Not enough macros!

[kllrwlf]

I would suggest having just 1 macro:

/assist focus
/follow focus

Then for all your spells, you don't need a macro. It'll just cast the spell.

When you want to change to your current focus target, hit that one macro, then use all your spells as normal.

In later levels, I found myself doing the following.

/assist focus macro for all my toons

Everyone starts attacking the mob, when it gets down to about 15%, my tank moves on the to the next mob, while the other are still dpsing until that mob dies. When the first mob dies, my tank already has some agro on the 2nd mob, hit the macro for the /assist focus to the 2nd mob, then start wacking him down.

[Lokked]

You use more then 36 macros on EACH of your toons???

Just FYI:

Use a separate WoW folder for each toon, even if they are all the same class. This will give you 36 individual macro slots for each char (18 on Account tab, 18 on Character tab).

And, as stated above, there are 18 macro slots on the Account tab, but also another 18 on the Character tab.

Lokked

[zanthor]

http://www.wowinterface.com/download...oSequence.html

MacroSequence can be useful for this.

I'm really contemplating the modifiers, as you could have a LOT tucked into 1 macro, this is an issue if they go over 255 characters but combine that with macrosequence and you can have a lot more flexibility especially when utilizing something like KeyClone and KeyMaps (or any advanced game controller that you can set combo's on).

LALT
RALT
LSHIFT
RSHIFT
LCTRL
RCTRL

Thats a WHOLE shitload of combo's per macro you can have to designate different actions based on pushing da button... and since it's a UI mod it's really easy to move between accounts... not so much for developing on teh fly though

[junx]

A couple weeks back the Supermacro author turned up and said he has begun work on a new version using the new methods. Until that is released I would say Trinity 2.0, MacroSequence or SlashLib are your best bets.

[Lost Ninja]

Only standard macros eg those stored in the 18+18 buttons that everyone has are limited to 255 characters AFAIK. Which makes huge macros a real possibility if you use Trinity or something similar.

[Boylston]

You guys that are writing "huge" macros, or using every macro slot....

WTF are you doing?!?! :P lol

3 of my shammies use probably 18 macros each, the 4th using probably 23ish (healer). I'm just curious what you're doing that requires so many macros....

I think it's a little harder for some classes with CC, it also gets to be more macro-slot-intensive if you don't use modifier keys in the macro and instead use modifier keys in the key-binding. I use about 15-18 macros as well for my shamen, and a normal 100 key keyboard... (using U-I-O-P, shift-U-I-O-P, J-K-L-;, etc for different totem sequences...can keep both hands close together this way) Shaman totems will also spoil you since you don't need to target anything or assist anything to deploy them.

[thinus]

You guys that are writing "huge" macros, or using every macro slot....

WTF are you doing?!?! :P lol

3 of my shammies use probably 18 macros each, the 4th using probably 23ish (healer). I'm just curious what you're doing that requires so many macros....

5x Dispel Magic - dedicated dispel for each player
5x Shield/Heal - dedicated for each player

10 macro slots gone right there unless you bind it to the same key with a modifier.

And of course the /dance macros and the /spit macros and the /say <insert witty 5 char dialog here> macros.

[Akoko]

You use more then 36 macros on EACH of your toons???

Just FYI:

Use a separate WoW folder for each toon, even if they are all the same class. This will give you 36 individual macro slots for each char (18 on Account tab, 18 on Character tab).

And, as stated above, there are 18 macro slots on the Account tab, but also another 18 on the Character tab.

Lokked

Do i have to copy the entire wow folder? That's a good 10 gigs per copy and I don't have that much space.

[Knytestorme]

Just thought of an interesting question related to this and thought I'd ask here.

I've just picked up an n52 and original G15 keyboard so I have lots of spare keys. I was going to use those to bind to macro's with weird key combinations (eg alt+shift+crtl+1 = heal party1) and use the ingame macro editor to do so, but given both devices have macro capabilities could I use them to do /target party1, /cast holy light as two seperate commands or would that be against the tos since it's effectively doing two things with one keypress but on the other hand is merely doing exactly what an internal wow macro would do but saving me an internal macro slot.

I haven't done this yet, and haven't had an issue with running out of slots but it would be nice to know I have that as an unbannable backup if need be...guess only real way to know would be to post on wow forums though.

[thinus]

Do i have to copy the entire wow folder? That's a good 10 gigs per copy and I don't have that much space.

Well then you will need to modify your macros. Why do you need so many? You need to give us more information before we can help you.

Also look at using MODIFIERS.

Fireball: /cast Fireball

Fireblast: /cast Fireblast

Pyroblast: /cast Pyroblast

can be combined into one macro with modifiers

/cast [modifier:alt] Pyroblast
/cast [modifier:shift] Fireblast
/stopmacro [modifier]
/cast Fireball

If you bind the macro above to your 1 key then pressing 1 will cast fireball. Pressing SHIFT+1 will cast Fireblast and ALT+1 will cast Pyroblast. Just make sure that SHIFT+1 and ALT+1 is UNBOUND!

NOTE: The macro above was sucked out of my thumb and not tested but looks good in theory.