Druid Tank - Closing the gap between normal to Heroic

[Seldum]

Darn, I just knew I should have been more patience with that... hmm I live and learn

Found this freaky macro... might be usefull in many ways if you don't have innerspace with keymap toggle.

What I'd like is to turn maul off for a duration of a fight, if I want. So that for some fight I could just maul to my heart's content, but for another I could choose to do it if I wanted. The problem here is that there's no capslock type of system. I can't just press a button and have it 'held' without programmable keyboards. What to do?

Well, if you're sarf from EJ, you hack the bastard instead and you write a macro that rewrites another macro. Which is a brilliant idea. I had to modify his initial crack at it and mine's not nearly as elegant, but it does work.
/run if not InCombatLockdown() then local i=GetMacroIndexByName ("Ma") local mt=GetMacroBody(i) local a=strlen(mt) local v="/cast Mangle" if a < 15 then mt=v.."\n/cast !Maul" else mt=v end local n,t,_,l=GetMacroInfo(i) EditMacro(i,n,t,mt,l,1) end

With the other macro called 'Ma' being this:
/cast mangle

What this does is the following:
checks to see whether you're in combat. (you can't modify macros in combat).
Gets the macro that's called 'Ma'. This looks for a macro called Ma and grabs info about it. It's important that you have this macro already.
gets the length of that macro
if the length is smaller than the extended version, make the macro's text be:
/cast Mangle
/cast !Maul
Otherwise, make it be:
/cast Mangle
Then edit the macro 'Ma' to say whatever you said above.

Source: http://wowthinktank.blogspot.com/200...ng-maulhs.html

[Seldum]

I could modify this to work with my eclipse procs for my dps druids. Evil.

[zenga]

One question though, Would you ever trade a frost badge for a triumph badge to be able to buy a il 245? I did this earlier as well. I had 11 frost badges and 65 Triumph badges, so I traded 10 frost to get the head piece i'm wearing atm.

I confess, I've done this to get my first 2 pieces of triumph gear. Think I've wasted about 20 frosts on each toon for that. When I think with my head it was my most stupid move ever. But when I think about the joy it gave me and how those 2 pieces improved my boxing, then those 10 days of dailies were well worth it.

Stupid? Yeah. Regrets? Hell no.

[jimbobobb]

I could modify this to work with my eclipse procs for my dps druids. Evil.

You can't modify macros while in combat, so unfortunately no, you can't.

[Seldum]

Argh you are right. Forgot that little twist.