One of the techniques demonstrated by Gronzy in his Restoration Druid Arena Video was the use of Cyclone spam. Assuming your chosen target won’t or can’t use his trinket to dispel the effect, you can effectively lock a caster out of play for 10.5 seconds (6 + 3 + 1.5). This sort of efficiency takes some time to intuit since you have to begin your recast before the target has broken free, and can easily lock you out of play for the duration. However, you can set up a macro that will allow you to divert your attention to other tasks (such as healing your teammates) rather than solely keeping an opponent incapacitated:
/clearfocus [button:2]
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
/clearfocus [target=focus,noexists]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/cast [target=focus] Cyclone
The first time you target someone and press this button, it will set them as a focus. What this means is that you can perform actions upon them without having to switch back to them as your target, allowing you to target someone else for another purpose. Pressing this button again will recyclone your original target (the one you set focus to) without changing your current target. To change the person with whom your button is associated, target someone else and right click the button (this refers to the “/clearfocus [button:2]” line). Your focus will automatically clear should your focus die or leave your arena instance.
This macro (adapted from one of those listed at WoWWiki.com) can greatly enhance a Restoration druid’s efforts to assist her team with crowd control while not hindering her ability to heal teammates (or herself).
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@Graylo: Oh, my mistake!! I’ve adjusted the description to be more clear.
July 2nd, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Wow! Very awesome! I’m not sure how I’m going to adapt this to a rogue macro, but it’s just too cool not to somehow.
July 3rd, 2007 at 11:42 am
I have one button binded to set focus on target. So usually i start in stealth, set healer or secondary target to focus and target primary one. Then in battle i use these:
/cast [button:2, target=focus] Hibernate(Rank 3); [button:1] Hibernate(Rank 3)
/cast [button:2, target=focus] Cyclone; [button:1] Cyclone
So while DPSing primary i always have ability to Cyclone second target while not switching targets.
Good thing is to have Focus casting bar enlarged as much as possible to see what he is up to.
Now im working on abolish poison, healing macros like these:
/cancelform
/cast [button:1, target=party1] Healing Touch; [button:2, target=party2] Healing Touch
Shava
USA.Blackwing Lair
July 4th, 2007 at 3:36 am
Chris, you should check out the listing of Rogue-specific macros on WoWWiki: http://www.wowwiki.com/Useful_macros/Rogue
It looks like they have a great number designed around Rogue-based crowd control.
Thanks for the comments, Shava.
Do you know if it’s possible to create a macro that would first attempt to Hibernate (better CC with lower DR against a feral) that would cast Cyclone in the event that the target was invalid (likely on a second button press)? You would risk running into the Hibernate immunity after a certain period of time, but it might be worth the two sharing a key…
I have tried adding “cancelform” to all of my healing macros (with travel form, bear form, and cat form listed — to avoid deshifting from Tree), but haven’t had much luck so far. Hoping to have some time to sort out my difficulties before my next Arena match.
Once again, thanks for the comments!
July 4th, 2007 at 9:08 am
/cancelform [nostance:2]
cancels any form except cat.
So put in tree form number instead of cat (i belive it will be 5, like moonkin in my macros) and probably that will be helpful.
As for cyclone/hibernate i dont think it is possible, even if there will be a [sleepable] conditional it will get error when druid switch to casterform (btw I want to thank Blizzard for not sleepability nor banisheability of Moonkin).
It is fun that druids often are trying to CC each other whole fight while their partners duel. Vulnerability to sleep is huge weakness of feral against resto/balance.
Shava