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macroing an old habit

daemonym
Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:29 pm

macroing an old habit

with the new taunt incoming i've noticed a potential problem for me. i've gotten so used to hitting RD then clicking a player to taunt off them that i'll likely end up hitting it several times and targeting a player and wonder why it's not working as they get eaten alive. so i was wondering how a macro would be written to work the same way as targeting a player with RD, but still being able to target a mob and taunt them without needing a shift/alt key mod. my macro-fu is weak, but i think you'll get the idea of what i'm getting at from this piss poor example ^^

dmok
Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:35 pm
you are probably looking for something like this:

daemonym
Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:48 pm
almost what i'm looking for. i'd like to be able to target a player and use HoJ to taunt what ever mob has them targeted and still be able to target a mob and use HoJ to taunt them all in 1 macro.
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fuzzygeek
Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:20 am
Specifically for key modifiers.

/castsequence [target=focus] flash of light, holy light, lay on hands

f'ristance, works.

/castsequence hammer of the righteous, [mod:alt] judgement of Wisdom; judgement of light, consecrate

f'rinstance, does not.
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fuzzygeek
Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:11 am
At that point you're probably better off with two separate macros.

The question I posited earlier is how to do a key modifier in the middle of a castsequence macro (edit: looks like I was unclear about that). The answer is, it's probably not possible right now.

The closest solution would be to put the variable action last in the cast sequence, with the key reset, and a conditional cast before it. Such as:

/cast [mod:alt] judgement of light
/castsequence [reset:alt] hotr, jow

So hitting the macro would hotr, then alt-macro for jol (resetting the castsequence to hotr), or just continue the macro for jow.

I can't think of a good way to put a variable action in the middle of a castsequence macro; something similar with stacked modifier sequences would probably do the trick, but, again, at that point you're probably better off with different macros entirely.
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