Showtooltip and Passive Spells

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I’m anal about the UI and it bugs me when I have a macro for skills that are choice nodes with a Passive spell that display a ? on the icon when they’re part of a macro.

In this case It’s Chi Burst and Chi Wave for my Brew. I know how to make conditional macros and how to use showtooltip to force a specific icon but I can’t get this to work.

Is it even possible for Passive Skills like this?

Here’s the macro I’ve been playing with. I’ve even tried using the code for the Chi Wave Icon to no avail…

[code]
#showtooltip [nomod,known: 123986] Chi Burst; [nomod,known: 450391] Chi Wave; [mod:shift] Crackling Jade Lightning
/cast [mod:shift] Crackling Jade Lightning;
/cast [nomod,known: 123986] Chi Burst
/cast [nomod,known: 450391] Chi Wave
/code]

FYI Chi Wave isn’t an active ability anymore. It’s a talent that triggers from using Keg Samsh or Vivify. It’s not even in the Spell Book

Thanks.

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Sadly can’t tooltip passives, just a limitation of the system. To get the icon to work you’d need to manually select in the icon tab but then it would break the icon dynamically changing depending on your talents. I recommend replacing it with something like a trinket slot or setting up your abilities so the base is always have/something from your base kit.

Also, if you’re only trying to do 1 thing at a time, you should only have a single /cast or /use it makes the macro so much cleaner and less prone to undesirable behavior.

#showtooltip
/use [mod:shift] Crackling Jade Lightning; [known:123986] Chi Burst; 13
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Yeah. That current one was just for me to make it easier to debug. If I got it working I was going to clean it up.

Thanks for the suggestion! That was my next attempt if I couldn’t get it to work.

My Tooltip addon started showing me two spell ID’s recently. One for the Spell and one for the Icon. I was hoping that would let me pick an icon from the list and only display it if [known: Chi Wave] was true but that didn’t work either. LOL

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The only way I know of to get a tooltip to work when you don’t have something is with item:id#### style stuff, which sadly only works for items.

eg Healthstones

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cqs
/use [known:386689] item:224464; item:5512
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