So my quest is, has anyone managed to make a shield wall macro that includes weapon changes?
Mine currently looks like this:
#showtooltip Shield Wall
/equip Wingblade
/equip Commander’s Crest
/cast defensive stance
/cast shield wall
but its not reading line by line and its trying to cast shieldwall from the get go w/o going through the weapon switches
Your problem with that macro is that equipping a weapon triggers a GCD. Shield wall is on the GCD. Stances are not on the GCD, but they have a shared 1.5 second “GCD” of their own between switching stances.
Can you use shield wall without a shield? I don’t think it requires one. I would say you should have a weapon swap macro separate from your shield wall macro. Trying to use two different on GcD abilities in a macro like you posted won’t really work.
you should use /castsequence {argument}
edit: nvm equip or equipset can’t be used with castsequence. You’ll need 2 macros
About the GCD yeah i know it requires a gcd but my weapon switch -> shieldbash mouseover macro still works even if i have to spam it twice, maybe it has to do with that 1 is a buff and the other is an attack?
What does your shield bash macro look like?
#showtooltip Shield Bash
/equip Commander’s Crest
/equip Wingblade
/cast [@mouseover,exists][@target,exists]Shield Bash(Rank 1)
Maybe it’s the stance being included that messes up the shield wall macro then? I don’t see why that would mess it up, assuming swapping to D-stance is actually instantaneous and is not affected by the forced “spell batching” (very short delay between when you perform an action and when the server recognizes you doing that action) that Blizzard put in to emulate a lot of classic mechanics
But then I don’t know why double tapping the button wouldn’t work
shouldnt be the defensive stance being included, a lot of my skills have a stance change included in them and non of them seem to affect them, but this is the only 1 not working and its the only buff
Not in classic. It requires a shield to activate. It does not require a shield to maintain though. You can shield wall and swap back to 2h and any stance you choose.
Try swapping the order you are equipping. Equip shield first, then weapon. Sometimes, strange things happen if you do it the other way and I don’t know why.
I’ve noticed that happening with one handed weapons where if you try to equip a 1 hander while you’re wearing a two hander, it’ll put the one hander in your off hand and unequip the two hander.
Isn’t there a macro command to equip an item into a certain equipment slot though?