Macro comment?

Guides UI and Macro
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As a druid who plays all four specs, is it possible to insert some custom remark like “Resto catweaving macros”, “Resto soothe/nature’s cure” or “Feral soothe/remove curse”?

Maybe something like “// comment” or “<!-- comment -->” or “/* comment */”?

I have like 20+ macros and the macro UI is getting quite messy.

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Why would you want to waste some of your precious 255 characters with comments? Just name the macro accordingly if you really need an indicator.

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I’m only using some really basic ones, something like:

For Resto and Balance:

#showtooltip [mod:shift] Typhoon; [exists,harm,nodead] Soothe; Nature’s Cure
/cast [mod:shift] Typhoon; [exists,harm,nodead] Soothe; Nature’s Cure

#showtooltip [mod:shift] Dash; [mod:alt] Darkflight; Prowl

For catweaving:

#showtooltip [mod:shift] Regrowth; Rake
/cast [mod:shift] Regrowth; Rake

same for Rejuvenation/Shred, Lifebloom/Rip, Swiftmend/Ferocious Bite, Wild Growth/Swipe.

For Balance, Feral and Guardian:

#showtooltip [mod:shift] Typhoon; [exists,harm,nodead] Soothe; Remove Corruption
/cast [mod:shift] Typhoon; [exists,harm,nodead] Soothe; Remove Corruption

For Feral and Guardian:

#showtooltip [mod:shift] Stampeding Roar; [mod:alt] Darkflight; Tiger Dash
/cast [mod:shift] Stampeding Roar; [mod:alt] Darkflight; Tiger Dash

#showtooltip [mod:shift] Regrowth; [combat,exists,harm,nodead] Skull Bash; Prowl
/cast [mod:shift] Regrowth; [combat,exists,harm,nodead] Skull Bash; Prowl

For farming old content using Balance:

#showtooltip Sunfire
/cleartarget
/targetenemy
/cast Sunfire

I have plenty of space for a short comment.

All my macros name are " " because I don’t like macro names polluting my action bar lol.

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You can use bar mods to hide the macro text from the bar.

Quick note about all the macros you posted, you don’t need to specify the spells in the #showtooltip it’ll automatically pull them from the cast conditions.

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5

Oh. That solves my issue then.

You mean I should remove everything behind #showtooltip?

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What Elvenbane means is that unless you have a very specific need, you can have just #showtooltip on a line and any cast condition will be used for the ‘name’ of the macro when you mouse over it.

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7

Correct.

10char

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To the original question,

// comment
-- this too

Even # by itself can be used as a comment

# comment

Tho it will also make the icon reflect the first spell the macro would cast (and without a tooltip that #showtooltip would.)

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