WoW Macro Limit

[daanji]

If I use a lot of "New World of Warcraft Macro Action" in IsBoxer, is there a limit to the number of macros I can have?

[Lax]

No. You can have as many as you want, and you can use them as long as you have enough Key Combinations or /click names to activate them how you want to activate them.

But might I recommend putting them in the WoW Macro Library instead, and using "Named WoW Macro Action" to perform it?

Here's some excuses to switch:

"WoW Macro Action" is the old and busted method. The new method makes it much easier to make sure the right Characters get the right macros, among other things. With the "WoW Macro Action", ISBoxer has to make assumptions based on the Target of the macro and try to figure out who might have the Key Map assigned, in order to infer which Characters should or should not get some particular macro. (And sometimes it's wrong...) With the WoW Macro Library, that control is directly in your hands; you pick specifically what Character Sets or Characters get which sets of macros.

Additionally, you don't have to go searching through all of your Mapped Keys to find some WoW Macro Action you forgot
about 6 months ago. All of the macros are in the library.

Using WoW Macro Actions, people tend to duplicate the WoW Macro Action itself and therefore even the macro, in order to use the same ability. Now the macro is defined in not one place, but two places, and changing it in only one of those places is not going to change the other.

[daanji]

Thanks Lax, I'll give WoW Macro Library a shot. I did not know about this feature.
I'm currently moving all my in game macros into isBoxer. I started 10-boxing and managing any of my macros in the game is just too cumbersome.

I do have a Wish List for IsBoxer if you are interested. Kinda of a dream list...

1. Character Wizard

Import all characters like you normally do, but have options for listing and sorting them by Battle.net Account, WoW Account, Realm, Faction, Name, Class, and Spec.

2. Dynamic Formation Macros

I wish all dynamic formations macros were integrated just like FTL.

3. Action Target Groups

With #1, you'd have all the Class/Spec information. So if you have a Paladin, he would go into a Paladin ATG.
If that paladin was retribution, he would also belong to the Paladin - Retribution ATG.

Moreover, if I changed specs in game from Retribution to Holy, it would change groups.

I realize people already have this setup, but I'd like to see it integrated.

[MiRai]

I do have a Wish List for IsBoxer if you are interested. Kinda of a dream list...

1. Character Wizard

Import all characters like you normally do, but have options for listing and sorting them by Battle.net Account, WoW Account, Realm, Faction, Name, Class, and Spec.

That would have to be manually entered by the user because it isn't available via the WTF folders that ISBoxer pulls its information from.

2. Dynamic Formation Macros

I wish all dynamic formations macros were integrated just like FTL.

I may be wrong, but I think as long as you've correctly set your movement keys under the Variable Keystrokes in ISBoxer... formations should be FTL-like.

[daanji]

Hmm. I used Ualaa's guide to set Dynamic formations. Is there a better method now?

[MiRai]

Hmm. I used Ualaa's guide to set Dynamic formations. Is there a better method now?

The wizard creates Mapped Keys which handle formations and you just fill in the necessary information under Variable Keystrokes.

[daanji]

Well, I'm having a weird issue. I tried the method Lax indicated, but it did not resolve my problem.


I am doing a basic macro on Hot Key #2. The key combination for the macro is "2" and it send to all "Window:All w/ Current"

I've reduced the macro to something trivial to rule it out

"/s TEST"

In game, I see 3/10 clients say "TEST". The other 7 clients do not appear to receive the keystroke/macro at all.

My "Different WoW Macros using this key combination" reads as 0.

I've exported, reloaded and restarted all 10-clients multiple times, including isBoxer. I'm not sure what the problem it.


I'll try a different key, instead of "2".

[daanji]

Ok, by using a different Hot-Key "ctrl-alt-shift-3", it now works on all 10-clients.

I'm not sure why "2" won't work, especially when Isboxer reports no one else is using it.

I did a manual search, but did not find anything else that used "2".

[Lax]

You cannot assign a WoW Macro, via either method, to "2". Or 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, -, or =. This is because WoW reserves the Action Bar hotkeys and blocks the WoW Macro from being assigned to them in this fashion.

If you want your WoW Macro to show up on the bar in the game, you will need to set up a WoW Macro in the game and drag it to 2.

You can, however, assign your WoW Macro to an arbitrary Key Combination like Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Q, which you will never actually need to press yourself. You can still press "2" to activate it (the Hotkey for your Mapped Key)

[daanji]

Ah, thanks. I did not know that. That probably explains a couple other issues.