Warlock Click Castsequence Macro

[Ualaa]

I'm using this for my Warlock.

She is Demo... http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#IZbGdhkAdVcsxuhoE
Heading towards... http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#IcZbGdhkAdVcsxuhoE00VM

The reason for no point in Demonic Pact, is I have an Elemental Shammy in her group, and Totem of Wrath is far superior until an obsene amount of spell power, I believe 2800 or so.



I personally spam at two clicks per second. So I have comma's in there for LifeTap every 40 seconds (Life Tap glyph), Agony every 24 seconds, Corruption every 18 seconds, Immolate every 15 seconds and then Shadow Bolt spam the rest of the time. I count the spell and second click (first comma) as 1 second of spam, and then add 2 comma's for each second until the spell should refresh.



Agony does more damage as it progresses, so I wanted it early. Corruption (via Glyph) allows for an occasional instant cast Shadow Bolt, so this is my next spell in the sequence. Immolate includes a DD portion, so this is last to allow for a bit of threat to already be generated by the tank. My last glyph will be Felguard.

So far at 70th (in T5/T6 BC raid gear), she doubles the DPS of my 73rd Elemental Shaman (mix of BC/Wrath quest rewards only), and edges out the Feral (bear) tank at level 75 usually by 10-20%.

I'm happy with the warlocks DPS, but am definitely open to improvement suggestions.



The master macro is:
/Assist TANK
/Click MultiBarRightButton5
/Click MultiBarRightButton6
/Click MultiBarRightButton7
/Click MultiBarRightButton8
/Click MultiBarRightButton9
/use 13
/use 14
/Petattack
/cast Demonic Empowerment


Macro on MBRB5:
#show Life Tap
/cast [mod, nochanneling] Drain Soul
/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=combat Life Tap,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,


Macro on MBRB6:
#show Curse of Agony
/cast [mod, nochanneling] Drain Soul
/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=target Curse of Agony,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,


Macro on MBRB7:
#show Corruption
/cast [mod, nochanneling] Drain Soul
/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=target Corruption,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,


Macro on MBRB8:
#show Immolate
/cast [mod, nochanneling] Drain Soul
/castsequence [nochanneling] reset=target Immolate,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,


Macro on MBRB9:
#show Shadow Bolt
/cast [mod, nochanneling] Drain Soul
/cast [nochanneling] Shadow Bolt

[Coltimar]

what are the spaces between the commas for?

[Svpernova09]

Thats just something this forum software does. There really isn't any spaces.

This is correct, it's an anti-spam measure so you can just paste a bunch of the same characters in a row.


I'll check out the destro lock macros after our raid week and report back :_D

[Greythan]

Elemental mastery? Isn't that a shaman ability? (At work so can't look up directly.)

[Greythan]

And "spirit" tap = life tap?

[Greythan]

No worries. My lazy butt simply hasn't messed with the /click.

Tried my demo spec with it tonight and workred pretty well wtih the timing above.

My sequence is CoA, Corruption, Immo, and SB spam. Gonna try it live tomorrow in a ToC.

[daviddoran]

I finally got my locks to 80, and started testing on dummies. Had them in Demo for the most part, lvled a bit as Afflic, but it was kinda slow. Just respecced one to Destro, and that one in shittty gear is almost out DPSing my epic'd out shadowpriest! Granded the shadowpriest brings a lot of other raid utility to the game (i noticed that the passive healing helps make up for all the life tapping, and replenishment never hurts) but this is great news so far. Since I run 3 locks, I am pondering leaving one in Demo spec so i get demonic empowerment.

Anyone know a way to get curse of Doom to work? I think i started to run out commas, as it has a longer cooldown. It would be great if I could put a modifier somewhere in the master /click macro to switch which curse I do. Id like one of em to do CoE in raids, but id like the ability to omit it if another toon casts a similar debuff.

Any other ways to improve this with 3 locks?

Update:

specced all 3 locks the same, identical macros, etc (copied macro cache file, worked like a charm, had to rearrange the buttons tho) DPS is comprable or exceeding that of my epic'd out priest on the lvl 80 dummies. The "boss" dummy is a different story, as my priest is hit capped, and did more dps than the locks, but just barely. Loks like I need to rethink my shadowpriest dps. Now that i got /click working I think it will be much easier.

[daviddoran]

Now that i got my locks tweaked, its time to tweak my shadowpriest. Her DPS is fairly inconsistent, AoE is insane because Mine Sear is OP, and easy to cast as a boxer, long boss fights are ok, same target, etc. Boss fights with Adds, or lots of movement messes up my macro. I currently just run one long /castsequence and tweaked it on a dummy for timers, and it works pretty well, but like I said, inconsistent in the real world. Also my macro wastes a lot of time recasting VE, as it lasts 5 minutes, so for most boss fights i would rarely need to cast it (maybe cast it separately on the pull macro?)

Anyways, thanks for posting this macro

PS. Whats the best way to incorporate Life Tap? manually do it when needed to avoid bad timing/dying? or throw it in the /click array?

[Greythan]

Any thoughts on curse of elements vs coa in a 3 caster DPS set up?

A quote from Wowwiki on the topic:

This should be the main curse of choice for Destruction warlocks. The damage it adds to your direct damage spells is higher than the damage inflicted by Curse of Agony, and in a raid situation you should always leave the casting of that curse to an affliction lock anyway. The long duration of the curse also means you have to waste less time applying curses and can focus on casting your DD spells.

CoA seems to be such a slow developing spell that I'd rather get the 13% spell damage increase with coe. I *think* with my group its unique as there may be a druid effect that conflicts.

[daviddoran]

I just did a naxx 10 and OS 10, and CoA hardly did any dmg at all. Im gonna try to rework it to do 2 curses of Doom, and one CoE. I bet that will do more overall dps. And if im grouped with someone else applying a similar debuff 3 curses of doom. Ill probably just remove CoA alltogether from my main spam macro.