How to create a delay in WoW?

[Jmsgalla]

Anyone know how I can set up a delay between casts or the onset of a cast. For example I want to make a hotkey for my lock to /petattack then pause for a sec or two for the pet to get closer to the target for aggro then cast immolate, fireball on one mage, and frostbolt on the other mage.

This is my first attempt at multiboxing with a team of 2 mages a priest and a lock. My current macros are the basic follow, invite, accept, and pet attack macros right now.


Thanks in advance for any info

[Zub]

I don't believe you can script pauses in your macros.
I think you'll need to make 2 macros, and click two times.

[bsdll]

Anything that delays or automates the actions is considered botting.

Every action must be linked to an independent keystroke. So in your case, you would make one for the pet attack and then one for the caster attack.

I can't stress this enough. If Blizzard detect it, they will ban you.

[Zub]

Every action must be linked to an independent keystroke. So in your case, you would make one for the pet attack and then one for the caster attack.

You can have your pet attack and caster attack in the same macro. That's totally legit even though it's only 1 keystroke. They will however launch at the same time.
The problem is the pause, which would indeed be considered botting. but i don't think it's doable via the macro API.

my understanding is that whatever you can do within a macro using the blizz API (with no mod or 3rd party program) is legal. You can't do pauses with that API.

[Jmsgalla]

I definately prefer pressing another key rather than getting banned.

Thanks for the info

[Naysayer]

You can make cast sequences, but you'll have to press the key multiple times. One button press to do a whole array of spells and skills is pretty much botting. Botting is for hooligans and spacemonkeys.


It would look something like this, but different spells of course.

toon1
/castsequence [nomod] reset=7 Mana Spring Totem,,,Magma Totem

toon2
/castsequence [nomod] reset=7 Healing Stream Totem,Tremor Totem,Grace of Air Totem,Searing Totem

toon3
/castsequence [nomod] reset=7 Healing Stream Totem,Strength of Earth Totem,Windfury Totem,Searing Totem