Warrior Macro Question?Follow

Question all you warrioraholics out there. One I love macro's. Save space on your action bar and combine 2-3 attacks into one button. Love it. Anyways. I'm trying to make a macro for charge. But after my charge I want to automaticly cast rend. I've tried
/cast Charge
/cast Rend

But rend doesn't go off like I want it to. Is there a way to time it so that after he charges he'll cast rend a few seconds later?

a all in one charge/intercept macro

/dismount
/cast [stance:1/2,combat] Berserker Stance; [stance:3,combat] Intercept; [stance:2/3,nocombat] Battle Stance; [stance:1,nocombat] Charge
/cast Battle Shout
/stopcasting
/END

change battle shout to dance if you want... but it works nicely...

King, that's an old Macro.. you never have to dismount anymore, it's automatic.

Soul: The only reason I can think of to use Rend is because of the arms talent 'Taste for Blood'. To use it for DPS without that talent is.. strange, to me at least. It does 182 damage (plus weapon dmg) over 21 sec.. that's 18 dmg per rage, ie. extremely inefficient. Let's say we max Rend with talents. We have 50% from Imp. Rend (two points wasted, if you ask me) and another 30% IF Trauma is up. So, that lands us at around 400 dmg, without factoring in weapon damage. With that... I'd say you'll have a max of 500 dmg (unless the additional damage benefits from Imp. Rend, in that case you'll have 600). So, you're looking at 50-60 DPR here. Now that Slam sustains your swing timer, rather than resets it, you'll get tons of more DPS just using that ability.

Rend has always been, and I fear will always be, a bad ability for DPS. It has some PvP utilities, and now some dmg utilities through talents (ie. 'Taste for Blood') but other than that, it's a waste of rage. Especially on higher levels. On really really low levels, it's efficient (like level 4...) but as you get higher it scales worse. And at 70 it's a DoT over 21 sec. What level 70 warrior takes 21 sec to kill his target? My main doesn't take that long, and he's prot!

Again, it's useless for DPS since it's weak and won't live through its uptime on higher levels.

Rend is useful for leveling. It loses its worth the higher you get. At least that's how it used to be. IIRC.

Yeah, pretty much how it is now too. Only that it looses its usefulness at around level 12. It's ok at level 10, with the new rank and all, but you climb two levels and already the mobs get a big enough HP pool to make it a waste of rage.

Also, the higher the rank, the longer the duration. Problem is the higher level you get the faster you kill mobs..

Soul: About his build.. I don't really know what to tell you. I wouldn't spec like that. Did you say prot leveling? It's an arms build..

At lvl 40 Arms really excel due to Mortal Strike. But so does fury with Blood Thirst. I leveled my warrior as Arms, and yes I struggeled the first 30 levels. At lvl 40 and out it was easier. However. I did have alch and herb, which made my leveling easier due to healthpots and buffpots.