I’ve been cleaning up and simplifying my toolbars lately with some simple macros, but I can’t seem to get one working right.
When you drag the generic mage portal or teleport spell not to a specific location to your action bar, it expands out with icons for each place you can cast for.
I’m trying to get a macro going that’ll cast teleport if I’m solo but if I’m in a group cast portal. I can set it for individual destinations but I can’t seem to figure out how to have it pop out and let me choose where I want to go when I push it on the action bar. (I hope this makes sense.)
You can’t do that with a macro, you need to use an addon.
Ah ok thanks.
I suppose I could really just keep Portal on the action bar and leave Teleport off. Not like it uses materials to cast like in the old days.
You can try the following
#showtooltip
/cast [mod] Portal: Oribos; Teleport: Oribos
You will need to use one of the mod keys before clicking to get the portal. If you dont press the mod key, you will get the teleport.
Mod keys: Shift, alt, or ctrl.
Yeah I can get that to work with no problem if I include a destination to port to. I was trying to get that row of icons for each location you have trained to port to. (If you go to the spellbook and click portal or teleport it expands out and shows them. Same if you drag that to your action bar.) Someone said it can’t be done in a macro it requires an extension so for now I’m just skipping teleports and casting portal all the time instead.
You want to grab the group for portal and teleport to your action bar? Just click on and hold the icon in the spell book then drag to your tool bar.
Clicking on the group on the bar will open it up. You can then click on the portal or teleport you want.
Are you trying to make a macro to open portal or teleport list with one button? Not sure if you can.
Yeah I kinda had trouble explaining it. I’ve dragged the Portal group to one action bar button and the Teleport group to another. So when I push the button with the Portal group it shows all of those, and if I push the Teleport one it shows them.
What I was hoping to do was create a macro that when I click on it would show the Portal group if I was in a party or the Teleport group if I was solo.
Honestly it’s not really a big deal and it’s probably not worth fussing over. You don’t need reagents anymore for portals or teleportation so it’s just as easy to only have a button for the portals group if I want to keep things neat and tidy with less clutter on the toolbar.
The addon Select can do this, for any arbitrary spells, items, toys, mounts, etc.
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/select
You would do something like:
#showtooltip
/select [group]spell:Portal;spell:Teleport
You right click the button to pick one of the options, then left click it (or press the keybind) to cast.
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