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Introduction
Anyone familiar with WoW macros should know that blizzard “nerfed” the castsequence macro, so it won’t cast next spell if the first one is on CD, in order to prevent 1 button dps rotation macro that people (ret) love so much.
But fear not, some smart ret figured out a way to bypass it. This will basically allow you to cast multiple spell on CD if you spam the button fast enough. It even sets up a priority list in case multiple spells come off CD at the same time. (I actually don’t use this, but I think it’s a pretty nifty macro and is definitely useful for many classes.)
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Lets look at a example first:
/castsequence reset=0 ,,Crusader Strike
/castsequence reset=0 ,Divine Storm,
/castsequence reset=0 Judgement of Wisdom,,
reset=0 basically means the whole castsequence will reset as soon as a spell is casted. Keep in mind that all 3 lines will execute at the same time when you press the button.
Lets say all 3 spells are ready. I press the button. Judgement of Wisdom will execute, causing all castsequence to reset.
Then if I press the button again right away, Judgement of Wisdom is on CD, the other two line basically execute a null (no spell before the first comma) castsequence will NOT reset because I didn’t cast a spell. When I press the button a 3rd time, castsequence3 is still stuck at Judgement because it’s still on CD, but Divine Storm will execute. cause the whole macro to reset.
Similarly, if I spam the button another 3 times, Crusader strike will cast and reset the sequence.
Because of the reset and the sequence of each line, this will basically allow you cast all 3 spell on CD with one button if you spam it fast enough. (gotta spam 3 times to cast crusader strike) And like I explained above, if multiple spells come off CD at the same time, this macro will even use them in a priority. In the above example Judgement will always cast first, then Divine Storm, then Crusader Strike.
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The main downside of this is that you gotta spam the button a lot, which many of us do in raid anyway. However if you want to put in 4-5 spells into the macro, you’ll need to press the button 4-5 times to cast the lowest priority spell, which makes this macro more annoying than helpful. Or if you have one of those special keyboard or some software to do the pressing for you. You can probably setup 5 spells in this macro, and just hold down one button in raid to do your rotation.
Unfortunately, I don’t have one of those keyboard, so I can’t say how good this combo really is. But when I test the macro with 3 spells, it works almost perfectly with my normal button smashing speed. However, my rotation is consisted of 5 spells, so this doesn’t really simplify it as much as I wanted, so I’m not using it.
Another issue I ran into is that once you start to put in 5+ spells, the priority order start to mess up, I think it’s because of the reset=0, but I didn’t bother looking into it because I didn’t think people are going to put in that many spells in there anyway.
On top of my head, I can see a ele sham do this for a Lava Burst, Chain Lighting, and Lighting Bolt macro. I’m sure many other classes have uses for this as well. It doesn’t have to be your dps rotation, can even setup 2-3 CDs for pvp. Lock can maybe modify the reset timer to make a macro that reapply all your dots periodically. (not sure about this one, too lazy to test)
Pro ret faceroll with keyboard w/o space key, doesn’t hurt nose
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