shaman macro

[saltychp]

Hey, I wanted to know if there was a way to make a macro that casts all 4 totems you want to use on your shaman one after another. If so id like to see that set up. :thumbsup:

[Chorizotarian]

If you mean with one button press, then no. If you mean with one button press per totem...

/castsequence reset=20/combat Stoneskin Totem, Healing Stream Totem, Searing Totem

[saltychp]

are you saying with that i can cast my 4 totems but i click it 4 times?

[Havelcek]

are you saying with that i can cast my 4 totems but i click it 4 times?

The way that macro works is that the /castsequence command says that "each time I press this button cast the next spell in the list". The reset flag in there tells the game how it should start back at the beginning of the list.

So if you have:
/castsequence spell1, spell2, spell3 then each time you press the button the next spell will get casted. You need to press the button 3 times to get all 3 to cast.

And if you have:
reset=5 then the game basically resets the macro if you haven't pressed the key for 5 seconds. So lets say you hit the key once, it casts spell1, you immediately hit it again, it casts spell 2, then you don't do anything else with that key. After 5 seconds the macro goes back to the start.

The reset flag doesn't have to be a timer, it can be a key that you hit to reset your macro, like escape.

[Dorffo]

I dont have my macros file at work obviously, but I will post up my totem drop macros (have 2 for pve, 1 for pvp) that allow for a button-mashing-totem-forest-of-fun when I get home.

Also, I would highly suggest checking out a totem manager addon like YATA (ace) or something similar. This makes setting up your totem weaves much easier.

Example: for pve I want windfury, GoA, grounding, grounding for my winds, fire is 4x Tot of Wrath, earth is stoneskin, tremor, strength and earthbind and Water is healing, healing, mana, poison/disease/healing depending on the dungeon. Each sham has a different sequence of totems they drop. For PvE I will usually just drop them by type (drop fire, drop earth, drop air, drop water) to make re-dropping easier ... grounding totems come to mind.

For PvP I stagger them so that tremor totems are staggered (with 3 tremor totems all pulsing at 3secs each, if you drop them at roughly 1 sec intervals you should have almost no fear time.

Occasionally there is a boss fight where I have to setup a different set - Shadow Labs 2nd boss comes to mind, where dropping a couple earthbinds and a couple stoneclaws helped alot in the mind control phase with keeping my toons from ripping each other up.

[twobztwop]

Here's my 5 shaman sequence. Still tweaking the PVP one -- I Just recently hit 70 and starting to run lots of AV so I'm still figuring out what's best.

Oh and yes, you need to hit the key 4x. I have the PVP bound to "z" and the PVE bound to "x". Totemic recall is "shift-x". Easy as cake.

(nice, the color-coded macro from word even copied over too.)

PVP
Character 1
/castsequence reset=8 Wrath of Air Totem, Tremor totem, Totem of Wrath, Healing Stream Totem
Character 2
/castsequence reset=8 Tremor totem, Totem of Wrath, Grounding Totem, Healing Stream Totem
Character 3
/castsequence reset=8 Earthbind totem, Grounding Totem, Totem of Wrath,Healing Stream Totem
Character 4
/castsequence reset=8 Grounding Totem, Totem of Wrath, Stoneskin Totem, Healing Stream Totem
Character 5
/castsequence reset=8Grounding Totem, Totem of Wrath, Tremor totem, Mana Spring Totem

PVE
Character 1
/castsequence reset=combat Wrath of Air Totem, Totem of Wrath, Mana Spring Totem, Stoneskin Totem
Character 2
/castsequence reset=combat Totem of Wrath, Healing Stream Totem, Grounding Totem, Earthbind Totem
Character 3
/castsequence reset=combat Totem of Wrath, Healing Stream Totem, Grounding Totem, Stoneclaw Totem
Character 4
/castsequence reset=combat Totem of Wrath, Healing Stream Totem, Grounding Totem, Stoneclaw Totem
Character 5
/castsequence reset=combat Totem of Wrath, Healing Stream Totem, Grounding Totem, Tremor Totem

[Dorffo]

that looks way better than the copy and paste I was about to do!

[Djarid]

If you mean with one button press, then no. If you mean with one button press per totem...

/castsequence reset=20/combat Stoneskin Totem, Healing Stream Totem, Searing Totem

You might want to put the searing totem at the front (yeah I know it could agro). It has a 30second life while the other totems have a 2 minute life... so after 30 seconds when you want to refresh your searing totem you will waste time and mana re-dropping Stoneskin and healing stream

or maybe it would be better like this:

/castsequence [nocombat] reset=combat Stoneskin Totem, Healing Stream Totem, Searing Totem
/castsequence [combat] reset=29/combat Searing Totem,Stoneskin Totem, Healing Stream Totem