what is the macro command for "Guard"? :: World of Warcraft

#1 Oct 09 2010 at 4:58 PM Rating: Good

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what is the macro command line for "Guard"?

/ac "Guard" <me> doesn't work

thanks to anybody who knows this! (If such a thing exists!) ... or do you HAVE to press the action button on the bar?

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#2 Oct 09 2010 at 5:09 PM Rating: Good

flashboom

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i found it

/ac "Guard" sub <me>

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#4 Nov 18 2010 at 12:42 PM Rating: Decent

Jefro420

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try this

/ac "Guard" sub <me> 
/wait 3 
/ac "Provoke" <t> 
/wait 3 
/ac "Phalanx" <t> 
/wait 5 
/ac "Phalanx" <t>

You could lengthen this by adding another phalanx, or you could change the last one to like Light Stab then add another Phalanx. I have this macro and it works ok, but just triggering the skills manually works a lot better. You might need to adjust the wait times.

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#5 Nov 22 2010 at 6:07 PM Rating: Decent

Parge

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/eaction # "Guard"

Where # is the slot number you want Guard set in.

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#6 Nov 23 2010 at 10:57 AM Rating: Decent

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Parge wrote:

/eaction # "Guard"

Where # is the slot number you want Guard set in.

Did you actually tried this? Because, when i tried this at the beginning of the game, you couldn't change Guard place after you equip the Shield... It's for that reason that I never equip an ability on X slot for let a space for Guard to auto-equip when I equip my Shield.

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#7 Nov 24 2010 at 1:18 PM Rating: Good

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Mahouneko wrote:

Did you actually tried this? Because, when i tried this at the beginning of the game, you couldn't change Guard place after you equip the Shield... It's for that reason that I never equip an ability on X slot for let a space for Guard to auto-equip when I equip my Shield.

Yea, you can't move guard doing that. What I do is this.

At the beginning of the macro use: /eaction 4 ""
This clears the skill out of slot 4 (where I want my Guard, this is an example, change it as you like).

Then you start filling your bar with Light slash, Light Stab, Heavy Stab, then at the 4th slot, equip your shield, and Guard will automatically be set to that 4th slot that you opened up at the beginning (guard is always set to the first open slot on the bar.

Not using the slot for guard seems a little overboard, I hope this tip helps. I really wish they would make it so each class stores all of the skills on the bar. Using macros to do this is just stupid, slow, confusing at times, and time consuming. I have 2-3 macros for each class, one for every craft class, and 1 for every harvesting that I have to constantly update. As well as gear swapping macros. This really needs to be simplified and sped up.

Edited, Nov 24th 2010 2:21pm by MattVid6

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#8 Dec 07 2010 at 9:28 PM Rating: Decent

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MattVid6 wrote:

Yea, you can't move guard doing that. What I do is this.

At the beginning of the macro use: /eaction 4 ""
This clears the skill out of slot 4 (where I want my Guard, this is an example, change it as you like).

Then you start filling your bar with Light slash, Light Stab, Heavy Stab, then at the 4th slot, equip your shield, and Guard will automatically be set to that 4th slot that you opened up at the beginning (guard is always set to the first open slot on the bar.

Not using the slot for guard seems a little overboard, I hope this tip helps. I really wish they would make it so each class stores all of the skills on the bar. Using macros to do this is just stupid, slow, confusing at times, and time consuming. I have 2-3 macros for each class, one for every craft class, and 1 for every harvesting that I have to constantly update. As well as gear swapping macros. This really needs to be simplified and sped up.

Edited, Nov 24th 2010 2:21pm by MattVid6

thank you for this, i was about to make a new post asking about this before i realized 'hey now, i cant be the only one whos ever had this question before' =P

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