Unable to use Holy Word: Serenity in macro form.
Cannot even write something as basic as:
/cast Holy Word: Serenity
This is especially impactful for those who prefer their chakra abilities on one button, as currently every spell is under Holy Word: Chastise (creates an artificial gcd whenever using help/harm macros)
Both the macro and text chat /cast work just fine casting this ability.
Hi Battlecruisr,
I shouldn’t have to prove with video evidence that this is bugged, but if it works just fine please explain this.
/cast holy word: serenity
works fine for my holy priest
So it’s just both of my characters specifically that are bugged? Nice
Trance, if you wouldn’t mind posting a video I would appreciate it
thats mop classic. so you should move your thread to WoW Classic Bug Report
Gotcha,
Thank you I was about to actually crash out, I thought I was being gaslit. Lol
I don’t have any priests on mop classic so I can’t really troubleshoot workarounds. Could try asking in UI and Macro as well.
The problem is that there aren’t really any workarounds. I troubleshooted for hours and I have pretty extensive knowledge in writing macros. There is just currently no existing functionality for using Holy Word: Serenity in a macro format, which is pretty clearly an overlook/bug.
In retail, casting the base version of a spell will work to cast an override, though generally that’s more useful for overrides that are more permanent. So you should be able to cast serenity by casting chastise, but that won’t really help you with help/harm conditionals.
Right. And for context, here’s my one-button macro in retail:
Very basic help/harm macro. This is only altered in classic because of the chakra auras (if you’re in serenity chakra it changes chastise to serenity and vise versa)
There are spell ID’s associated with Holy Word: Serenity and Holy Word: Chastise according to several addon libraries (see below):
It seems like the Serenity spell was overlooked whenever they were updating libs, that’s the only thing I can think. There’s no reason for a known spell (existing in the player’s spellbook) being unusable in a /cast line
Came to the forums looking for this topic specifically. Can’t do a HW:S mouseover macro on my priest, either.
Share the post with your friends so we can get this fixed!
Idk if this helps but you have to write the Macro with Chastise because this is the baseline spell that changes around the 3 chakras, not Sanctuary or Serenity. Had to make 3 different macros for all 3 spells (Chastise dps, mouseover serenity and cursor sanctuary).
Here are my 3 macros
#showtooltip Holy Word: Chastise
/cast Chakra: Chastise
/cast Holy Word: Chastise
#showtooltip Holy Word: Chastise
/cast Chakra: Sanctuary
/use [@cursor] Holy Word: Chastise
#showtooltip Holy Word: Chastise
/cast Chakra: Serenity
/cast [target=mouseover,help,nodead][help][target=player] Holy Word: Chastise
For me this is the best solution and very close to the retail version
#showtooltip
/cast [target=mouseover,help,exists] [help] [@cursor] Holy Word: Chastise
this works as a single button for my holy priest goes to cursor for the ground heal and goes to mouseover for my single target heal.
Works as a single button
Right, I have a workaround macro as well but let’s not shrug this off as a “well, it works” situation.
We still need to highlight this as broken for the devs to fix.
FYI everyone should know that if you change chakra’s in battlegrounds, you are put on a 30-second CD for another related bug that has not been even acknowledged (with video proof) of existing.