This really.
when retial redid the UI for SL to DF…it had lots of issues. it took make it your way…and monkey pawed it.
It had the fun game of if you login will you be redoing the whole UI. As it wiped and forgot everything. Even the backups of the file were a pita to do. I don’t know if better now.
Why I stayed elvui. elvui users saw none of that lol.
DBM timers = palying the game for you ?
Turn off your UI then if you are such a purest lmfao
ppl cant play this game w/o dbm
Yeah, just disable anything. Blizz is making this into Retail lite with all their “mistakes” anyway.
ppl cant play this game with dbm.
I won’t lie…I had dbm for a boss in retail lfr.
I don’t study raid before I go there. I study for my irl stuff like keeping certs valid. So I sure as hell don’t study streams hours for lfr lol.
DBM said to go behind a shield or something.
Okay…where the hell is this thing? And I died since that took too long to work out. Run 2 or 2 yeah I learned where to go.
For some like me dbm helps when lagging a bit. It can say something is coming when the game hasn’t gotten to show it yet. I can’t control that for some reason my ping fine for 25 days…wants to go up day 26.
They absolutely pay to have people develop addons for them and they do not release those to laypeople. You are living under a rock if you haven’t seen or heard of this.
Also, paid addons and the like are a thing. Zygor is one of the first that comes to mind.
So you can’t give any examples of “macros and addons and scripts in PvP that can one-shot people?”
Most if not all guilds who do the RtWF are all part of organizations, if they have someone on their payroll that develops Weakauras/addons for their team then what’s the issue? It’s their job to make them.
Never said it wasn’t a thing, I know that people pay for weakauras and addons but no one and I mean no one, would pay for a macro/script.
This is a script that I use to put profession CD’s on an action bar, you just put the spell ID in the brackets, drag the macro script to your actionbar, click it and then you have whatever spell ID you had in it. Works for anything, Dreamcloth, Truegold anything.
/run PickupSpell (spell ID)
This is a script that switches between fullscreen and windowed.
/run SetCVar("gxMaximize",1-GetCVar("gxMaximize"))
/console gxrestart
This one tells you how much Valour Points you can obtain.
/run valor = C_CurrencyInfo.GetCurrencyInfo(396); print("Valor Points Remaining: "..(valor.maxQuantity - valor.totalEarned))
Lua Errors off/on
/console scriptErrors 1
deathglow off/on
/console set ffxDeath 0
These are all scripts and absolutly no one would be buying these.
Maybe an addon is just a script that is longer than the macro character limit >.<
Addons use actual Lua coding, I don’t think you can make a macro with Lua code. Lua commands like the ones I’ve shown sure, but I don’t think you can do with anything else.
You absolutely can /castsequence with GCD spells. E.g. here’s an absurd example:
#showtooltip
/castsequence Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Ice Lance, Frostbolt
It will cast each spell in sequence until Frostbolt, then return to Arcane Blast to repeat the sequence. All you have to worry about is the timing of when to press the action button.
A more practical example would be for the preservation phase in Arcane spec.
/castsequence Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Arcane Blast, Arcane Barrage
The problem here is that if Arcane Missiles has proc’d, then you should end the cycle with that. But doing so interferes with the cycle of the macro. Which means the macro actually hinders dps performance contrary to the OPs claim.
Also I’ve noticed the macro seems to interfere with batching a little.
Without it, you can always use the next ability in sequence slightly before the cast/gcd finishes, and it will cast immediately after the cast/gcd finishes.
The macro tends to be less forgiving in this regard, meaning you’re more likely to accumulate wasted milliseconds between casts. Reducing overall dps.
Do people actually think other players are doing their rotations with these macros lmfao?
Macros have much more restricted functionality than AddOns, but they can call addon code using /run or /script macro.
However, when you’re in combat, the game goes into “secure mode” and you no longer have access to most of what addons can do.
Of course the 255 char limit in macros also makes it tricky to do much in a simple macro.
Apparently. 
Though I’m more inclined to suspect the player isn’t as good as he’d like to think, and is looking for something to blame for his underperformance.
Yes you’re right, you can make cast sequence that uses more than 1 GCD I don’t know why I thought that you couldn’t, I guess I thought that it was so ineffcient that I purged it from my brain. I can’t remember what Blizzard did to hamper the one button Hunter macro in TBC but you’re right though I will say this.
Using cast sequence for abilities that don’t have a CD is fine but as soon as you use an ability with a cooldown it introduces problems.
/castsequence reset=180 sinister strike, sinister strike, sinister strike, sprint, sinister strike, Evasion, sinister strike
Doesn’t work as one would think, you’d think that it’d go through the sequence and then after 3 minutes go back to the start but you don’t see this. Instead you go through the sequence, and after the last Sinister Strike you get put back to the start regardless of the reset time (maybe that’s what blizzard changed).
It’s be fine if it were SS, SS, SS, Revealing Strike but by adding a CD to the mix it effectivaly puts it on cooldown for however long the ability in question is.
This makes castsequence macros largely pretty useless now.
it’s a game from 2011 bro , no one cares
Secure mode sounds interesting :o i’ll have to look into it one day. The only addon ive made so far is something to sell things to a shop that need to be equiped first to remove the refund cooldown. I also should probably look into what is actually allowed to do tbh. It just uses all the provided api stuff so seems pretty safe but i have no idea really. Id like to offer it for others to use one day :>
You can make anything so long as it doesn’t play the game for you, addons like that have been removed (or rather Blizzard changes the API) every now and then causing either the addon to become defunct or simply adapt to it and move on.
Take the early iteration of Decursive for example, it allowed you to spam press a button and it decursed everyone. Simillarly, Healbot was just like the early versions of Decursive, it picked a low/lowest target and healed them with a single press of a button. Blizzard saw this and changed the API (I think this was likely during TBC) and those addons adapted to what they are today.
You have a lot of freedom with addons, the restrictions are quite lax so I’m sure that you’re fine with making whatever you want.
just no but hey, you play the game the way you like. Just dont overreach your competence and try to decide for others how to play.
Have a nice day