255 character macro

[Harem]

USe macaroon for more than getting around 255 character limit.

Look at it. love it.

[emps]

Been using that macaroon too, just recently. It's awesome! I wrote a totel pet care macro that involves almost all pet families and the food they eat + call pet + revive pet + mend pet + use buff food for pet, all in one button. I had to play with modifiers but this is not achievable using the cheap 255 limit. I think i was up to 970+ chars on this one alone. :P Not that you'll be using more than 255 for every macro, but at least I have a lot of padding for every macro i create or further expand. Only thing i'm concerned about is macaroon breaking (from patches,xpacks,etc..)... /crosses fingers

[moosejaw]

If you don't want to use Macaroon then you can use Bindpad to get around the character limit. I already have [s]pitbull[/s] Bartender setup the way I like it and bindpad works excellent. I would use Macaroon if I was starting from scratch, then you can use the bar targeting functions to simplify your macros.

Edit: Change pitbull to Bartender. Silly me.

[Ken]

I always throw this out when these questions come up.

WTF do you need 255 character macros for? (Coming from a guy who's done most heroics and karazhan with minimal macros)

I can think of some things:
- To have a complete "accept all" macro.
- To have complex healing macros with modifiers, so you have 1 button for healing with different behaviors and that doesn't heal when the group composition changed and another healer has taken place. My shamans have a healing macro that stops when the priest is in the team. It goes more or less like this:

/stopmacro [target=mypriest,exists,alive]
/target [target=focustarget,exists,help] [target=focus,exists] [ ]
/cast [nomod] Greater Heal
/cast [mod:shift] Lesser Heal
/cast [mod:ctrl] Chain Heal

Of course this is well within the macro limit(got about 20-30chars left) and there are some white space that can be removed, but I'd rather be extending this to such an extend that I can have "alt" modifiers for self heal and I'd rather not have the /target in but have the cast macros to have targetting embedded in them.

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