Macro to cast different spells based on condition?

Guides UI and Macro
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if touch of the magi is up, cast it, otherwise, cast arcane blast?

thanks

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There is no way to automate the selection of spells in a macro. The best you can do is cast sequence and that gets messy with long CD spells. You could track the status of Touch of the Magi with a WA and use a visual and sound queue to know when to cast it.

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Touch of the Magi is off the GCD which means it can be cast at the same time as another spell in a macro.
You could do this:

#showtooltip
/cast [known:touch of the magi]touch of the magi
/cast arcane blast

If touch of the magi is off cd, both spells are cast. If touch of the magic is on cooldown, it will just cast arcane blast.

NOTE: “known” is a way of checking if you have selected a talent. “known:touch of the magi” can be replaced with “known:321507” because 321507 is the ID for the touch of the magi ability. You can find the id # by looking up the talent on wowhead.com, https://www.wowhead.com/spell=321507/touch-of-the-magi

In general, @newman, is correct in his description. Most spells are “on” the global cooldown for the precise reason to prevent casting 2+ spells at the same time. There is also no condition/option for testing “spell xyz is on cooldown” and if we were dealing with any regular ability, you would need a macro statement like this:
/cast [mod]SpellWithCooldown; SpammableSpell

You track the CD of SpellWithCooldown on your own and make the decision to hold down a modifier key (shift, ctrl, alt) while activating the macro to trigger “SpellWithCooldown”

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this works, thanks a lot for saving me an extra button ~
only issue is breaks the hold to cast, but i will just switch to clicking that’s ok