Ok so I want to AoE

[xshadowdragon]

Im leveling a mage and a paladin through RaF. Both are level 16 right now I think but once I get consecrate and Blizzard if I don't have it already, I was wodnering if it would be possible to run in with the paladin, aggro how ever many mobs I want, target one and have the paladin consecrate every 8 seconds, judgement every 8 seconds, crusader strike every 6 seconds, etc... so I can be on the mage casting flamestrike then blizzard. What would a macro like this look like? I don't think I can make a macro for the mage that looks like this because they're AoE spells are targetable.

[Redbeard]

For the mage, any spell wtih an aiming reticle cant be macroed (i.e. blizzard)... all others should be able to.

The paladin one is easy... if you want to fine tune it youd make one macro for each ability bound to different keys... if you just want a button to spam so you can concentrate on your mage, youd do a /castrandom consecration, crusader strike etc etc and cast random will pick a spell to cast that is not on CD at the moment.

Here is a the guide for making macros,

http://www.wowwiki.com/Making_a_macro

Good luck.

[elsegundo]

/castsequence crusader strike, consecrate, judgement


as for the mage, you'll have to do it manually. so alt+tab to control mage.


or to make it quicker. i'd just make my mage /follow after the first judgement and spam arcane explosion.
so leave mage in a spot. run around and gather mobs. run close to mage and spam above macro. /follow on mage and let them have it with arcane explosion.

[xshadowdragon]

Thanks both of you! I will have my paladin macro be /castrandom concecrate, judgement of light, Crusader Strike, Divine Storm. And i'll have the seal I want on a different macro that I'll hit before every fight. And I guess Ill just spam AE. Thanks again!

Edit- After thinking about it if I do /cast random, he'll just keep spamming concecrate so I guess ill take that out and just do it when I see it go away?

[Redbeard]

Well you have two options, you can do /castrandom or you can do /castsequence.

/castsequence casts the spells you want in order so, for example. If you always want to cast consecration, judgement of x, divine storm and crusaders strike, in THAT order, then a castsequence button will work for you.

/castrandom takes your list of spells and chooses one that is available.

The difference is, say judgement of x is on cooldown... if you come to that spell in your castsequence and you hit the macro, nothing will happen. So basically you have to wait for the cooldown to refresh before you can move to the next spell in the sequence. WIth /castrandom , if it tries to cast judgement of x and its on cooldown, it will just choose something else to cast.

Hope thats helpful.

[Seldum]

Hope thats helpful.

You got that right! What a super usefull piece of information! (even if its stated in some topic 200 years old)

[olipcs]

as for the mage, you'll have to do it manually. so alt+tab to control mage.

true in general, but not under any circumstance: if you are using Octopus or HotKeyNet you can use 'mousebroad-casting' to do the blizzard while playing the pally.

[Frosty]

Or.. you could set up and AoE key for both toons, lets say "6".. Set the paladin to consecrate and the mage to use arcane explosion...then spam the heck out of the button.

[olipcs]

Or.. you could set up and AoE key for both toons, lets say "6"

which works perfectly with a mage, a priest and a warlock (with hellfire) as its all untargette aoe, but if you play a druid or a hunter (or want to use the targetet aoes of your mage and warlock) it can't be done this way

[Frosty]

Or.. you could set up and AoE key for both toons, lets say "6"

which works perfectly with a mage, a priest and a warlock (with hellfire) as its all untargette aoe, but if you play a druid or a hunter (or want to use the targetet aoes of your mage and warlock) it can't be done this way

Don't forget the Shamen totems!

They really need to make those targeted AoE spells just cast if you have a taget selected though IMHO.