Lets work on a lava burst macro!

[Fuzzyboy]

Joyus after finding out that it was possible to put castrandom and castsequence in the same macro, i tried the following:

/castrandom Hammer of Wrath
/castsequence Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of Righteousness

And hammer of the righteous wouldn't cast - did i misunderstand something?

[slox]

Joyus after finding out that it was possible to put castrandom and castsequence in the same macro, i tried the following:

/castrandom Hammer of Wrath
/castsequence Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of Righteousness

And hammer of the righteous wouldn't cast - did i misunderstand something?

I had to put the castsequence above castrandom for mine to work.

[Fuzzyboy]

Joyus after finding out that it was possible to put castrandom and castsequence in the same macro, i tried the following:

/castrandom Hammer of Wrath
/castsequence Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of Righteousness

And hammer of the righteous wouldn't cast - did i misunderstand something?

I had to put the castsequence above castrandom for mine to work.

I just tried that, which didn't work either. It does cast shield of righetousness, but no other spells - very weird.

[Hachoo]

Er...why do you have "/castrandom Hammer of Wrath"? That is pointless. Castrandom is only used when you want it to randomly pick between multiple spells, ie: "/castrandom Hammer of Wrath,Consecrate". Take out the Castrandom and I bet the macro will work. (ie change it to just: "/cast Hammer of Wrath" and then the /castsequence below it)

Also change

/castsequence Hammer of the Righteous,Shield of Righteousness

to

/castsequence reset=combat Hammer of the Righteous,Shield of Righteousness

I've seen cast sequences bug out sometimes when they dont have a reset= part.

[Hachoo]

Er...why do you have "/castrandom Hammer of Wrath"? That is pointless. Castrandom is only used when you want it to randomly pick between multiple spells, ie: "/castrandom Hammer of Wrath,Consecrate". Take out the Castrandom and I bet the macro will work. (ie change it to just: "/cast Hammer of Wrath" and then the /castsequence below it)

False.

It'll fire off Hammer of Wrath whenever its available. This method works great actually.

I said it was pointless. Why use castrandom? Cast will do the exact same thing except its probably using slightly less processing because it doesn't have to even attempt to make a decision.

[Hachoo]

Thats not how it works - cast will try to cast it, if its not on cooldown it will cast it and ignore the castsequence, if it IS on cooldown it will provide an error, then drop through to the castsequence. Case in point this is my DKs tanking macro:

#showtooltip
/cast Rune Strike
/castsequence reset=target Icy Touch,Plague Strike,Pestilence,Blood Strike,Scourge Strike,Death Strike

works fine - when rune strike is up it uses it, otherwise it just skips it and keeps going through the castsequence.

[Fuzzyboy]

Thats not how it works - cast will try to cast it, if its not on cooldown it will cast it and ignore the castsequence, if it IS on cooldown it will provide an error, then drop through to the castsequence. Case in point this is my DKs tanking macro:

#showtooltip
/cast Rune Strike
/castsequence reset=target Icy Touch,Plague Strike,Pestilence,Blood Strike,Scourge Strike,Death Strike

works fine - when rune strike is up it uses it, otherwise it just skips it and keeps going through the castsequence.

Brilliant - I'll try that when I get home :-) Only thing about HoW though is that even when it's not on CD it can only be cast once the mob is below a certain health percentage. I wonder if that'll mess it up. Oh well, guess I'll test it on the dummies in SW :-)

[Tehtsuo]

None of this /castrandom + /castsequence stuff is working for me, and I'm getting some really weird results to boot.

It's weird, I'm using this very simple macro:

/castrandom Holy Shield, Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of Righteousness, Judgement of Light, Divine Plea

It seems to pick a different spell for each fight and say "I'm not going to cast that." I've tested it through an entire instance and I can't seem to find any reason for it, and it's ridiculously obvious, because all the other spells cast near instantly while I'm spamming the button.

[Lyonheart]

Guys, why no CL in those rotations? I asked this earlier in the post. I'm just curious. It seems to me that every instance i run seems to have multi add pulls.. and a one button does all macro is what i like. If i don't have CL in a macro.. i think i will forget to use it lol.

[pinotnoir]

Guys, why no CL in those rotations? I asked this earlier in the post. I'm just curious. It seems to me that every instance i run seems to have multi add pulls.. and a one button does all macro is what i like. If i don't have CL in a macro.. i think i will forget to use it lol.

For me I manually cl when its safe. Also CL is a high mana spell you dont want to be spamming everytime its up. Unless you can drop multiple mana totems you dont want to spam it everytime. Trash you can use it once its safe over and over. But if you do a boss fight you could run yourself out of mana by using it everytime its up.

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