I had several macros that I used for communication while tanking, they used /y because you split group chat channels into party, raid and now instance with RDF, so instead of having 3 macros for the same thing, I used a chat channel that worked for every kind of instance.
After the patch today they no longer work, I cannot use a macro with /yell anymore, this is unacceptable, if there were abusers for this kind of stuff you deal with it by punishing the abusers, not everyone else.
Im sorry, but Im new to macros and I dont understand how that macro works. or rather, works around. Cand anyone elaborate on this? I understand the part in quotes is what I want to have yelled as the dialogue of said macro, but the rest I dont get. I dont think Ive ever seen a /run let alone a /run SendChatMessage. and why the comma separating the message and the word YELL in all caps and in its own set of quotes?, also the “;” at the very end?
My most advanced macro Ive been able to make so far was “/emote throws a Pokéball at %n!” when I would happen upon someone I knew or someone with a fun name or the rare pokemon themed name and I would target them and hit the macro and it would fill in their name where the %n was.
So yeah, I dont understand macros well at all nor their alphabet or lexicon or much else really lol. apologies in advance but trying to google learn them is a daunting and unintuitive task. As evidenced above in my own macro, thats after 2+ years of trying to learn them lol.
But yeah, any elaboration as to what all is going on in that macro and if possible, each step of the macro it is taking to get it there, would be awesome. thanks in advance!
This is a raw API call instead of a macro, you can type that in your game and it will call that game method to send a chat message. It’s more of the programming side, but you can learn googling: “API SendChatMessage” and wowpedia or wowwiki articles gonna describe each field.
I might be wrong, but I believe /w or /y should be calling that method and the link between those two is broken