Originally Posted by
Multibocks
Nice! So, by solo H LK do you mean 1 shaman or your 5? I still haven't had time to try with my 10 man team.
1 shaman. I saw someone posting it on mmo with the strategy he used, figured to give it a try myself and it was not too hard (conductivity is sick here again, combined with stone bullwark totem)
Originally Posted by
Lyonheart
Sweet!. What abilities do you macro? I thought I read once that you keep everything separate.. as if you were playing a solo shamy.
I have different keybinds for all spells, but each keybind has a macro that does something. Since I want to play my shamans as if I was to play 1 solo, I want to avoid downtime. Say for example that on 3 of the 5 earth shock has reached 6+ stacks and on the other 2 there are 5 stacks. So the toons are actually busy casting, and given that they have slightly different haste values and lava surge procs, after a bit they will not be casting everything in synch. So on 2, which is my earth shock keybind I use this macro:
Code:
/cast [nomod] earth shock
/castsequence [mod:shift] reset=0.3 0,0,Lightning Bolt
/castsequence [mod:shift] reset=0.3 0,Elemental Blast
/castsequence [mod:shift] reset=0.3 Lava Burst
/petattack
/cast fire blast
/cast immolate
It will cast earth shock when there is no modifier active, and if shift is up it will iterate through a priority of lava burst followed by elemental blast and then lightning bolt. This means that I can spam this button for a second or 2, while alternating my pinky off and on the shift button, and all 5 shamans will do what I want (i.e. cast earth shock), but the toons who are in the middle of a cast or who already have used earth shock from the first press won't lose any downtime and keep doing what I want. The petattack is because I have my pets by default on passive on all my toons. Fire blast and immolate are the fire elemental abilities. As soon as I'm done with earth shock I move to my whatever spell I want to cast next macro (which are more or less similar to this one, just different details).
My fire totem keybind for example contains this macro:
Code:
/cast [nomod] magma totem
/cast [nomod] totemic projection
/cast [mod:alt] searing totem
/cast [mod:ctrl] totemic recall
/castsequence [mod:shift] reset=0.3 0,0,Lightning Bolt
/castsequence [mod:shift] reset=0.3 0,Elemental Blast
/castsequence [mod:shift] reset=0.3 Lava Burst
Again, it's very likely that when I want to cast magma totem or searing totem, 1 toon is just starting a cast. so again I can alternate on this bind to spam between the modifiers I want. Totemic projection is macro'd right after magma totem since the green circle will appear the moment you cast magma, so easy to relocate. If I want to use searing totem then I alternate between spamming alt and shift for the same reason. But this one is easy to screw up since there is no gcd on magma totem, so it can happen that spamming will just renew it.
My chainlightning keybind is simple:
Code:
/cast chain lightning
/cast fire nova
Fire nova is the aoe from your primal fire elemental ability.
My ascendance macro is:
Code:
/cast [nomod] lava burst
/cast [mod] ascendance
/cast [mod] Blood Fury
/use [mod] 10
/use [mod] 13
/cast [mod:alt]Fire Elemental Totem
/use [mod:ctrl] potion of the jade serpent
/cast [mod:ctrl]Elemental Mastery
I'd like to have lava burst on cooldown when I go into ascendance, so it resets it's cd (basically an extra lava burst you get). So hitting the bind without a mod casts lava burst, then whatever mod I use will cast ascendance with blood fury, glove and trinket enchant. If I want a potion along side that and if I want to use elemental mastery I can use ctrl + bind. If I want ascendance without a pot and elemental mastery, but just with my fire ele totem then it's alt (I'm not often specced into EM btw).
This is for instance a macro I use to randomly hex trash:
Code:
#showtooltip hex
/stopcasting
/cast ancestral swiftness
/cast [mod:alt, target=focus][target=mouseover,harm,exists,nodead][nomod] hex
Since my toons are never 100% on the exact same spot cq do not have the exact same camera angle, I like to mouseover hex. If used with alt it will hex my focus, if not it will check if there is a hexable mouseover target, if not it will just hex the target. Rather then spending time on assigning each shaman an individual target, I just move my mouse a bit around over trash. If they hex anything fine, if not I just proceed. It's obviously an instant hex while trying to steamroll.
So yeah long story short, I try to play my shamans as if I play them solo, with as much control as possible and with as little downtime as possible. Many of the macro's I use might not make sense to other players, but it's how I've grown accustomed to my binds/playing my solo shaman. I think it would be wrong to just copy/paste someones keybinds, as that is usually a thing that just grows over time. Which is a different thing than using 1 spammable macro's of course who can be used by anyone. For example for some stupid reason at the start of mop I started using earthquake and grounding totem on the same keybind with a mod macro, I guess just because in my head I mad the link between earth and ground in my native language. After using that for 2,5y it's hard to change that macro/bind, but I bet if a new user would copy that macro, he would ask questions about my mental condition.
(note typing these will in a Taxi in a traffic jam, so there might be typos in the macro's i didnt spot)
Originally Posted by
Khatovar
I moved this thread because the Boss Encounters forum is supposed to be organized into 1 thread per boss/instance and talk about strats for the instances. This doesn't really belong there since it's more about steam-rolling instead of dealing with the mechanics of the fights.
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I actually took a smoke break before posting, asking myself where the mods would want me to put it. To just hit post when I came back. I won't do it again!
All MoP heroics cleared with 5x ele shamans
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