Simple cast priority macro

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For some reason, I thought a macro such as the following would, in laymans terms, prioritize Spell1 over Spell2.

My assumption was that if the player doesn’t have the resources for Spell1, then Spell2 is cast. In the case of Spell1 being Shield Slam, and Spell2 being Sunder Armor, it definitely doesn’t work. I could swear I had this working once before, though possibly with different spells on a different class. What am I missing?

/cast Spell1
/cast !Spell2

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^^ What EB said, macros don’t do “super smart” decision making for you. They can help identify friend from foe and living from dead, but it won’t decide things based on cooldown availability, your health, target health, resource availability, etc… you need to provide those kind of smarts.

The “!” isn’t a priority thing its an “on only” if the spell is an on-off and there are very few spells that it can be used with.

For example is you have a simple macro like this for the Mage Ice Block ability

#showtooltip
/cast Ice Block

This will cast (turn on) Ice Block if its not already on and it will turn off Ice Block if it’s already on. Kind of dangerous if you have “happy fingers” and you accidentally double-tap the button.
First tap, turns on Ice Block (yeah I’m safe)
Happy-finger accidental second tap, turns off Ice Block (oh sh~t I’m going to die!!)

The “!” avoids the accidental turn off effect. If Ice Block is off, it turns it on. If its on, it doesn’t do anything and it stays on (IN YO FACE HAPPY FINGERS)

#showtooltip
/cast !Ice Block

Now the only way to turn off Ice Block is to wait for it expire, right-click the Ice Block Buff icon to cancel it, or use /cancelaura Ice Block or something like this

#showtooltip
/cast [mod]Ice Block;!Ice Block

Hold down a modifier key (alt, ctrl, shift) and Ice Block is activated normally (with the on-off effect). Don’t hold down a modifier key and Ice Block will only turn on.

Off the top of my head I can only think of Ice Block and Aspect of Turtle that “!” works with, but I imagine that every class has maybe 1 ability that could use it.

See here for more info

https://wow.gamepedia.com/Macro_commands
https://wow.gamepedia.com/MACRO_cast
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Macro_conditionals
https://wow.gamepedia.com/UnitId
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ok I am sure this is way old but I do know that it also has something to do with resetting something like Eagle Eye for hunters. If I cast it once and then again it resets the position from where I am at but if I use the !
/cast !Eagle Eye
it makes it re-castable from the location I sent it to, making it more like a Shaman Far Sight, and being able to go off the map into other zones with it.

I use this in BGs like AB or EoTS to call out incs from the mtns where I can see the whole map and fyi, in EoTS you can indeed cast it to one of the floating rocks in the sky to see the entire map. Great for base calling.

One last thing is once you use it (need to be outdoors to use) you can then spam it into tunnels, buildings etc to follow EFC up tunnel or see how many people are in on Vanndar or Drek from the other side of the map.

Hope that was helpful to someone :slight_smile:
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