MiniMap Ping Explained - Cast AOE Spells

[Nixi]

In it's current form, works in Black Morass.

[Djarid]

hmm makes me want to rethink my group structure

3x shaman for utility because AoE was borked for multi-boxing but now...

[Zoroaster]

Ok, for those who are setting this up for the first time do NOT test is in IF. Doesn't work and took me a good 10 min of playing around to figure out, no clue why it doesn't work in IF. Other then that works great! Much love for enabling me to cast BlizzardX3!

Might want to add a list of zones which this doesn't work in, so far looks like parts of Shatt, Org, and IF. Maybe just cities? If so, no major loss since you don't usually have a need to AoE in the major cities.

[Falkor]

The simple answer would not be a list of area's it does / does not work but rather -

Is there a solid roof above your head?
Yes= This macro will proberly not work
No= This macro should work

:thumbup:

[Poolboy]

After goofing around with this on a Paladin led team of Mages and a Priest, I can say that the easiest use I've found so far is to gather a shit-ton of mobs with Pally (rank 1 consecrate, running like mad) then huddle up and just bring the Blizzards & max rank Consecrate or Holy Wrath down on top of your self using the simple minimap location of (0, 0)

I was trying to call AoEs by pinging the map with the Pally but even the slightest bit off will put AoEs off to the side etc. Just my 2cp.

Be sure to use [nochanneling] in your Blizzards, etc by the way.

Also, for Frost Mages, try:

#showtooltip 
/cast Summon Water Elemental 
/cast Freeze 
/run MinimapingLocation(0, 0) 
/petaggressive

the aggressive part is up to you, but I find he is such a short duration and you've got 20 mobs in a pack it usually won't cause any problems with him taking off on you. This pops pet and uses his Nova to AE the cluster, then he gets down to biznass. Since I've got wicked agro with my Pally I'm not concerned with Freezing mobs on top of myself as the Mages, in fact I want Chills/freezes for hella crits =)

This new find has greatly increased AoE grinding for me. Replacing Arc Explosion with Blizzard is huge now that it can be effectively done. Better mana/spellpower usage.

Another side note for the Pally. I know I might be going over old news, but since I didn't bother to do any AoE grinding really as a multiboxer and now am... be sure to use Gift of Arthas pots, and get Crystal Spire gems from Un'Goro, as well as Shield Spikes (duh). Anything you can add for reactive dmg is huge.

Anywho, I'm rambling - have fun!

[Piecemaker]

having some problems with blizzard:
my pala has the following macro:
/run Minimap:PingLocation(0,0)
/script Minimap:PingLocation(0,0)

my mages have the following macro:
/cast Blizzard
/script local x, y = Minimap:GetPingPosition() Minimap:PingLocation(x * 140, y * 140)

when i cast this, first time it just shows the green blizzard circles. The next time it casts blizzard at the location i was standing the first time.
The cast after that it's again the previous location.

[eso]

just a heads up it wouldnt work in org, but then once outside the city it worked great.

[Falkor]

having some problems with blizzard:
my pala has the following macro:
/run Minimap:PingLocation(0,0)
/script Minimap:PingLocation(0,0)

my mages have the following macro:
/cast Blizzard
/script local x, y = Minimap:GetPingPosition() Minimap:PingLocation(x * 140, y * 140)

when i cast this, first time it just shows the green blizzard circles. The next time it casts blizzard at the location i was standing the first time.
The cast after that it's again the previous location.

What happens if you stand still and click the macro twice?
Where are you trying to test this.. location?

[Piecemaker]

standing still: first time just the green circles, second time correct cast.
pala moves 10 yards forward, mages stay at original position: blizzard at pala's first location
whole team moves 100 yards: out of range (trying to cast at previous location obviously)

been testing this in redridge mountains, at various locations

edit: found a solution: put the paladin's macro on a different keybind, press it and then use the blizz macro.

[Richard5657]

I came across this in the 2.4 patch notes, not sure if it's of any relevance, but it could help possibly.

Spells that require targeting circles will now be castable on textures that would previously disallow their use.



If that has been mentioned previously, sorry for the repost.