It’s changed many times at various points but it was much more permissive in Vanilla than it is now. You used to be able to do several things with one button press that now takes multiple presses of a single button or you have to put on separate buttons altogether.
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I get that. Personally the reason I would prefer to do it with an addon is because I don’t want to modify my macros to use specific weapons. I would rather use an addon to designate which weapon is configured for which item slot, and not have to modify my macros every time I get a new weapon. It’s simply a preference for configuration options over statically coded macros.
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Maybe it’s your condescending tone from previous posts.
He has a legit point though that your answer completely missed.
You can make a macro to swap weapons… why can’t an addon do it?
Regardless, the answer was already given several times before you had to say anything.
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I gave the answer, but this was a cute post.
That’s the type of macro I used, to specific gear slot not tying it to abilities.
I think this is correct, just google’d it but it’s been a long time:
/equipslot 16 [weapon1 name]
/equipslot 17 [weapon2 name]ActiBlizz could probably allow it but then they’d have to also implement a large number of other specific instances, can’t play favorites.
If they generalize it for all cases then it becomes to easy for cheaters to automate.
So it is, what it is.
My itemrack will change weapons while I am in combat. Am i reading this wrong?
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I use itemrack also and I am quite sure that it will not change weapons in combat. It will “queue” a weapon change, but it won’t actually change weapons until combat is over. As someone above suggested, this is due to an API limitation.
I just tested it and I can confirm that Itemrack will not swap weapons in combat.
I can confirm that I do it all the time. I literally used it the other day when I pulled aggro on Vael. Switched to my shield and popped shield wall. After combat ends it will switch the rest of my gear. But my weapons DO swap in combat with itemrack.
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I had one called like “wardrobe” or “outfit” before I got itemrack that would not swap anything in combat. This was exactly the reason that i deleted that one and got itemrack cause it would allow me to switch my weapons in combat. I have had 0 issues with it
This works, unless both weapons have the same name. Then it pulls 1 weapon out of your bags, puts it in your mainhand…then moves that same weapon to your offhand.
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Oh yeah you’re right, I remember that now.
But other than that corner-case, it should work fine.
Not sure why you’d need or even want an addon to do what a very simple macro can do. I have a warrior alt and I’ve made a simple macro to help me get a shield bash in while dpsing a target to interrupt spell casting. Only requires 3 small lines in a macro.
#showtooltip Shield Bash
/cast defensive stance
/equip 1 Hander Name
/equip Shield Name
Keybind it to a mouse button right next to my actual shield bash keybind, and my stance dance macro.
#showtooltip defensive stance
/cast battle stance
/cast defensive stance
Click 3 buttons and swap to a shield/1h, swap to defensive stance, shield bash, and swap back to battle stance. Classes like rogues should be able to make similar macros extremely easy to equip daggers and what not. No need for an addon imo.
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The only thing I dont like about not having to use macros, is that have a bunch of macros coded with a specific weapon name, that I have to update every time I get a new weapon. If it worked with addons I could just configure the addon to work with certain profiles, which would be preferable to me, but I will continue to use macros until maybe someday they realize that this limitation isn’t actually doing anything.
Because I don’t like changing my macros whenever I add new weapons to my arsenal. Its annoying and tedious.
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Is your itemrack completely up to date? Do you have the classic version of the addon? I can assure you that mine WILL swap weapons in combat.
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Ok. So if you got an addon that did it, you wouldn’t ever have to change which weapons you want it to swap for you because it would just know? What if you had multiple daggers in your bag. I’m sure even with an addon you’d have to manually tell it what weapons to swap to.
Alternatively you could use Item Rack, and keybind an equipment set to 1 button, and a second equipment set that’s identical except with different weapons, to another keybind. So since weapons can be swapped in combat, Item Rack should suffice.
You beat me to it.
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You want the simple answer? Programming
It was programmed
It’s a program
It’s code written by a person
A person wrote the code
Limitations are implemented by code that was written
Does that answer?
Ugh, such an annoying thread
obviously you didn’t read it, because that was the first 2 responses
With an addon you can create specific weapon profiles so in your macros you can tell it to use the profile. So instead of your macro being like this:
/equipslot 16 Perdition's Blade
/use Backstab
Your macro can be like this:
/itemrack Daggers
/use Backstab
That may seem like its not a big deal, but when you have a dozen weapon swapping macros, its easier to configure the addon instead of updating the macros.