So recently after my WoW updated to the new patch i have been having an issue where every time i press one of my shapeshifts it cancels immediately after second button press, so you can see how this is an issue when in combat spamming a key to shapeshift into the next form. I had another druid shapeshift to see if theirs was like mine but theirs had a second delay like it should be. https://imgur.com/gallery/O4q3IXH
If you drag and drop a shapeshift from your spell book onto your bars, the default behavior is to cancel the shapeshift on the second press. Therefore, we typically macro all shapeshifting.
Root Shift Macro
If in bear you will go cat, if cat you will go bear. If not shifted go cat.
#showtooltip
/cast [nostealth,form:2] Bear Form(Shapeshift); [nostealth,noform:2] Cat Form(Shapeshift)
Old way using !
You can also check for macros you might already be using that depend on adding a bang ! before the spell. This is deprecated but sometimes still kept for posterity in macros. do not depend on this. Instead use a technique like the one shown earlier.
do not use this one
#showtooltip
/cast !Cat Form(Shapeshift)
Unrelated, but you should also have these for quality of life.
#showtooltip
/cancelform
#showtooltip
/stopcasting
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Yea, it’s absolutely nuts how many macros you need as a druid. I literally have a macro for every attack, heal, and defense ability as a druid. I also combined my attacks and heals into one or two keybinds. But the problem is if I combine those two, I can’t put a /startattack into the macro or it screws everything up. So there are some tradeoffs.
Anyway, if you can master all the macros needed for druids, every other class in the game becomes a breeze to play. Going from a feral druid to assassin rogue is like night and day. Amazing how much easier the rogue is. I literally have about 16 to 18 keybinds as a rogue compared to about 30 with the feral druid (not counting focus keybinds).
Only reason I’m still sticking with the feral druid is I can switch him to restoration when I want to play something different without much of a hassle relearning an entirely new class. But the assassination rogue is so much more effective in pvp.
They really need to double our macro slots at a minimum. If you did not start as a druid filling up your entire main macro area with druid stuff, coming in as an alt you will never have enough macro slots using just the character specific tab.
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hey guys thank you for trying to help but i think there seems to be some confusion i will be reposting this with a new imgur so people understand better, my shapeshifting forms seem to be off global. I will be reposting under the Bugs topic.
It’s the secureAbilityToggle feature. You can turn it on (1) using a command like this:
/console secureAbilityToggle 1
Someone else had the opposite problem and wanted to turn it off (0):
that helped! thank you so much, sorry for the late reply but that fixed it. 