Paladin Tanking macro

[BGuru]

I just started using this macro on my Pally to tank.

/startattack
/castsequence reset=9/combat/target Holy Shield, Hammer of the Righteous, Seal of Righteousness, Judgement of Light, Consecration

I am holding agro a lot better now but that could be because of the patch.

Anyone see anything I should change in the macro? I was thinking of taking the seal out and hot keying it separately.

Since the patch do Pallys still need 490 defense? I have read conflicting opinions on different forums.

Thanks,

[GizmoxLoW]

With the new patch im holding aggro so good i dont even use a seal half the time heck im even giving my shamans kings instead of salvation

but i spam this macro

/startattack
/castsequence [combat] reset=8 Consecration, holy shield, Hammer of the Righteous

since they all have a cooldown i dont worry about reset=target
i use seal of corruption since it dots the target with holy which does helps holding aggro by hitting each target a couple times to apply

but i rarely use it... cept on bosses then i judge it with judgment of wisdom

[Jheusse]

Some people use /castrandom instead of castsequence so that cooldowns don't prevent action, allows heavy button mash.

/startattack
/castrandom seal of righteousness , judgement, holy shield, consecration


From http://aztecknights.eu/macros2.htm which is a page that one of our boxers here set up, you'd have to dig to find his thread where he linked it

[antishadow]

heck im even giving my shamans kings instead of salvation

Its a good thing too - salvation was removed. Scared the crap out of me the first instance I'd run. :-)

I too don't even seal. I just spam righteous hammer, and I don't even think I need to do that anymore.

[GizmoxLoW]

Some people use /castrandom instead of castsequence so that cooldowns don't prevent action, allows heavy button mash.

/startattack
/castrandom seal of righteousness , judgement, holy shield, consecration

What happens if the macro tries to cast judgment first without a seal? does the macro get stuck? plus casting seals and judgments burn through so much mana...reason why i have it on another key and just spam holy shield consecration and righteous hammer

[Jheusse]

Dunno, my 60 pally has been parked since before 3.0, while my shammy team levels with a buddy who is RAF linked to them on his pally.

Just pointing out the potential utility of the castrandom, it has some versatility. That link I gave you can see how he constructed his team overall.

Went and dug up the original thread Here .

[antishadow]

Some people use /castrandom instead of castsequence so that cooldowns don't prevent action, allows heavy button mash.

/startattack
/castrandom seal of righteousness , judgement, holy shield, consecration

What happens if the macro tries to cast judgment first without a seal? does the macro get stuck? plus casting seals and judgments burn through so much mana...reason why i have it on another key and just spam holy shield consecration and righteous hammer

castrandom should skip any spell that it can't cast because its in cooldown or otherwise.

[Pringle]

If the randomly selected spell is on cooldown, the macro won't fire any spell. You'll get the spell not ready warning. This isn't a problem, however, because you're spamming this button. The next time you press it another spell, hopefully not on cooldown, will be selected and it will fire. Pre-patch, I was using a castsequence as it just felt like the better option. Now I use castrandom as the cooldowns just don't seem to line up in any reasonable pattern.

[Sarduci]

Cast random only picks from valid spells in the list. Anything on cooldown won't get picked.

Generally I start the beginning of my rotation by hand (AS, cons, hammer and then button mash) but I do not use /castrandom since I haven't had a need for it.

[Griznah]

Stop using seal in macros!!
Seals last 2 minutes now, no need to have them in the spam-macros.