Heal and then change to bear as a macro?Follow

Nope. Even in a macro, all spells and stuff are still affected by global cooldown.

You can make a macro of this, you just have to spam the macro.

Probably something like:
/cast Bash
/cast Healing Touch <-- Or whatever you want.
/cast Bear Form

Edited, Feb 19th 2008 2:19pm by Bloodthunder

Hi again,

I have read some more on this. I think the macro which you proposed:
/cast Bash
/cast Healing Touch <-- Or whatever you want.
/cast Bear Form

Would try to cast Bash, and then abort because of the global cooldown and I further think it would always try to cast Bash and then abort, even if you spam it.

However, I think something like this might work:
/castsequence Bash, Healing Touch, Bear Form

I read about this at the WoWWiki and this will actually execute these casts as a sequence (you would still need to click the macro button three times to cast all of them).

What do you (and others) think?

All the best,
Michael

it is possible (i had one but cant remember the code, but that was ages ago) all i did was go


/cast bash
(insert timer for 1 second)
/cast healing touch
(insert timer for duration of healing touch)
/cast bear form

the only problem is that if u get interrupted the /cast bear form doesn't work as i casts it too soon.

a more effective one would be

/cast bash
/cancelform
/cast healing touch

then just selected the form you want after





Edited, Feb 19th 2008 11:17am by Plainwalker

Edited, Feb 19th 2008 11:19am by Plainwalker

This macro hasn't been able to work for awhile. At least as long as I've been playing (since about 2 weeks before 1.9 hit the streets). The issue with it are multiple -

• no ability to 'wait' or pause in a maco
• can't cast multiple spells in a macro when one of them trips the Global Cooldown.
• I had one more but it ran out on me as I was typing the other two ...

The reasons WHY these don't work come down to one thing - Bot prevention. Blizzard has stated (repeatedly and quite strongly) that this kind of 1-click macro will NEVER work - because it makes it too easy to write entire botting macros.

To make this work, you'll have to use the /castsequence macro given above and just mash the button 3 times.

Now, the "trips the Global Cooldown" item above is important. If an item does NOT cause the Global Cooldown to fire, then you can use them in the same macro and it'll fire both of them. An example would be a +AP on use trinket (Blade's Fists Breadth, for example) and then Mangle. Or, on the mage, casting Presence of Mind and Pyroblast in the same macro. Those are possible.

Since /cancelform, /cast Bash, /cast Healing Touch (or /cast Regrowth) and /cast Bear/Cat Form all trigger the global cooldown, then /castsequence is what you've got.