Well I have been a holy pally since level 60 and raided holy all of BC now that wrath is on it's way I have decided to stop raiding and start working on my ret. gear seems to be some very exciting changes for ret and I really dont plan on healing in WOTLK. Im currently sitting at 2.2k AP and 30% crit. but I just cant seem to keep up in DPS. That being said I use a normal rotation just with key bindings but often find my self a bit off or "damn I forgot seal of command" especially in PvP. Is there a macro for ret paladins similar to a hunter shot rotation macro or is that not possible. I looked in the ret. guide and found a couple macros but not really what I was looking for. Sorry if this is a dumb post I am a complete newb with macros and the ones I do use are usually just copied and pasted.
Thanks in advance!
Edited, Sep 30th 2008 10:43am by fhfire
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honestly, there's lots of macro's you could make for focus, mouseover, etc functions for our utility abilities for pvp and even pve. however, as much as i love macro's (the 3:2 macro for hunters does wonders for my dps) i haven't seen anything like that for ret and haven't figured out i'd make that work with our abilities. the only macro i really use for ret is
/cast Judgement
/cast Seal of Command
for tanking i have the same one but
/cast Judgement
/cast Seal of Righeousness
These macro's won't work though when the wotlk talent patch goes live since judgements will be on the GCD and you don't need to reseal each time you judge. right now i just have all the abilities i need on my action bar and that seems to work ok for me.
most of the things we'd need to check for as rets to make a single spammable macro aren't checkable in a macro.
only other macro i use is
/stopcasting
/cast Divine Shield
which i have mostly for as holy in case i'm casting a heal but need to bubble fast... since most of our abilities aren't cast like that you don't really NEED that macro as ret.
hmm... i'm gonna have to test it, but with instant cast FoL's in wotlk i was just thinking one could poddibly make a macro like
/cast Flash of Light
/stopcasting
which would be spammable and never follow through with a FoL unles it's instant cast at that moment. might mess with swing timers, GCD etc... i'll test it and see how much it hurts lol.
/cast Judgement
/cast Seal of Command
for tanking i have the same one but
/cast Judgement
/cast Seal of Righeousness
These macro's won't work though when the wotlk talent patch goes live since judgements will be on the GCD and you don't need to reseal each time you judge. right now i just have all the abilities i need on my action bar and that seems to work ok for me.
most of the things we'd need to check for as rets to make a single spammable macro aren't checkable in a macro.
only other macro i use is
/stopcasting
/cast Divine Shield
which i have mostly for as holy in case i'm casting a heal but need to bubble fast... since most of our abilities aren't cast like that you don't really NEED that macro as ret.
hmm... i'm gonna have to test it, but with instant cast FoL's in wotlk i was just thinking one could poddibly make a macro like
/cast Flash of Light
/stopcasting
which would be spammable and never follow through with a FoL unles it's instant cast at that moment. might mess with swing timers, GCD etc... i'll test it and see how much it hurts lol.
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haha i remember when i descovered macros made life a lot easer
Macro?? whats a macro...... is it something you eat? or cook? J/K
It's a type of cookie, made with coconut.
#showtooltip Crusader Strike
/startattack
/cast Crusader Strike
best Ret pally macro ever, that is, if the command to start auto attack is right . . all the macro guides got moved around and its a PITA to look them up again.
but you get the idea, if anyone actually knows, please correct or confirm.
Edit: forgot to explain this macro's purpose. it makes it so you can just spam one button in multi mob situations and not have to worry about if your auto swing is actually on or not.
Edited, Oct 13th 2008 11:02am by RuenBahamut
/startattack
/cast Crusader Strike
best Ret pally macro ever, that is, if the command to start auto attack is right . . all the macro guides got moved around and its a PITA to look them up again.
but you get the idea, if anyone actually knows, please correct or confirm.
Edit: forgot to explain this macro's purpose. it makes it so you can just spam one button in multi mob situations and not have to worry about if your auto swing is actually on or not.
Edited, Oct 13th 2008 11:02am by RuenBahamut
Crusader Strike already starts auto attack. As does Judgement. I'd say Divine Storm does too. Since those are the abilities you'll be guaranteed to use in all fights, a /startattack macro doesn't do much.
And /stopattack is automatic for Repentance, so you don't one of those either.
All three main DPS abilities are on separate cooldowns of different times, so there's no use making a rotation macro.
About all I can think of are Focus macros for Repentance and HoJ, mostly for PvP.
And /stopattack is automatic for Repentance, so you don't one of those either.
All three main DPS abilities are on separate cooldowns of different times, so there's no use making a rotation macro.
About all I can think of are Focus macros for Repentance and HoJ, mostly for PvP.
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