What is the Ping System?
Building Azeroth: Intro to the Ping System
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Ping System: How to Use
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So What Works and What Doesn’t?
What Works:
[@Unit] or [@Unit, Conditional]
Example:
[@mouseover] or [@mouseover,harm]
What Doesn’t Work:
[Conditional]
Example:
[harm]
Why does it not work?
Most likely just a bug.
Ping, Unit, and Conditional Options
Ping Options:
Ping, Attack, Assist, Warning, and On My Way
Unit Options for Ping: Most Popular
[@mouseover], [@player], [@pet], [@target], [@focus], [@party1], [@arena1]
Conditional Options for Ping: Most Popular
[harm], [help], [exists], [nodead], [mod:shift/ctrl/alt]
- The counter “no” can be added to a conditional to do the opposite of intended use. For example, [nomod] will execute the macro if no modifier is held down.
Solitary Ping Macro Examples
Macro: Player
/ping [@player] Assist
- Pings the player with an assist ping.
Macro: Mouseover or Target (Harm/Help Conditionals)
/ping [@mouseover,harm] Attack; [@mouseover,help] [@target,help] Warning [@target,harm] Attack
- Pings the mouseover, if none, then the target with attack ping if considered harmful or a warning ping if considered helpful.
- If preferred, this mouseover/target macro can be broken down to just a mouseover only or a target only macro.
Macro: Mouseover Only (Harm/Exists Conditionals) and Location
- Pings the mouseover with a warning ping if considered harmful, an assist ping if considered helpful, or a standard ping if considered neutral. If no unit is found with mouseover, then pings the ground location of the mouse cursor with a standard ping.
Nonsolitary Ping Macro Examples
Macro: Player - Teleport
#showtooltip Transcendence: Transfer
/use Transcendence: Transfer
/ping [@player] Ping
- Pings the player with a standard ping upon using a teleport spell or item.
- Examples: Transcendence: Transfer (Monk), Demonic Circle: Teleport (Warlock), Gateway Control Shard (Item)
Macro: Player - Drink/Food
/use Conjured Mana Bun
/use Delicious Dragon Spittle
/ping [@player] Warning
- Pings the player with a warning ping upon using a drink/food item.
- Consumes Conjured Mana Bun (Mage), if none, then Delicious Dragon Spittle.
Macro: Target - DPS
#showtooltip Sharpen Blade
/use [@target] Sharpen Blade
/ping [@target] Attack
- Pings the target with an attack ping upon using a harmful spell.
- Examples: Sharpen Blade (Warrior), Deathmark (Rogue), Psyfiend (Priest)
Macro: Focus - CC
#showtooltip Blind
/use [@focus] Blind
/ping [@focus] Warning
- Pings the focus with a warning ping upon using a crowd control spell.
- Examples: Blind (Rogue), Polymorph (Mage), Repentance (Paladin)
Macro: Party - Aid/Augment
#showtooltip Intervene
/cast [@party1] Intervene
/ping [@party1] Assist
- Pings party member 1 with an assist ping upon using a helpful spell. Can change the ping from assist to attack if your wanting your party member to attack.
- Examples of Assist: Intervene (Warrior), Blessing of Sanctuary (Paladin)
- Examples of Attack: Power Infusion (Priest), Bloodlust/Heroism with Shamanism PvP Talent (Shaman)
Macro: Shaman Totem (Method 1) - Ping Location
#showtooltip Earthen Wall Totem
/use [@cursor] Earthen Wall Totem
/ping
- Pings the ground location of the mouse cursor with a standard ping upon deploying a totem. Pings on first usage of the macro, but not effectively replicable.
- Works effectively only with [@cursor] macros.
- Examples: Earthen Wall Totem (Shaman), Demonic Gateway (Warlock)
Macro: Shaman Totem (Method 2) - Ping Totem
#showtooltip Earthen Wall Totem
/use Earthen Wall Totem
/cleartarget
/target Earthen Wall Totem
/ping [@target] Ping
/targetlasttarget
- Pings the selected totem with a standard ping after the totem has already been deployed. Pings only on each additional usage of the macro, but is effectively replicable.
- Works effectively with or without [@cursor] macros.
- Examples: Earthen Wall Totem (Shaman), Summon Demonic Tyrant (Warlock)
Wish List
- Ping Sound: louder and as it’s own sound channel, instead of belonging to sound effects. Some players prefer to have sound effects off, which unfortunately disables Ping sounds.
- Ping Radial Menu: size to be adjustable as an Edit Mode feature and able to bound to a modifier (alt, shift, ctrl) or mouse click.
- Targeted Ping: implement a cooldown, like pause target pinging on a specific/unique player for 5 seconds after initiating a target ping, to disallow targeted spamming. Location ping spam seems fine.
- Ping Macros: able to ping friendly totems and nonprimary friendly pets directly.
Example: /ping [target=Earthen Wall Totem] Warning - Ping Macros: the conditional @cursor to work for ping so we can drop a ping at a location along with an aoe spell that has no target.