Utilizing /click to run concurrent castsequences

[Lyonheart]

Hi all,

Here's my one button spam for Ret pallies:

Macro 1:

/assist focus
/startattack
/stopcasting
/click MultiBarLeftButton1
/click MultiBarLeftButton2
/click MultiBarLeftButton3
/click MultiBarLeftButton4
/click MultiBarLeftButton5

I'm using a focus setup, but you can easily change it for an FTL setup. Note you can use different click commands depending on where you are putting the other 5 macros:

ActionButton# = Main Bar
BonusActionButton# = Dynamic bar that switches actions based on Druid Forms, Warrior Stances, and Rogue Stealth
MultiBarBottomLeftButton# = Bottom Left Bar
MultiBarBottomRightButton# = Bottom Right Bar
MultiBarRightButton# = Right Bar
MultiBarLeftButton# = Right Bar 2 (to the left of "Right Bar")
PetActionButton# = Pet Bar
ShapeshiftButton# = Druid Forms, Paladin Auras, Warrior Stances, Death Knight Presences, Rogue Stealth


The /stopcasting is there for exorcism and art of war procs...since excorcism now has a cast time, if the macro is called it starts to cast it, and art of war hasn't proc'd, the next button press will stop the cast. If art of war has proc'd however, it will be instant cast and the macro will go ahead. This macro will also cast Hammer of Wrath when the mob falls below 20% health. You can sub in Flash of Light for Exorcism if you want heals instead of dps. You can also macro in Consecration if facing multiple mobs (although this tends to chew through mana).

Here are the rest of the macros that get called from the /click functions:

Macro 2:
#showtooltip
/assist focus
/castsequence reset=8/combat judgement of wisdom,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Insert whatever judgement is appropriate.

Macro 3:
#showtooltip
/assist focus
/castsequence reset=10/combat Divine Storm,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,

Macro 4:
#showtooltip
/assist focus
/castsequence reset=4/combat Crusader Strike,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Macro 5:
#showtooltip
/assist focus
/castsequence reset=15/combat Exorcism,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,

Macro 6:
#showtooltip
/assist focus
/castsequence reset=6/combat Hammer of Wrath,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,


Note - there aren't supposed to be spaces inbetween the commas, it just 'appears' that way in my posts.

I'll post my prot pally macro when I get home (at work now).

Let me know if you have any questions...

Cheers,
S.

Thank You!

[Lyonheart]

Hey Stealthy, I noticed you did not have sacred shield in your click macros? you have that on a separate button?

[Dinnie]

I am using these macro buttons:

1st button
/castsequence reset=combat flame shock,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

2nd button
/castsequence reset=combat lava burst,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

3rd button
/castsequence reset=combat chain lightning,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

4th button
/cast lightning bolt

I got 4 shamans, all the same gear, when i start doing dps, nr1. 1500dps nr2. 1300dps nr3. 900dps. nr4. 850dps.
They should give all about the same dps, i cant really understand why one is doing more dps than the other, can someone please explain that to me. Thanks in advance!

Another one is, sometimes the target is missng the flameshock debuff on it, how can i prevent this via this macro?

[Ualaa]

I've found whichever shaman gets invited first does the most DPS and whichever one is the last invited into the group does the least. This is with the same macro's, same spec and same gear.

I reset the damage meter when I invite toons to start my dailies, and invariably, the shammy in the F2 slot on the paladin is top damage, while the shammy in the F5 slot is bottom damage.



Sometimes a target will resist a spell.
The macro will advance, because it did cast the spell.
With a spam macro, there's not much you can do about that.
You'd need to manually cast your shocks etc.

Once you are hit capped for the content you are facing, your spells should hit all of the time.

[Gadzooks]

One aspect to the /click method I have found VERY useful, is it's a good way to visualize your sequences - a standard sequence is just a long sentence in the window, this method makes you build blocks, that you tie together.

Then, when you're on the target dummy, you can watch the buttons as you hit each spell/ability. I feel like I have more understanding and control over my rotations, because I have visual cues how it works.

Another thing I'm playing with is building timelines, I build a long table, like a musical score, with a line for each ability that's called, and break the timeline up into seconds - and then plot out the rotation - then you can SEE the progression of the rotation. It's been interesting to use to try and compare each toon's rotation with everyone else's, to get my timing synched up. (Use a metronome with /clicks to train yourself to keep a steady beat. A steady One two One two One two can give you a good 120BPM to run a rotation against - that's two beats a second, so if you're working on a 69696 rotation, you can block out 6 seconds, 9 seconds, 6 seconds, etc, and see how they overlap and you can build your commas for timing against that.

Make any sense?

[Drommon]

Is this thread stickied?

Awesome info here.

[suicidesspyder]

Lets just say i just finally decided to try this out today after castsequence crap for over a year. Im on the ptr doing 3k dps on shamans in bis gear and was like wow this sucks. So knowing me i decided to use click and went from highest 3600 dps to just under 6k.

I recommend this to anyone just read all the posts and youll get it. Trust me i aint the brightest but i caught on. Thank you for posting and stickieing this topic.

[suicidesspyder]

Does anyone have a good arcane mage click this is all i could figure out atm

/click MultiBarLeftButton7


/castsequence reset=target arcane barrage,,,,,,,,,,,,,

/castsequence reset=target Arcane blast, Arcane blast, Arcane blast, Frostfire bolt, Arcane missiles,,,,,,,,

It works good like every other spell is arcane barrage but im stuck at 3500 dps just wondering if frostfire bolt is pointless or not and is there something else that can be done.

[suicidesspyder]

On another note.... When i use say /clickmultibarleftbutton7 do i need to have an actual spell on it or just doing that using the castsequence with spell name is good enough.

[Whowantstoknow]

Couple of things:

1.1) You seem to have missed the point of using /click in the first place those are (in relative order of importance):
a) able to macro a priority based rotation
b) reduce the dps loss of server confirmation inherent in normal /castsequence macros
c) modularise your macros

1.2) Arcane Mage rotation is extremely simple but is hard to macro as it is reliant on a proc

You have a few choices:

2.1 You can AB spam so no need for any macro - this is extremely mana intensive but you should be able to sustain it on most boss fights - at some gear levels AB spam is also the highest dps but not all - recommend using RAWR as the mage version is very good at theorycrafting the best rotation

2.2 You assume Missile barrage is going to proc and macro a rotation of ABx4, AM

2.3 You spam AB and manually handle missile Barrage procs

For 2.2 I would probably try macro like this (my mage is not 80 yet)

/castsequence ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Arcane Missile (adjust to have enough commas to fit 4xAB in)
/cast Arcane Blast

make it into a clicky if you want and add trinkets etc