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Whoever Heiner * Mekkatorque (EU) is, you're not doing us any favors.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...40994&sid=2000


I can't get into beta atm. But we need to get a well constructed post of someone's macro that works on live, copy it over to beta, and explain in great detail what is going on. And not reply when they get trolled.

Well, thats me. Very sorry for that bad posting.

And yes, the thread derailed. I really should not try to talk to trolls about the topic.

Well, i would like to do a better posting than the one i did.

I would like to write the following, and would appreciate any feedback:

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My first posting about /castsequence possibly wasnt what it should have been. So i am going to try to explain, what problem i got in cataclysm beta, with detailed examples of code, and how it works on life.

General description of the problem

The castsequence-Command allows the macro-user, as the command is named, to cast Spells in Sequence. An example:

/castsequence Fireball,Frostbolt

would first call Fireball, then Frostbolt on the next button press on the macro.

I use castsequence macros to implement basic rotations of the damage dealers in my pve setup, and use a special treatment of castsequence to time casts correctly.

This special treatment is by using comma seperated blank spellnames.

As like:

/castsequence Fireball, , ,Frostbolt

An empty comma on live means, no spell will be casted and the next spell in the line will be adresses on the next key press.

So if i push the button first, it will call Fireball. If i push it a second time, it will cast nothing and continue to the next comma. The next pressed buttons will also do nothing, the third will finally cast Frostbolt. Then, the sequence starts from the beginning again.

This allows me to time Rotations correctly by using one single button.

Example

/castsequence Vampiric Touch , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
/castsequence Mindblast , , ,
/cast Smite

If i press the button the first time, it will cast Vampiric Touch.

If i press the button second on live, Mindblast is being casted.

If i push it a third time, Smite is being casted.

After another two key presses, Mindblast is being casted again.

And after another 10 key presses, Vampiric Touch is being casted again.

During those 10 key presses, smite is being casted.

This allows me to keep up Vampiric Touch, and to cast mindblast on cooldown and to cast smite whenever none of the other spells is being casted.

This allows me to play the tank and the healer, and to setup damage rotations on the dds by using this kinds of castsequence-macros.

How it works on Cataclysm

If i use a macro as like:

/castsequence Fireball,,,,,,,Frostbolt

.. Fireball gets casted on the first press, and the following commas get ignored, and Frostbolt is being casted.

If i would try my example macro from above:

/castsequence Vampiric Touch , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
/castsequence Mindblast , , ,
/cast Smite

It would first cast Vampiric Touch, then Mindblast, then smite, and would wait for the cooldown of Vampiric Touch on the next press, without any way to cast Mindblast or Smite in the meantime.

Thanks for reading

-- snap

I really appreciate every kind of feedback. Also considering the fact my english isnt that good

Thanks.

Edit: Saw Svpernova09 posted in the beta forum, adding my text to your thread.
Edit2: Removed the "impact on multiboxing" line.
Edit3: Please take a look on http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...72840&sid=2000