Hex Macro

Classes Shaman
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Hey guys

I use a hex macro and I can't find a way to put different versions of hex into it.

I have hex cockroach, compy and now wicker mongrel

but when I put /cast hex in a macro it only ever works as frog.

any suggestions?
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You should have a Hex spell and a Hex pull down option in your spell book if I recall correctly. The Hex spell will always be a frog. The pull down however will open a "menu" of all your available options, you can either pull one of them down to your toolbar or you should be able to shift+click it while your macro window is open in order to get the correct spelling to use that variant. Hovering over the icon should also work.
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The variants do not have their own unique spelling unless there is a hidden one
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Have you tried shift clicking the Hex variants in the spell book?
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11/02/2018 09:01 AMPosted by Alyuzandro
Have you tried shift clicking the Hex variants in the spell book?


really weird, I clicked them last night and it didn't fix them, but this morning it has changed it

this is my hex macro

/focus [noexists] none; [@focus, noexists][@focus, dead] target
/cast [mod:shift, @focus][] Hex
/cast [mod:cntrl, @focus][]


so this morning its using the kul tiran hex
(there is no difference in the text from clicking the variants from spellbook)
so I don't get how it changed
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it's stuck on the kul tiran hex now and I can't change it...

so confused
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I have been wondering this myself. Mages have the variant in parentheses. Simple. Why can’t this be done for shamans?
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and now it has reverted to the frog, for some reason
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If you use Bartender, you could set up an extra bar (hidden of visible) that contains all the variants, and have your macro use the /click command to activate the buttons.
Example: /click BT4Button33 would activate the top right button in my 3-line button bar setup.
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Making_a_macro#Simulating_button_clicks

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thanks, I don’t currently use bartender

at this stage, my question hasn’t been resolved, and my macro now alternates Hexes between Frog and Wicker Pup
it’s very confusing :stuck_out_tongue:

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Mages are able to use different variants because the name of the Poly is changed with (X) added to it. Why they have not done this for shamans I have no idea.

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There was this post on the old EU forums by a dwarf named Barryz, didn’t try it myself, but hope it helps:

Hey ladies,

I just got myself a Tome of Hex: Skeletal Hatchling and wanted to put it into my macros and found, probably like many of you, that you can’t macro hex variants.
Sadly I couldn’t find a fix for this on any forums.
Having over 9000 iq points I figured out a decent fix for it.

All you have to do is drag the spell from your spellbook, under Hex Variants, onto your bars. Find the name of the button and make a macro like this:
#showtooltip hex
/target focus (or arena1/2/3 or mouseover)
/click MultiBarBottomRightButton2
/targetlasttarget

The name of the button can be found with this macro by pressing it while having your cursor on your Hex: Skeletal Hatchling button:
/run print(GetMouseFocus():GetName())

I hope this helps you ladies with turning people into a variety of wild animals.

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GENIUS!
/chars

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Incase people are still trying to figure this out but haven’t, you put the hex variant in (parathesis). ie:
/cast [@mouseover, exists][] Hex(Skeletal Hatchling)

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