Step Based Priority for Shamans

[Khatovar]

Referencing Shamans and pidster's thread here.

I understand how the step based works, as well as setting up the spells and macros in ISBoxer.

It's more or less in reference to the amount of hotkeys I should be using. For example like mosq2's DK Manifesto you would be using:

Bind 1: Sends 111122233445

So it spamming 1 binds 4 times being the most important, 2 being important, 3 & 4 if less importance but on same terms and 5 maybe being on a Round Robin, or at least the smallest of importance.



How can I make the decision on the macros that pidster has posted in a similar manner? I have been looking around and searching but haven't found much in regards to what I should look at for a system.

Mosq2's system isn't step-based, it's priority-based. They are two very different systems, as I explain in the thread itself. Further information on each system can be found in the links in the above overview posts from the Macro thread. You can also find some different setups for them in the Newbie's Guide Vol 1 under Configurations.

Step-based = I press 1, the first time I press it, it sends 1 to the game. The second time it sends 2, the third time it sends 3 and so on. Each successive keypress steps through a series of keys that contains a different macro.

Priority-based = I press 1, it sends 1, 2, 3, etc all at the same time. The game processes the list from top to bottom, using the first available action and blocking the rest with the global cooldown.

Sending 1 4 times in a row in a step-based system is probably just going to tank your DPS since if 1 doesn't have anything available the first time, it's probably all on cooldown, so you may as well be spamming an empty key.

All of the macros in that thread should be set up exactly as you would set them up using the system they are based under. Pidster specifies that his setup is priority-based which means it sends all the macros at once, in the order they are listed.

If you were to write your own macros, you would need to figure out what your class' priorities are. You can see some explanations here, here, here and here of how I set up mine.

[Vociferate]

If you were to write your own macros, you would need to figure out what your class' priorities are. You can see some explanations here, here, here and here of how I set up mine.

Thank you Khat, I thought that they were the same systems. I'll have a better read of that thread again, I blame it on being Friday before a 3 day weekend here in AUS.

[Khatovar]

Thank you Khat, I thought that they were the same systems. I'll have a better read of that thread again, I blame it on being Friday before a 3 day weekend here in AUS.

I usually blame it on lack of coffee, lol. Also, like Lax mentioned, you can use a combination of the two setups, which I do as well. Both systems have their merits. The more you know about how a specific class functions, the better idea you can get of how to group and break up abilities to build your macros, but copy/paste macros are usually a pretty decent place to start.