1x Pala 4 Shaman Macros

[deadca7]

I have started porting my macros over to 5.0.4, feel free to post your versions here.

I'm posting my macros as i go.


Protection Paladin
SPEC (http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/tool/talent-calculator#bZ!20210.!pYbOQl) work in progress.

Button 1

/stopmacro [@target,noexists] [noharm] [dead] [channeling]
/startattack
/castsequence reset=combat/6 Hammer of the Righteous,Judgment,Avenger's Shield,Hammer of the Righteous,Judgment,Hammer of the Righteous,Consecration,Holy Wrath

This macro wont meet its full potential before we are level 90, because we need our level 90 spell [Level 90 talent] "Hammer of the Righteous,Judgment, HERE, Hammer of the Righteous,Consecration,Holy Wrath"

The rule is to use [Crusader Strike] when there are less than 4 mobs, and use [Hammer of the Righteous] when there are 4+ mobs. But I find it easier to just use [Hammer of the Righteous] all the time when multiboxing. What you can do is to create another macro where you change all but one [Hammer of the Righteous] to [Crusader Strike] and then switch action bar with "Shift + Mouse (up/down). You need to have atleast one [Hammer of the Righteous] in the macro to get the [Weakened Blows] debuff.

Use [Seal of Truth], if there are more than 4 mobs use [Seal of Righteousness]

Use [Judgment] as the pull spell, to get one free Holy Power.

We need to stack 5x [Shield of the Righteous] and then fire [Word of Glory] on 3 HolyPower. Right now I'm doing this manually with SotR on button 2 and WoG on button 3, maybe we can make a nifty little macro for them.

If you are super lazy and don't want to stack and dump you can use this version, but keep in mind that if one of your [Hammer of the Righteous] or [Judgment] misses or gets blocked during the first sequence, you are kinda out of the game! You need to use an addon like SuperDuperMacro to use this macro.

/stopmacro [@target,noexists] [noharm] [dead] [channeling]
/startattack
/castsequence reset=combat/6 Hammer of the Righteous,Judgment,Avenger's Shield,Hammer of the Righteous,Shield of the Righteous,Judgment,Hammer of the Righteous,Consecration,Holy Wrath,Hammer of the Righteous,Shield of the Righteous,Judgment,Avenger's Shield,Hammer of the Righteous,Judgment,Shield of the Righteous,Hammer of the Righteous,Consecration,Holy Wrath,Hammer of the Righteous,Judgment,Shield of the Righteous,Avenger's Shield,Hammer of the Righteous,Judgment,Hammer of the Righteous,Shield of the Righteous,Consecration,Holy Wrath,Hammer of the Righteous,Judgment,Avenger's Shield,Hammer of the Righteous,Word of Glory,Judgment,Hammer of the Righteous,Consecration,Holy Wrath

Cooldown spells that are worth mentioning [Guardian of Ancient Kings], [Ardent Defender], [Devotion Aura], [Divine Protection]

Elemental Shaman
SPEC (http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/tool/talent-calculator#Wa!02121.!eboO), work in progress, I'm changing the totems up since i got 2 more elemental shamans.

Button 1


/stopmacro [@target,noexists] [noharm] [dead] [channeling]
/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
Not much has changed here. Applying [Flame Shock], [Lightning Bolt] as filler and [Earth Shock] when you have a stack of 7. You may remove or add [Lightning Bolt] from the end of the rotation depending on your haste. The last [Lightning Bolt] in the macro should be as close to 0 on the [Flame Shock] cooldown.

Button 2


/stopmacro [@target,noexists] [noharm] [dead] [channeling]
/castsequence reset=combat/8 Searing Totem,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst,Lava Burst
Cast [Searing Totem] and cast [Lava Burst] when it's not on cooldown and when it procs, until [Searing Totem] needs a recast.

Always use [Lightning Shield] and [Flametongue Weapon]

I have to take a look at the new totem system before I post anything.

Resto Shaman
SPEC (http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/tool/talent-calculator#Wb!00120.!UapK), work in progress

I'm using Grid + GridCustomLayouts and Clique to heal.

Clique Mouse Setup:

[Riptid] - LeftButton (Keep it on the tank)
[Healing Wave] - RightButton (Main Heal)
[Purify Spirit] - MiddleButton (Remove Curse and Magic)
[Chain Heal] - Button4 (AoE Heal). I also have this macroed up to "-" on the numpad on every shaman in the group for massive aoe healing.
[Greater Healing Wave] - Button5 (For those big nuke hits)
[Earth Shield] - MousewheelDown (Keep this on the tank and others in need all time)

Use [Water Shield] as shield to get mana and [Earthliving Weapon]

[deadca7]

Reserved

[washtana]

I use ISBoxer with the two step macro, below is my pally setup that is working well so far: (for multiple mobs the same macro can be used but subsitute hammer of righteous for crusader strike. They all will work when off cooldown without hanging).

Button 1:
/castsequence [mod]Avenger's Shield
/cast Crusader Strike
/cast Judgment
/cast Holy Wrath

Proc Button ;
/cast Sacred Shield
/cast Shield of the righteous

I use the following macro manually as needed:
#showtooltip
/cast [nomod] Divine Protection
/cast [mod:ctrl] Avenging Wrath
/cast [mod:alt] Guardian of Ancient Kings
/cast [mod:shift] Ardent Defender

[Igg]

Thanks for sharing.

Which lvl 90 paly skill are you talking about?

[JohnGabriel]

I created a temp castsequence for my pali tank that works well. Its a 15 second macro that takes 12 seconds, so there is a 3 second wait if grand crusader doesn't proc.

My trinket macro which is called from main macro:

/startattack
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Divine Protection
/cast Ardent Defender
/cast Avenging Wrath
/cast Guardian of Ancient Kings
/cast Shield of the Righteous
/cast Gift of the Naaru
/Run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()


The spamable macro

/Click MultiBarRightButton1
/castsequence reset=15 Avenger's Shield,Sacred Shield,Judgment,Hammer of the Righteous,Consecration,Holy Wrath,Judgment,Hammer of the Righteous
/cast Hammer of Wrath

[zenga]

Elemental Shaman

Button 1


/stopmacro [@target,noexists] [noharm] [dead] [channeling]
/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
Not much has changed here. Applying [Flame Shock], [Lightning Bolt] as filler and [Earth Shock] when you have a stack of 7.

While the most optimized rotations are still being debated, for now it's rather safe to assume that casting Earth Shock at 6+ stacks is a dps gain. Due to overloads with mastery ratings in the current gear and lava burst also applying Lightning Shield orbs, you could skip 1 or even 2 lightning bolts out of that castsequence in favor of a faster earthshock.

[JohnGabriel]

What are your shamans using for talents and glyphs?

[zenga]

http://www.wowhead.com/talent#sm8|zjV
This is the spec I'm going with for now.
I'd say there are multiple valid choices to make. I personally like a short Fire Elemental cd so that I can use them on trash and move them with me with totemic projection, and they'll be back available for the boss. The flame shock glyph is not really necessary since most bosses die really fast, for longer fights I'd take that one. If you never find yourself moving while casting LB go for another glyph like an increased spiritwalkers grace. If you don't want to micromanage go for echo of elements, else for elemental mastery. Ancestral switfness is really nice if you need to offheal (instant healing surge/healing rain.chain heal). I prefer Ancestral Guidance over Healing Tide due to the shorter CD, but even conductivity will have it's use. In the first tier sbt is just easier: drop and forget, but astral shift will be useful on certain bosses as well.

There is in terms of utility a lot of freedom and no real 'best' talent for multiboxers. The 60 tier talents are pretty close in terms of dps as well, so very situational what you like best.

[deadca7]

Thanks for sharing.

Which lvl 90 paly skill are you talking about?

The spell you chose when you are level 90, the last talent.

[Igg]

The spell you chose when you are level 90, the last talent.

Unless I'm missing something, they're talents 1 min CD so it would be stuck in the castsequence?

[kate]

I've got a few elemental questions if anyone can give me some help:

Right now I use a 3-step process for spamming spells with ISBoxer.
Step one is is bound to an opener type macro. For my shaman, the sequence is Flameshock, then Lavaburst, then Lightning Bolt (for single targets) or Chain Lightning (for multiple targets). Basically it's timed really well to reapply flame shock right when its about to fall off.
Step 2 sends 3 different keys out at once - something like ABC. On the keys bound to ABC I put different cooldowns so that basically as they come up they get fired off. I put Lavaburst on there and various buff spells.
Step 3 also sends 3 different keys out at once - The first thing to get set up is a searing totem dropper, second thing is a macro to step through a few lightning bolts (or chain lightnings) and then Earth Shock for fulminate in a way that should fire it off when I'm guaranteed to have 7 shield charges. The last thing is either regular lightning bolt or chain lightning - basically as a fallback if everything else is on cooldown.

I have 3 different variations of this - one is for single target bosses, one is for bosses with adds so I basically swap out lightning bolt for chain lightning, and one is for AoEing trash down (takes flame-shock out of the equation, doesn't do lava burst, just throws down searing totem and spams chain lightning and trash dies fast).

With that system I'm always guaranteed to be casting something useful and it's working well enough.

But here's my problem: At 85, and honestly not very well geared (mostly in the 377 PVP craftables reforged where possible, 1 or 2 pieces of JP or VP gear, and my weapons are the new 346 inscription staves, a couple of cheap enchants), each shaman is doing about 10-13k DPS during dungeon runs. I have no idea if that's about right given the gear, but it feels a bit low, and I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to boost the performance, or if there's any reason the set-up I'm using would reduce my dps (like some kind of weird mechanic I'm not aware of).

My team composition is a paladin, 3x elemental shaman and 1x disc priest. Paladin is contributing about 9-10k DPS, shammies each 10-13k as mentioned, and the priest is doing about 4-6k between DPS spam and healing.

[deadca7]

Unless I'm missing something, they're talents 1 min CD so it would be stuck in the castsequence?

The two aoe talents are 1 min, and the single target talent is 30 sec :)


I've got a few elemental questions if anyone can give me some help:
SNIP

Does your macros cast Lavaburst when it procs ? Thats the only thing I can think of, since your setup looks kind of the same as mine just with 3 macros.

[zenga]

... and one is for AoEing trash down (takes flame-shock out of the equation, doesn't do lava burst, just throws down searing totem and spams chain lightning and trash dies fast).

There is no reason to waste a gcd on searing totem for aoe, the extra chain lighning will do more damage on trash than searing totem will do, obviously depending on the length of the fight. Reason is that elemental shamans now provide the 10% spellpower buff by default, it's no longer connected to your fire totems.



But here's my problem: At 85, and honestly not very well geared (mostly in the 377 PVP craftables reforged where possible, 1 or 2 pieces of JP or VP gear, and my weapons are the new 346 inscription staves, a couple of cheap enchants), each shaman is doing about 10-13k DPS during dungeon runs. I have no idea if that's about right given the gear, but it feels a bit low, and I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to boost the performance, or if there's any reason the set-up I'm using would reduce my dps (like some kind of weird mechanic I'm not aware of).


First off be aware that 10-13k has a 30% range (same as you would say 30 to 40k). If you have shit gear & weapons, all of them non optimized then that sounds about right.

[kate]

There is no reason to waste a gcd on searing totem for aoe, the extra chain lighning will do more damage on trash than searing totem will do, obviously depending on the length of the fight. Reason is that elemental shamans now provide the 10% spellpower buff by default, it's no longer connected to your fire totems.

Good point - I have the totem being dropped out of habit. Changed that up and I can't really tell if it made a difference, but it's a good point.



First off be aware that 10-13k has a 30% range (same as you would say 30 to 40k). If you have shit gear & weapons, all of them non optimized then that sounds about right.

Yep - huge variability is because it really depends on how much movement goes on, how much healing was needed (I distribute emergency healing across the whole team), how many adds vs. single target, hence the wide range. If I have a zero movement fight that requires no healing from my DPSers and has 3-5 targets (so, basically, target dummies) I can hit higher numbers just about 18-20k DPS consistently (pre-5.0.4, so probably a little higher now), but that's completely ideal conditions and so I just don't pay attention to that number.

My thinking is it's probably the non-optimal nature of the gear more than anything, so I will stop feeling bad about it - I just wanted to see if there was more I could squeeze out easily. I mean, heck, I've run LFDs and LFRs with people who put out that little and they're only single-boxing, and they put out so little DPS I have to imagine they're taking a bio break between casts.

And yeah, I'm getting LvB off on cool-down and during procs.

Thanks for the answers!

[Leovindica]

Right now I use a 3-step process for spamming spells with ISBoxer.

Kate,

Could you share your macro's? I'm very curious for this 3 step:)

Thanks, Leo

[kate]

Kate,

Could you share your macro's? I'm very curious for this 3 step:)

Thanks, Leo

It's just an ISBoxer keybind - I make a 3-step keybind. Step one presses keys 1, 2 and 3 at the same time, step 2 presses 4,5 and 6, and step 3 presses 7,8 and 9. I set it to go through a step whenever the key is pushed down and another when it is released - that way I'm pretty much always spamming whatever is ready.

The only macros I use in this process are like standard "use all your trinkets, throw your shield" kinds of things for each class.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Kate - is that legal? I would be interested in what Mira and Lax and others would weigh in on that. I can see where its a great idea if its not a violation.

From Kate's web site:

Method 1: Make keys send multiple keystrokes per press.
What I mean by this is that when I press “1″, it sends 123 at the exact same time to every window of WoW. Consequently, when the WoW client receives 123 at the same time, it will only let me do one thing at a time – so, it will try to execute whatever is on my 1 key. If the spell on the 1 key is on cooldown, it will try to execute the 2 key. If the 1 and 2 key spells are on cooldown it will try to cast whatever is on 3, and if all of them are on cooldown it won’t do anything but tell me those spells aren’t ready yet.

[kate]

It's functionally no different than if I just physically pressed the 1 2 and 3 key at the same time. Only one ability gets fired off since the game just ignores the keystrokes that would have triggered things on cool down or abilities after the one that got used.

I asked on these forums and everyone said yeah, it's fine. I totally thought it was a gray area but it seems not.

[Khatovar]

Kate - is that legal? I would be interested in what Mira and Lax and others would weigh in on that. I can see where its a great idea if its not a violation.

It's the same thing that has been preached since Mosq2's DK Manifesto (http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/34317-Mosg-s-DK-Manifesto-Version-2-0). As to what Lax says, here you go (http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/47349-ISBoxer-OK-to-send-multiple-keys-at-same-time?p=362749&viewfull=1#post362749). I swapped to this setup in HotKeyNet a few weeks ago after testing macros on the beta and it's a load easier, since I have very few castsequences to screw with.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Humm I might move to this method also as clearly it has substaintial advantages. Seems a bit grey, but as you say lots are using it with no problems. If Lax say its ok who am I to argue.

[drarkan]

There is no difference if you press one key and have three abilities fire off at once, and putting them all in one macro and spamming one key. Or using ISBoxer to fire off three macros separately by pressing one key, than if you put all three abilities on three separate keys and mashed them with three fingers.

There is no grey area.

Blizzard just doesn't want you to press one key once, have it do one spell at one moment, then cast another 2 seconds later, then another 3 seconds later, etc... all by pressing one button. That is called delayed actions and is against the blizzard TOS and EULA. Two completely different methods, one not illegal, and the other COMPLETELY ILLEGAL.

ISBoxer cannot send a delayed key presses to my knowledge, however keyboards like ones made by Logitech can. However blizzard cannot tell their players not to use those keyboards, only to not use those functions.

Basically, play within the rules and its more fun than playing outside of the rules and getting busted and having all your progress reset to zero cause your account is banned and you have to start all over :)