Lets work on a lava burst macro!

[pinotnoir]

People, when are you all gonna learn to bind your main DPS castsequence to MOUSEWHEEL?

Spam Schpam I say. If you write good, complete sequences that cover a lot of bases you can simply slowly and easily scroll your wheel for profit.

If you have that on your mouse wheel how do you adjust your camera zoom?

[algol]

If you have that on your mouse wheel how do you adjust your camera zoom?

Well-trained mechanical squirrels.

[Poolboy]

I rarely touch camera zoom tbh, never have. But, to answer, I have in and out mapped to "-" & "="

I will see if I can dig up my exact macros for wheelspam, but they're on my game rig which sadly has picked up a nasty assed trojan this week and is set for a reformat tomorrow when i get around to it, sigh.

An example off the top of my head though? Here's something along the lines of what I did for my 5 box Paladin melee team (havent played em in a while tho):

/assist focus
/follow focus
/stopmacro [noharm]
/startattack
/castrandom Judgement, Crusader Strike, Hammer of Wrath

So, if you get that bound to your Mousewheel Down, I find it incredibly easy and efficient to just grab a target and slowly scroll away for profit! Of course it'll always be inferior to individually selecting spells/abilites each cd... but for grinding/pve it is wicked. It especially makes for stupidly easy multiclass boxing. Got 5 different casters all with diff cast timed prime dps spells? NP, simply toss em on mousewheel and scroll through combat. Everyone will fire spells when up and unless you stop scrolling none of them should be sitting idle at any point.

Got a Healer, or running Shaman? Fine, just put /stopmacro in the start of their heals (you do use stopmacro on heals dont you?! hehe).. then if someone needs a top up, dont even bother to stop scrolling... hit your heal and keep a'rolling =)

I just got back into WoW this past week myself, as I'd taken about 3 months off and tried WAR among other things... the first thing I did after setting up UIs, making some new toons was create good mousewheel macros heh =)

[Lyonheart]

No chain lightnings in those macros after we get lava burst?

[Schwarz]

My understanding of /castrandom is that it will try to cast every spell that is in the macro. If you have something like

Button 2: (main dps button, after flame shock is applied)
/castrandom [target=focustarget] lava burst, lightning bolt, lava burst, elemental mastery, purge


4 out of the 5 spells could be on cooldown/not apply. Sure spamming this button will make you cast something. You gotta think it isn't the best way to do it. In the worst case you might have to press the button 5 times before it casts a lightning bolt.

I thought I read something about a paladin doing a cast random with long cooldown spells and seeing "that spell is not ready" flash up.

Also what if your flameshock is about to expire and your lava burst is up. You might not cast a lightning bolt in this type of setup. Thus losing a significant dps (ie 2k lightning bolt vs 5k lava burst).

[glo]

I tend to be spammy with my button presses and I want a bolt to go off anytime my lava burst isn't ready. It's simple but it works perfect!

/assist focus
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Elemental Mastery
/castsequence reset=8 Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt

My Flame Shock and Chain Lightning are on their own hot keys

[Ruodhaid]

meh i relly want this mouse wheel macro to work, keyclone dosent send mouse wheel to my alts dose it ? ( Edit: it dose )

i would for my pala use something like

/startattack
/castrandom Judgement, Consecration, Hammer of Wrath, Holy Wrath, Exorcism, Avenger's Shield, Holy Shield, Shield of Righteousness, Hammer of the Righteous

maybe leaveing out a few of them later on, just the spells i use alot atm

and for my shamans

/stopmacro [target=focus, noexists]
/follow focus
/assist [target=focus]
/stopmacro [noharm]
/castrandom Earth Shock, Chain Lightning, Lightning Bolt, thunderstorm

only 74 so no lave burst yet

Just testet this out but wiped 3 times before first boss in dark tharons keep, i might go back to my 22272222122 spamming

[Meeo]

EDIT:

Just thought of this:

/cast [nocombat] flame shock
/castrandom [combat] spell...spell...spell...

Would make opening with Flame Shock easy most of the time. Obviously some pulls where you auto go in to combat wouldn't work.

incombt could you add FS to that castrandom.....or.....instead of nocombat alone, add a mod to it so you can trigger as you need to then keep the castrandom the same? or would it be more wise to place flame shock in the castrandom?

in my case i usually am in combat becuase of my paladin, except the times were im just farming trash/questing where i usually trigger combat at range.

[Meeo]

So with that in mind, my orignal idea of just adding a mod key to the initial out of combat/in comba setup would be more wise so you can apply it as needed?

[puppychow]

fwiw I JUST did a test in wow, here is my macro on a pally:

/castrandom Arcane Torrent, Holy Light, Divine Protection

I press the button, waited 2 seconds to remove the GCD, then repeated 15 times. I got "Spell is not ready yet" 12 times out of 15.

SO CASTRANDOM DOES NOT SKIP SPELLS THAT ARE CURRENTLY ON COOLDOWN - both arcane torrent and divine protection were, and castrandom tried to them anyways. It's not a great macro to use for many spells that have long cooldowns,since you will end up wasting a lot of time not casting at all.