was some way to create a macro and assign it to a key without it taking up actionbar space.

[Nuson]

Can you post a macro for a fury warrior?

[Aragent]

Please forgive me for sounds newbish. I believe I understand the the overall concept pretty well, I can follow the directions to creating the Key mappings in ISBoxer fairly well, but the part that is confusing me is putting a macro on the ; key. :confused:

The main spam key on 2 is not an issue. Use the in-game macro tool, type the text of one (or several) of the wonderful macros supplied in this thread, then drop the icon on the number 2 of my action bar.
Now, after I use the same in-game tool to make the Proc macro, just how do I bind that macro to the ; key?

Edit:
After reviewing previous posts, I see your reply to someone else's issue stating that you needed to bind the ; key to some button on some actionbar. I was hoping that there was some way to create a macro and assign it to a key without it taking up actionbar space.

If your trying to doit inside wow it has to be assigned to two diferent keys, Mercurio guide shows how to make the 2 step process on one key via Isboxer,

I hope that Helps

[daanji]

daanji,

Great, I wasn't aware that having Lava Burst as a /cast wouldn't crater the macro. Since Lava Burst is an important part of Ele Shaman DPS, I'm sure having it cast on every cooldown (as compared to *almost* on every cooldown) is better for your shaman's DPS.

However, there are a couple of nice things about having Lava Burst split into the proc macro: it causes your shammies to drop their totems every once in a while (nice for movement fights) and more importantly, will cause your shammeis to ensure that their searing totem is always up. Not having a fire totem up would be a have a large impact on your team's overall DPS. If you use the current proc macro you will mindlessly always have the totem buffs even though you suffer a bit of a DPS loss on your Ele Shaman.

So the question is, can we figure out a good way to use your sequence macro with Lava Burst in it (for better Ele Shaman DPS) and combine it with a different proc macro that automatically casues you to refresh your totems every so often and your fire totems every 60 seconds? Would something like moving Elemental Mastery into the proc macro work? The new proc macro would look like:
/castsequence reset=combat/8 Call of the Elements,Elemental Mastery,Searing Totem,Elemental Mastery
The normal cooldown on Call of the Elements is 3 minutes. This is reduced by the Feedback talent by 3 sec per cast of Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning, but I don't think this is enough to get the cooldown near 1 minute (what we'd like it to be so totems are refreshed every minute by the above proc macro). I'm out of town for the holidays or I'd test some things out.

If you'd like to do some testing on this and figure out a nice solution, I'd be happy to update the master post accordingly. In the meantime, I will probably keep my proc macro as it is so the totems are managed automatically.

Thanks for the feedback! I usually drop my totems using separate keys for each situation. I have general purpose buff keys, which causes the shamans to drop their totem, do water / earth / lightning shield, and buff their weapons. The other classes do their buffs as well. I also have a separate key for Fire / Earth Elemental. I also have a separate key for magma, nova and searing totems. Finally, I have a key for pvp that drops stoneclaw(it is glyphed for pvp), healing stream, and grounding totem when I get into trouble.

I haven't really considered adding totem drops as part of my standard shaman rotation, especially searing totem as that can pull mobs that I don't want. However, I see the value in it since it less to do manually, which I'm sure is a godsend in the 10-mans you do :)

[naPS]

do you have one set up for a disc priest by chance? :)

I've been using ISBoxer and the {SLOT} macro functionality for my holy / disc priest, and it's working great.

For bubbles, I basically set up a Mapped Key with 6 steps. The first step has the cast sequence for the disc or holy priest, and the next 5 steps have the Shields. For the shield cast I used


/castsequence [target={SLOT1}] reset=30 Power Word: Shield

... and then step through the SLOTs in the next 4 steps.

My five man team stays all nice and bubbled and I've had zero problems facerolling content with this setup.

Since I can always drink in-between pulls while I'm looting, I'm not terribly concerned about mana conservation at this point. Cata may change that, but for now it's working great.

[Tweedle]

If you are using Lax's "FTL DPS Keys" keymap, you already have a "DPS 2" mapped key that simply sends the keypress of a "2" to all windows when you press "2".
Create another mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" called "2 Step" that is also called when you press "2" but has two steps - the first sends "2" to all windows (exactly as above), while the second step sends ";" to all windows.

Now all you need to do is set up a new mapped key in your "Control" key map. I called mine "2 Step Toggle" and associated it with the "Insert" key. It will have two steps in it.
Step one has 3 actions:
1) A new mapped key state action (one of the options when you add a new step) that toggles the "DPS 2" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to On
2) A new mapped key state action that toggles the "2 Step" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to Off
3) A popup text with a message like "2 Step Turned OFF"
Step two has 3 actions:
1) A new mapped key state action that toggles the "DPS 2" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to Off
2) A new mapped key state action that toggles the "2 Step" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to On
3) A popup text with a message like "2 Step Turned ON"

That's it! Use "Insert" to turn your toggle on or off.

Attach the sequence macros to your "2" key in WoW and the proc macros to your ";" key in WoW. Done.

(Of course, you may want to associate your proc macros with something other than ";" - Pinot used "9" and sent the 2nd step of his "2 Step" mapped key action to "9".)

Also, Va1entines was good enough to post a couple of screenshots of this set up in ISBoxer (thanks Va1entines!):


I understand how this is supposed to work but am new to boxing and newer to ISBoxer, were in any of this does it show how to set the ";" key in isboxer? I'm having a real bad time at trial and error tryig to figure it out myself.

[Ualaa]

A mapped key has a few ingredients.

Most have a hotkey to activate them.
Although they don't need this, if they'll only be activated by another mapped key.

They usually do one thing.
IE, have one step.

If you wanted a mapped key on the " ; " key...
You would probably make a new mapped key.
Use the ; as the hotkey.
And have it output (in actions) the ; key to all windows.

In the case of Mercurio's macros.
There is a spam key, which can be '2' or whatever you want to spam.
This is the hotkey for the mapped key.
It has two steps, because it does one thing on the first press, and something different on the next press (at which point it resets to the first press).
He has chosen "2" as the output of the first press, and ";" as the output of the second press.
But "2" is the only key which is pressed, and it will likely be spammed.
If you always want the "proc" on this is a decent way to do it.

If you want to be able to disable it.
You'll want something like the approach you linked in green.
I'd have a mapped key, using whatever key I wanted to spam.
And have it "Do Mapped Key" twice, once for each output.
Then have a toggle macro (two steps) one that enables the second output and one that disables it.
So you can spam the "spam key", and have it alternate outputs or just output the one key.

[daanji]

I did additional testing tonight using my 5x shaman setup. I wanted to do a more formal test of the /castsequence versus /cast for the Lava Burst proc.


In my setup, all shamans were not grouped with no buffs or totems deployed. Each shaman DPSed a training dummy for 5 minutes to get a nice solid average.

For the first test, I used Mercurio's elemental shaman dps 2 step macros, but I removed the totem drops and left only the Lightning Bolt, Flame Shock, Earth Shock, and Lava Burst.

In the second test, I used my single macro with the /cast Lava Burst instead of a cast sequence.

Overall, the DPS was about the same across all 5 shamans between the two macros. This is odd, since I was seeing delayed Lava Burst procs with the castsequence the other night. Perhaps the difference is due to latency? Tonight my latency is 187 ms, which is pretty good.


In short, I believe the /cast Lava Burst and /castsequence Lava Burst are equivalent.

I'll try more testing with Mercurio's macros that drops totems in between Lava Burst if that affects anything.

[Altsoba]

Thank you very much for this very interesting post, both the OP as well as all others contributing and feeding the discussion.

I have one question though, what is the difference (technically, in terms of performance, logic, etc...) between:

a) Having both keys in different steps;
b) Having both keys in the same step as additional actions?

Aren't they still being "spammed" the same way by the hotkey we chose?

Thanking you in advance and have a good day,
A.

[daanji]

Ok, I think I found out the source of the discrepancy.

I'm using Aragent's setup in Isboxer to test out these macro differences. I went to the original setup and found the culprit.

In Aragent's setup, he has a /cast Lightning Bolt at the end. Since there is no cool down for Lightning Bolt and since there is a /castsequence Lava Burst, Lava Burst, ... Lava Burst there is a race condition as to which one goes off first. From my testing, when Lava Burst is available it won't always go off immediately when a /cast Lightning Bolt is present.

Now, when I take this out and have either /cast Lava Burst or /castsequence Lava Burst, the procs go off as soon as they can.

[Ualaa]

If you spam, but the spam is two different steps, in theory it will alternate between them.
You should get a precise: 1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2... etc.
One of the macros might be stuck on something and unable to advance, but the other macro should fire off fine, and the stuck macro should run as soon as it can.

If you spam both keys together, in the long run they should fire approximately as often.
But you will reach streaks where the same key is pressed first consistently, meaning the other does not have an opportunity to fire.
In short, it is a less even distribution with a greater potential for streaks of one macro over the other; you could inadvertently be on a "stuck" stage with not much happening for several presses.

[Altsoba]

If you spam, but the spam is two different steps, in theory it will alternate between them.
You should get a precise: 1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2... etc.
One of the macros might be stuck on something and unable to advance, but the other macro should fire off fine, and the stuck macro should run as soon as it can.

If you spam both keys together, in the long run they should fire approximately as often.
But you will reach streaks where the same key is pressed first consistently, meaning the other does not have an opportunity to fire.
In short, it is a less even distribution with a greater potential for streaks of one macro over the other; you could inadvertently be on a "stuck" stage with not much happening for several presses.

Ualaa... it's not even the fact you're always there to help... it's just that when you explain something it's so damn clear!

Can't thank you enough.

Cheers,
A.

[daanji]

I did some additional testing of my 5x Shaman DPS macro.

With these, I was about to get and maintain 7K DPS on my main shaman, which is PvP specced with Full Wrathful gear and reforged crit to mastery.

Here is a link to my main (http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Firetree&cn=Pa%C3%AFn)



Step 1


/castsequence reset=8 Flame Shock,Chain Lightning,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Chain Lightning,Lightning Bolt,Earth Shock,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt


Step 2 for Shaman #1


/castsequence reset=combat/8 Wind Shear, searing totem,lava burst,lava burst,lava burst,lava burst,Wind Shear,lava burst,lava burst,lava burst,lava burst
/cast elemental mastery
/use 13
/use 14


The main difference is I incorporated Chain Lightning into the standard rotation. It is spaced between 3 Lightning bolts apart because of the 3 second cool down. So even with max haste, it should still have enough time to come off cool down before the next one occurs. Also, the number of chain lightnings and lightning bolts are optimized to make full use of fulmination. On average, if should trigger earth shock with 7-9 orbs.

In step 2, this is mostly the same as Mercurio's macro. Searing Totem is cast at the start and is refreshed once every 60 seconds. Lava Burst has a 8 second cool down, thus 60/8 = 7.5, so we'll need 8 Lava Burst casts as filler.


I've also incorporated a staggered Wind Shear.
I have 5x Shamans and wind shear cool down is 6 seconds. So if each Shaman does Wind Shear in sequence, that is ~30 seconds between casts. 30 / 8 = 3.75. So Wind Shear is place once every 4 Lava Bursts. Each shaman has a slightly different proc macro where wind shear is staggered down the line. For example, here is my macro for Shaman #2

Step 2 for Shaman #2


/castsequence reset=combat/8 searing totem,lava burst,Wind Shear, lava burst,lava burst,lava burst,lava burst, Wind Shear, lava burst,lava burst,lava burst
/cast elemental mastery
/use 13
/use 14

[Ualaa]

Is that 7k single target DPS, or 7k including hops to other target dummies?

[daanji]

Is that 7k single target DPS, or 7k including hops to other target dummies?

That is single target.

[Mercurio]

I understand how this is supposed to work but am new to boxing and newer to ISBoxer, were in any of this does it show how to set the ";" key in isboxer? I'm having a real bad time at trial and error tryig to figure it out myself.

I'm not sure what you mean by "set the ';' key in isboxer, so I'll give you two answers.

1) The second screenshot provided by Va1entines shows that the ';' is sent to all windows in the first step. This is actually not correct, it should send ';' to all windows in the 2nd step only - as I explained right after the screenshot. So that's how the ';' gets sent to all windows through ISBoxer.

2) Once the ';' is sent to all windows, you may be asking how it is associated with your Proc Macros. To do this in WoW (arguably the easiest way), you have to associate the ';' key to a certain action bar slot. I use Bartender4 (the add-on) which allows you to associate any key press to any action bar slot. I used it to associate ';' with the 4th box on the 9th action bar, then made sure all my toons put their Proc Macros in that slot.

Hope this makes it clear for you!

[Mercurio]

That is single target.

daanji,

Thanks for all the testing on the Ele Shaman macros. It is fun to see if we can make these class macros better.

It looks like you have added something interesting to the shaman macros for PvP (adding in Wind Shear), especially if you have staggered its use when you have multiple Ele Shaman. You have also substituted Chain Lightning into the rotation instead of Lightning Bolt. My understanding was that this used to lead to better single target DPS, but that about a year ago it was nerfed.

For PvE (my main purpose for these macros), I don't think I will add Wind Shear into the rotation and Chain Lightning doesn't ignore CCed targets, so I will leave the Ele Macros as they are here.

If there is a reason to change them for PvE that I missed, let me know.

[Kruu]

Have a hunter mid 40's..should I switch over to surv or does anyone have a BM macro set?

[Ualaa]

I'd stick with BM for the leveling process.
I've basically got two macros which are used a ton.

#1 is:

#show Hunter's Mark
/petattack
/cast Hunter's Mark


#2 is:

#show
/Castsequence reset=combat Arcane Shot, Arcane Shot, Arcane Shot, Steady Shot, Steady Shot
/Cast [Target=PetTarget] Kill Command
/Cast Rapid Fire
/Cast Bestial Wrath
/Cast Kill Shot
/use 13
/use 14


If you're boxing five hunters, Serpent Sting won't be useful for leveling up mobs that frequently die to 5x Arcane Shot.
If you're solo, insert Serpent Sting before the first Arcane Shot.
Also Serpent Sting anything that will last a while; I've got it as a separate key that is very rarely pushed.

[Nuson]

Still new to the software, was wondering if you guys had a Fury warrior macro set up, and is it possible to successfully do a range and a melee dual box?

[Aragent]

Still new to the software, was wondering if you guys had a Fury warrior macro set up, and is it possible to successfully do a range and a melee dual box?

Yes Nuson you can be successful with range and melee.

I have posted a Fury macro http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=33080&page=7
I have also seen a couple others in the last day or so.

[Leovindica]

I'm lvl-ing my 80 holy pala and 80 Destro Lock in Cata. I'm curious what a good holy dps macro (if any) would look like.

[eisenhorn]

This does look cool. Is there a way to achieve this without IS Boxer? I only have keyclone...

[Ualaa]

Put your primary DPS on key 1.
Put your proc macro on key 2.

Alternate between the two.

[eisenhorn]

obvious i suppose ;-)
Cheers @Ualaa

[Sanderu]

Great macros and instruction, thanks! This boosted my shaman's DPS by alot since I was using a single castsequence macro. But alternating between 2 keys normally is quite annoying during an instance. Guess I should switch from hotkeynet to ISboxers to make it a bit easier for me.

Are there any people that switched from hotkeynet to ISboxers? And if so, is that much of a change?

[Khatovar]

Guess I should switch from hotkeynet to ISboxers to make it a bit easier for me.

Are there any people that switched from hotkeynet to ISboxers? And if so, is that much of a change?

You can do the same thing with HKN

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=33160

[Leovindica]

I have tried to make a holy dps macro:

#showtooltip
/startattack
/castsequence reset=5 Holy Shock, Exorcism, Exorcism, Exorcism, Holy Shock, Exorcism, Exorcism, Exorcism, Holy Shock, Exorcism, Exorcism
/cast Avenging Wrath
/cast Divine Favor
/use 13
/use 14

And for "proc":
/cast Hammer of Wrath
/cast Consecration

One thing bothers me, when I target a mob I lose him as a taret all the time, but when I set my Warlock as main then it works fine.. What am I missing?

Leo

[Sanderu]

You can do the same thing with HKN

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=33160

Thanks! I'll give that a try then.

Edit: This worked, nice!

[Enoah35]

Just a question if I may. I am using your macros on all of my toons consisting of Prot pala, Destro warlock, Arcane Mage, Ele Shaman, Disc/shadow priest. Whenever I change my shaman to resto, and my priest to shadow for some reason shadowform keeps dropping off. I have checked the macro several times and it seems everything is in place, so I thought its some temp buff, or temp buff which drops the shadowform? Did a bit of research and couldn't come up with any reason why it keeps dropping.

[howster]

Where would be the best place to insert Unleash Weapon for elemental shamans?
Was thinking of adding a 3rd step to trigger Unleash Weapon when the cooldown wears off. But not sure if that will make my dps suffer instead of increasing.

[Dorffo]

I have tried to make a holy dps macro:


One thing bothers me, when I target a mob I lose him as a taret all the time, but when I set my Warlock as main then it works fine.. What am I missing?

Leo

Silly question but I ran into the same thing last night: Did you make sure that the FTL modifiers are set correctly in the Advanced options for your 2step macro? I didn't and it was causing my FTL to misbehave.

[Multibocks]

If anyone wants to help me, this is my pastebin file

http://privatepaste.com/9426227703 (http://privatepaste.com/2162290316)

I can't figure out why my guys are only doing the ; sequence. They refuse to do "3" (which is my main dps key).

[pinki104]

any arms warrior dps macro

[Shania]

If you are using Lax's "FTL DPS Keys" keymap, you already have a "DPS 2" mapped key that simply sends the keypress of a "2" to all windows when you press "2". [/COLOR]
Create another mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" called "2 Step" that is also called when you press "2" but has two steps - the first sends "2" to all windows (exactly as above), while the second step sends ";" to all windows.

Now all you need to do is set up a new mapped key in your "Control" key map. I called mine "2 Step Toggle" and associated it with the "Insert" key. It will have two steps in it.
Step one has 3 actions:
1) A new mapped key state action (one of the options when you add a new step) that toggles the "DPS 2" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to On
2) A new mapped key state action that toggles the "2 Step" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to Off
3) A popup text with a message like "2 Step Turned OFF"
Step two has 3 actions:
1) A new mapped key state action that toggles the "DPS 2" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to Off
2) A new mapped key state action that toggles the "2 Step" mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" to On
3) A popup text with a message like "2 Step Turned ON"

That's it! Use "Insert" to turn your toggle on or off.

Attach the sequence macros to your "2" key in WoW and the proc macros to your ";" key in WoW. Done.

(Of course, you may want to associate your proc macros with something other than ";" - Pinot used "9" and sent the 2nd step of his "2 Step" mapped key action to "9".)

Also, Va1entines was good enough to post a couple of screenshots of this set up in ISBoxer (thanks Va1entines!):
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Trying to add this using the screenies as a reference as I dont understand without start to end guidance.

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3739/secondtq.jpg

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3739/secondtq.jpg

Did not get far Yet...

I went too isboxer under FTL DPS Keys and created a new one there called it 2 Step, the under that window, under Mapped keys I see my 2 Step, I expanded it and saw steps 1, clicked it and on right window under Actions, there is no option too add like in the sscreen shot, http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3739/secondtq.jpg
to add, Do ftl assist me in general keymaps.

How do I add that so I can try rest of the steps from using the screenshot as a guide ?

[Shania]

Can someone pls have a look and see what I have done wrong ?

When I click the Insert key I do not see any message anywhere that says on or off

Also I keybinded the ; to my action bar 1 to number 10 and put the proc macro in there and my sequence macro to number 1 dps key and changed in the instructions of 2 step to use my DPS 1 key.

But it seems too cast the sequence, Arcane Sequence Macro
/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/castsequence Arcane Blast
/cast Presence of Mind
/cast Mirror Image
/use Mana Gem
/use 13
/use 14

of arc blast, presense of mind, and mirrors and seems too just loop arc blast casting, havent seen it cast the arc missile procs.

Also I am not sure what /use 13 and /use 14 are ?

http://privatepaste.com/890faf1915

[Ualaa]

/Use 13 = Top Trinket
/Use 14 = Bottom Trinket

/Use 10 = Gloves



As far as your two step macro goes.
You need a mapped key, with two steps.

On step 1, it sends keybind A
On step 2, it sends keybind B

Have one macro on keybind A, the other on keybind B.
You could go with IS Boxer macros, that wouldn't change anything.

You can test your two step, by putting a chat macro on each key.
/Tell LeadToonName Step 1 works.
Put that on keybind 1.
Do the same on 2, but Step 2 works.

Once the mapped key is working.
Just check the spelling and capitalization of the macros.

[Shania]

I have the macro for cast sequence on my dps 1 key
I have the proc macro on my kep thats after 0 in the dps bar, thathas a keybind too ; and the proc macro was dropped onto that.

When I press 1 the sequence begins, and it works except for the Proc part, it never casts arc missiles, I stayed on the test dummy until I went out of mana and never was any procs casted.

As for Insert, that now works, as I can click Insert key and it toggles message off and on, on my screen.

But I cannot get the proc too trigger.

http://privatepaste.com/b1e8390662

[Shania]

Lax assisted me further, issue was:

the bottom left pane select "2 Step" (in the FTL DPS Keys map), go to its Advanced settingsand check the box at the bottom that says "Do not load"

I did not have mine checked.
Also

and set the Hotkey for "2 Step" to 1

I didnt realise that on the actual " 2 Step" I need too click it and set it too my hotkey 1 lol


Just need to fix my toggle insert as I have it backwards but works hahaha

This is a really powerful macro, amazing and just what I need for my arc mages.

Amazing, thx you author and Lax for assistance, just brilliant, something I got to work woot :)

[Mercurio]

I'm glad this is still getting some new boxers into a groove where they can be competitive with non-boxers.

As an aside, I'm running a lot of my guys through raids solo ATM and it never ceases to amaze me that I can have above average DPS by just spamming one button.

It allows me to focus on all the mechanics of the fight going on around me. The other DPSers are trying to work through rotations while dealing with all the movement, spreading, contracting, interrupting, defensive cooldown usage, etc. I quickly get a reputation for being a solid DPSer who never screws things up simply becasue the ease of the 2 step.

[Shania]

Well Mercurio it has helped me thats for sure. And I have barely scratched the surface.
Now my mana on my arc mages is unbelieve... Im nowhere near ooming like before.

I plan to try the survival macro in a raid on my main hunter that I raid solo with and see if there is any diference in my dps, it does pretty good dps as it is more the better, damn bow wont drop for me off Valiona or Atramedes week after week after week ARGGG, damn RNG.

Is there a macro and proc 1 for Marksmen ?

[Mercurio]

I haven't investigated a Marksman rotation yet - Survival works really well, so I'm not overly motivated.

BTW, if you can get Conquest points from arenas every week, the hunter bow/gun there is on par with anything in today's raiding environment.

[Shania]

Why does the surv macro have in proc, black arrow thats not a proc ?

Trying it tonight when we raid and see how the macro pans out.

Also yes I know of the pvp bow, with the amount of alts I have and boxing, and BG weekend spamming of late, I havent had time to even bother to try for conquest pts, but surely this is the week the bow will drop right ? Hasnt been seen not once since we started and thats been sometime... and there is 2 possibilites of obtaining it, Valiona and Atramedes... So tonight Im lucky punk!!! lol... ok wishful thinking.

[Shania]

Small issue with the proc macro on arc mages.

Some encounters in dungeons I need to move in a hurry, and all my dpsers, so when I hit alt + f to get them all to move and follow, the arc mages if 1 or all happen to be on a proc casting arcane missiles they do not move until they have finished the cast, so they either by then have died, or I noticed a little to late that one is out of range and didnt move with the crew and still died.

Whats the way around this ?

[Kvas]

Protection Pally (all credit to Pinot for this one, works great)

/castsequence reset=5 Judgement,Hammer of the Righteous,Shield of the Righteous,Hammer of the Righteous,Crusader Strike



Why is this line: Judge/HotR/SotR/HotR/CS ?

Shouldn't it be, assuming AoE: HotR/Judge/HotR/SotR/HotR

Seems you'd want to lead with the AoE of HotR and if it's an AoE situation then HotR is superior to CS, for single targeting same macro but with CS would be superior.

[Shania]

Survival Hunter

Surv Sequence Macro
/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/castsequence Hunter's Mark,Serpent Sting,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Serpent Sting,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Steady Shot,Steady Shot
/cast Rapid Fire

Surv Proc Macro
/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/cast Explosive Shot
/cast Black Arrow
/use 13
/use 14

Couple of Q's on this macro, why have you got steady shot for a Surv Hunter and not Cobra Shot ?

Cobra shot refreshes your serpent sting and regens your focus. Steady is used for MM and BM.

And the Proc, Black Arrow isnt a Proc, its a cool down cast, so having that in the proc, does that mean it will auto cast it once it has come off cool down ?

I tried the macro, and noticed far too many Explosive shots are missed which is huge dps loss, only time it casts explosive is via a proc so the non proccing 1's are being missed and is a huge dps loss.

I raid on my main which is a Surv hunter but never use dps macros but would love this 2 step 1 if it can somehow use explosive when its off cd, and of course when it procs and reapply BA off cd and replace steady with Cobra shot.

[Khatovar]

Why is this line: Judge/HotR/SotR/HotR/CS ?

Shouldn't it be, assuming AoE: HotR/Judge/HotR/SotR/HotR

Seems you'd want to lead with the AoE of HotR and if it's an AoE situation then HotR is superior to CS, for single targeting same macro but with CS would be superior.

Well first, Judgement can be used at a further distance than other attacks, so a lot of people use it first to continue a headstart on agro before the DPS starts in.

From my experience, using too many HotR ate into my Mana too much. My rotation uses 2 CS {10% base mana} to 1 HotR {12% base mana}. That provides steady enough multi-target agro generation without eating too much mana, especially when factoring the mana pigs of HW and Consecration, which Pinot also has in his macro.

[Ualaa]

You can also take all of these as starting points.
They are sets of macros, which you know work and work well.

But your needs might be different than the macro authors.
And spells, talents, glyphs and such will change over time too, so what was optimal once might not remain so.

Take the macros as a starting point.
And tweak them, if you think something works better.
Play around with it for a while, and then either keep it or revert back to these.
You can always try different variations.

If you find something that works better, please consider sharing with the community.
That is what makes this such a great site for boxing; lots of people sharing ideas with others.

[Mercurio]

Couple of Q's on this macro, why have you got steady shot for a Surv Hunter and not Cobra Shot ?

Cobra shot refreshes your serpent sting and regens your focus. Steady is used for MM and BM.

And the Proc, Black Arrow isnt a Proc, its a cool down cast, so having that in the proc, does that mean it will auto cast it once it has come off cool down ?

I tried the macro, and noticed far too many Explosive shots are missed which is huge dps loss, only time it casts explosive is via a proc so the non proccing 1's are being missed and is a huge dps loss.

I raid on my main which is a Surv hunter but never use dps macros but would love this 2 step 1 if it can somehow use explosive when its off cd, and of course when it procs and reapply BA off cd and replace steady with Cobra shot.

Ack! My hunter macro still says Steady Shot here? Darn, I changed that to Cobra Shot as soon as I reached a high enough level on both my hunters. I'll go back and update it on the initial post.

As for the "Proc Macros", I just named them that because Proc-type spells were the original reason I started the 2-Step thing in the first place. However, the Proc Macros are no different than the Sequence Macros. Each will be cast about half the time, meaning Explosive Shot and Black Arrow should basically cast as soon as they are up. I've been using that macro in raids and do fine DPS with it. I'm sure I might get marginally more DPS out of watching a rotation carefully, but then I'd be screwing other things in the raid up because so much of my attention would be on the rotation, not the MUCH more important situational awareness demanded in todays raids.

Thanks for your comments.

[Kvas]

You can also take all of these as starting points.
They are sets of macros, which you know work and work well.


Trying it, using HotR/Judge/HotR/SotR/HotR generated more threat but less mana efficient, toggling the hotkey between CS based macro and an HotR based macro and between seals is most efficient with regards to maximizing mana and dps, but trades in ease of use, so it depends on much micro managing you want to do.

Having thought more about it, I'm convinced that a more layered approach, using more than two keys/macros is the best solution.

[Shania]

Ack! My hunter macro still says Steady Shot here? Darn, I changed that to Cobra Shot as soon as I reached a high enough level on both my hunters. I'll go back and update it on the initial post.

As for the "Proc Macros", I just named them that because Proc-type spells were the original reason I started the 2-Step thing in the first place. However, the Proc Macros are no different than the Sequence Macros. Each will be cast about half the time, meaning Explosive Shot and Black Arrow should basically cast as soon as they are up. I've been using that macro in raids and do fine DPS with it. I'm sure I might get marginally more DPS out of watching a rotation carefully, but then I'd be screwing other things in the raid up because so much of my attention would be on the rotation, not the MUCH more important situational awareness demanded in todays raids.

Thanks for your comments.

Np's :)

I see you changed it too Cobra, going too try it again shortly as we raiding in a few hrs, Im just looking for a more lazy way too keep my dps above 20+ ahahhah.

And being what I am with macro's and all this tinkering, New to me, even still, I want too try fire on my mages, well they already dual specced into fire, but specificly the 2 step macroes on them.

What could going wrong with the fire mages.... i copied your proc macro same way I did for Arcane which works great btw.

My mage seems too manually cast pyro blast and not actually cast it when the proc comes up.

All I did was same thing as before, except used your fire mage macro

Fire Sequence Macro
/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/castsequence reset=target/5 Scorch,Fireball,Fireball,Fireball,Living Bomb,Fireball,Fireball,Fireball,Fireball,Living Bomb,Fireball,Fireball,Fireball,Fireball,Living Bomb,Fireball
/cast Pyroblast!

That macro is in my number 1 bar, and proc
Fire Proc Macro
/stopmacro [channeling]
/assist focus
/cast Mirror Image
/cast Combustion
/use Mana Gem
/use 13
/use 14

Looking at Arcane proc macro inside it is has inside it arcane missiles, but the fire proc has not got anything for pyro blast.

I tried too add it same way you had your arc proc but replaced the word arcane missiles with pyro blast, but it still isnt launching the pyroblast on proc.

What am I doing wrong please ?


Also I would like too learn too tweak your macroes for my own situations but I don't understand somethings, could someone please be kind to explain things like:


/castsequence reset=6 Arcane Blast,Arcane Blast,Arcane Missiles



/castsequence reset=target/5

What does the reset=6 mean ? resets after 6 casts ? 6 seconds ?

Also the reset=target/5 ?

[Ualaa]

A castsequence normally loops through A then B then C then D.
Once it reaches the end or last ability, it loops back to the first (A).

If you include something like NULL, or a non-existant spell then it cannot advance beyond that point.
So gets stuck there.
Ditto for a spell that is on cooldown, the sequence sticks until the spell fires off.
Not saying until the spell hits, just until the sequence can do it and advance to the next point.

There are various reset conditions.
Once any of these are valid, the entire sequence starts over at the first ability or spell.

Reset=
- Target = Change of Target
- Combat = Leaving Combat
- Alt = Pressing the castsequence while Alt is held
- Ctrl = Same as Alt
- Shift = Same as Alt
- 4 = After four seconds of the castsequence key not being pushed (even if it cannot fire off, if you're mashing away the sequence will not reset)

You can combine these.
So with reset=target/5... the sequence resets when you change targets or when you haven't pushed the castsequence macro at all for five or more consecutive seconds.

[Shania]

Hm I see now, Thank You, Ualaa.

Also I need to re-try the fire proc, as right now am in the middle of using the surv hunter macro and I know why the fire proc was not working, lol... when I logged to my hunter just now too test Surv macro, it too wasnt working, then I relalised,..... INSERT, too toggle it on lol...

As for Surv macro, its working nicely, except it takes far to long to re-apply black arrow, sometimes as much as 7+ cobra casts before it re-applies Black Arrow after its fallen off.

Not really issue as its easy too re-apply and rest of macro works amazingly well so thats going to be one hell of a lazy way too dps tonight on Ala'kir and thats what Im after :P

Brilliant stuff. Less I have too care about my procs and sequence the better for my overall surroundings like Damn tornades and wind blasts.

Going to try and come up with something for Marksmen as I do amazing dps as MM on certain fights, its just a real pain too monitor a sequence on.

Damn you awesome people, I can never get enough of this place :)

[Khatovar]

You may need to adjust your spam speed. I saw a post earlier where spamming a multistep macro too fast can seriously impact how often the "proc" section actually has a chance to occur.

You could also try moving to a 3step macro instead of just 2, where Explosive Shot and Black Arrow are each individual macros.

[Shania]

You may need to adjust your spam speed. I saw a post earlier where spamming a multistep macro too fast can seriously impact how often the "proc" section actually has a chance to occur.

You could also try moving to a 3step macro instead of just 2, where Explosive Shot and Black Arrow are each individual macros.


Umm. have I missed something like usual ?

3 step macro instead of 2 ? hows this work ?

[Khatovar]

Just add another mapped step, so instead of using 2 and ;


If you are using Lax's "FTL DPS Keys" keymap, you already have a "DPS 2" mapped key that simply sends the keypress of a "2" to all windows when you press "2".
Create another mapped key within "FTL DPS Keys" called "2 Step" that is also called when you press "2" but has two steps - the first sends "2" to all windows (exactly as above), while the second step sends ";" to all windows.

add another step there so instead of just 2 then ;, it sends 2, then ; then 3 or whatever other key.

Change the second macro to just send Explosive Shot, and remove Black Arrow.
Add a new macro to send Black Arrow and put it on the new key.

[Shania]

Thx that worked used it tonight, worked well, but overall dps was lower, so after a few bosses ditched the macro and went back to usual play.

Definitely would be handy in heroics or other situations where I am using the hunter for boxing purposes though.

[Ualaa]

Having Explosive Shot and Black Arrow on separate keys, and regularly spamming both of those...
Which you would be, with a three step.

Neither ability would ever be "stuck" after the other, if it was ready and the other was on cooldown or lacked focus or whatever.

[Shania]

How/where do you find out what item is numbered for /use ?

Like I know few pages back /use 13 and /use 14 is trinkets cause Ualaa explained it to me ahaha :)
And /use 10 is Gloves, what about the rest ? How do you find this out please ?

[Khatovar]

http://www.wowpedia.org/Equipment_slots#Equip_slots_in_Macros

[Shania]

Oh brilliant, Thank You kindly :))

[Shania]

That linked helped alot :)

Love the fire proc 2 step macro, works really well.
Going to try and make some time on weekend (Hopefully) and come up with one for MM hunter.

[Aragent]

That linked helped alot :)

Love the fire proc 2 step macro, works really well.
Going to try and make some time on weekend (Hopefully) and come up with one for MM hunter.

Shania you can find most DPS 2 step macros at my project as well (at least a good place to start)
I will also be posting an updated version of my project very shortly.
http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=33080

[Mercurio]

You back Aragent? Happy to see that! I haven't integrated any of your more complex setup into ISBoxer (as discussed, there are some pros and cons, and I'm fairly happy with my current setup), but I like the concept and can definitley see the allure for some people. I'm glad you've created another option for folks and am always looking to see how those on your thread can add to the 2 Step macro database.

[Aragent]

You back Aragent? Happy to see that! I haven't integrated any of your more complex setup into ISBoxer (as discussed, there are some pros and cons, and I'm fairly happy with my current setup), but I like the concept and can definitley see the allure for some people. I'm glad you've created another option for folks and am always looking to see how those on your thread can add to the 2 Step macro database.

Yes been back but just been just trolling

I am curently {been} working on and almost finished a complete update to My project {/w recomendations from Lax} which will bring the project more in line with isboxer 38 the Draft to the write up is finished I been going threw and trying to update all the macros befor I post it. stil have Rogues,Shamans,warlocks and Warriors to finish I hope to have it finished by the weekend and get it posted.

I have been tinkering with a multi step macro Stay tuned I think you all will like the update.

also with the update it should be easier to use the projects macros for starting points for others

[moog]

Just a quick, huge "Thanks" for this guide.

Originally a KeyClone user, I took a year off but came back just before Cata and decided to move up to ISBoxer at the same time.

I RAFd a bunch of 2-man teams up very easily and had my 5-shammies working well but was struggling to really get my mixed team motoring... but this guide sorted me out :)

Very much appreciated!

[Shania]

Anyone have any thoughts on why my mages as fire using 2 step macro dps very badly incomparison too using them as arcane with 2 step macro ?

Using exact same, procs/sequence as listed on page 1.

Their ilvls are around 346+

[shadewalker]

you may want to check here,

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=33870

I have not seen any updated fire mage macros for lvl 85

[Mercurio]

Anyone have any thoughts on why my mages as fire using 2 step macro dps very badly incomparison too using them as arcane with 2 step macro ?

Using exact same, procs/sequence as listed on page 1.

Their ilvls are around 346+

Shania, I did only rudimentary work on the Fire Mage macros. All my guys are Arcane ATM, and that should just get better with the patch today.

So there may be things to optimize in the Fire rotation, but I'm very happy with Arcane damage, so haven't put the work in.

[Feider]

Is there a reason putting the the cast macro on the down press and the proc macro on the release won't work as well as using two keymaps? I'm new to ISBoxer and have not used a 2 step macro yet so forgive my ignorance.

(I've been managing 3 buttons that included macros.)

[Ualaa]

Two step can be, "Execute on Press or Release".
It can be execute on release only, and spam it at the pace you choose.... press 1 = Step 1, press 2 = Step 2.

You could physically have two mapped keys.
"1" is mapped to keybind A, on step 1.
And another mapped key, with a hotkey of "2" sends whatever also on Step 1.
And then alternate 1's and 2's, as the keys you spam.

The method doesn't really matter.
Although going two steps on one mapped key will let you mash a single button for DPS which is easier.

[Feider]

I guess my question is this:
The 2 step macro as described above wil send more "2" than ";". You will get something like 22;22;22; ... Is this weighting crucial or would 2;2;2;2;2; work just as well? Is the "2" weighted to insure that something will fire right way?

[Erron]

Where would be the best place to insert Unleash Weapon for elemental shamans?
Was thinking of adding a 3rd step to trigger Unleash Weapon when the cooldown wears off. But not sure if that will make my dps suffer instead of increasing.


Was thinking the same thing. I have been testing it by putting Unleash Elements as a third step. I pick up about 2k in DPS with it. I am not sure where to put in Merc's sequence.

Any thoughts?

[Bollwerk]

I haven't tested myself, but I've been told that Unleash Elements isn't worth using as Elemental, except when moving. Supposedly there are better dps spells to use in that GCD.

If that's wrong, I'd like to see some actual testing that shows why.

[zenga]

I haven't tested myself, but I've been told that Unleash Elements isn't worth using as Elemental, except when moving. Supposedly there are better dps spells to use in that GCD.

If that's wrong, I'd like to see some actual testing that shows why.

That is correct. With 2/2 in elemental weapons it adds 30% to your next fire spell. But it consumes a gcd.

My gcd approx 1.1
My lava burst has a 1.2s casy and crits for a about 38k vs raiding dummy
My lightning bolt has a 1.5s cast time, hits for 14k and crist for 26k

(1.8k haste, average of 10.5k spellpower over 5m dmg session)

So basically casting UE followed by LvB would do about 5k (self) + 10k extra lava burst damage or ~15k per gcd
Lightning bolt has a significant longer cast time than the gcd UE uses, but it can proc elemental overload (mastery), add a lightning shield orb and reduces the cooldown on elemental mastery with 3 seconds if talented 3/3 in feedback. This while it hits for about the same as the total effect of UE.

In short: the fact that lightning bolt can crit, go off twice, can add a lightning shield orb and reduce the cd on EM with 3 seconds makes using UE a dps loss.

The only times where you should use UE is when moving and when you can't refresh searing totem or flame shock. Or when you need a nuke (like breaking a shield on conclave raid) at a given time and flame shock is still on the target.

[Fishbeak]

I guess my question is this:
The 2 step macro as described above wil send more "2" than ";". You will get something like 22;22;22; ... Is this weighting crucial or would 2;2;2;2;2; work just as well? Is the "2" weighted to insure that something will fire right way?

My 2-step setup is 12121212 and not 112112112 has described above.

(assuming 1->macro1 and 2->macro2)

[waffletastic]

No Death Knight Macros?

[howster]

I guess my question is this:
The 2 step macro as described above wil send more "2" than ";". You will get something like 22;22;22; ... Is this weighting crucial or would 2;2;2;2;2; work just as well? Is the "2" weighted to insure that something will fire right way?

Sounds like you havent disabled the DPS 2 keymap under FTL DPS Keys.. That means the keymap DPS 2 sends a "2" key and at the same keypress your sending "2" from your twostep keymap. This will result with something like 222,222,222,222, etc when spamming.

I made a toggle keymap. What this one did was disable the DPS 3 keymap and enable the twostep keymap (both those keymaps with button 2 as hotkey). That toggle keymap bound to a key you normally dont use (for me it is insert key).

[Quilo]

How fast are you guys spamming your dps key? When i set up a 2 key macro like instructions from Mecurio it tends to repeat myy first macro insted of the proc. The proc macro only fires away when the first macro has a spell on CD. I my be hitting the button to fast...

Is this happening to you guys to?

/Quilo

[Atrocious]

How fast are you guys spamming your dps key? When i set up a 2 key macro like instructions from Mecurio it tends to repeat myy first macro insted of the proc. The proc macro only fires away when the first macro has a spell on CD. I my be hitting the button to fast...

Is this happening to you guys to?

/Quilo

Atleast I have experienced this. I slowed down my hitting a bit. I think this is if you have set it to advance the steps on both up and down, with the GCD it just happens that the second step happens more. It seems to help a bit for me to slow down and turn off the queuing.

I might be wrong tho.

[Shania]

can someone be kind to write this up again in a more step by step guide ?
I got this working ages ago and cannot remember how the hell I did it....and really need this beauty to work for me :(

[howster]

Uhm. Take a look at page 1 perhaps.

[Vecter]

can someone be kind to write this up again in a more step by step guide ?
I got this working ages ago and cannot remember how the hell I did it....and really need this beauty to work for me :(

The first post in this thread has a step by step guide. Which areas are you having issues with?

[Shania]

Ah crap again I posted a reply and for some reason isnt here on forums again. Blah ok

Part I am having issue with is

while the second step sends ";" to all windows.

I cannot recall how I add that part, what am I right click selecting to give me an option to select ; from ? I cant see it

[Vecter]

Ah crap again I posted a reply and for some reason isnt here on forums again. Blah ok

Part I am having issue with is


I cannot recall how I add that part, what am I right click selecting to give me an option to select ; from ? I cant see it

If I am understanding correctly the actual 2nd step keymap, just select if from the bottom left pane and enter in the ; as the hotkey.

[Shania]

Maybe this will help if you could have a peekie pls and see what I have done wrong ?

http://privatepaste.com/e0a13934fd

[Shania]

while the second step sends ";" to all windows.
Ok so I have gone too FTL top pane, bottom pane too Mapped Keys and to my "2 Step" I created there and under the 2nd step, I still am unsure how I am meant to add the above quote.

If I click actions then right click and select any of the key mapped actions nowhere is there an option that I can see to add what the 2nd step above quoted is referring too,

[MiRai]

Ok so I have gone too FTL top pane, bottom pane too Mapped Keys and to my "2 Step" I created there and under the 2nd step, I still am unsure how I am meant to add the above quote.

If I click actions then right click and select any of the key mapped actions nowhere is there an option that I can see to add what the 2nd step above quoted is referring too,
It's the key combination for a WoW Macro Action.

[Shania]

sorry what ?

In Mapped Keys I have 2 Step, Actions 1st step, DPS 2 in FTL DPS keys Map on > all
step 2 has actions ;-> all

obviously its wrong somewhere, when click insert, it toggles on/off on the screen in a spam method, as in I hit insert and I see it flicker oon screen On then off just as fast.

[Shania]

My first part looks same as this screenshot: http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/9224/firstle.jpg

Under FTL DPS KEYS, Bottom Pane,
2 Step has

Step 1: DPS 2 in FTL DPS Keys Key Map on all
Step 2: ;-> all

So saved, loaded too inner space, reloaded ui and when I click Insert Key, it says on then flashes instantly off then on again.

What have I got wrong for not to be able to toggle it off and or on ?

[Vecter]

Maybe this will help if you could have a peekie pls and see what I have done wrong ?

http://privatepaste.com/e0a13934fd

Ok basically that screenshot is showing that you are enabling the DPS 2 keymap on first press. Then when you press the 2 key all it will do is send the 2 to all chars. If you press the 2 Step Toggle key a second time it will disable the DPS 2 key and enable the 2 Step keymap. Now when you press the 2 key it sends the 2 to all chars and when you release the 2 key it will send the ";" key to all chars.

Now keep in mind all the macros are setup in Wow, not isboxer. Each toon has a sequence macro set to the 2 key and a proc macro set to the ";" key. Each are activated when the 2 Step keymap is enabled and you are spamming the 2 key (which sends 2 to all on press and ";" to all on release.)

Once you get that working you can then migrate all the macros into ISBoxer and change the 2 Step keymap to fire off a sequence macro and proc macro that you setup in the Game Helpers/World of Warcraft section.

[MiRai]

It's the key combination for a WoW Macro Action.

Now keep in mind all the macros are setup in Wow, not isboxer.
Vecter's right. While the semi-colon key could be used as a key combination in a WoW Macro Action, in this
case it's just getting sent to the game windows it needs to be sent to. Since I've not used Mercurio's macros
before I think it's best I stop commenting in here to help not confuse anyone.

[Shania]

Ok basically that screenshot is showing that you are enabling the DPS 2 keymap on first press. Then when you press the 2 key all it will do is send the 2 to all chars. If you press the 2 Step Toggle key a second time it will disable the DPS 2 key and enable the 2 Step keymap. Now when you press the 2 key it sends the 2 to all chars and when you release the 2 key it will send the ";" key to all chars.

Now keep in mind all the macros are setup in Wow, not isboxer. Each toon has a sequence macro set to the 2 key and a proc macro set to the ";" key. Each are activated when the 2 Step keymap is enabled and you are spamming the 2 key (which sends 2 to all on press and ";" to all on release.)

Once you get that working you can then migrate all the macros into ISBoxer and change the 2 Step keymap to fire off a sequence macro and proc macro that you setup in the Game Helpers/World of Warcraft section.

Yeah I know how it works, I used to use it before I had the new pc just recently built and am re-doing all the stuff I had in, isboxer.

I know how to add the macros in wow, and use my 2 dps key and add proc macros and where etc. None of that is the issue, I cannot toggle it on/off.

When I hit insert, it says on the screen really fast, like .2 of a second fast, 2step turned off, then instantly will flick too 2 step turned on.

Get me ?

So somewhere in my tinkering with the isboxer stuff where I have added the 2 step procedure is wrong and I have no clue in where and or how to fix it.

I cannot toggle it with insert key cause of what its doing when I try too.

This is what it looks like now, if someone who knows what I am trying to say can look to help me fix it please.

http://privatepaste.com/2d04320364

[howster]

Your problem is that your toggle keymap is configured to execute a Step when the hotkey is pressed OR released.
Then when you tap your hotkey it will turn on and off the 2 step keymap instantly like you mentioned.
Change it to Released (default) it should work like it should.

[johny_mnemonic]

hi, great topic so far, but I have found that there are no tips how to setup 2 step in AHK. I know majority uses ISBoxer, but for some, it might be helpful.



1::
If toggle
{
Send,1
toggle := !toggle
}
Else
{
Send,2
toggle := !toggle
}
Return

[howster]

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=33160

[johny_mnemonic]

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=33160


well, you might have missed, that I wrote this script is for AHK and not HKN.

[howster]

well, you might have missed, that I wrote this script is for AHK and not HKN.

Ah... my bad.

[traedoril]

Where do I find Lax's "DPS FTL Keys" setup information?

[howster]

Where do I find Lax's "DPS FTL Keys" setup information?

You find them under the "key maps" section in isboxer.

[Ashley]

Are these DPS macros still relevant in 4.3?

[Enoah35]

Would like to know aswell. To be specific the Surv hunter, Arcane mage (although I doubt this has changed much), Ele shaman (this too doubt it changed), and prot pala.

Well guess its better test on dummy dolls when I get the time...

[zenga]

I altered the 2 step prot paladin macro a little bit, because I felt that the holy power wasn't used in an optimal way. So I went from a 2 step to a 3 step macro. I also wanted one that works for aoe and one for single target.

1 is my single target spam key, and is mapped to 6
4 is my aoe spam key, and is mapped to 7

6 is a 3 step macro that points to 6, 8 & 9
7 is a 3 step macro that points to 7, 8 & 9

key 6 holds this macro (single target)
/castsequence reset=12/combat Crusader Strike, Crusader Strike, Crusader Strike, Shield of the Righteous, Crusader Strike, Crusader Strike, Crusader Strike, Shield of the Righteous
/cast Consecration

key 7 holds this macro (aoe)
/castsequence reset=12/combat Hammer of the Righteous, Hammer of the Righteous, Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of the Righteous, Hammer of the Righteous, Hammer of the Righteous, Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of the Righteous
/cast Consecration

key 8 holds this macro
/castsequence reset=8/combat Judgement, Judgement
/cast Avenger's Shield

key 9 holds this macro
/castsequence reset=15 Holy Wrath, Holy Wrath
/cast Hammer of Wrath

This will use Shield OTR every time with 3 holy power, and there is no way for it to get blocked due to world of glory being on CD.

I use holy shield, world of glory & divine protection manually. That way it's available when I want. As for World of glory, I want to use it when it's needed, rather than default overhealing.

[Lyonheart]

I altered the 2 step prot paladin macro a little bit, because I felt that the holy power wasn't used in an optimal way. So I went from a 2 step to a 3 step macro. I also wanted one that works for aoe and one for single target.

1 is my single target spam key, and is mapped to 6
4 is my aoe spam key, and is mapped to 7

6 is a 3 step macro that points to 6, 8 & 9
7 is a 3 step macro that points to 7, 8 & 9

key 6 holds this macro (single target)
/castsequence reset=12/combat Crusader Strike, Crusader Strike, Crusader Strike, Shield of the Righteous, Crusader Strike, Crusader Strike, Crusader Strike, Shield of the Righteous
/cast Consecration

key 7 holds this macro (aoe)
/castsequence reset=12/combat Hammer of the Righteous, Hammer of the Righteous, Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of the Righteous, Hammer of the Righteous, Hammer of the Righteous, Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of the Righteous
/cast Consecration

key 8 holds this macro
/castsequence reset=8/combat Judgement, Judgement
/cast Avenger's Shield

key 9 holds this macro
/castsequence reset=15 Holy Wrath, Holy Wrath
/cast Hammer of Wrath

This will use Shield OTR every time with 3 holy power, and there is no way for it to get blocked due to world of glory being on CD.

I use holy shield, world of glory & divine protection manually. That way it's available when I want. As for World of glory, I want to use it when it's needed, rather than default overhealing.

I'm going to test this 8) thx.. looks good!

[Shania]

I havent used these in ages, but now my locks and fire mage is lvl 80 and off raf and boosted, its time to add some macros

So, I went to add fire mage and dest lock ones but I cant copy and paste all the txt, it exceeds 255 chararcters, so how are you added it all into wow macroes ?

[Khatovar]

I havent used these in ages, but now my locks and fire mage is lvl 80 and off raf and boosted, its time to add some macros

So, I went to add fire mage and dest lock ones but I cant copy and paste all the txt, it exceeds 255 chararcters, so how are you added it all into wow macroes ?

You can use an addon like Bindpad, SuperDuperMacro, possibly even Jamba macros{?} to exceed the character limit. I know people talk about building macros in ISBoxer itself, but I couldn't tell you anything about that.

[Shania]

Hm, never knew your allowed to exceed the limit, yet alone could by additional addons.

Its legal, right and allowed to exceed it ?

[Khatovar]

Yes, it's perfectly acceptable to use a macro extender. They've been around for a long time.

[Shania]

thx, i downloaded bindpad and was able to add the macro now, but im used to using wow macroes where i can drag macro icon to my bars, when i try to do that with bindpad, wont let me drop it onto my bars, anyone know how I could ?

[Khatovar]

With Bindpad, you set the keybindings in the Bindpad panel, you don't place them on hotbars. After you create the macro, left click the icon in the panel and assign a button.

If I recall SuperDuperMacro did normal macros that you put on your bars.

[Shania]

I am too lazy to try another addon, it works fine with bindpad, just weird not seeing the keybind icon no being on the action bar.

Also if anyone is using the warlock macroes and doing a copy and paste, take note that:


Destro Proc Macro (Target Based)
/tar party1
/tar raid1
/stopmacro [channeling]
/castsequence reset=7 [@targettarget] Conflagrate,Curse of the Elements,Bane of Doom,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagra te,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagrate ,Bane of Doom,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagrate,Conflagra te,Conflagrate,Conflagrate
/cast Demon Soul

there is a space between Conflagrate ,Bane of Doom

and 2 of the words Conflagrate are spaced Conflagra te,Conflagrate

Also same for: Destro Proc Macro (Focus Based) has space
Conflagrate ,Bane of Doom

Not the smartest gal on the boxing block, but don't think its meant to be that way, if it is, ignore me, if not heads on, sent merc a pm.

[MiRai]

there is a space between Conflagrate ,Bane of Doom

and 2 of the words Conflagrate are spaced Conflagra te,Conflagrate

Also same for: Destro Proc Macro (Focus Based) has space
Conflagrate ,Bane of Doom

Not the smartest gal on the boxing block, but don't think its meant to be that way, if it is, ignore me, if not heads on, sent merc a pm.
It's not meant to be that way but it's how it shows up on the forum. You can only have so many consecutive letters before the forum automatically inserts a space. Why? I have no idea but it's been like that since the old vB 3.x forum software.

[Shania]

lol ah never knew that, it is true, you learn something every day :)

[Khatovar]

From what I understand, it's to prevent the forum from being forced to sidescroll. If one post in a thread stretches the forum width so that you have to scroll, then all the posts on the page are also stretched, so you have to keep scrolling back and forth to read them, which is annoying.

People can avoid the issue with the automatic breaking by using the code tags to wrap their macros. It's the # symbol in the editor or you can just use [code ][/code ] without the spaces.


/tar party1
/tar raid1
/stopmacro [channeling]
/castsequence [@targettarget] reset=5
Soul Fire,Immolate,Corruption,Incinerate,Incinerate,Inc inerate,Life Tap,Soul Fire,Immolate,Incinerate,Corruption,Incinerate,Inc inerate,Incinerate
/cast [@targettarget] Firebolt
/cast [@targettarget] Chaos Bolt
/cast [@targettarget] Shadowburn
/use 13
/use 14

I'll go ahead and code tag the original macros since they're pretty hard to read on the dark themes anyway.

[Shania]

Thx :)

Imgoing to have too try one of the other extended macro addons, I cannot handle not having it on my action bar

[Ualaa]

Hm, never knew your allowed to exceed the limit, yet alone could by additional addons.

Its legal, right and allowed to exceed it ?

If you can do it with an addon, it's permissible within Warcraft.
In the past, they've changed what addons can and cannot do...

And whether it's allowed or not, within Warcraft.
It is definitely not illegal, and will not result in your being charged/arrested.

[luxlunae]

Thx :)

Imgoing to have too try one of the other extended macro addons, I cannot handle not having it on my action bar

Shania,

What I do, (I'm currently using a 4 step macro because I love lots of


/castsequence reset=target Spell, null
/castsequence reset=combat Spell, null

and those chew up a lot more buttons than the more compact two step macros)

I make my macros in BP and keybind in bp, but anything that I would like to see the physical cooldowns on for I just drag to my bars above the 1-= bindings. BP is just a better macro interface than the default wow one.

[3box]

Well first, this is brilliant Mercurio. Thank you. Just came back to 5 boxing and was looking for macros, and found my way here. Not sure how I missed it lol.

For my mixed team of Prot Pally, Warlock, Mage, Shaman and Priest....would be nice to have the priest do something dps-wise when heals aren't needed.

Anyone have two step macros for an atonement disc priest, perhaps taking advantage of Evangelism/Archangel? Or would a straight castsequence macro work with Archangel cast every 4th or 5th press?

[Shania]

Merc has added it look at the first page and scroll down, its there, about to give it a whirl, and thanks for demo lock macros as well, so glad I can finally switch locks as demo for something different

[Nikita]

Merc, or anyone else for that matter. Any chance you have a ret paladin dps macro? Keep up the good work :)

[zomgitsmk]

any 1 got a 2 step for enhancement shammen

[shadewalker]

any 1 got a 2 step for enhancement shammen

Try here
http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=46286

[candlebox]

Why was this unstickied...should leave up until get new ones.

[Khatovar]

Why was this unstickied...should leave up until get new ones.

I've had a new one in the works for the last few weeks. Now that MoP is about to go live, I can finally unveil The MoP Macro Library (http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/47938-The-MoP-Macro-Library).