How do you plan on staying under 36 macros in WotLK (with multiple 5-box teams on a single set of 5 accounts)

[raz]

I'm in the process of leveling a couple more 5-box teams to try out druids and locks but am a bit concerned with a total of only 36 macros per account. Currently on my shaman team I use up all of the slots on the individual tab and a few on the account wide tab. These consist of the following (from memory as I'm at work so I'm sure I'm forgetting some):

1. An invite macro to invite all of my characters so I don't have to do it manually

2. An accept macro which includes the battleground port, trades, group invites, etc etc

3. A ground mount macro
(this could be replaced by a button where I move the ground mount each character uses and keep the keybinding the same across all characters)

4. A flying mount macro
(same as #3)

5-9. A macro for each character name which sets them as the main focus target, follows them, and sets up twoboxtoolkit notifications
(this is a huge concern as I don't want to have 5*the number of teams I have for macros. This alone could eat up my 36 macros if I create more teams. I'm thinking of spending the money to rename all my characters to start with a set of letters making a single set of 5 macros perform this function for all teams)

10+. Spell Macros. Currently for the shaman alone I have a bunch covering Lightning Bolt/Lesser healing wave, Chain Lightning/Chain Heal, Earth shock (max rank), Earth shock rank 1 castsequence, flame shock, frost shock castsequence, totem castsequence, etc etc.
This one is my second real concern. The basics of these macros outside the castsequence ones could be done if there were a mod that made a certain bars' spells always cast on the current focustarget's target with no modifiers required. I need to look into other bar mods (I currently use Bongos) but this would eliminate a number of macros which might make 36 a reasonable number to stay under once I have 4-5 teams (shaman, Shadow priests, druids, locks, mages, hunters are all possibly planned).

Has anyone else thought of this issue or spent some time working things out? I also play my warlock as my single player raiding character so I have a number ofmacros used in raiding for banishing / seducing focus and the like that take up slots on one of my accounts. I'm just thinking if I can plan ahead a bit I'll save a lot of hassle later. Thanks for any inputs!

[Darcla]

solution, make better use of your macros for startes get rid of:

3. A ground mount macro
(this could be replaced by a button where I move the ground mount each character uses and keep the keybinding the same across all characters)

4. A flying mount macro
(same as #3)

why are these a macro?

5-9. A macro for each character name which sets them as the main focus target, follows them, and sets up twoboxtoolkit notifications
(this is a huge concern as I don't want to have 5*the number of teams I have for macros. This alone could eat up my 36 macros if I create more teams. I'm thinking of spending the money to rename all my characters to start with a set of letters making a single set of 5 macros perform this function for all teams)

this can all be done with one macro. Check the wiki

All in all I would take a look at your macros and the wiki and consolidate, toss out, the ones that could be use with simple key bindings. I run a paly,priest, 3xmage; a 4xshaman, and a 3xhunter, and I have not even used half of my macro slots.

[-silencer-]

I could be wrong, but isn't the WotLK rule just 36 character specific macros that are stored server-side for use anywhere, but a virtually-unlimited number of global (locally-stored) macros? I didn't think it was intended to knock the entire macro count down to just 36 macros and have them all stored server-side..

[Oatboat]

is this including the General Macros and then the Character Specific macro tab?... Cause each character gets a personal Macro tab that i havent come close to using them all.

I just keep Group invites and other group macros on the General tab.

[Drakkun]

I plan to keep using trinity bars which stores it macros in a lua file and not in the standard WoW macro area.

[Anahka]

I plan to keep using trinity bars which stores it macros in a lua file and not in the standard WoW macro area.

Trinity developer seems to be MIA. Doubt it will transfer over to WoW 3.0 without work from him.

[Ðeceased]

:S u don't want to know fur ^^ I'm up to around 35 macros per character :P x god knows how many alts = a hell of a lot of macros >.<

basically my set-up is maximising efficiency, completely avoids focus (unless i want to target a player in particular - for boosting friends or dpsing), it allows me to switch Brain character seemlessly without even pressing a button (move mouse to next window and control as normal) etc

but ur right tho.. using focus would probably cut my macro count down to around 15 per character

[king.pa]

can't you just consider combining macros with the modifier keys ?
I've got my invite macro on my main, but you can mix several macros like your

for the mounts :
#showtooltip
/cast [modifier:alt] Flying Mount; Land Mount

For auto accept of group invite . just install Automaton, it will do it for you without the need of any macro.. and much more !!!

[Frosty]

I think i've got like 10 macros on my Shaman. And like four on my Paladin. And I run heroics and PvP just fine....

Then like 8 universal macros (shared)

...wtf do you need so many macros for?

Wooooh..ok good it's not just me then. I'm running 5 different classes and have plenty of macros left. And that's counting 4 wasted ones for /wave, /laugh, /dance, and /rude! :P

[Ðeceased]

can't you just consider combining macros with the modifier keys ?
I've got my invite macro on my main, but you can mix several macros like your

for the mounts :
#showtooltip
/cast [modifier:alt] Flying Mount; Land Mount

For auto accept of group invite . just install Automaton, it will do it for you without the need of any macro.. and much more !!!

I've combined everything imaginable :P dps/heal + focusdps/heal on a single target + WTFBBQCLEMNS when needed is all in one key :P I've been min/maxing my brain to death :P