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Post by
Castorax
Hi, I've just dinged lvl 66 on my frost mage and picked up Ice Lance. Very useful, I thought, 3 times the damage for frozen targets! I've been toying with the idea of using macro's for a while so I thought this would be the perfect time. I tried to put together a simple macro like this:
/cast Frost Nova
/cast Ice Lance
/cast Ice Lance
/cast Ice Lance
Seems straight forward enough but every time I use it I get the 'spell not ready yet' error message. I read the wikki guide and tried to make a few other macro's for frost spell combo's but either they don't get past the first spell or they give the same error. I've checked my spelling is correct but still no joy. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
Post by
Mates1500
Well,I´m not master of macros,so I dont know all the commands,but the macro should look like Cast Frost nova if it isn´t on Cooldown,else cast Ice Lance
What you are doing wrong : Most spells of mages and any other classes has Global Cooldown,It is 1.5sec (1sec for rogues and druids in cat form),and it prevents spamming spells like this,your macro looks like you want to cast all 3x Ice Lances and frost nova at once,understand? :)
Post by
Achloryn
Hi, I've just dinged lvl 66 on my frost mage and picked up Ice Lance. Very useful, I thought, 3 times the damage for frozen targets! I've been toying with the idea of using macro's for a while so I thought this would be the perfect time. I tried to put together a simple macro like this:
/cast Frost Nova
/cast Ice Lance
/cast Ice Lance
/cast Ice Lance
Seems straight forward enough but every time I use it I get the 'spell not ready yet' error message. I read the wikki guide and tried to make a few other macro's for frost spell combo's but either they don't get past the first spell or they give the same error. I've checked my spelling is correct but still no joy. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
basically, what you're doing is telling your mage to cast frost nova, and 3 ice lances at the same time.... every time you press the macro button. obviously that wont work because of global cooldown issues.. what you're looking for, I think, is something like this:
/castsequence reset=21 frost nova, ice lance, ice lance, ice lance
keep in mind, I dunno how well that will work. I read thru wowwiki and got a brief basic idea of how the macro wording is supposed to work.. this might work better
/castsequence Frost nova; reset=21, ice lance
if I wrote that correctly, what that should do is have it set to where when you press shift + whichever button, it'll cast frost nova, instead it'll cast ice lance. hope this helps.. let me know actually cause I wanna know if I got the wording correct
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Post by
Achloryn
The GCD renders that macro rather redundant. Cast sequence is generally useless unless your too slow to keep up with the GCD. Since most people button mash, that's not much of an issue.
But it's very useful for an Afflict Lock while leveling:
#showtooltip
/petattack
/castsequence reset=target/combat Curse of Agony, Corruption, Immolate
#showtooltip
/cast Life Tap; Dark Pact
Just saved myself 3 keybinds. On number 3 i bind Shadow Bolt and on 4 Unstable Affliction. I do that because i use WASD to move around and it takes more time to reach the numbers above 5, so i try to bind all my skill on the first 4 numbers.
yes, but this is a mage forum. :) lol
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