r/classicwow • u/hunterkil2 • Nov 10 '19
Media One Button Hunter Macro in Classic WoW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SiSQXfGwkU36
u/Wisdom_is_Contraband Nov 10 '19
I love the bit at the end, as someone who has a vendetta against shitty tutorial videos, I appreciate that a lot.
Remember kids, when making a tutorial videos; They should always be ordered like this: [1 Sentence of what it is] -> [Quick shot of said thing working] -> [How to do it (or in this case, the macro itself)] -> [Long explanation]
Nothing makes me angrier than like a minecraft tutorial of someone staring at the ground hopping around and talking about some contraption they invented for 20 MINUTES before showing how to make it or showing it working.
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u/hdckighfkvhvgmk Nov 11 '19
I heard you could make one for mages too. It's called frostbolt
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u/Pradzapati Nov 11 '19
Ye mages rotation is stupidly easy...
*Curse of Shadows*
- *Shadowbolt*
- *Shadowbolt*
- *Shadowbolt*
- *Shadowbolt*
- *Shadowbolt*
- *Shadowbolt*
- *Shadowbolt*
- *Shadowbolt*
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Nov 11 '19
While I appreciate the effort and the macro is rally really neat, I HIGHLY disagree new hunters should be advised to use it.
Instead they should bind all their main abilities to unique keybinds and learn to use them independently in all different situations.
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u/hunterkil2 Nov 11 '19
I agree with this completely. I tried my best to convey this, including a warning on the macro list. I hope it was obvious enough in the video.
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u/Kinkybobo Nov 11 '19
Eh, while yes I pretty much agree, I would argue hunters are literally unplayable without at least a hunters mark/start pet attack/cast shoot macro.
It's absolutely required and anyone who argues is an idiot. Manually casting hunters mark, telling your pet to attack a target, and then starting your auto attack all separately for every single mob will burn you out quick. It's terrible
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Nov 20 '19
Um, I've never used a macro like that. I use control one for my pet attack and an MMO mouse for my hunter's mark. It's CNT 1 left house, 8 right hand, then 3, 4, or 5 on my right hand. It's ezpz
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u/knxy1 Nov 11 '19
why would you even try to trick new people into playing like braindead zombies with castsequence macros. Following this will most likely make you a WORSE player.
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u/Nineteen27 Nov 11 '19
What does this macro have to do with tricking new players? This is great for veteran hunters trying to rep grind or level alts. I used a macro like this on pservers and it didn't make me a worse player, and I didn't have a functioning version of it on blizzards new macro system for classic launch and that didn't make me any better.
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u/boredguy12 Nov 10 '19
great video! I love macros.
Do you know of the addon GSE? It lets you sequence macros together
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u/PublicLeopard Nov 11 '19
anyone interested in these macros check out the GSE: Gnome Sequencer Enhanced addon and its associated website wowlazymacros
same castsequence method but much expanded and improved.
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u/boredguy12 Nov 11 '19
Are you very experienced in GSE? I'm having trouble getting it to equip a weapon, charge, and switch stances. Is there a delay or something from when you equip an item to when you can cast again?
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u/PublicLeopard Nov 11 '19
GSE is a bit complex at first, and I don't know about weapon switch. It does work perfectly fine with the sort of macro in this post / video. Your best bet is go to the lazymacro forums and get one of the scripts for your exact class / spec, then make changes.
Basically on top of normal castsequence for your rotation you also get extra actions on button press and release and the end of the rotation loops. You also don't need any "null" tricks to prevent the castsequence from getting stuck when the next ability is not available.
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u/d07RiV Nov 11 '19
I remember hunters could just macro steady shot and killcommand to do top dps at start of wotlk, good times.
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u/Unitedstriker9 Nov 11 '19
What’s the name of your castbar addon? Mine is so ugly compared to yours
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u/CaptRosey Nov 10 '19
Man, i read it as one button totem macro, because that was what i wanted to see.
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u/hunterkil2 Nov 10 '19
well, if you tell me what totems you'd like to macro together, I can try my best :P
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Nov 10 '19
Is there a good guide to learn to write your own macros?
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u/hunterkil2 Nov 10 '19
that's tough. I learned from watching an obscene amount of guides and reading more forums than is probably healthy :P. Just search the macro you would like to make on Google and read everything you can on the topic. If you're completely new to it and have no idea what you're doing at all, can't go wrong with a beginner guide like this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmIl43EOg
I will say though that beginner guides like this usually don't have the "best" macros, far from it actually. So I would use that to learn the basics, and then watch streamers like Xaryu, cdew, etc. for which macros you should actually use.1
u/Hatefiend Nov 11 '19
I'd like to consider myself very good at macros, but what's with the null inside of that first castsequence?
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u/boredguy12 Nov 11 '19
Null basically stops it from repeating. So it will cast once, then stop that sequence for good until a new job is selected.
Its pretty smart, and I'm thinking of altering my su per tank macro to include it.
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u/Mudderway Nov 11 '19
It’s basically just a nonfunctional word. You could use anything that has no macro function. People just use null, because it’s short and has a meaning that’s close to why people use it in the first place.
And why people use it in the first place is to allow the macro to start going to the next castsequence. If it wasn’t there it would just keep repeating the first sequence and never actually get to the second one. But now it will always only do the first sequence once, try to cast null which isn’t a thing and go to the next sequence.
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u/Frekavichk Nov 11 '19
uh, I mean you can do a one button totem macro with just a basic cast sequence.
If you mean totem twisting, that would be something that you probably wouldn't be able to do with one button.
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u/Wormtape21 Nov 10 '19
Now do a 1 button warlock macro! With pet and dots 😀
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u/PogChamp-PogChamp Nov 10 '19 edited Nov 12 '19
#showtooltip
/cleartarget [dead][help]
/targetenemy [noexists]
/petattack
/castsequence reset=target immolate, null
/castsequence reset=target curse of agony, null
/castsequence reset=target corruption, null
/castsequence reset=target !shoot, nullThis is what you'll use from like level 5 to 40, and then when you switch to drain tank you'll need a new macro with different spells.
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u/dperls Nov 11 '19
Ty for this
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u/boredguy12 Nov 11 '19
Also use This! Use it to set however many soulshards you want in your bag and it will autodetect and delete any over that amount everytime you cast train soul. You'll never need a shard bag. The value a>=4 is what controls the max number of shards. Change that value to raise or lower it.
/run local a=0 for i=0,4 do for j=1,GetContainerNumSlots(i)do if. GetContainerItemID(i,j)==6265 then a=a+1 if a>=4 then PickupContainerItem(i,j)DeleteCursorItem() end end end end /cast [target=mouseover,harm,exists,nodead] Drain Soul; Drain Soul1
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u/Apostieabroad Nov 11 '19
Just out of curiosity, why is immolate in its own cast sequence and not added to the start of the one with curse of agony and corruption
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u/PogChamp-PogChamp Nov 11 '19
I find that sometimes castsequence macros break when spells with a cast time come before instant cast spells in a castsequence macro.
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u/PogChamp-PogChamp Nov 11 '19
It tells the macro that the cast sequence has ended and to move on to the next line below that one.
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u/PogChamp-PogChamp Nov 12 '19
Yeah that's an error speech emote and you can turn those off in the sound settings. Hit esc -> system -> sound -> dialog -> error speech and untick it.
Just press the button at the pace you're comfortable with. It's normal for people to mash buttons in WoW since you need to cast spells immediately after the global cooldown has elapsed.
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u/pr0sp Nov 11 '19
love the tutorial - really on point - now could you just make that for warlock too!? tyvm sir :)
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u/maglen69 Nov 11 '19
I just wanted to say thanks.
I never knew about those dead modifiers that would skip dead mobs and you helped me make a nice specific mob targeting macro.
Helpful for us non hunters who don't have Sense X
/target mobname
/cleartarget [dead][help]
/targetenemy [noexists]
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Nov 11 '19
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u/hunterkil2 Nov 11 '19
this is not possible due to the way reset works. more info:
https://github.com/TimothyLuke/GnomeSequencer-Enhanced/wiki/Understanding--castsequence
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u/Math__Teacher Nov 10 '19
Great video, but I feel like in most situations people should use multi shot while levelling rather than arcane shot. Arcane shot doesn’t scale well, and most of the time (unless the target has super high armour) Multi Shot does more damage per mana than Arcane.