I’m currently level 61 Horde Troll Mage and I’m creating macros to auto update to the max rank of my spells and abilities. I do this by making a simple macro to show the tool tip and cast the spell.
#showtooltip
/cast Fireball
By default the macro system picks the highest rank spell you have learned in your spell book. However this is not the case when I try to do Frostbolt. It will not go past rank 3 with the following macro.
#showtooltip
/cast Frostbolt
However manually specifying the rank for frost bolt respects the rank you give it. I think the intended behavior for a macro with no rank is to select the highest learned move. Which in my case should be frost bolt rank 11 not rank 3
I’m not sure if this is exclusive to frostbolt there may be others but this is the only one I have found.
Edit
This also seems to be the case with Fire Blast, Flamestrike and Arcane Intellect
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Can confirm this issue exists. I’ll provide my experiences to see if this helps the devs.
I use a complex macro:
/cast [mod:shift,harm] Devouring Plague; [@mouseover,nomod,harm,nodead] Shadow Word: Pain; [help] Renew; [harm] Shadow Word: Pain; Renew
What I have found is when I first login and cast renew without a target it will cast rank 5 Renew on myself. As you can see in the macro, I have not specified this rank anywhere, but that’s what is cast.
Now this behavior changes after I join a party, it will cast the highest rank renew, after I leave group it will continue to cast the highest rank renew on myself. Same macro, no changes except I joined and left a party.
2nd part of this Macro is to cast Shadow Word: Pain on a harmful target. This casts rank 8 regardless of what I do. I can change the macro to specifically cast rank 10 but I shouldn’t have to do that and I have other macros that properly take the correct ranks (ex: Power Word: Shield, Inner Fire, Smite… etc)
Experiencing the same issue. I use a castsequence macro for my totems. No ranks specified. However it is no longer dropping max rank.
Same thing happening here but with shaman abilities
I currently have a macro for each one of my shocks to start auto attack after so I have to press fewer buttons overall aka the shaman way
My frost shock macro works and does cast the highest rank
#showtooltip Frost Shock
/cast Frost Shock
/startattack
Flame shock works and cast the highest rank
#showtooltip Flame Shock
/cast Flame Shock
/startattack
the issue lies within my Earth shock macro
#showtooltip Earth Shock
/cast Earth Shock
/startattack
as you can see it looks almost Identical to the ones that work however instead of casting the highest rank it cast rank 2 and when I try and specify to cast (Rank 8) the highest learned one I have. it gives me an error as if I haven’t learned rank 8. this only started happening after I disconnected while learning new abilities.
Having the same issue with Totem macros. Any generic cast macro (/cast Mana Spring Totem) always brings out Rank 3, even when I have higher ranks in my spellbook. Any idea what the issue is?
I do see the same issue.
#showtooltip
/cast [mod:alt, @player] [help] Flash Heal; [harm] Mind Blast; Flash Heal;
SOMETIMES casts Flash Heal rank 5
I have this issue also, Arcane Shot, Multi-Shot, and Serpent Sting all casting Rank 1
I have the same issue. It happens on my druid and on my shaman. Not every macro has this issue. For my druid I notice MotW and Thorns only and my shaman is totems and some spells. Relogging was fixing it sometimes but lately it does not. I have to put ranks on everything to be sure (and remember to update macros when I level the ability). Note that both my druid and my shaman are boost characters and I’m wondering if this is a factor?
I hate to ask a dumb question, but I’d like to check my macros on my hunter. How can you tell what rank the macro is using?
Also, to add rank to a macro, is it like /cast serpent sting(Rank 10)?
Thank you in advance. My hunter is also a boosted character.
I get this as well and it is troubling.