Comments on: Healadin Macros

By: Siha

Siha — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:27:22 +0000

@K – I do much the same thing; I usually target the tanks myself, but sometimes it’s handy to just follow the boss’s target. I use that on Al’ar, too, since I’m not usually the one assigned to topping-up the previous tank before moving on.
If you come across any handy macros, let me know!
As for focus targets – I love Trinity bar mod for just that reason; it lets you set the target of a bar, so I can have a bar that’s set to cast on the focus, and then I just put focus-specific spells on there. That way I don’t have to have macros for them all :)

By: Krsytal

Krsytal — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:50:07 +0000

I only use a heal through macro if the boss is using random target attacks, Aran/Solarian … if he swaps between tanks then I just follow the tank manually.

In a fight like VR I will often focus the tank most likely to die as I have macros for healing the focus target that uses trinkets/buff spells.

However I dont have a heap of macros, and have seen many that I could add to my rotation, think I will spend the next day or so updating my macros and pushing my toons limits.

By: Nibuca

Nibuca — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:56:38 +0000

On Exorcism and Holy Wrath I put the equip before the cast and it works.

{from memory}

/equip Libram of Wracking
/cast Exorcism

I guess since Holy Wrath has a cast time that you could equip that libram after the cast starts.

By: Siha

Siha — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:34:22 +0000

Just a query though Nibuca – with the Exorcism and Consecrate macros, given that the spells in question are instant, do the Librams properly take effect even though they’re equipped after the spellcast is triggered? I mean, does the game assume the spell and item swap are simultaneous, and give you the benefit of the newly-equipped Libram?

By: Siha

Siha — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:25:01 +0000

Ooh, what a good idea :)

I haven’t done that, because I’m usually a MT healer so I run with Libram of Souls Redeemed (for the bonus to Blessing of Light) rather than the Blessed Book or Libram of Mending – but I do have a macro that will flip me to the Libram of Mending on leftclick (and back to Souls Redeemed on rightclick) for the occasional mp5 top-up. Come 2.4 I probably won’t need that, with the buff to Libram of Souls Redeemed (making the buff 30 seconds instead of 10, which is all but permanent), but it’s worth thinking about.

By: Nibuca

Nibuca — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:43:36 +0000

I tweaked my macros last night as well. Currently I have this:

#showtooltip Flash of Light
/use 13
/use 14
/cast [target=mouseover] Flash of Light
/equip Blessed Book of Nagrand

and:
#showtooltip Holy Light
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Divine Illumination
/cast [target=mouseover] Holy Light
/equip Libram of Mending

This will trigger my trinkets whenever they’re not in cooldown and will equip the proper libram that will best benefit -this- heal.

I also tweaked my macros for Exorcism, Holy Wrath and Consecrate to best use the proper librams for those spells.

By: Siha

Siha — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:35:32 +0000

Thanks for the syntax tips! I knew there were some improvements I could make, but I didn’t realise they’d cleaned it up like that.
Re the /use 13 kind of syntax, I prefer not to do that, because sometimes I’m wearing a gear set that has trinkets I *don’t* want to try and blow with the first Flash of Light (like, say, a Talasite Owl) – but it’s certainly possible if one doesn’t swap gear much :)
And re the Divine Favor thing – that’s a really good idea :) I don’t think I need to do it, as I use DF all the time anyway and I’d prefer to have it available to use when I need it, but I can definitely see the merit in your method.

By: Rohan

Rohan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:07:20 +0000

Good Macros.

Some syntax commentary: In 2.3 Blizzard changed macro syntax slightly so you don’t need to keep typing the spell name. You can string together multiple conditions like:

/cast [button:2,target=player][target=target,help][target=targettarget,help] [target=none] Flash of Light

It does the same thing as your macro, but saves a little room.

Also, you can go:

/use 13
/use 14

instead of naming the trinkets directly. Makes it slightly easier when dealing with multiple trinkets.

Also, I personally bind Divine Favor to Holy Light as well as Divine Illumination. Seems to work pretty well.