Ken's complete Shaman macro set - feedback welcome

[Ken]

@ shaeman:
Good to see that I converted you ^^ and glad to hear that you liked my tutorial :)

/stopcasting
/cast Bloodlust

On round-robin in keyclone

It wasnt until a few days ago that i changed the bloodlust ability. I just had it on simple round robin in keyclone but i just had the spell in the slot instead of macro'd.

This way i dont have to wait until my current spell being cast is complete, i can activate it as soon as i press the button.

Stupid of me not to think about doing this before hand really.

I think its also worth adding the /stopcasting line before any instant spell like a shock and purge.

I know these aint in there at the moment but could be a worthy addition to your set! xD

maybe! :x

That's a good idea! Although I don't agree that it should be the default behavior, but that's a personal preference.
I think I would do something like:
/stopcasting [mod:shift]
So it would force stop casting any current macro when shift is pressed, but I don't know if the modifier tag is allowed with the stopcasting command. I'll try it out.

[Adao]

my 5 shaman team uses

/stopcasting
/cast [target=focustargettarget,help,nodead] [target=focustarget,help,nodead] [target=targettarget,help,nodead] [help,nodead] [target=player] Healing Wave

for healing on 6 keys. one for each shaman, and one for all of them at the same time.
targets will be:
1. the target of my focustarget, if friendly and alive
2. my focustarget, , if friendly and alive
3. the target of the target of the healing char, if friendly and alive
4. the target of the healing char, if friendly and alive
5. the healing char himself

this way the only choice to make is if the char in need of healing is the actual target of my focustarget, or not. if it is, i just press the healbutton of one or two other shamans, depending on how much heal is needed.
if it is not, i switch my focustarget for a second to the char in need of healing and press the according healbuttons.
no worrying about which button lets which toon heal whom.

[TheBigBB]

Ken,

I was having issues with your macros so I had to change them. First, I had to a simple focus macro for each character in the team, 5 in total. Using mod keys to focus other guys is too hard to remember when death is so infrequent. You can NOT be hesitating to change focus to another toon if you're in a situation where someone dies and you need to switch control.

Second, your targetting macros somehow cause sticky targetting. If I tried to change targets mid-battle, forget it. They were stuck on even corpses like glue sometimes. I had to jam the cast button a whole lot to get them to hit the new target. What's up with that? A simple /cast [target=focustarget]SPELL macro was fine. Any ideas why they were stickying to things?

[Ken]

Ken,

I was having issues with your macros so I had to change them. First, I had to a simple focus macro for each character in the team, 5 in total. Using mod keys to focus other guys is too hard to remember when death is so infrequent. You can NOT be hesitating to change focus to another toon if you're in a situation where someone dies and you need to switch control.

It's a matter of getting used to, just like with all the other buttons :)
By putting it in macro with modifiers you:
- save button space
- save macro space

Second, your targetting macros somehow cause sticky targetting. If I tried to change targets mid-battle, forget it. They were stuck on even corpses like glue sometimes. I had to jam the cast button a whole lot to get them to hit the new target. What's up with that? A simple /cast [target=focustarget]SPELL macro was fine. Any ideas why they were stickying to things?

No they don't, it's because you have a focus set on all characters, including the leader. If the leader is focussed to himself, then you get the weird targetting. It's because when you switch to a new target and then immediately do the focustarget casting, you start casting back to the previous target. Quickly pressing tab and trying to cast will just add to the insane target switching that occurs and makes it keep on going.
The solution is to have a button with clearfocus (like the tutorial says). This will make sure the focus cannot confuse itself with the focustarget delay.

[Glord]

In the AcceptAll macro:

I'd also place:
/script ConfirmSummon()
/script AcceptResurrect()

in there before the "repopme" call.

[Ken]

/script ConfirmSummon()
/script AcceptResurrect()

Those are good additions, but I think there is not enough space to add it to the macro (because of the character limit).

[Glord]

Just change /script to /run to save chars.

/run AcceptGroup();
/run AcceptQuest();
/run AcceptTrade();
/run RetrieveCorpse();
/run AcceptResurrect();
/run RepopMe();
/run ConfirmAcceptQuest();
/run StaticPopup_Hide("PARTY_INVITE");
/run StaticPopup_Hide("QUEST_ACCEPT");

-237 chars

Also, simply taking out the hiding of party and quest frames will give you more space - personally, I don't use them, because hitting esc doesn't bother me at all

[Tizer]

/script ConfirmSummon()
/script AcceptResurrect()

Those are good additions, but I think there is not enough space to add it to the macro (because of the character limit).

Anyone not using Trinity Bars should really be shot

[Ken]

/script ConfirmSummon()
/script AcceptResurrect()

Those are good additions, but I think there is not enough space to add it to the macro (because of the character limit).

Anyone not using Trinity Bars should really be shot ;)

I installed and then saw that it couldn't import my WoW macros and had to setup each button separately... then I decided I didn't want to use that ;)

[Maxion]

/script ConfirmSummon()
/script AcceptResurrect()

Those are good additions, but I think there is not enough space to add it to the macro (because of the character limit).

Anyone not using Trinity Bars should really be shot

I installed and then saw that it couldn't import my WoW macros and had to setup each button separately... then I decided I didn't want to use that

Import wow macros = copy paste.
Set up the same macro more than once = select it from the drop down list of previously made macros in the macro master menu.
List is per account, unless you copy some lua files around, but to copy one from one account to next next is also just copy paste anyway, and the wow macros are also per account anyway.