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[Sam DeathWalker]

Well I never heard of its use to cast spells not on cooldown with a single key press prior to this:

Method 1: Make keys send multiple keystrokes per press.
What I mean by this is that when I press “1″, it sends 123 at the exact same time to every window of WoW. Consequently, when the WoW client receives 123 at the same time, it will only let me do one thing at a time – so, it will try to execute whatever is on my 1 key. If the spell on the 1 key is on cooldown, it will try to execute the 2 key. If the 1 and 2 key spells are on cooldown it will try to cast whatever is on 3, and if all of them are on cooldown it won’t do anything but tell me those spells aren’t ready yet.

And it could not have been that well known as then Merc would not have needed his two step macro ....

You are probably right though I guess those who knew about it probably didnt post about it.

[Ualaa]

The first I heard of it, was in the DK manifesto...
That was early WotLK, prior to 3.1.

I believe Mercurio's two-step macros came out, in the previous content patch... 3.0.3 and onwards.

Not sure if either method was popular prior to that.
Most of us were using commas in click castsequences, to good effect.

[MiRai]

What I mean by this is...

I know exactly what you mean by it. It's called the "popsicle stick" method. Just tape a popsicle stick (or any object) across, for example, your 1 - 5 keys on your keyboard -- Just like this.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Well I didnt know about it anyways.

But the point is why is everyone so shocked about this or that suspension when most everyone is taking the position that "If its legal we can do it even if its to get around things that are not legal". Which is a position taken by winners true enough, because you cannot lose a potential edge as that is probably what your oppenent is doing, but then again suspensions should be no shock.

[Starbuck_Jones]

Personally I find the ingame macro system debate to be a joke. You have revolving-door blue posts who go on about the "spirit" of the game and at the same time you can buy on Blizzards website a Steelseries programmable World of Warcraft mouse that is advertised to do everything the "spirit" doesn't want you to do.