Question about Shadowfury Macro

Classes Warlock
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Heya guys. I’m start to get the hang of using macros. A fellow warlock showed me recently about the shadowfury macro. I think it’s really valuable but I noticed that the green radius of effect circle on the ground is missing when you click the macro. Does anyone know if there’s a way to get that to show up?

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What Macro ?
Shadow Fury’s targeting circle isn’t purple?

Edit: I mixed up targeting circle and projected textures before I had coffee

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This macro

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Shadowfury

No, the circle is green, at least for me.

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You are casting at cursor. The glyph will not show up. That’s the whole purpose of the macro essentially. Skipping the step.

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You won’t have a targeting circle with that macro. The entire point of it is to bypass the need to click twice and simply cast at your cursor (@cursor).

If you want to you could throw in a modifier to cast it without that.

#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor, nomod] Shadowfury
/cast [mod:shift] Shadowfury

This would mean pressing the button normally casts at your cursor without a targeting circle, but pressing shift would make the circle appear and you’d have to click to cast it.

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I gave this a try. I’m not sure if I’m missing something but it feels like I’d just be defeating the purpose of the macro.

Edit, actually it’s pretty good, but it would mean having to replace one of my main hotkeys with this one.

Edit 2, nevermind, I made this way more complicated than it needs to be.

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I don’t use that macro for those ground effects (SF/RoF) because on uneven terrain and narrow spaces you can miss, timing moving targets - I’ve had it cast behind me; not seeing where it’s really going to land.

I however use it to drop a gate or with an infernal @target.

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This is a good point and sometimes the @cursor makes ground abilities do funky things. Nothing more frustrating for an ability to land above and behind you because wow decided the mouse was actually touching a rope you didn’t notice over your head.

For ground targeting abilities (like shadowfury) you have 3 options:

  • normal - with ground reticule
  • @cursor - targets ground locations touching mouse cursor
  • @player - targets ground location centered on player

Unfortunately, there is no @target option (target ground location on a friend/foe – nope).

Usually most people use a combo of @cursor with normal like this

#showtooltip
/cast [mod][@cursor] Shadowfury

If you hold down a mod key: alt, shift, or ctrl, whatever is not keybound (keybindings eat modifiers and don’t let them get to macros), then shadowfury is cast with the normal reticule giving you precision when you need it. Otherwise for a quick cast where precision isn’t required, just activate the macro without holding down a mod key.

Side note on @cursor: if you’re aiming at a specific baddie, aim your mouse at it’s feet. If you aim center mass or a head shot, the spell location will be way behind the baddie because that’s the ground spot the mouse is actually “touching”.

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Can you make sure it only cast when pointing at an enemy with [@cursor,harm] ?

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Sorry charlie, you have to aim. Wow has no functionality like that for any ground targeting ability.