What do you think of cast-sequence macros?Follow

Power Auras is absolutely indispensable for a few select classes, but my experience with a Shadow Priest led me to believe it really isn't so important for all classes. Even for healing Priests it's, at best, supplementary. I think there are a number of classes that it's awesome for, and a number of classes that it's not that great for.

The same can be said about Macros. My 74 Feral Druid has more Macros than the rest of my characters combined, but I have absolutely no use for Power Auras. Then I log on the Pally and thank god for /powa! XD

Well, after Therion helped me this evening get some clutter off my screen, I played around with power auras some more and was able to set up the DoT trackers for main target so that they bounce when the duration is getting low. While power auras may not be critical for shadow priests, it certainly is useful. It's nice being able to delete all these extra class oriented add ons and just use power auras for everything. Well okay, it doesn't do everything but you get my point. =x I'll post a couple screenies later today. Maybe start up a new UI thread. We haven't had one of those in a while!

I created a small macro for the Cleave (Solar or not)

#showtooltip
#show
/targetenemy
/castsequence reset=2 Insect Swarm, Moonfire

/targetenemy is the same as pressing tab. Had to use castsequence so /targetenemy would keep going
Surprisingly, Sunfire doesnt work on the macro. You just put Moonfire and it will cast the correct spell.
I keybound it to alt + middle mouse button.
I still have the normal spell keybouded, so I can use it when I dont want to Solar Cleave

Additionally, I keyboud WM to middle mouse button so I can use it while moving easier (middle mouse to cast + left mouse to place where the mouse is pointing at) and keybounded the WM: Detonate to Alt + Left Mouse Click.
I think I will fare better in some AoE fights this way



Edited, Jun 3rd 2011 3:02am by Brisin

As others have said, castsequence macros are a crutch. You should be building muscle memory with your dots that you'd normally use in a rotation so that you can bust out your rotation as fast as the GCD will let you.

Abilities that you use at the same time because they're off the GCD are a separate issue though, like rogues and their pickpocket/cheap shot macro. Those macros have legitimate use, as they use abilities faster than humanly possible.

The simple answer is that in a perfect world you wouldn't need the macros, but if your reaction time and muscle memory isn't strong enough, you may have to resort to castsequence macros; they should be a last resort, though.