Great great Macro for a Druid (Feral)Follow

Life has become 50x easier since I threw this macro on my hotbar about 2 months ago (Around the time I got Maim).

We all know that a 5 point Maim will allow you to drop combat and restealth, then repounce, etc. Everyone's been told this. What everyone hasen't been told is that you've got like a .000001 second window to stealth before Maim breaks. Then you have another .0000000001 seconds before whatever class you just maimed burns their AOE and breaks your Stealth.

So, the one button spamming macro:

/cast [nostealth] Prowl; Pounce

That easy. :)

After you maim, you just stand behind the person and spam this macro until it goes off. Very easy, and you will never burn a 5 point Maim only to get AOE'd out of Stealth, or hit before you can stealth, or destealth right after you stealthed, because you were spamming Prowl (Grrr I hate that).

Enjoy. :)

Hey man nice it really works ty m8 :P

Oh really?
Damn, seems like I have much to catch up on about macros. X_x

Thanks for the info! :D

That's what the Macro's allow you to do. :)

In addition, you can do with other spells what you do with Faerie fire.

For instance, on my bar, It's set as the following:

Button 1: Moonfire Rank 1, Rejuvenation
Button 2: Wrath, Regrowth
Button 3, Moonfire, Healing Touch
Button 4: Entangling Roots, Innervate
Button 5: Starfire, Abolish Poison
Button 6: Faerie Fire, Remove Curse

etc...

It chooses condition 1 if my target is Hostile, and condition 2 if my target is Friendly.

Really saves on button space. ^^

/cast [stance:3, nostealth] Prowl; [nostance, nostealth] Shadowmeld

or

/cast [stance:3, stealth] Pounce; [stance:3] Prowl; [nostance, nostealth] Shadowmeld

I think that's correct. :) First one will Prowl if in Catform or Shadowmeld if in Caster. Second is the same, just incorporates the pounce macro.

Really macro's are easy to write. The above was just

<action> [Conditions to activate the following skill] <skill name>; [another condition for a different skill] <skill name>

etc...

/cast is the Action
stance:3 and stealth are both modifiers. Stance:3 is Catform. Stealth is self-explanatory. :)
Pounce is the name of the skill. Semi-colon signifies the end of that condition/action sequence.

As it goes down further, the other ones become possible only if the previous were not true. So you don't have to specifiy conditions which are inherently not true for the new condition to be tested in the first place. As such, I didn't have to put a [nostealth] condition to activate Prowl after the Pounce, because the macro wouldn't have run that far if I was stealthed. :)

For a list of conditions and modifiers, visit this link:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=74337875&sid=1

Edited, Apr 7th 2007 4:00pm by ItharrAlexander

You get it at level 62, I think. So if you're not level 62 yet, you can't even have it. Hope this cleared everything.

Nice macro's, Feralist.

I have no macro's for Bear form atm. Actually, I have one, but it's PvP. When I shift to bear form, I have it setup so that if I spam the shifting key, it performs a Bash after the shift. Unfortunately, that means that to shift out, I have to use a different shapeshift button, but I don't mind it too much.

Bear doesn't have much in the way of conditions. No stealth, etc. Blizzard took away alot of the abilities to detect certain things (For instance, if aggro is on you, then Maul, otherwise Taunt, etc...).

All my bear buttons are on my hot bar, minus Challenging Roar and Frenzied Regen, I rarely use either, so I can justify manually clicking them. :)

Heh, I actually wrote the code for that before the expansion just to see if I could. I got it down to three shapeshifting keys, two action buttons, and an oh sh** button. It wasn't too hard to write back then but it made the game boring. No matter how many times you stomp a gnome they just keep coming back. Blizz did a damn fine job when they reworked the mod framework to be usable but not abusable.




Here is a macro you can spam from any form to get to bear form. If you are already in bear form it does nothing.

/cancelaura [stance:2] Aquatic Form; [stance:3] Cat Form; [stance:4] Travel Form; [stance:5] Moonkin Form
/cast [nostance] Dire Bear Form

Similarly this one you can spam from any form to get to cat form. If you are already in Cat form it uses Prowl.

/cancelaura [stance:1] Dire Bear Form; [stance:2] Aquatic Form; [stance:4] Travel Form; [stance:5] Moonkin Form
/cast [nostance] Cat Form; [stance:3] Prowl

(note with this one that if aren't level 40 yet you will need to change "Dire Bear Form" to "Bear Form")


My favorite one was stolen from the macro thread on the us official site's druid forum. It is a spammable travel form to go back and forth between Travel form and Humanoid Form or between Aquatic Form and Humanoid Form, depending on whether or not you are underwater.

/cancelaura [stance:1] Dire Bear Form; [stance:2] Aquatic Form; [stance:3] Cat Form; [stance:4] Travel Form; [stance:5] Moonkin Form
/cast [nostance, swimming] Aquatic Form; [nostance, outdoors] Travel Form

Is this PVP only, because it doesn't seem to work PVE?

Ooooooh, Rate up!

I also use Frenzied Regen in most boss fights. Spamming Mangle, Lacerate, Lacerate, Lacerate.....I usually always have a full rage bar. I figure using Frenzied Regen every 3 mins or if I start getting a bit low will at least take a tiny bit of pressure off the healers and costs me nothing (in such a high-rage situation).

Ah sorry selv when i posted again I hadn't read your post yet. I guess that answered my question. Giving Druids a vanish would make them incredibly IMBA I guess. >.<

Only against another player, you go "out of combat" after 5 seconds of no combative actions. So on a 5-point Maim, you have long enough to Prowl again near the end of a stun.

Againts NPC's ("mobs"), this does not work, as you only go "out of combat" when you kill it or it gives up on chasing you, goes into Evade mode, and returns to full health.