Macroing Seed of Corruption (warlock)

[Peter T.]

Last night I made this macro for Seed of Corruption as I was tired of
using two buttons for such a simple task:

/targetenemy
/cast Seed of Corruption

It's pretty straight forward. It tabs to next enemy and casts a SoC.
Pretty dangerous macro as I can cast SoC on non-aggroed mobs.
Anyhoo! If the castbar of SoC is complete and I wait like additional
1-2 seconds before I click the macro again it wont tab to next mob, but
instead its reapplies SoC on the targeted mob.

Is this fixable? :)

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Peter T.

[John Gordon]

Maybe try /targetnearestenemy ?

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"Peter T." <pin...@hotmail.cum> wrote in message
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Very rusty on macros
published last week = may not work today, so ages is unlikely to apply

it doesn't work like tab, repeat, it is not a tab command
It just grabs the nearest or first whatever-it-measures

a second targeteneemy or cleartarget may do something

logical gaps usually exist to defeat automation,
i,e, targeteneemy is deliberately kept dumbed down
blizzard like you to press keys now and again and they don't want the
limited key automation selecting targets or adjusting to target state too
intelligently

a gaming keyboard and/or mouse with lots of buttons make it much simpler
to organise multi-key sequences as finger rolls and chords
or automate the two buttons into one with keyboard macros
but blizzard used to frown very much on that as well

[Peter T.]

Den 01-03-2013 17:09, John Gordon skrev:

> Maybe try /targetnearestenemy ?

No luck. Its stuck to the nearest enemy. ;)

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Peter T.

[Peter T.]

Den 01-03-2013 16:36, Lewis skrev:

> No, the only way to specify a target is to /use [@focus] Seed of
> Corruption, but that requires setting a focus target first.
>
> You can also do something like
>
> /use [@targettargettarget] Seed of Corruption
>
> Which will cast it on the target of your traget's target's target, or at
> least you could do this.
>
> You can also do something like:
>
> /console targetNearestDistance 10,000000
>
> Which might be entertaining, but not something I've ever actually used.
> And again, that may be something you USED to be able to do.

The macro is for applying SoC on every mob while I cycle/tab through the
trash in raids - especially the crowds just before the first bosses in
MSV and HoF. And as far as I can decode your suggestions they wont do
the job without odd results. :)

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Peter T.

[Peter T.]

Den 01-03-2013 18:34, | || ||| ||||| || | skrev:

> Very rusty on macros
> published last week = may not work today, so ages is unlikely to apply
>
> it doesn't work like tab, repeat, it is not a tab command
> It just grabs the nearest or first whatever-it-measures
>
> a second targeteneemy or cleartarget may do something

I just tried with a second /targetenemy. No luck. SoC is kinda odd as
it becomes applied a sec after the castbar has finished. So if I click
the macro too fast SoC wont be applied to the previous target. Weird
behaviour of this spell.
I have tried with /cast [channel] Seed of Corruption too. Another No
Luck...

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Peter T.

[IYM]

Bit rusty myself on macros....Only have a tendency to mess around with
modifying mine on expansion releases when Bliz messes with a class.

I think someone mentioned /targetnearestenemy, but for some reason I
think they disabled that a while back.

What about reversing the thinking, and try a mouseover type macro like:

/cast [target=mouseover,exists] Seed of Corruption; Seed of Corruption

You could spam the macro and it would cast SoC on anything your mousing
over. My lock is still 85 and I haven't played her in a while or
written or used a mouseover macro in a long time, so I'm not
guaranteeing nuttin'.... :)

[Peter T.]

Den 01-03-2013 19:51, IYM skrev:

> What about reversing the thinking, and try a mouseover type macro like:
>
> /cast [target=mouseover,exists] Seed of Corruption; Seed of Corruption
>
> You could spam the macro and it would cast SoC on anything your mousing
> over. My lock is still 85 and I haven't played her in a while or
> written or used a mouseover macro in a long time, so I'm not
> guaranteeing nuttin'.... :)

Good idea. But the chance to reapply the dot on a mob before it
detonates is big when you have 15-20 mobs in a very small area.
Probably it will result in a dps/overall damage loss. :)

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Peter T.

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"Peter T." <pin...@hotmail.cum> wrote in message

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/targetenemy
/cast [nochanneling:Seed of Corruption] Seed of Corruption
/cleartarget

?? ( I am just guessing here)
wow macros are very frustrating, they change and have deliberate holes in
function so memory becomes useless

[Peter T.]

Den 02-03-2013 00:32, | || ||| ||||| || | skrev:

> /targetenemy
> /cast [nochanneling:Seed of Corruption] Seed of Corruption
> /cleartarget
>
> ?? ( I am just guessing here)
> wow macros are very frustrating, they change and have deliberate holes in
> function so memory becomes useless

That looks promising! If it works I owe you a sixpack. :) Testing it
when I have access to the game in a few hours.

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Peter T.