Looking for Aflic Lock MacroFollow

Just getting back into playing after a year away and I can not find my old macros and was hoping that the forum might have some good suggestions. My original one was found here and went basically though the DOT cast seq. then had a drain soul at the end. Also, there was a way to interupt the seq and cast a shadow bolt if nightfall (trance name) came into play. Thanks for the advise!

Aus

Since each spell in the sequence requires a button press, just tap the Shadow Bolt button if Nightfall procs. It doesn't affect your sequence macro in the least unless the target dies (which resets the macro).

I will have to try this "Macro" thing. Haven't taken the plunge yet, and I'm near 47.

Yea, I'd really just bind them individually. Resists, or in PvP dispels, means you need them available anyways. I try and bind everything I use a lot to 2/3/4/R/T/F, along with shift modifiers. So I end up with:
3 - UA
S3 - Corr
4 - Immo
S4 - Siphon
T - CoA, CoS, CoR, CoEx with different modifiers
R - Sbolt
SR - Drain Life
F - Fear and related
With a few others bound close-by. Anything I'm only going to use on occasion (Drain Soul, Drain Mana) is just clicked. Yes, it uses up a lot more room than a single macro, but it also means you can very quickly adjust to resists or dispels. Going from a macro that does everything to bindings is a LOT harder than the reverse, and you *need* to have everything available when you're PvP'ing or on a boss.

Take the affliction talent -Suppression- and you can kill mobs 1-2 levels above you and never see a resist.

/castsequence reset=target/combat Immolate, Siphon Life, Corruption, Curse of Agony, Lifetap

Never say never

There is 1% that you can't overcome, not to mention, while leveling, I'd rather get to the good stuff in Affliction, Suppression is more of a raiding talent that you should only use as a filler until your hit capped. Even then, some bosses, Attumen comes to mind first, have a debuff or something that raises their resists and you'll still see lots of resists even while hit capped.

Just thought of something else to add too. On longer fights, the DoT that you cast first will not be the first to wear off. When going to re-apply your DoTs, you don't want to re-apply them until they have worn off, due to the DoTs having different lengths, you won't be re-applying them in the same order. So separate buttons are still needed. Even if your just leveling, it's good to have separate buttons, so that you get used to where they are, then, when the time comes, you don't have to re-train yourself where everything is.

Edited, May 7th 2008 3:46pm by Lathais

I should have noted in my original reaponse:

I, personally, do not use /castsequence (except changing auras and mounting on my pally) for the fact that there is no true "rotation" for DOTs because of the different timers on each one. For grinding it's generally just two or three dots and a life-tap/drain but in instances there is no rotation really. I prefer to have my brain make the decision to fire off a spell rather than being stuck to a preset order.

The bind/macro I actually use for grinding is:

/cast [modifier:alt]Siphon Life; [modifier:shift] Curse of Agony; [modifier:ctrl] Immolate; Corruption

The idea is that I have similar spells grouped in an easy to use location (I've similar ones for AOEs and the Fear triad). I have tried button:1 and button:2 as well, but these are problematic for mouse-movement. And, well, just more complicated.

The macro is bound to a key that is convenient to use with the modifiers. If you are a "clicker" or "keyboard turner" this will be a bit trickier I'd imagine but still operable.

Good luck!