Not enough macros!

[marvein]

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....

having all the same class reqwuires very few macros, ive only got like 12 per character :P On my second team I will have a ton of macros though.


As for copying the wow folder, you dont have to copy any of the patch files, but everything else you will if you want to have them seperate.


@thinus, i dont think you need the /stopmacro [modifier] in there but not positive.

@kyntestorme; yes thats against the TOS, 1 key can be bound to multiple keys (ie shift-ctrl-0) but the moment pressing one key once gives you two spells your busted.

[marvein]

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.

you can actually condense that macro even more into this

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

However, without any [target=blah] in there you must have a hostile target already for it to work. just add in any , target=focus type thing you want inside the brackets and you're fine.

*edit* make sure to put the one without any modifier last because when a macro is run it goes until a condition is met and then stops.

[thinus]

@thinus, i dont think you need the /stopmacro [modifier] in there but not positive.

I put the /stopmacro in just to catch modifier combinations not handled in the macro. If you handle ctrl+1 and shift+1 but not alt+1. So if you press alt+1 but you meant to press shift+1 you don't get the default 1 behaviour. If that makes any sense.

[marvein]

@thinus, i dont think you need the /stopmacro [modifier] in there but not positive.

I put the /stopmacro in just to catch modifier combinations not handled in the macro. If you handle ctrl+1 and shift+1 but not alt+1. So if you press alt+1 but you meant to press shift+1 you don't get the default 1 behaviour. If that makes any sense.

[marvein]

@thinus, i dont think you need the /stopmacro [modifier] in there but not positive.

I put the /stopmacro in just to catch modifier combinations not handled in the macro. If you handle ctrl+1 and shift+1 but not alt+1. So if you press alt+1 but you meant to press shift+1 you don't get the default 1 behaviour. If that makes any sense.

oh ya, that does

[Dezeral]

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

The only reason to do this is if you want 36 macros for each toon and those toons are the same account which is not the case for multi-boxers. You do not need to copy the WoW folder to get 36 {18+18} macros per character.The default file structure allows for 18 macros shared by all characters on a single account and another 18 macros for each character.

The shared macros are stored under WTF\Account\[ACCOUNT NAME]\macros-cache.txt

The individual macros are stored under WTF\Account\[ACCOUNT NAME]\[CHARACTER NAME]\macros.txt

For a 5 boxer who plays all accounts from one directory, your macros would be as follows where [ACCOUNT#] is each individual account and [CHARACTER1] is the first character for that account:

WTF\Account\[ACCOUNT1]\macros-cache.txt

WTF\Account\[ACCOUNT1]\[CHARACTER1]\macros-cache.txt

WTF\Account\[ACCOUNT2]\macros-cache.txt

WTF\Account\[ACCOUNT2]\[CHARACTER1]\macros-cache.txt

WTF\Account\[ACCOUNT3]\macros-cache.txt

WTF\Account\[ACCOUNT3]\[CHARACTER1]\macros-cache.txt

WTF\Account\[ACCOUNT4]\macros-cache.txt

WTF\Account\[ACCOUNT4]\[CHARACTER1]\macros-cache.txt

WTF\Account\[ACCOUNT5]\macros-cache.txt

WTF\Account\[ACCOUNT5]\[CHARACTER1]\macros-cache.txt

[marvein]

My reason for copying the wow folder is for addons and keybindings and all that good stuff so that the data in each one can be changed seperately. While the macros are seperate from account to account the other things (especialy display) are not.

[Lost Ninja]

1. I don't actually use that many macros, I'm merely suggesting ways to have big/many if you need.
   
2. For my groups currently (highest being 31) I have about 8-10 common macros, mostly to do with invites, switching focus, emotes... stuff like that. Then each spell that targets an enemy as a macro, individual for my hunters, eg 1 for arcane, 1 for serpents sting... Warlocks use sequences far more, so each macro will have three or more actions defined, CoW = Cure of Weakness, Corruption, Immolate, Shoot (with wand)... etc.
   
3. I have bee experimenting with Trinity 2, its great once you get the hang of it, but it doesn't deal with macros in the same way the game does... My locks use this macro which works absolutly from a normal action bar button:
   

   #showtooltip
   /assist focus
   /castsequence reset=combat/target Curse of Agony,Corruption,Immolate,Shoot

   Essentially hit the button four times, get my three main DoTs (x2) on the target and continue wanding till death...
   
   However Trinity only works for the follower (who has me as a focus) because the macro fails when it hits the focus part, I'm working on working round that but for now Trinity is no good for complex stuff. ;(
   
4. If you want to have an install for each character but don't have the HDD space to do so look up junctioning (its on the forums somewhere) its a method for assigning virtual paths to directories or files (well similar method) so you can have one physical installation and then each of the 2ndary installs uses the data/addons/etc from the primary.

[thinus]

Dispel magic - use a castsequence with a chain effect. one macro per toon.... /dance? Is it that hard to type /dance on the broadcasted keyboard? :P

same for /spit and /say. Then again I type like 100 words per minute, so I don't even think twice about typeing like that. :P

Don't have a broadcasted keyboard, 1 machine, and typing /dance versus hitting the macro key is the difference between the ganker still looking at his corpse and the ganker having released already. I also turn my key broadcasting off when I hit "/" so I can use chat channels without spamming them with all 5 characters.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Heh...filling your character macros up on one toon? For druids, I might understand that.

My mage gang is 45. I have the following character-specific macros:
Arcane missiles
Buffs (all of 'em, castsequenced)
Trinketed fireball
round-robin counterspell
Trinketed fire blast
Focus switching
Follow
Mount
round-robin Frost Nova
round-robin Sheep
PoM-Pyro
Scorch
Wand


So 13 in all, plus my usual ones on the General macros tab:
Accept everything
Assist focus

My warlocks have a few more macros for fear, death coil, soulstones, petattack/petpassive, etc. but even then they don't use all the slots on the character tab. :P Combine abilities that make sense...it'll not only save macro space but will save you lotsa time and headaches when you stop micromanaging things. Good macros work FOR you.

I'd share what macros you're using as has been suggested. Might be we can help you minimize/simplify things a bit.