Shaman Macros, what do you use?

[Tizer]

I've been messing around with macros on my 4 shaman that i created on Saturday. Im powering them up using a hunter so most of the time they are on /follow while i rip appart SM Cath over and over.

Anyway, Last night i went into AB for a mess around. Now, the shaman are naked, appart from a guild tabard so i wasnt expecting miracles, in fact i got owned by a solo rogue quite a few times :) I dont have any totems yet, i dont see the point in bothering until i venture to outlands in a week or so. So, all i have are 4 naked moo cows and 4 macros on each one as follows:

MACRO 1 "BOLT" Spell_Nature_Lightning
/cast [target=focustarget, harm] Lightning Bolt
END
MACRO 2 "EARTH SHOCK" Spell_Nature_EarthShock
/cast [target=focustarget, harm] Earth Shock
END
MACRO 3 "HEAL" Spell_Nature_MagicImmunity
/cast [target=focustarget, help] Healing Wave
END
MACRO 4 "FOLLOW" Ability_Creature_Cursed_05
/focus [target=Woopxie,help,nodead]; [target=Xoopxie,help,nodead]; [target=Yoopxie,help,nodead]; [target=Zoopxie,help,nodead];
/target [target=focus]
/follow
/assist
/stopcasting
END

What im trying to create are macros which will allow me to take over any of the 4 shaman as the main character should any of them die, so i'll be using the focus command a lot. The above FOLLOW macro allows me to set the focus easily to a new shaman should that happen. I'll work in a clockwise direction around my screen.

Now, the reason for my post is the HEAL macro.

I started off the evening using Vyndree's heal macro:

#showtooltip
/target party1
/target focus
/cast [target=targettarget,help,nodead,exists] Healing Wave; [target=target,help,nodead,exists] Healing Wave

But for the life of me i could not get this to work effectively. I would use my main focus char to target a different group member and it just refused to heal them, so i ended up dead pretty quickly. Hence i settled for the basic [target=focustarget, help] macro i now use.

I'd really appreciate it if people could open their macros text file found inside the WTF > Realm name > Character folder and post all their macros up here, especially the experienced quad boxing shaman. Alternatively if you wouldnt mind PMing them to me if you dont want to reveal your secrets :) Im on an EU realm so we probably wont bump into eachother :)

I dont ever plan to use one shaman as the main shaman as i dont want to take on any PVE content, so its purely PVP and the ability to use all chars effectively with identical macros is vital.

Anyhoo, like i say, would really appreicate some more macro examples that you have on your shaman <3

[Djarid]

TBH I think your have solved the heal problem yourself I would stick to the basic focustarget macro.

regarding other Shaman Macros, pop over to the wiki http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Macros for some good ones (there aren't many for the shaman yet... cmon guys!)

try these to start

Purge - this will cast purge in a round robin on your shaman, use it for Earth Shock as well
sham1


/castsequence purge,,,

sham2


/castsequence ,purge,,

sham3


/castsequence ,,purge,

sham4


/castsequence ,,,purge,



search on totem sequences for ideas on those

[Chorizotarian]

With all due respect, you are taking 4/15 spots in AB with naked shamans who don't have any totems? Omg, the other players must love you. I hope you are playing horde :P

[Dinkydau]

Djarid ('undefined'),

I'm really glad that you made the post about the

/castsequence purge, , ,

/castsequence , purge, , ,

I run four shaman with my pally and I've been using a key for earthshock, groundstomp (Tauren) and purge on a round robin keystroke. It doesn't always seem to come out the way I want it to though with RR. It looks like your method will work much better.

Thanks,

Johnny

[Vyndree]

Purge - this will cast purge in a round robin on your shaman, use it for Earth Shock as well


Why would you want to round-robin purge instead of mass-purge? Or is this just an example?

As for the healing macro -- are you waiting for the new target to get picked up on your screen? It takes a second. I would simplify this too... using "exists" is redundant as "nodead" already checks for that.

#showtooltip
/cast [target=focustarget,help,nodead][target=party1target,help,nodead][target=focus,help,nodead][target=party1,help,nodead][target=player] Healing Wave

It's long and nasty, but it basically goes:
heal focus's friendly target (if exists)
heal party1's friendly target (i.e. no focus set)
heal focus (if exists)
heal party1 (i.e. no focus set)
heal self (i.e. party1 has died, emergency abort! ;) )

[Dinkydau]

I guess for purge, you're exactly right. No countdown timer so might as well hit them with everything at once.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Johnny

[Maxion]

Or just bind a
/stopcasting
/cast Earth Shock
to the same key on all chars and set it to round robin in keyclone. This way the rest will keep casting while one earth shocks.
That is, if the RR function in keyclone works correctly, which I think it does.

[Tizer]

With all due respect, you are taking 4/15 spots in AB with naked shamans who don't have any totems? Omg, the other players must love you. I hope you are playing horde :P

Yus Horde, we still won :)

[Jubex]

If your going to hit them hit them hard.....4x purge 4x earthshock 4xns 4xlightning ball (coh - extra lightning ball depending on lvl/spec). If they is still alive after that then ...no wait no fn way.

[Djarid]

Purge - this will cast purge in a round robin on your shaman, use it for Earth Shock as well


Why would you want to round-robin purge instead of mass-purge? Or is this just an example?
erm [insert embarrassed smiley here cos we don't seem to have one] yeah

I don't have this on my shams I guess I wasn't thinking straight

to make up for it, I do have...



/cast [mod:alt] Earthshock
/castsequence Earthshock(Rank 1),,,

etc. for each clone so I can lay down the law at need or just interrupt every 1.5 secs ;)

[Temor]

Now, the reason for my post is the HEAL macro.

I started off the evening using Vyndree's heal macro:

#showtooltip
/target party1
/target focus
/cast [target=targettarget,help,nodead,exists] Healing Wave; [target=target,help,nodead,exists] Healing Wave

But for the life of me i could not get this to work effectively. I would use my main focus char to target a different group member and it just refused to heal them, so i ended up dead pretty quickly. Hence i settled for the basic [target=focustarget, help] macro i now use.

I'd really appreciate it if people could open their macros text file found inside the WTF > Realm name > Character folder and post all their macros up here, especially the experienced quad boxing shaman.

Anyhoo, like i say, would really appreicate some more macro examples that you have on your shaman <3


Here's the macro that I've used for all of my healing classes including my shaman for the last year:

#showtooltip Healing Wave

/stand

/cast [target=target,help] Healing Wave; [target=targettarget,help] Healing Wave; [target=player] Healing Wave



I don't use nodead or exists options as you were using. Either of those could be your problem. When my main has a target, all of my chars are usually on that same target. Whoever he is attacking, I can do a quick heal, heal over time or a full heal to whatever that target has, whether it's one of my characters or some one else. I do Alterac Valley a LOT and a my seven characters are all casters or range (Hunter) so that I can kill pretty much anything fast. All of my keys are set the same way regardless of class. For example, the key to do a nuke for all of my classes is the same key. It has a /castsequence for them so that when I am nuking something, I can cast a damage over time on my warlock twice or three times, then nuke. Same for the druid, that same key does an initial damage over time, then nukes. I use all separate classes of characters, but my healing macro is the same for all of my healing classes, just the name of the heal spell is different.

I would suggest that you remove your 'exists' from your macro first, then if that doesn't work, try removing 'nodead'.