Comments on: Adding Trinkets to Your Macros

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:42:45 +0000

@Battlecattle: If I can ask, how are you attempting to self cast? I use a macro like this one for all my heals:

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:alt,target=mouseover,exists,help][mod:alt,target=target,help][mod:alt,target=player] Swiftmend; [target=mouseover,exists,help][target=target,help][target=player] Rejuvenation

It would be easy to add a /use line to the above.

By: BattleCattle

BattleCattle — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:47:04 +0000

I made a quick discovery when using this macro, it becomes very difficult to self cast in my normal way, so when theres a lot of splash damage being thrown around and I have to worry about staying alive to heal the party, I suddenly found myself having to debug macros >_<

In the end I came up with a solution much like this which should hopefully help other restos, I now use this macro for all my heal spells =)

#showtooltip Lifebloom
/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/target [mod:alt] {Your name here}
/use 13 (13 = upper trinket; 14 = lower trinket)
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear(); UIErrorsFrame:Show()
/cast [help] Lifebloom;
/targetlasttarget [mod:alt]

{PS: Macro still subject to testing}

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:40:05 +0000

@Kalimantan: I wonder if this isn’t related to the same problem you have if you try to switch your weapon then shapeshift (as opposed to shapeshift then change your weapon). I would suggest switching the order, but you obviously want the trinket to be effective before activating the spell, not after. =/

By: Kalimantan

Kalimantan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:37:02 +0000

I have the same issue as Falina, if I don’t macro I can easily have LB up on 4 targets at a time with my latency, if I macro it I sometimes lose a stack even on 3, for some reason it seems that having the use macro induces lag when the trinket is on cooldown, which is unfortunate as I’d love to be able to automate my prayerbook…

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:38:33 +0000

@Falina: The disadvantage of using /castsequence is that you will always have to press your button twice. By using the macro I list above, you should only have to press your button twice if you are moving while casting. For an amazing resource on macros (and how they can be leveraged for healers in particular), I’d like to direct you to Kirk’s Priestly Endeavors’ series, which you will find listed here: http://wordpress.com/tag/tools-addons-macros-and-others/

By: Falina

Falina — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:29:10 +0000

thanks for the info, im a noob when it come to macros, ill try it tonite and will keep u posted.
what are the mechanics of castsequence? would using castsequence instead of just using /cast end then enter optimize the process? Can anybody link a good macro rules website?

Once again great work, i linked your site in the drood section of my guild and hope the other resto droods in my guild wil come by…(www.edgeofagression.com)

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:39:33 +0000

@Fizzler: Good to know!!

@Falina: I’m afraid I’m not sure why it would slow down your casting when your trinket was on cooldown. I don’t think I’ve run into that problem. As for the macroing of Nature’s Swiftness and Regrowth, this should work the same as a Nature’s Swiftness + HT:

#showtooltip Nature’s Swiftness
/cast Nature’s Swiftness
/stopcasting
/cast Regrowth

I’m not 100% sure whether you still need the /stopcasting line, but it shouldn’t hurt anything to include it.

By: Falina

Falina — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:12:08 +0000

i tried that macro last night during ZA and quickly stopped using it as i found it took too long to cast the spell when the trinket was on cooldown. Any idea how to optmize this? The idea is great, i have essence of the martyr and ribbons of sacrifice hotkeyed and use them as much as possible but sometimes forget about them during trash.
Also, i would love to build a macro to use nature’s swiftness with regrowth every time it’s up, any idea how this can be done?

Thanks and keep up the good work.

By: Fizzler

Fizzler — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:00:31 +0000

/run SetCVar(“Sound_EnableSFX”,”0″)
/use 13
/use 14
/run SetCVar(“Sound_EnableSFX”,”1″)
/castsequence X , Y, Z

By: Larathis

Larathis — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:09:00 +0000

Phaelia,

OK, thanks for checking that for me. I was hoping for something similar to the UIErrorsFrame:Hide(), but more like ErrorsSounds:Disable() that I could wrap around the trinket switch to selectively prevent any sound from it.

As for my name, its actually Larathis lol. My lovely girlfriend created a blogger account for me a while ago and it appears to have picked up that account name. All fixed now

Thanks again.