Detailed Description of Maxion's Setup, Addons, Keybindings and Macros

[terrhian]

Maxion you have some awesome macros in here man! Thanks!

I'm still a macro nublet so I hope you don't mind my stupid questions. Can you explain why on this pally macro it says "reset=1" but on the other cleansing macros it says "reset=5"

#show Cleanse
/castsequence [target=party3] reset=1 ,,,,Cleanse
/castsequence [target=party1] reset=1 ,,,Cleanse
/castsequence [target=party2] reset=1 ,,Cleanse
/castsequence [target=player] reset=1 ,Cleanse
/castsequence [target=party4] Cleanse

/castsequence [target=player]reset=5 ,,,,Remove Curse
/castsequence [target=party1]reset=5 ,,,Remove Curse
/castsequence [target=party2]reset=5 ,,Remove Curse
/castsequence [target=party3]reset=5 ,Remove Curse
/castsequence [target=party4] Remove Curse

Do you mind walking me through what each of these macro sequences does? Really sorry to ask you this.

And another question is, why did you start with the bottom most sequence with no commas, but the first one has the most commas? Does the macro go out of wack if you go:
/castsequence [target=party4] Remove Curse
/castsequence [target=party3]reset=5 ,Remove Curse
/castsequence [target=party2]reset=5 ,,Remove Curse
/castsequence [target=party1]reset=5 ,,,Remove Curse
/castsequence [target=player]reset=5 ,,,,Remove Curse

You know after typing all this, I think I understand why you did the comma thing first, but I still don't understand the reset=5 or the reset=1. Please explain this in detail if you don't mind. Thank you in advance for anyone that can help. (^_^)

[Ualaa]

The reset=X is a command, where after that many seconds have passed without the macro being pushed, it will automatically reset to the starting point.

So reset=1, is a macro which you want to reset as soon as you stop spamming it.

And reset=5, is a macro which you want to reset fairly quickly, but which you won't be spamming nearly as fast.




A castsequence is one spell after the other.
But if there is a comma on a step, then nothing happens when you push that time.

Since only one thing (that causes a GCD in game) can fire off at once.
The first ability which uses a GCD will fire off first.
And the other abilities cannot execute on that keypress.

In the first two examples, a Remove Curse or Cleanse fires off (last line) at party 4, on the first press.
Because of the commas, nothing else happens here.
On the second press, the line above it fires off, because both it and the last line attempt to execute here, but the earlier line (listed on an earlier line) has precedent.
Because of the four commas, the first line will not fire off, until the fifth press.

In the last example, the Remove Curse will target player 4 every cast, which will not allow the Party 3, 2, 1, and player options to ever fire off.

[Maxion]

Indeed.

[terrhian]

Thanks for the explanation! I got it! (^_^) You guys are awesome!

[wiskers]

Now my question have you changed anything now.

[Maxion]

Now my question have you changed anything now.

I have changed some small parts of it, I plan to get around to updating it eventually, though most of the changes are in addons and minor macro changes, so the posts are still pretty up to date and relevant.

[Kruu]

Great post, would really like to see how you've updated your macros due to 4.0x changes.

[Zal]

I actually went and reworked some of my macro's after reading this. Great post!

[Ualaa]

Does this work still:

,,,,Cleanse


Post 4.x, this one will not work:

Cleanse,,,,

[Maxion]

Multiple commas in castsequences do not work anymore, so i'll be changing to having a button for cleansing each character specifically.

I'll probably update the first post in this thread after I get that team to 85.