Best Paladin Tanking Macro Ever?

[Cyndaen]

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.

Actually, I do use it quite a bit. When I'm multi-boxing, my paladin is my main so I often have full control over those cooldowns. This is not ALWAYS the case, but for the most part, true. I like having a little extra dps, but at the end of the day, whether we win or lose is not often due to 100-300 extra dps out of my tank over the course of the raid. Me surviving an emergency situation however, well, you see where I'm going. One thing we can both agree on is the part about personal preference being everything. We all play differently and somehow, nearly all of us are success stories in our own right. One of the coolest things about this game in my opinion.

Edit: Requires a different thread, but I do in fact macro AW on my Retribution paladin. My wife also runs AW in the macro on her Holy Spamadin if that helps.

[Havelcek]

I may be in the minority but I generally save Avenging Wrath for emergencies.

[Taliesin]

I may be in the minority but I generally save Avenging Wrath for emergencies.

I don't macro it either. If I want to use it, I'll manually click it. The fact that it interferes with the use of bubbles, especially Divine Protection, I don't like the idea that I am no longer in control of the timing that these abilities can be used. Divine Protection has saved me on numerous occasions, which I think offsets the 20% damage boost to the tank for a brief period of time.

Yeah, I don't think to use it a lot of times when I could, but in the greater scheme of things this spell has fairly low benefit to the group. I see it as more a retadin ability where DPS is the name of the game (or healadin for the healing buff), than a tankadin ability where survival is the goal. If we didn't have forbearance or other timers to worry about, then I'd use it all the time.

[offive]

Nice macro's and variations. We should toss in click to move and interact with target to really finish it off. :thumbup:

[David]

Am I the only person who plays paladin,4x shaman without cast sequence? I just buttonbash :thumbsup: (somewhat coordinated)

[Simulacra]

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.

I use /click so have AW right at the start of my click sequence, I like to see wings so why not use it whenever available with /click it'll just pass through if it's still on cd so no issues

[Kayley]

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I use to press all my spells now I just use a standard castsequence to tank/dps. Avenging wrath is something I like to have manually clicked. I like a few others i'm sure would hate for it to go off only to need Divine Protection hehe - although I do forget about AW at times.

[Tdog]

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.

It's not about having Avenging Wrath up on ever CD. It's about not having Forberance when you need to pop Divine shield/protection.

[daviddoran]

My shadowpriests macro is

/assist focus
/stopmacro [channeling]
/castsequence [target=focustarget,harm] [target=target] reset=combat/10 vampiric embrace,vampiric touch,mind blast,Shadow Word: Pain,mind flay,devouring plague,mind blast,mind flay,mind flay,mind blast,mind flay

My priest is pretty well geared (shortage of priests on server and in guild, so i got into lots of pugs) and I can pull 3k dps on single targets. I know that the dps could be better given my gear, but getting it all into one macro would take a lot of massaging. Also, because my priest is dual specced holy, a lot of her gear has a lot of spirit and haste on it, and I have so much manaregen, from the vampiric effects, and all the spirit (almost have more spirit than int) most trash fights i end up at 100% mana. Knowing this, I bet I can start to get better itemization and tweak for more spellpower and crit, which should boost my dps immensely.

My trick for tweaking this macro was watching all the cooldowns on the longer CD stuff, and adding/removing mind flays as necessary. Usually mind blast,or devouring plague is just coming up when mind flay finishes. Also, the /stopmacro [channeling] is awesome. With that at the beginning, the macro wont stop for any other spell if its channeling. So I can safely start spamming my next dps key and not worry about messing up my sequence. I also use it on my mages for arcane missiles. Works like a charm.

[Ualaa]

For a warlock, I'd go with simplicity.
Some variation of the 0/41/30 build.
Fel Synergy 2/2, Demonic Knowledge 3/3.

Go with straight shadow bolt or immolate/incinerate spam.
You're not quite as good damage as a solo lock, but you're not far off of the mark either.

You have Seed of Corruption for very strong AoE.
Decent single target dps.
Soul Stone, Health Stones etc.
Curse of choice.