MiniMap Ping Explained - Cast AOE Spells

[glo]

This makes the new bombing daily boxer friendly. Set the macro so each bomb is dropped slightly offset then set your characters to all take off at the same time, when you get to the chasm start spamming your bomb button. I follow behind with my main and kill the sorcerer's manually.

/use Arcane Charges
/run Minimap:PingLocation(0,10)

/use Arcane Charges
/run Minimap:PingLocation(0,5)

/use Arcane Charges
/run Minimap:PingLocation(10,0)

/use Arcane Charges
/run Minimap:PingLocation(5,0)

I have trouble getting credit for the sorcerer's on all the characters so I will run down to the chasm entrance and kill the lone sorcerer you can reach. Using this I get credit on all 5 with one bombing run and a quick ride south. Don't forget to convert your sentries on the way.

[Metalocalypse]

Does not work with Distract (yes..I tried it with my rogues..),
it's (whatever it is you throw with distract) thrown in the air.. (what kind of mob would look up?)

.. just felt like this one was missing.

[mrtwentyfourth]

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?

About the issue where the mages/locks/xxx starts channeling on last known minimap ping spot.
I solved this by just have one keybinding for my main pinging the minimap and one keybinding for casters to start their channeling. Works like a charm every time

[Gallo]

Any changes in the way that this works? I don't currently have any abilities that use this (5x shaman), but I eventually plan to move to 1 priest + 4 mages, and this would be amazing. I can't even imagine 4x mages frost specced, laying down 4x Blizzards. Awesome-sauce

Just wanted an update... this hasnt been posted to in over a month.

[Frosty]

My Warlocks are close to needing this, and I can't wait to try it out.

[Eteocles]

I dunno about Mages but my Treants and Hurricanes still appear in mid-air instead of on the ground in front of me lol

[Dawnstone]

I have this macro'd on my mages & pally, but don't use it very often. At the moment it seems to only work when I'm outdoors. Usually if there is a ceiling over my head the mages just show their green targeting circle on the mouse cursors (think it has to do with the pinging indicatting a out-of-range area like too far above/below the mages). I mainly just use it for 'shows' outside cities and rarely in combat. If this ever gets troubleshooted, I might re-spec a few points in the Blizzard talent for movement impairing - until then its just a toy inch:

[pipakin]

Thought of a possible addon to help with this, You could code something to automatically ping when it sees a ping and it has a spell ready (I'm writing all this at work so I have no idea if it will actually work/has correct syntax).

PingReactor = AceLibrary("AceAddon-2.0"):new("AceEvent-2.0")

PingReactor.NeedzToPing = 0

function PingReactor:OnEnable()
  self:RegisterEvent("MINIMAP_PING")
end

function PingReactor:MINIMAP_PING(x, y)
  if self.NeedzToPing == 1 then
    Minimap:PingLocation(x, y)
    self.NeedzToPing = 0
  end
end

function PingReactor:GetReadyToPing()
  self.NeedzToPing = 1
end

Then on your main, the macro for the spell would be (If you want the spell centered on him):

/script Minimap:PingLocation(0,0)

and on the alts it'd be:

/cast INSERTSPELLHERE
/script PingReactor:GetReadyToPing()

The practical upshot is you should be able to hit both with one keypress and the lag will work FOR you instead of against you.

[yarr]

Just read this whole thread, it's quite a doozy!

Great research though! Thanks to everyone who has contributed =P

Would be nice to get a current list of what abilities have been confirmed to work / not work.

As for treants, they get casted in the air, do they fall to the ground and attack? or do they just stand mid-air looking stupid?

Has anyone tried hunter abilities, flair/volley? that warlock fire aoe, or shadowfury? Mage elemental pet nova thingy?

Just putting out suggestions. I don't have high levels of these classes so can't really test it myself.

[konraddo]

Tried the macro in a few places, it seems to me that anywhere with grass will make the macro work. As such, cave / rocky tunnel / mountain side make my macro fail. Warlock's Shadowfury and Rain of Fire are tested. Oh yes, it seems quite difficult to get the macro off when I was standing on a river too... so strange...