Mostly solo player so all I want out of the ability Time Spiral is to give me an extra Hover when my normal charges are on cooldown. Has anyone figured out a good non-clunky way to do this, ideally so it’s condensed into one button.
Since hover is not on gcd, but still enforces a global lockout, you can just macro them together.
#showtooltip
/cast hover
/cast time spiralIf you have no hover charges left, hover’s global lockout won’t trigger, allowing it to cast time spiral. This only works because hover has its own forced lockout that is not on gcd. If it were actually on gcd, it wouldn’t be able to cast other abilities also on gcd without using a castsequence.
Thank you this is already quite a bit better than either of my previous approaches (castsequence creates other problems). I didn’t think I’d be able to combine them in that order.
In this macro it gives me two normal hovers, then appears on cooldown, but if i mash it again it casts time spiral and shows a lit up version. I have to hit it a fourth time to use the last hover. The ideal scenario would have two more features:
1.) Make the third hover immediately go from time spiral into hover without the double mash. I tried adding another /cast hover after the time spiral but it did not work out.
2.) While hover is on cooldown, have it show time spiral icon, indicating to me whether time spiral is available to make a 3rd hover or not.
Regardless those would be minor features and it generally works just find spamming it a little- if the ability is available it goes if not it doesn’t. Thanks!
I don’t know if its possible to do either of those in a single macro. It would require a second macro to solve those issues, though that’s sort of how I have my hover/spiral set up. My hover isn’t a macro though, it’s just hover by itself, and then I have a time spiral macro that will immediately use hover. Since the initial hover isn’t there, it will be able to hover immediately after time spiraling.
#showtooltip
/cast time spiral
/cast hoverWhy would you just want to automatically use time spiral simply because hover is on cd?
If you really want to just mail it in, it’s likely more advantageous to use time spiral with one charge of hover on cd, so it starts cooling down while you still have hover charges you can use.
everyone knows time spiral is just the third hover charge, rest of the group be damned
After 75 Rashok mythic pulls using it on literally every frontal and watching people not use their ability I agree with this conclusion.
Thanks for the lead, I actually have an addon (M6) that let’s you make a macro initiate another macro so that gives me something to play with.
I’m just mostly a solo player and I like to simplify things as much as possible. For random timewalking dungeons I do I think that it’s going to be hard to get much group value out of it so I’m pretty happy to just cash in this ability for a 3rd hover.
I mean, that’s fair, but this is rarely taken outside of raid as there are better options.
If you’re just doing casual stuff it really doesn’t matter, though.
Time spiral is my universal pick as devastation. Never leave the nest without it.
Interesting, I rarely use it outside of raid–but I do enjoy having it when I do.