3.1 PTR Gear & Talent Switching Macro

[Dianora]

With the new Blizzard addon policy that will see the demise of Outfitter (long live Outfitter) and the introduction of in-game gearset switching and dual spec, here's some sample macro for doing gear switch:

#showtooltip Protection
/equipset Protection
/usetalents 1

#showtooltip Retribution
/equipset Retribution
/usetalents 2

The first macro is for me using the first talent set, provided that I've created a gear set Protection (case sensitive). 2nd macro is for my Retribution talent set and Retribution gear set. You can add whatever icon you want, and put 'em on 2 of your spare action bar.

[KysenMurrin]

I'll definately be using this come 3.1. It's a tiny bit cumbersome having to open talents and character sheet to do this on any kind of regular basis (about on par with having to open the spellbook every time you want to use a profession - I've not had to do it since getting Bartender and setting up a paged bar just for them).

Though mine will be Prot/Holy.

[Dianora]

When I test this out in PTR, it seemed to have problem switching from 2 1 hander to a 2 hander. I'll see what's stopping it.

[Gamingdevil]

It's too bad they don't allow to add external hotkeys to the Gear Manager, like Itemrack does, that you have to put it on your action bars.

[Dianora]

Verify that I can switch gear in instance (use Violet Hold for testing) and Battleground (Warsong Gulch). I don't have arena team in PTR, but I'm sured that it won't work in Arena.

So the restriction on talent switching is:

Not in Combat
Standing (not swimming, not mounted)
Not in Arena

[Dianora]

Equipment Manager will not go live in 3.1. It would seem that the problem I've listed (problem properly changing from a 2 Hander to sword/shield) is one of the reason why this thing is not going live.

[Necrolite]

Equipment Manager will not go live in 3.1. It would seem that the problem I've listed (problem properly changing from a 2 Hander to sword/shield) is one of the reason why this thing is not going live.

awww that sucks a bit. still, would rather it works and be late than not work and be in 3.1

[Vindicated]

Equipment Manager will not go live in 3.1. It would seem that the problem I've listed (problem properly changing from a 2 Hander to sword/shield) is one of the reason why this thing is not going live.

And outfitter is going to be borked with no fix? WHAT EVER WILL WE DO

[Eleveneleven]

Is there a /command for swapping gear in ItemRack? Manually clicking the icon to swap gear works but it would be nice to have gear and spec on the same button.

[Racerover]

Equipment Manager will not go live in 3.1. It would seem that the problem I've listed (problem properly changing from a 2 Hander to sword/shield) is one of the reason why this thing is not going live.

And outfitter is going to be borked with no fix? WHAT EVER WILL WE DO

My outfitter still works fine... /shrug.

[Doktah]

The author has released a new outfitter I believe. They decided to continue developing the addon according to Curse.

[d503]

Anyone test this in LIVE 3.1.2?

[KysenMurrin]

Haven't tested the particular ones in this thread yet, but I can confirm that the modifiers [spec:1] and [spec:2] work in macros; they could probably be used to make the above into a single one-click macro.

Edit: Tested. The following works:

/equipset [spec:2] Protection; [spec:1] Holy
/usetalents 1
/usetalents 2

If your spec 1 is Prot and spec 2 is Holy, then depending on what spec you're using that macro will equip the other spec's set then switch your talents to that spec. The #showtooltip part from the first post doesn't seem to work.

[d503]

Just tried this and it works fine:

/equipset [spec:2] Avoidance/MT; Retardin
/usetalents [spec:2]1; 2;

Where 1 is my Prot spec, Avoidance/MT is that gear, 2 is my Ret spc, and Retardin is my Ret gear :/

#showtooltip doesn't seem to work with gear sets.

This macro can be placed on the bars for both your prot and ret, and will switch you to the opposite contextually.

Macro whizzes, feel free to make it better.

Generic version:

/equipset [spec:2] Spec1Gear; Spec2Gear
/usetalents [spec:2]1; 2;

[Aurelie]

I've taken to using Itemrack lately because Outfitter crashed my UI during raids (still haven't figured out what conflict was there...) and this is the macro I use to switch gear, specs and emote to those around me so they know when I switch. Protection is my primary spec (1), holy is my offspec (2).

Code: Select all

/itemrack toggle holy, prot normal
/script if (GetActiveTalentGroup()==1) then SendChatMessage("is now Holy.", "EMOTE") else SendChatMessage("is now Protection.", "EMOTE");end
/usetalents [spec:1] 2; [spec:2] 1


First line is my gearset, "holy" and "prot normal" while the second line is the emote portion. That can be changed to anything, like "is switching to Holy" etc. Third line is the actual spec change.