Lets work on a lava burst macro!

[Schwarz]

So this is the point that I was trying to get across earlier. If you have 4 out of 5 spells that could be on cooldown worst case is you have to press a button 5 times. This has to slow down the dps you have to be missing the GCD while attempting spells that are on cooldown.

So I think the attempt at trying to get a long cast sequence is better. Personally I don't like cast sequences b/c I would rather be able to react to what is going on rather than try to find an optimal sequence. There were many times that I would finish off a boss or a trash pull by an earthshock right after a lightning bolt.

I guess it is different if you have a tank and aren't watching all 5 cast the same thing.

[Tehtsuo]

Step 1: Create castrandom macro
Step 2: Drink a half gallon of Red Bull
Step 3: Profit

[slox]

/castrandom lava burst
/castsequence (normal dps macro)

I sort of messed around with this yesterday. Did the castsequence then random and it seemed to work great. I was installing a tv tuner card so I didn't pay that much attention to it.

I think it was something like

/castsequence reset=17 flame shock, lightning bolt (as many as you want to fit so haste wont reset it before 17s)
/castrandom lavaburst

Didn't mess around with chain lightning, not sure if tossing it in the random would work. Lightning bolt can clip lava burst but with the lag between shamans we aren't going to have a perfect rotation with how complex elemental dps has become.

[Multibocks]

/castrandom sucks. I use it currently because I'm lazy however I can see when a spell is ready to cast yet I have to spam the button like 10 times to cast it. It sucks, but I'm not quite sure what to do to change it.

[nomenquis]

/castsequence reset=17 flame shock, lightning bolt (as many as you want to fit so haste wont reset it before 17s)
/castrandom lavaburst

The reset time here is _not_ to reset the sequence to step 1 17 seconds after the first press, but actually resets the sequence to one after 17 seconds of not pressing at all.
Thus what you want will not work.

Making any clever decisions about when to lava burst in macros simply won't work anymore, because thats exactly the kind of 'automation' that blizzard got rid of with the 2.0 macro changes.

[puppychow]

I am currently using

#showtooltip Lava Burst
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Elemental Mastery
/castsequence [target=focustarget,harm][] reset=target/combat Flame Shock,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lava Burst,Flame Shock,Chain Lightning,Lightning Bolt

But this is for PVE ONLY. I use a mod called "ActionBarSaver" and it lets me keep multiple action bar configs, I have one for PVE and one for PVP. For PVP, I have seperate buttons for flame shock, LB, CL, and Lava Burst and micromanage the casting of all of them, since I will want to sometimes consume Flame Shock right away sometimes and use chain lightning more often. I might take CL out of the macro above completely and replace with a LB, since the mana cost of CL is so high and for many boss fights you only need it at specific points.

[slox]

/castsequence reset=17 flame shock, lightning bolt (as many as you want to fit so haste wont reset it before 17s)
/castrandom lavaburst

The reset time here is _not_ to reset the sequence to step 1 17 seconds after the first press, but actually resets the sequence to one after 17 seconds of not pressing at all.
Thus what you want will not work.

Making any clever decisions about when to lava burst in macros simply won't work anymore, because thats exactly the kind of 'automation' that blizzard got rid of with the 2.0 macro changes.

Thanks for clearing that up. I changed it to this.

/castsequence reset=6 flame shock, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt
/castrandom lava burst

That's 18.5s of casting without any haste. With haste flame shock won't get the full dot and LB can clip LvB but it still gave me more dps than just spamming LB so I'm happy with it.
With LBx2/CL i get about 1200-1400 dps with flametongue totem / wrath of air 1326 dmg, 22.17 crit.
With that macro I start off with a normal LB then spam that and it starts at 1400 dps, finished around 1700 and I lasted about 3x as long on mana.
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...erspine&n=Klox Theres an armory link.
Again I'm not saying it's perfect it's just easier to do so i can pay more attention on my druid tank. Have been having fun with him.

[Meeo]

/castsequence reset=6 flame shock, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt
/castrandom lava burst

Im a nub when it comes to stacking castsequences and castrandoms into a macro, how exactly does the above macro play out, to get the lava burst to cast?

I apologize upfront for the nubish question.

[slox]

/castsequence reset=6 flame shock, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt
/castrandom lava burst

Im a nub when it comes to stacking castsequences and castrandoms into a macro, how exactly does the above macro play out, to get the lava burst to cast?

I apologize upfront for the nubish question.

It starts off with flame shock, lightning bolt, lava burst, then follows the cast sequence until lava burst is off cooldown. I always start with a normal LB before I spam it though. I haven't looked to see with haste if lava burst comes up but you're at flame shock if it will do flame shock / LB before lava burst. Try it out it's nice for pve so you can see what's going on and not worry about all of the cooldowns. I'd rather do a little less dps and enjoy the game.

[Memn]

I hate castrandom. It seems sloppy, and it never perforoms well for me in my tests. I usually go up against some training dummies, or a boss fight and test out new spam macros. Here is what I am using with my shammies now, I have two different spawm buttons, one for trash, one for bosses, and I have earth shock and chain lightning on keys explicitly for them.

Trash Spam:
#showtooltip Lightning Bolt
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Elemental Mastery
/cast [target=focustarget][target=focustargettarget][harm] Lightning Bolt

Boss Spam:
#showtooltip Lava Burst
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Elemental Mastery
/castsequence [target=focustarget,harm][target=focustargettarget,harm][harm] Flame Shock, Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt

These are pretty similar to many of the other macros people have posted, and I think it is as near optimal as possbile, Just be sure to adjust the number of LB's between your LvB's to reflect your haste.