I am trying to create a macro that will allow me to use one button to be more efficient when casting spells. Once I finish casting all the spells, I have a 9 second cooldown before I can cast Exorcism again. Is there anyway after casting Shield of Righteousness, that I can start casting my spells again without having a 9 second cooldown.
/castsequence Exorcism, Holy Shield, Consecration, Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of Righteousness
Thank you for your help.
I am unable to test this out at the moment, but I imagine your issue is that you have Exorcism (15 second CD) in your cast sequence. Perhaps something like the following would work:
/cast Exorcism
/castsequence Holy Shield, Consecration, Hammer of the Righteous, Shield of Righteousness
You’re not gonna fit exorcism into that cause it’ll get you killed to try to cast a 1.5 second cast while you’re in someones face and a castsequence will always attempt to cast it.
What you’re trying to accomplish isn’t practical or useful.
Literally all you need:
/castsequence reset=6 Judgement of Wisdom,Shield of Righteousness,Holy Shield,Hammer of the Righteous,Consecration,Shield of Righteousness,Judgement of Wisdom,Hammer of the Righteous,Holy Shield,Shield of Righteousness,Consecration,Hammer of the Righteous
If you’re still looking for an Exorcism macro…
Prot/Ret:
#showtooltip
/cast [spec:1,exists,nodead,target=mouseover][spec:1] Repentance; [spec:2,exists,nodead,target=mouseover][spec:2] Exorcism
The reason for that combo is because this is the other Prot/Ret:
#showtooltip
/cast [spec:1,exists,nodead,target=mouseover][spec:1] Exorcism; [spec:2,exists,nodead,target=mouseover][spec:2] Avenger’s Shield
Or you can just keep Exo as a mouseover/target ability with:
/cast [exists,nodead,target=mouseover][spec:1] Exorcism
You really shouldn’t be casting anything as a Tanking paladin. One interrupt and you’re threat is going to tank (pun intended). Because most of our abilities are actually classed as ‘spells’ (get Silenced and see which abilities you can’t use).
Exo is good for opening up on a pack, where Avenger’s Shield might not hit all of them. But afterwards, avoid it.
Not to mention how you can’t dodge, parry or block while casting.
It’s an utter death sentence.
Thank you kindly for all your help with this. It is appreciated.
Use a 6 sec cooldown, then an 8 second, then 6, repeat.
Yo Gloomwytch,
I will ofc always advocate against using a macro since it lacks control, but I’ll give you recommendations for your situation.
I would recommend removing Exorcism from the macro and just using Exorcism + Hand of Reckoning in the opener as a separate thing (you can land both at the same time if you spam HoR during Exorcism [this is just for on pull])
Your rotation is either slamming both high threat abilities on pull Shield of Righteousness and Hammer of the Righteous - or the traditional 969 (it is called this because gcd’s are typically 1.5 seconds so you use certain abilities that are ‘9 second’ cooldowns, and 6 second cooldowns).
The reason I put quotes around 9 seconds is some of them are 8 seconds.
Your two 6 second abilities are Shield of Righteousness and Hammer of the Righteous.
Your ‘9’ second abilities are Judgement, Consecration, Holy Shield, and every now and then you can replace an ability with Avenger’s Shield.
So basically you do: Shield → filler → Hammer → filler → Shield → filler → Hammer → filler.
So every other ability is Shield or Hammer.
So the rotation is as such:
Shield of Righteousness (6) → Judgement (9) → Hammer of the Righteous (6) → Consecration (9) → Shield of Righteousness (6) → Holy Shield (9) → Hammer of the Righteous (6) → Judgement (9) → Shield of Righteousness (6) → etc.
So you can see because of the mismatch where judgement happens after SoR in the beginning, then it ends up before SoR so making a macro for this for Protection paladin will usually be kind of clunky.
I think you can probably make 2 macros → one is castsequence Shield/Hammer other is castsequence judgement/consecration/holy shield.
And press them back and forth?
Ofc you’ll want to pre-holy shield on the pull etc.
Hopefully you made it to the end lmfao sorry for the lesson hope this helps.
If you ever want any prot pally help I’m always happy to talk shop.
You don’t want Exorcism in your regular rotation.
Did you notice that whenever you cast a non-instant spell, your character’s shield moves onto their back?
This is not just a visual effect. While casting a non-instant spell, your shield is useless and you can’t block anything.
You are right, however it’s not limited to just block, you also cannot dodge or parry while casting.
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