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Chain lightning/lightning bolt macro help
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Post by
Bane311
/cast chain lightning
/cast lightning bolt
will this allow me to cast chain lightning, and when it's on cooldown, cast lightning bolt instead? I mainly want this to work in pvp.
Post by
windstrum
Try it. Come back if it doesn't.
Post by
MegaVolt
It is impossible to make a macro that checks the CL cooldown and only casts LB if CL is not available.
What you can do is:
/cast Lightning Bolt; Chain Lightning
This will cast LB if you press the button/click it and if you hold any modifier key (alt, shift, ctrl) while doing so it will cast CL instead. You can have an addon like DoTimer to track the cooldown to make it easier. You have to manually decide when to cast LB and when CL is possible, there is no way for a macro to do that for you. Blizzard removed that functionality from macros intentionally because it was making the game far too easy and turning it into pure button smashing.
Post by
Haxzor
how about something with a reset timer?
Post by
totemmunkey
how about something with a reset timer?
Thats a good idea. Maybe:
"/castsequence reset=6 chain lightning, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt, lightning bolt" ...etc ?
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Post by
MegaVolt
I'm fairly certain the reset=6 doesn't come into play unless you don't hit the button for 6 seconds, not 6 seconds after the CL.
This. reset=6 will reset the macro 6 seconds after is was used the last time,
not
6 seconds after it was used the first time. So the reset there is completely useless.
By the way I think it used to be different and this is also one of the things Blizzard changed intentionally so that players actually have to play the game and not have macros do it for them.
What can work however is a swapactionbar workaround - but that might be considered an exploit (or not ... I really don't know). The idea is to have two identical cast bars with LB on one and CL on the other. If you press CL it swaps your action bars to the second one (with LB on it) and starts a timer so that in X seconds you will automatically swap back to your first action bar (with CL on it). You need an extra addon to have those timers but it should work. I never tried it so it's all theory.
Post by
Bane311
It is impossible to make a macro that checks the CL cooldown and only casts LB if CL is not available.
What you can do is:
/cast Lightning Bolt; Chain Lightning
This will cast LB if you press the button/click it and if you hold any modifier key (alt, shift, ctrl) while doing so it will cast CL instead. You can have an addon like DoTimer to track the cooldown to make it easier. You have to manually decide when to cast LB and when CL is possible, there is no way for a macro to do that for you.
Yeah, I have an addon to watch my cooldowns so that isn't a problem. Just a matter of not wanting to click a second button on those rare occasions that I have time to cast a LB in between CL cooldowns in pvp.
Blizzard removed that functionality from macros intentionally because it was making the game far too easy and turning it into pure button smashing.
That's what I figured. Guess I will just have to use the modifier.
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