For years I’ve used macros that say things like “/click ActionButton7” to activate another macro which I place on the 7th action button. Makes macros more efficient. Now all of a sudden they don’t seem to be working - anyone else have this problem?
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Yea, Blizzard randomly decided (without discussion or patch notes) that this 20-year-old game suddenly needed to be different.
So now no more click macros.
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RIP Click; but this change is likely to eliminate a certain exploit and character automation. Blizzard in the past (not so much now) use to very clear and vocal about automation and that its the antithesis to playing your character.
I personally have been impacted, but ill overcome and adapt, and the honest truth is I am surprised that they actually did this, but on the other hand I’m not surprised either because automation of the game raises barrier to new players and in turn lowers valuation of the game in respect to its Wallstreet value.
There are 4 other shady grey areas of macro use im certain will follow within a year or less, but hey ill keep this tight.
I think the best path forward is the full elimination of class abilities automation, be this by scripting, macromancy like I prefer or the use of actual hacks. It would be best overall if we all were required to truly target, and execute out abilities fully at all times with zero left to automated function.
I claim no moral high ground here, ill continue to play by the rules and use my macromancy skills to gain advantage and speed where I can to compete vs the actual hackers.
It may just be a bug. I remember a few months back, the numbers for equipped items changed a little. I played around with my macros for weapon swaps or trinket uses, and was able to get them to work, and then a week or two later, with another patch they were changed back.
Maybe some side-effect of some other changes… maybe not.
No notes or discussion makes it difficult to know, but I guess we’ll find out over time. Though, I’d be skeptical that they would intentionally make this sort of a change only for the Era client on purpose.
It seems more likely that Blizz isn’t even aware that this functionality was disabled. Some part of the SoD patch probably touched this function in Era and they won’t even realize it until they notice on bug report forums and do some internal testing.
How far should they take this though? /click was a legitimate function for real players’ gameplay.
If we follow your logical endpoint then, all in the name of ‘eliminating automation’, they’d go so far as to disable /target functionality also, requiring everyone to manually select targets by clicking them with their cursor…
Some automated functions are rational parts of the gameplay to remove tedium and redundancy.
If removing automation goes too far then the game starts just turning into a playable reCaptcha test: “Select all squares containing bicycles…”
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I agree, but also know likely what they were going after with this nerf, ill summarise it this way; it gave us the potential to build the macro system into a logic board by means of conditionals and expanding the macro size limit, and by abusing certain conditional that shouldn’t exist you could do some naughty things.
Blizzard seems to be thinking about this in the same way I am and this appears to be intentional due to this being a universal 11.0 framework update.
time to adapt, tho there is a solution via petitioning for the return of the 1.13 client, tho this makes no promises of dodging the API nerfs that I suspect will become more restrictive over time as creative macro use is detected and nerfed by blizzard, because this is exactly what the /click was accomplishing.
Additionally certain conditionals aren’t supposed to work yet do in certain situations, however I’m going cold turkey and quitting the macromancy because its basically over at this point.
Time to adapt and get good.