No more Macros in WotLK?

[Ðeceased]

Ok not quite that bad

but it seems they are making macros and keybindings stored serverside in WotLK and as always they are limited to 255 characters..
I don't know about you, but that is going to nearly kill all my epic macros and make life hell
they are increasing the total macro count to 36, But to me this seems rly rly lame!

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It's not going to end my Mboxing career, but it sure is going to hamper it a lot :S

[Tasty]

Awesome change imo can play with the same keybindings/macros wherever ya go

[Ðeceased]

Awesome change imo can play with the same keybindings/macros wherever ya go

that's the only positive thing i can think of :S but everything else....

[zanthor]

Awesome change imo can play with the same keybindings/macros wherever ya go

that's the only positive thing i can think of :S but everything else....

UI Mods will still be able to execute the same commands unless I'm greatly mistaken.

[Ken]

Can you post one of your epic macros?

I'm at a loss why you'd need something so big....

This accept all macro could be bigger but it isn't possible because of the limit:

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

I could easily extend this macro to make it more multi-functional, but the limit disallows it:

/cast [target=focustarget,help,nomod][target=focus,nomod] Lesser Healing Wave
/cast [target=player,mod:alt] Lesser Healing Wave
/cast [target=focustarget,help,mod:shift][target=Willyam,mod:shift] Chain Heal

In general, many macros could have more sanity checks(exists/harm/nodead/etc) and more fallbacks(focustarget/target/variations on conditions) with more macro space.

[Ðeceased]

/t [target=Ðeceased,exists,nodead] [target=Kaiya,exists,nodead] [target=Shimii,exists,nodead]
/a
/use [harm,nodead] 13
/use [harm,nodead] 14
/cast [harm,nodead] Natures Swiftness
/cast [harm,nodead] Elemental Mastery
/cast [harm,nodead] Chain Lightning
/cast [help,nodead] Lesser healing Wave

[Ðeceased]

not to mention something like Vyns

#showtooltip
/target [target=focustarget,harm,nodead][target=party1target,harm,nodead]
/script SetRaidTargetIcon("target", 8);
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
/petautocastoff [pet:succubus,target=focus,noexists] Seduce
/cast [pet:felguard,target=focus,harm,nodead][pet:felguard,harm,nodead] Intercept
/dismount [harm,nodead]
/cast [nocombat,pet:imp,target=hukmoth,help,nodead][nocombat,pet:imp,target=jhuudhun,help,nodead] Fire Shield
/stopmacro [pet:imp]
/petattack [target=focus,harm,nodead][harm,nodead]
/petautocaston [pet:succubus,target=focus,harm,nodead] Seduce
/cast [pet:succubus,target=focus,harm,nodead] Seduce
/cast [target=focus,harm,nodead,nocombat] Curse of Weakness
/cast [pet:felhunter,target=vyndree,help,nodead] Devour Magic
/cast [pet:felhunter,target=vyndryy,help,nodead] Devour Magic
/cast [pet:felhunter,target=hukmoth,help,nodead][pet:felhunter,target=jhuudhun,help,nodead] Devour Magic
/cast [pet:felhunter,target=player] Devour Magic
/cast [pet:felhunter,target=vyndrie,help,nodead] Devour Magic
/cast [pet:felhunter,target=vyndrii,help,nodead] Devour Magic
/cast [pet:felhunter,target=vyndrei,help,nodead] Devour Magic
/cast [pet:felhunter,target=vyndre,help,nodead] Devour Magic

[aNiMaL]

Let's hope Trinity will be able to keep working the same way it does now.

[sWaTs]

255 character limitation isn't a big issue for me, but 36 macros per account possibly is an issue for some ppl...

[Ken]

/t [target=Ðeceased,exists,nodead] [target=Kaiya,exists,nodead] [target=Shimii,exists,nodead]
/a
/use [harm,nodead] 13
/use [harm,nodead] 14
/cast [harm,nodead] Natures Swiftness
/cast [harm,nodead] Elemental Mastery
/cast [harm,nodead] Chain Lightning
/cast [help,nodead] Lesser healing Wave

You can make that smaller:

/a [target=Ðeceased,exists,nodead] [target=Kaiya,exists,nodead] [target=Shimii,exists,nodead]
/cast [help,nodead] Lesser healing Wave
/stopmacro [help][harm,dead]
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Natures Swiftness
/cast Elemental Mastery
/cast Chain Lightning

[edit] and you might be able to cut out some spaces to make it even smaller. This way you can extend your macro if you need to.
[edit] also removed the /t because /a is enough