priest shadowform

[valle2000]

The macro below makes sure I have shadowform active at all times, but it's also wasting mana since it's cast even if not needed. Is there any way of making the macro turn on shadowform only if it's inactive?

/assist focus
/cast shadowform
/castsequence reset=combat/target/8 shadow word: pain, devouring plague

I tried changing line 2 into
/cast !shadowform
but the result is the macro stopped there instead and never cast the DoTs...

[Alge]

I believe this is what you are looking for...

/cast [noform] Shadowform

Alge

[valle2000]

Nice, thanks.
Can similar be done with the spell Vampiric embrace as well in some way?

[Alge]

No. The list of macro conditionals doesn't provide a method to check whether a particular aura is on a target.

A full list of macro conditionals is at http://www.wowpedia.org/Making_a_macro#Complete_list

[valle2000]

Another macro question.
On my pvp-pally I have this just to make sure divine favor is used as often as possible.

/cast divine favor
/cast exorcism

However during the cooldown of the first spell my toon keeps yelling "can't do that yet" when casting exorcism. Can I stop the first line from being executed during the cooldown of that spell?

[katsurahama]

/cast [noform] shadowform
/castsequence reset=15 inner fire, vampiric embrace, power word: fortitude, shadow protection, null


Thats my shadow priest buff button macro. Just keep spamming it until it stops casting. The name may be wrong for the shadow prot buff i dont have it in front of me.

I use similar sequences on all toons that cast buffs or auras. You can just spam the key until everyone stops casting and you dont waste mana. The shortest duration or free buffs go first so once they expire you only need to hit the key once or twice. I forget where i got the idea from but it was someone on here. Ualaa, probably. ;)