Macro

[Gombol]

Anyone know if you can make a macro that does several things?

say...

/cast Shadow Word Pain
/cast Vampric embrace

and what not

so it like all goes on at once or so it goes

/cast

wait 1 second

/cast next spell

or somthing?

if so spill it!

 

[Haven]

No, you can do sequential casting from a single macro but you cannot automate the process as its too much of an advantage and bot-like in behavior. The only exception to this is that you can an instant cast before a normal cast and both will run.

 

[Traxata]

You can program a macro to Do one thing, then on click two, ( frees up some button space ... ) do something else, Obviously cooldowns come into effect and IF I remember correctly, It factors those automagically on your shiny macro button

Another option, IF your keyboard has nice macro functionality ... Like my G15, or the Seitek Ecplise's you can set up these macro's outside of the game, with pauses which wow can't detect Or at least it couldn't back when i played

I had a nice Macro recorded which meant I could set up shadow bolt volleys on a boss fight and bugger off onto a forum for 5 mins

 

[Windzarko]

You can run things simultaneously if they do not trigger global cooldown; one example would be Lithy's PoMPyro Macro:

/cast Presence of Mind
/stopcasting
/cast Arcane Power
/stopcasting
/use 14
/stopcasting
/cast Pyroblast


The "use 14" is my on-use bonus spelldamage tinket, and the "stopcasting" between each action ensures that the next action can take place. I do not know if the stopcasting is needed anymore with 2.3, but my macro still works, and I won't interfere with it.

It's worth noting that with a little intelligent macro'ing, you can as people above have said make it so that click one will cast the first spell and click two will cast the second. It's also possible to script it so that the button will give different effects depending on whether you left, right, shift-left, shift-right, alt-left, alt-right, ctrl-left or ctrl-right click it.

If you want to know more, there's a fairly decent macro guide on WoWwiki (off the top of my head I think it's THIS page).

 

[Gombol]

Haven knows the CD thing..it like causes a 1 second CD on loads of stuff...its like cast SWain and it causes starshards to have a 1 second CD while it reloads or somthing..

 

[Windzarko]

That was hotfixed a little in the rolling resets the other day; the global cooldown was made a little less harsh.