Priest macros

[jpwstreck]

how important is macros?
if it is important.. what macros should u have when playing a priest?
i looked at a screen shot taken by Tivoli, and he had something called "dispell" and "self-..." could someone explain this?

thanks in advance

[Prometheus]

In my opinion it's really a preference question.

I have few macros for spells that have a long cast time (heal, great heal, group heal, resurrection and so forth) so that my party knows that I am not slacking off (paladins have a bad tendency start healing themselves when they hit 50% hp), which basically just say "Casting Great Heal on [ target ] -- 4 second cast time." - nothing fancy but does it's job.

I personally don't find the self-cast macros as useful because I'm use to switching targets with F1-F5, but if you want to save yourself some trouble then I would say that having them is not a bad idea at all. As far as Tivoli's "dispell" macro goes, I can't imagine what other it could do besides cast dispell (maybe it has a message attached to it or something), so Tivoli is going to have to answer that one himself, but as far as the "self-..." goes, that's probably just self-cast for a one or a bunch of spells.

So in short, I don't think that having spells macroed hurts, but keep in mind that you can't self-cast macros (unless it's a self-cast macro) by holding down alt (for self-cast). Atleast, I can't :)

[Tivoli]

They aren't anything fancy, just help a little, just something that targets myself casts a spell and then targets the last enemy, really useful with dispelling since you can't start the cast and then hit F1.

/target Tivoli
/script CastSpellByName("Dispell(Rank 2)");
/script TargetLastEnemy():

And that's pretty much it.

[Krissam]

thix, i've been looking for that "target last enemy" for a while :).

well not actually looking, more like wanting :P

[mediocre]

selfdispel macro is about the only one I use, mainly because alt-dispel tends to be finicky for me

[jpwstreck]

thanks alot both of you, that self target script is awsome.. didnt know you could do that :D

[Void]

I'm more curious as to what his Hide macro does.

[jpwstreck]

yeah i just saw that one.. whats it for?

[Tivoli]

It's a secret of the pros ;), nah it's a macro i use to hide certain UI components when working on the UI, i change it a lot.

[Void]

Thanks for clearing that up Tivoli. Was baffled as to whether you had some super sweet trick up your sleeve. :lol:

[mediocre]

/target Tivoli
/script CastSpellByName("Dispel(Rank 2)");
/script TargetLastEnemy();




minor correction ;)