Best Paladin Tanking Macro Ever?

[Coltimar]

Thanks hibiki. That is the trouble. I didn't spec with the SW:P refresh and now I remember why. When the points were refunded I went into that talent :/ I may keep the talent and just move SW:P to a separate macro.

[Coltimar]

Here is a thread I started after this one. Sorry to hijack :( It shows my setup and my macros.

Pimp my Macros

[Starbuck_Jones]

I have a very similar macro. If you dont want to use an addon to get bigger macros. Wrap that in a /click. This is what ive done. I have my macro like the following.

/startattack
/use 13
/use 14
/whatever its that turns of ui error and noise.
/click leftsideactionbarwhatever (where my long cast sequence paladin macro is)
/turn back on ui error and sound.

[Cyndaen]

My tanking macro is as follows:
/sfx0
/startattack [harm,exists,nodead]
/castsequence [harm,exists,nodead] reset=combat Consecration,Hammer of the Righteous,Holy Shield,Shield of Righteousness,Judgement of Light
/cast Divine Plea
/use 13
/use 14
/sfx1

The "sfx" parts of the macro are command strings to trigger a mod called SlashToggleErrors. The mod basically just removes error sounds for spamming purposes. Much shorter command string to save macro space.

At any rate, this macro has been extremely sufficient for our tanking needs. I usually fluctuate from 4.5k to 6.5k+ TPS on all of the raid bosses we do. (12/15 Naxx, VoA, and OS) It is also quite easily changed for low mana situations by adding/removing things like JoW and Consecration. Adding Exorcism is fairly easy as well, but I use a macro extender to do so in order to keep everything moving without wasting global cooldowns.

(Disclaimer: Divine Plea is not a 100% uptime per cooldown. It is often skipped in favor of the macro resetting or moving on through the sequence as normal. If conditions are met, it will go off nicely. Conditions being, you are waiting on something to come off cooldown, or you have not yet changed target from a dead Mob. Hard to explain, but once you see the macro work, you will understand better how to make it happen.)

[Tonyx]

I don't get why nobody else adds /cast Avenging Wrath to their pala macro. What's wrong with it?

[Starbuck_Jones]

Because it has a long cooldown/debuff. You cant just add it to an existing macro as it will stall it out and if its part of a /castsequence when it loops it, it will just stall the macro till the cooldown is up.

[Cyndaen]

The reason I personally don't choose to put AW in my tank macro is that it inevitably goes off at a very inopportune time. Having Wrath up when a bubble wall would save the raid is quite bad in my opinion. As a general rule, Paladins don't have a lot of trouble with burst threat nor sustained, so I don't feel it's necessary for it to be up every cooldown. Not being snooty here or anything, it's just personal preference.

[Tonyx]

Because it has a long cooldown/debuff. You cant just add it to an existing macro as it will stall it out and if its part of a /castsequence when it loops it, it will just stall the macro till the cooldown is up.

Nope, it is off the GCD, it won't stall the macro.

[Tonyx]

The reason I personally don't choose to put AW in my tank macro is that it inevitably goes off at a very inopportune time. Having Wrath up when a bubble wall would save the raid is quite bad in my opinion. As a general rule, Paladins don't have a lot of trouble with burst threat nor sustained, so I don't feel it's necessary for it to be up every cooldown. Not being snooty here or anything, it's just personal preference.

Do you ever use it? If you are single boxing, I can understand wanting to time it right.. but when multiboxing I bet that, unless it is macroed with something else, you'll never use it.. so macroing it you'll use it always, sometimes wasting sometimes not.. at the end of the day is a bit of extra damage you woudn't have dealt the other way.

Anywar, personal preferences >> all. Just asking if there was an objective reason not to macro it.

[Catamer]

I just wonder if something like this wouldn't be better?
/castrandom holy shield,
/castrandom concecration,
/castsequence or random bla,bla,bla
/use 13
/use 14

I personally use
/castrandom holy shield,
/castrandom bla, bla, bla
/use 13
/use 14
and have concecrate on another botton.