Macro to make Magus attack but not Ghoul

Classes Death Knight
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I’ve mainly been playing arena, and I’m needing help ensuring my Magus/Ghoul spawns actually attack when I have pet set on passive. . When I Apoc/Abomb to spawn magus, even if I hit my petattack macro afterwards, the magus doesn’t start attacking because there is a delay(~2 seconds) between when you cast Apoc and it’s(Magus) spawn. I’m looking for a line/macro that JUST makes my Magus of the Dead attack the target that I can spam and be sure it isn’t siting around doing nothing

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Actually there is zero delay in terms of them spawning element this was changed actually to remove it. So it’s important to note that while the game graphics are loading up the spawning visual the backend game script is actually acting as if they are all spawned and attacking the target from the moment you activate the ability. You just don’t see the ghouls chasing the Target but they will be seeing the hits from your ghouls in their combat logs immediately.

Now on the point you make about the Mage and the 2s delay. This is simply because the mages cast two spells in sequence over and over until the 20 sec timer expires. This means they will always cast a total of 10 spells for each mage based on the 20s spawn timer.

What you are seeing is the activation of the ability at time zero when you activate it and the immediate commencement of the mages casting a spell which has a 2s cast time for each of the spells the use:

Spell 1: FrostBolt (Cast Time - 2 Seconds)

Spell 2: Shadowbolt (Cast Time 2 Seconds)

Importantly Shadowbolts damage does increase through your mastery by the way for the mages.
So each mage will cast a total of 5 FrostBolts and 5 Shadowbolts in the 20 seconds then despawn…

What does all this mean you don’t need to worry about what you are trying to presumably fix as this is working as intended and the game looks after it all on the back end even though graphically it doesn’t look like it.

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This is incorrect. The cast time scales with haste so the total number will generally be larger. Furthermore, more shadowbolts are usually used. The Magus will cast frostbolt if they target isn’t affected by the the snare itself. You usually get double shadowbolt into frostbolt with usual haste levels.

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The real question is why would you want your pet on passive in arenas?

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Thanks for the correction I knew I missed something…didn’t factor haste for the cast time improvements of all pets… thanks Bicempspump appreciate the addition

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Cant respond to everyone, but the 2 main points

  1. I have tested on a dummy, cast apoc and then petattack macro immediately aftwrwards yet the magus doesnt start casting. I want to have a line like [Pet=Magus of the Dead] = /petattack that I can slap on a spammable ability like necrotic to ensure my magus is always attacking because I dont want to worry about it sitting aroun

  2. I set the ghoul to passive so I can keep him in position without switching targets. Like I can send him on the healer while Im hitting dps, whereas if he was on assist he would just switch back on the dps with me after I issue him to attack the healer