Hello all,
I’ve been leveling an Enhancement shaman and after some work I squeezed in all of the abilities into my keybind. The problem is there are a lot and it can be cumbersome with all the cooldowns and procs going off. Any advise on some abilities that can be combined in a macro? Anything that saves me bar space would be a life saver.
While we’re at it, elemental is even worse once you start messing with keybinds. Any tips here on useful macros?
Sometimes you can use shift modifier macros to help cut down on keybinds. For instance, stormstrike on a button, hold shift, and its crash lightning, or flame shock and hold shift for frost shock, that helps.
I use a razr naga with the 1 thru 12 keypad on the side and it makes keybinding alot easier. My first actionbar is 1 - 12. The extra action bar above that is shift 1-12. And the little 6 button action bar to the right, and the 6 buttons over that are control 1-12.
I use a lot of mod/nomod macros. For example, I have the X key bound to a macro that looks like this:
#showtooltip
/use [nomod] Stormstrike
/use [mod] Sundering
That will Stormstrike, unless I have the alt, ctrl, or shift key pressed, in which case it will Sundering. I used to mess around with abilities bound to each mod key separately, but I found that I struggled too much to remember which key combinations I needed to press, so the mod/nomod is a compromise.
Getting an addon like Clique can help. Makes it easy to setup “hurt/heal” macros, essentially. Like, pressing 5 for me will either Flame Shock of Healing Surge depending on my mouseover.
#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=60 ascendance, feral spirit
/use [trinket]
#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=18 flame shock, frost shock, frost shock
Guess that’s all I use for enhancement…just made the shock one a minute ago, actually, so the reset might not work as intended lol.
Edit: I put it to 18 instead of 15 for the shock resets, and it seemed to work better (and it makes more sense.) It does seem to reset the reset when you use the second frost shock, or maybe it’s only resetting to the previous frost shock?
Someone with more knowledge may be of more assistance here; I’m a macro noob who tries things out from time to time…
castsequence macros reset when it cycles through all the options, reset=x means it resets after x seconds from the last button press, you can also reset=combat or reset=target
Hmm… wouldn’t that throw off your multi target rotation?
If you’re using AoE frostshock or fire nova, yeah probably. I don’t, so it works fine for me.
Personally, I use this:
/castsequence reset=12/target/combat Flame Shock, Frost Shock, Frost Shock, Frost Shock
Using this macro, every new combat or target you start with Flame Shock. Works great for me.
That said, if you are running group content, particularly raids or mythics, almost any /castsequence macro you use is going to reduce your effectiveness at times. What if you want to cast Flame Shock on a few targets but then come back to your main target and use Frost Shock? This will start again with Flame Shock. There will also be times where Flame Shock drops off the target and you want to reapply, but Frost Shock is the next spell up. I do nothing but solo questing with my shammy, so I don’t really care. It might make a difference depending on what content you run.
I have a mouse with 10 buttons so each one is typically used, and then I combine shift for all of my totems, trinks or PVP trinks. I also utilize my closer Q, E, R, and other keys for quick skills.
Cast sequence for single target fights is easier, if you want to hit multiple targets just manually hit em.
I use shift modifier and I would refrain from using macros unless they are very basic ones like pacing a totem at your feet or casting harden skin when prim earth ele comes out.
I mainly say not to use macros because almost all 3 specs of shaman are very situational and a macro could have a ability go off when not wanted.