My old Tricks of the Trade macro no longer working

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Hey all. I’ve been using this particular macro for years by setting the tank in my group/raid as Focus. It would cast Tricks of the Trade on the tank and then switch me to their target.

#showtooltip
/cast [@focus] [@targettarget] Tricks of the Trade
/assist focus

It seems to have stopped working with patch 8.2 and no longer functions. Anyone have any ideas why, or what I can do to make it work again?

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#showtooltip
/cast [@focus,help,nodead] [help,nodead] [@targettarget,help,nodead] [] Tricks of the Trade
/stopspelltarget
/assist [@focus,help,nodead]
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Doesn’t seem to work either. Target’s the tank’s target fine, but TotT doesn’t cast.

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Mine on my rogue is working fine. Try deleting it entirely then recreating it with your original code, could just be one of those wtf moments.

PS - your original macro will never make it to the [@targettarget] condition because there’s no existence check on your [@focus] condition.

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So, it seems like there’s some kind of problem with my TotT itself. As even trying to use it without a macro gives me an “invalid target” message.

Not sure what the problem there is.

Edit: After looking into it, it’s probably the Blue Punchcard I have in my trinket, which gives me the Neural Silencer effect. Which apparently has a bug that prevents TotT from working.

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That’s not a bug. The same thing happens when you use a regular Neural Silencer. It’s so you can’t use those types of effects on others while being immune yourself.

Glad you figured it out :slight_smile:

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