macro input wanted to boost dps (ele shaman)

[zenga]

I would find Niley's macro and use that, reset=combat for example should be 'reset=combat/8' for the lavaburst. you want that cast sequence to become available whenever lava burst is up. While you may have a perfect number of commas for when you press the keys, your character might be feared, stunned, incapacitated by some undead dragon, healing the tank or what have you. That will insure that your lava burst is up.

Similarly I would make this a 4 button click macro and time out chain lightning in a similar fashion. While its a very short cooldown, you will be able to see that it is timing perfectly.

On all these I would [harm, nodead] this will make slow turn over mobs not waste button presses. Since those button presses won't actually have cast times associated with them.

That make sense. I forgot about the time to reset your sequence. I have experimented a bit with a hard reset (alt), but most of the time i forgot about it. I indeed had the feeling that my lava burst wasn't *active* enough. When i start combat on the first mob the flame shock + lava burst take away approx 40-50k hp, so that works. But it's the next mobs that take way too long to my idea.

For the harm/nodead part i'm not sure what you mean with 'slow turn over mobs' . That's due to english not being my native language

I would suspect if you are slow on trash that your not transitioning between mobs right and turnover is slow. At some point you need to switch on the focus unit (tank) to the next trash mob and either let the last mob die from magma death, hammers, ret aura, or chain lightning, etc, most likely one or two of your casters will take its head off with the spells they are already casting and or the next ones during the focustarget lag.

So to be clear, burn down first kill order, just inside the red zone for the mob, switch to next mob and the final spells and effects will clean the first guy off the list and there will be a smooth transition and no problems with a huge 'casters are idle' issue.

You can measure this with 'time idle' in recount. If you have idle time, there is something seriously wrong unless you have a dedicated healer who is just sitting there regening.

I was doing this already, and the more that my dps worried me.

Anyway, you've been of great help putting me in the right direction. I have spent about an hour doing click test to fine tune my spamrate. I've tried it sober and i've tried it after a smoke (i tend to blow one while playing wow). And i get a very accurate spam rate actually, which surprises me.

I have 4 pieces T9 so Flame Shock is 27 seconds on the target.
spamrate = 5.6 (after a smoke 3.4)
flame shock = 27 (resto in dps mode 18) *5.6 = 151.2 (108)
lava burst = 8 * 5.6 = 44.8
chain lightening = 3.5*5.6 = 19.6

so i came up with

#pre
/assist focus
/startattack
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Elemental Mastery
/cast blood fury

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=combat Flame Shock,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,
or for my resto in dps mode
/castsequence reset=combat Flame Shock,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=combat Lava Burst,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=combat Chain Lightning,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

#showtooltip
/cast Lightning Bolt


and my dps is balancing around 4k now, which is a major boost. I'll have a look later on on how to properly implement the target / reset conditions tomorrow. For now i want to slaughter some mobs

thanks for the help, and thanks to whoever invented and shared this macro (niley, ualaa, fur, w/e)
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