Mecurio's Cataclysm Multiboxing Macros

[Altsoba]

Thank you very much for this very interesting post, both the OP as well as all others contributing and feeding the discussion.

I have one question though, what is the difference (technically, in terms of performance, logic, etc...) between:

a) Having both keys in different steps;
b) Having both keys in the same step as additional actions?

Aren't they still being "spammed" the same way by the hotkey we chose?

Thanking you in advance and have a good day,
A.

[daanji]

Ok, I think I found out the source of the discrepancy.

I'm using Aragent's setup in Isboxer to test out these macro differences. I went to the original setup and found the culprit.

In Aragent's setup, he has a /cast Lightning Bolt at the end. Since there is no cool down for Lightning Bolt and since there is a /castsequence Lava Burst, Lava Burst, ... Lava Burst there is a race condition as to which one goes off first. From my testing, when Lava Burst is available it won't always go off immediately when a /cast Lightning Bolt is present.

Now, when I take this out and have either /cast Lava Burst or /castsequence Lava Burst, the procs go off as soon as they can.

[Ualaa]

If you spam, but the spam is two different steps, in theory it will alternate between them.
You should get a precise: 1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2... etc.
One of the macros might be stuck on something and unable to advance, but the other macro should fire off fine, and the stuck macro should run as soon as it can.

If you spam both keys together, in the long run they should fire approximately as often.
But you will reach streaks where the same key is pressed first consistently, meaning the other does not have an opportunity to fire.
In short, it is a less even distribution with a greater potential for streaks of one macro over the other; you could inadvertently be on a "stuck" stage with not much happening for several presses.

[Altsoba]

If you spam, but the spam is two different steps, in theory it will alternate between them.
You should get a precise: 1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2... etc.
One of the macros might be stuck on something and unable to advance, but the other macro should fire off fine, and the stuck macro should run as soon as it can.

If you spam both keys together, in the long run they should fire approximately as often.
But you will reach streaks where the same key is pressed first consistently, meaning the other does not have an opportunity to fire.
In short, it is a less even distribution with a greater potential for streaks of one macro over the other; you could inadvertently be on a "stuck" stage with not much happening for several presses.

Ualaa... it's not even the fact you're always there to help... it's just that when you explain something it's so damn clear!

Can't thank you enough.

Cheers,
A.

[daanji]

I did some additional testing of my 5x Shaman DPS macro.

With these, I was about to get and maintain 7K DPS on my main shaman, which is PvP specced with Full Wrathful gear and reforged crit to mastery.

Here is a link to my main



Step 1

/castsequence reset=8 Flame Shock,Chain Lightning,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Chain Lightning,Lightning Bolt,Earth Shock,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt,Lightning Bolt

Step 2 for Shaman #1

/castsequence reset=combat/8 Wind Shear, searing totem,lava burst,lava burst,lava burst,lava burst,Wind Shear,lava burst,lava burst,lava burst,lava burst
/cast elemental mastery
/use 13
/use 14

The main difference is I incorporated Chain Lightning into the standard rotation. It is spaced between 3 Lightning bolts apart because of the 3 second cool down. So even with max haste, it should still have enough time to come off cool down before the next one occurs. Also, the number of chain lightnings and lightning bolts are optimized to make full use of fulmination. On average, if should trigger earth shock with 7-9 orbs.

In step 2, this is mostly the same as Mercurio's macro. Searing Totem is cast at the start and is refreshed once every 60 seconds. Lava Burst has a 8 second cool down, thus 60/8 = 7.5, so we'll need 8 Lava Burst casts as filler.


I've also incorporated a staggered Wind Shear.
I have 5x Shamans and wind shear cool down is 6 seconds. So if each Shaman does Wind Shear in sequence, that is ~30 seconds between casts. 30 / 8 = 3.75. So Wind Shear is place once every 4 Lava Bursts. Each shaman has a slightly different proc macro where wind shear is staggered down the line. For example, here is my macro for Shaman #2

Step 2 for Shaman #2

/castsequence reset=combat/8 searing totem,lava burst,Wind Shear, lava burst,lava burst,lava burst,lava burst, Wind Shear, lava burst,lava burst,lava burst
/cast elemental mastery
/use 13
/use 14

[Ualaa]

Is that 7k single target DPS, or 7k including hops to other target dummies?

[daanji]

Is that 7k single target DPS, or 7k including hops to other target dummies?

That is single target.

[Mercurio]

That is single target.

daanji,

Thanks for all the testing on the Ele Shaman macros. It is fun to see if we can make these class macros better.

It looks like you have added something interesting to the shaman macros for PvP (adding in Wind Shear), especially if you have staggered its use when you have multiple Ele Shaman. You have also substituted Chain Lightning into the rotation instead of Lightning Bolt. My understanding was that this used to lead to better single target DPS, but that about a year ago it was nerfed.

For PvE (my main purpose for these macros), I don't think I will add Wind Shear into the rotation and Chain Lightning doesn't ignore CCed targets, so I will leave the Ele Macros as they are here.

If there is a reason to change them for PvE that I missed, let me know.

[Kruu]

Have a hunter mid 40's..should I switch over to surv or does anyone have a BM macro set?

[Nuson]

Still new to the software, was wondering if you guys had a Fury warrior macro set up, and is it possible to successfully do a range and a melee dual box?