How to Macro?Follow

/hotbutton name command_text

makes a hotkey with the name name, and the first line will have whatever you entered for command_text. For your example: /hotbutton Dismount /dismount will make the macro. If you want more than 1 line, after you place it in a hot bar, right-click on it to bring up the macro edit for that button.

You can also start one by going to the socials page (Ctrl+O) of the actions window, and right-clicking on a blank social button.

EDIT: Was using < instead of [ :-(

Yther Ore.

Edited, Dec 31st 2011 11:05am by Yther

Thank you from me as well, Yther. I've only ever made macros using a social key. Had no idea it could be done another way.

Follow up question: Is it possible to put a spell gem on a hot button even if it is not memorized on the spell gem bar? It didn't work in the past, but I recently was reading about a particular Pally spell that some use and others don't and a comment was made - "...at least stick it on a hot button..." which *seemed* to indicate the spell could be made into a hot key without taking up spell gem space.

Or I misunderstood the comment, which is entirely possible.

One other option is, as many buffers do this, is they have a buffs spell set and you can load them from a macro, then cast four of the spells in a single macro (assuming no fizzles). I'm getting called away, if you read this right away. I'll be back to edit an example, as I've forgotten what the macro command is to load a spell set. :)

EDIT: Example Quick Buff Hotkey Macro:

/pause 150,/memspellset Buff-Low 
/pause 35,/cast 1 
/pause 45,/cast 2 
/pause 35,/cast 3 
/cast 4

You may have to adjust the pause values. 15.0sec seems short to load a full set of spells, but it probably depends on which spells you are loading as well. The pauses before cast, you can get the time from casting time data on the spell info pages here or on Lucy, and add half a second (5) to it, just in case of lag or what not.

If you wanted to cast a full, or almost full set, depending on how many spell gems you have available, you could make another macro to cast 4 or 5 more buffs, after this one. :)

Yther Ore.

Edited, Jan 1st 2012 7:04pm by Yther

Wow! Thank you, Yther. I never got very "complicated" with macros. I have two buffing sets memorized and just load each and manually buff. Definitely have to try this!!

I make hotkeys for each one of my spellsets, and have them all together on one hotkey page. So I can quickly shift+4 to my hotkeys and then hit 4 for my buff set or 8 for my raid set, and so on. This method also takes advantage of the /memspellset command, but I don't usually do much in the way of needing to cast spells right away like buffers do (<<--ranger main).

Here's one thing I can add to this convo that should help some for loading spellsets that are similar, but you want to switch out only a few spells:

Only memorize the spells that are the different ones, and leave ALL of your other spell gems blank, THEN save your spellset. When you load your new spellset, it won't matter what is memmed in all of the other slots, as they won't be de-memmed by you memming the new set.

Example:

I use this spell lineup most in raids for dps

1)Announced Shots
2)Quick Heal
3)Heal
4)Swarm of Hornets
5)Focused Storm
6)Fire Nuke
7)Fire Nuke
8)Ice Nuke
9)Ice Nuke
10)Summer's
11)Dot1
12)Dot2

But on some raids I have to do roots and snares, so I switch to my snare set which leaves my spell slots 1-6 alone, and switches out slots 7-12 for the spells I need.

1)XXXX
2)XXXX
3)XXXX
4)XXXX
5)XXXX
6)XXXX
7)Ice Nuke
8)Summer's
9)Earthen Shackles
10)Vinelash cascade
11)Flusterbolt
12)Blusterbolt

I have a raidbuff set which demems my weakest dps spells (slots 10-12) and mems Predator, Gladetender and Burrs in their place, just in case some tank dies and wants atk and ac/ds. And because it's only the 3 spells, I can afford to quickly sit down to mem these, cast on the tank, then remem my dps spells without losing too much time.

1)XXXX
2)XXXX
3)XXXX
4)XXXX
5)XXXX
6)XXXX
7)XXXX
8)XXXX
9)XXXX
10)Cry of the Predator
11)Strength of the Gladetender
12)Shared Cloak of Burrs

It takes a little planning on your part to get your spells in the right order you want, but in the heat of a battle, you'll be glad you can switch quickly to another spellset without having to mem the WHOLE new spellset. Memming only half your spells takes a lot less time, lol.

I obviously know extremely little about using hot keys. To date I only use the first and sometimes second set but only for things like Bash/Taunt/different weapon bandoliers, etc. for Pally and spell buffs that come from equipment for Druid. This thread is providing amazing ideas for utilizing the hot key sets.

Thank you, GreenShag, for that tip. Will definitely check it out!!! And I really appreciate the examples - it provides a schematic of sorts to follow.

I recall seeing a list of commands somewhere that was pretty long, included emotes, etc. Anyone have a link to share by chance?