Cleanse

[Owltoid]

Currently I'm running with a pally tank and shaman healer. I have macros set up so that whenever I see a debuff on one of my toons, I start spamming 'c'. Here are the macros:

Pally:
/castrandom [target=party1]Cleanse, [target=party2]Cleanse, [target=party3]Cleanse, [target=party4]Cleanse, [target=party5]Cleanse

Shaman:
/castrandom [target=party1]Cleanse Spirit, [target=party2]Cleanse Spirit, [target=party3]Cleanse Spirit, [target=party4]Cleanse Spirit, [target=party5]Cleanse Spirit

Between the pally and the shaman I remove curses, magic, diseases, and poison. I can spam the button like crazy because if there is nothing to remove then no GCD starts and no mana is wasted. However, it can still be a inefficient from a time standpoint (could take well over 10 presses to get someone cleansed). Also, this obviously only works for a party and not a raid.

What macros do you use?

[Bigfish]

Wait, that WORKS?!?!?

[Owltoid]

What he said.

In the past, multiple targets (party1, party2) have NEVER worked in macros.

Sorry, I should do more extensive testing then. I seemed like it was working sometimes (poisons getting removed) and having trouble other times (magic not being removed). I'll try to test out tonight, but I'm guessing you guys are correct.

However, it did bring up another idea. The problem is it could be a grey are and considered bypassing the rules.

Using the /click command, could you set up a sequence so that it is removed in sequence?

In other words:

//Macro - the multicall macro
/click MultiBarBottomLeftButton1
/click MultiBarBottomLeftButton2
/click MultiBarBottomLeftButton3
/click MultiBarBottomLeftButton4
/click MultiBarBottomLeftButton5

//Macro1 - Cleanse
/cast [target=party1]Cleanse

//Macro2 - Cleanse
/cast [target=party2]Cleanse

//Macro3 - Cleanse
/cast [target=party3]Cleanse

//Macro4 - Cleanse
/cast [target=party4]Cleanse

//Macro5 - Cleanse
/cast [target=party5]Cleanse

If this works then it would actually be better than the (non-working) castrandom macro I posted above.

[elsegundo]

cant you just target random people?

[Owltoid]

1) I think the macro will stop on the first line. (the /click one)
2) There is no Party5. There is "self" and Party1 thru Party 4

Oh wow, maybe that's the reason that magic wasn't getting dispelled off my pally... I needed the [target=player]. As I mentioned before, I did notice that poisons were being removed, but the magic wasn't... it just always happened that the magic was on the pally. Now I'm unsure if my /castrandom macro worked or not... I'll test it tonight. All I should do is put a healing spell on there and see if it does cast at random targets.

Why do you think the macro would stop at the first line? There is no GCD incurred with Cleanse and Cleanse Spirit if there was nothing removed, so what would be telling it to stop?

[Owltoid]

cant you just target random people?

I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean can't I just click on their name and hit cleanse, then obviously yes. If you mean can't I just put the player name into the macro instead of "party3" then yes, but that doesn't get past the question of if castrandom works with different targets.

[elsegundo]

no im thinking there's gotta be a condition for the macro that targets a random party member. say... target=randomparty or something. let me look it up and see if thats even possible.

[elsegundo]

ok so looking around i got this...


/targetparty

/targetraid


this will cycle through your party or raid members. =]

[Owltoid]

Fur, I see your point, but I'm not thinking of it as an if/then statement. I'm thinking about it as pushing all 5 buttons at once. Just as you can have a macro use a trinket that doesn't incur a GCD and then cast a spell immediately after, I'd guess that you can use abilities that don't have a GCD right after each other. As soon as it finds a debuff to remove, for example and party2, then the spell will be cast and a GCD initiated. Although the buttons will be pushed for party3 and party4, since it's already on a GCD I should just receive an error message. I'll test it out and give it a shot tonight, but I don't see any reason it shouldn't work.

elsegundo, you're correct and the /targetparty is a much better idea than the (possibly not working) castrandom. Thanks! Hopefully I can get the one-click solution to work, but if that doesn't then I'll try yours. Worse case scenario is I need to push it 5 times to remove a debuff... much better than castrandom.

[Pocalypse]

What about putting castsequences instead of casts in there:

//Macro - the multicall macro
/click MultiBarBottomLeftButton1
/click MultiBarBottomLeftButton2
/click MultiBarBottomLeftButton3
/click MultiBarBottomLeftButton4
/click MultiBarBottomLeftButton5

//Macro1 - Cleanse
/castsequence [target=player] Cleanse,,,,

//Macro2 - Cleanse
/castsequence [target=party1],Cleanse,,,

//Macro3 - Cleanse
/castsequence [target=party2],,Cleanse,,

//Macro4 - Cleanse
/castsequence [target=party3],,,Cleanse,

//Macro5 - Cleanse
/castsequence [target=party4],,,,Cleanse

5 clicks and you're going to get your guy.