Post by choco on Jan 22, 2015 7:25:05 GMT 10
I like macros. I use them on all my toons. I make no apologies for that, it is a function built in to the game, and it is there to be used. If you think macros are for people who don't know their class, or are not interested in pulling their weight in a raid, then don't read any further, I have heard them all!
Back in the old days, there was a Hunter site called TKASomething, and a regular poster called Sliver came up with a clever use of castsequence macros and timings, with liberal use of the /click command. It required the use of a macro addon called SuperDuper Macros, so you could type long macros. These macros became the reason for me to campaign my alt Hunter for Firelands and beyond. I also had macros for my Holy Priest, but they were nowhere near as effective as the Hunter macros.
I had four buttons to press:
1. Fire all non-CD shots at the target in sequence.
2. Fire CD shots in sequence (usually when the proc goes off).
3. Fire all CDs for max burst.
4. Oh Shit!
I had key binds for a PetAttack macro, Heal Pet and Heal Me (Gift of the Naaru, Health Pot and Health Cookie).
In the game, I would launch PetAttack, them spam Button 1 until the proc went off, spam Button 2, then back to Button 1, rinse and repeat. At the appropriate moment, I would switch to Button 3 and the Boss went down.
There were a few others, but that's effectively how I played, and it worked for me. I was capapble of hand weaving all my shots, but I don't have the kind of mind set that remembers the best shots to use at a certain time without thinking it through. By the time I decided, I was dead! So Macros worked well FOR ME!
Then Blizzard re-jigged the /castsequence macro, rendering the Sliver macros unusable. Not long after, the site died. A shame, really, because there was a lot of useful info on there for Hunters. They nuked the 0, 0, 0 count sequence, which made it possible to have one button macros, which was the reason behind the change. You see, if you /castsequence 0, 0, <spell>, it's considered an exploit of the GCD limitations. It was originally intended that way to satisfy the Accessibility of the game to the disabled community, but there was so much chatter about "gameplay" on the forums that Blizzard decided to break one button macros. None of the main developers of these macros ever intended it to be a one button spam, but for players like me, reducing the number of keys to press during a fight (from, say, twenty keys to five) was the motivating factor. We always acknowledged that spamming a smaller set of keys was not going to out-perform an experienced player.
So I went back to the Priest, and used a series of Macros gleaned from various sites like HowToPriest.com and others. I use a G13 keypad, and it was full.
I took a break from WoW, and didn't do much before WoD. I wasn't sure I wanted to continue playing, but I told myself I would decide when the expansion was released. Before that, however, I was enticed back to the game after going on a few old world runs with the Guild, and it reminded my why I enjoyed playing this game so much. So I decided to do a little character building, getting to know my main toons again and the changes to their respective specs.
I went back to a link I had saved in my Favourites for ideas of developing macros, and my interest was piqued by a small add-on called GnomeSequencer. Finally, someone had found a way to get back to the "old fashioned" method of casting spells in sequence, without fancy hot-bar swapping (which did not interest me at all) and no more dodgy unlimited-characters-in-your-macros add-ons.
Gnome Sequencer is an add-on that reads a text file with Macros in it to execute spells in sequence. You edit the text file, create an empty macro in game, and off you go! It's a little fiddly to set up, but 90% of problems people have are with the syntax, so using something like Notepad++ is essential.
So this is what I use. I am back to four main keys to press for my Hunter. I have a set of keys for Single Target BM and Surv, AoE BM and Surv, and a few more standard macros for MD, HealPet, Traps, etc.
For a full understanding, go to wowlazymacros.com/ and read up on the GnomeSequencer add-on. There is also a new add-on in Curse called Simple Rotation that does the same thing without using the separate text file. You need to spend the time to understand how the macros work so you can build macros that work FOR YOU! Just copying what other people have made will result in mediocre performance. I am not a programmer, I am a Tech Writer, and you only need a basic understanding of writing WoW Macros to use Gnomesequencer. So I am not going to show you my macros, you have to work this out for yourselves, but I am happy to give advice.
Disclaimer: Blizzard has responded via several blue posts to the forums that these macros are perfectly OK when there is one click for one action. The add-ons are approved, and they are on Curse and Wowace for anyone to download. This does not mean they are not exploited by third party keyboard/mouse timers, which can get you in trouble with Blizzard.
Back in the old days, there was a Hunter site called TKASomething, and a regular poster called Sliver came up with a clever use of castsequence macros and timings, with liberal use of the /click command. It required the use of a macro addon called SuperDuper Macros, so you could type long macros. These macros became the reason for me to campaign my alt Hunter for Firelands and beyond. I also had macros for my Holy Priest, but they were nowhere near as effective as the Hunter macros.
I had four buttons to press:
1. Fire all non-CD shots at the target in sequence.
2. Fire CD shots in sequence (usually when the proc goes off).
3. Fire all CDs for max burst.
4. Oh Shit!
I had key binds for a PetAttack macro, Heal Pet and Heal Me (Gift of the Naaru, Health Pot and Health Cookie).
In the game, I would launch PetAttack, them spam Button 1 until the proc went off, spam Button 2, then back to Button 1, rinse and repeat. At the appropriate moment, I would switch to Button 3 and the Boss went down.
There were a few others, but that's effectively how I played, and it worked for me. I was capapble of hand weaving all my shots, but I don't have the kind of mind set that remembers the best shots to use at a certain time without thinking it through. By the time I decided, I was dead! So Macros worked well FOR ME!
Then Blizzard re-jigged the /castsequence macro, rendering the Sliver macros unusable. Not long after, the site died. A shame, really, because there was a lot of useful info on there for Hunters. They nuked the 0, 0, 0 count sequence, which made it possible to have one button macros, which was the reason behind the change. You see, if you /castsequence 0, 0, <spell>, it's considered an exploit of the GCD limitations. It was originally intended that way to satisfy the Accessibility of the game to the disabled community, but there was so much chatter about "gameplay" on the forums that Blizzard decided to break one button macros. None of the main developers of these macros ever intended it to be a one button spam, but for players like me, reducing the number of keys to press during a fight (from, say, twenty keys to five) was the motivating factor. We always acknowledged that spamming a smaller set of keys was not going to out-perform an experienced player.
So I went back to the Priest, and used a series of Macros gleaned from various sites like HowToPriest.com and others. I use a G13 keypad, and it was full.
I took a break from WoW, and didn't do much before WoD. I wasn't sure I wanted to continue playing, but I told myself I would decide when the expansion was released. Before that, however, I was enticed back to the game after going on a few old world runs with the Guild, and it reminded my why I enjoyed playing this game so much. So I decided to do a little character building, getting to know my main toons again and the changes to their respective specs.
I went back to a link I had saved in my Favourites for ideas of developing macros, and my interest was piqued by a small add-on called GnomeSequencer. Finally, someone had found a way to get back to the "old fashioned" method of casting spells in sequence, without fancy hot-bar swapping (which did not interest me at all) and no more dodgy unlimited-characters-in-your-macros add-ons.
Gnome Sequencer is an add-on that reads a text file with Macros in it to execute spells in sequence. You edit the text file, create an empty macro in game, and off you go! It's a little fiddly to set up, but 90% of problems people have are with the syntax, so using something like Notepad++ is essential.
So this is what I use. I am back to four main keys to press for my Hunter. I have a set of keys for Single Target BM and Surv, AoE BM and Surv, and a few more standard macros for MD, HealPet, Traps, etc.
For a full understanding, go to wowlazymacros.com/ and read up on the GnomeSequencer add-on. There is also a new add-on in Curse called Simple Rotation that does the same thing without using the separate text file. You need to spend the time to understand how the macros work so you can build macros that work FOR YOU! Just copying what other people have made will result in mediocre performance. I am not a programmer, I am a Tech Writer, and you only need a basic understanding of writing WoW Macros to use Gnomesequencer. So I am not going to show you my macros, you have to work this out for yourselves, but I am happy to give advice.
Disclaimer: Blizzard has responded via several blue posts to the forums that these macros are perfectly OK when there is one click for one action. The add-ons are approved, and they are on Curse and Wowace for anyone to download. This does not mean they are not exploited by third party keyboard/mouse timers, which can get you in trouble with Blizzard.
