Tremor Totem issue

Classes Shaman
1

So i made a macro for healing with trmor totem and i cant figure it out.

What i tried was:
#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/stopcasting
/cast tremor totem

And if i was healing with my mouse over a player still it would interrupt the heal but not drop totem. If i was hovering over the ground it would cancel and drop totem.

So what I made was:
#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/stopcasting
/cast tremor totem
/cast tremor totem

Which now works fine every time. So I can understand why the first doesnt work what did I do wrong? I added the second line as a joke but now Iā€™m not laughing.

2

Because the actual ā€˜castingā€™ of Tremor Totem has a radial I think it requires differnet macro lines.

Something like:
#showtooltip Tremor Totem
/cast [@cursor] Tremor Totem

3

This didnt change anything for me. Still just stops my cast but then doesnt drop totem. I like where youre heads at though. I tried [] and [@player] too

4

Maybe its a GCD issue? You may have to hit the macro once to ā€˜activateā€™ the spell then again to ā€˜dropā€™ the totem wherever the mouse cusor is.

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5

And at that point that would be fine if I always just assumed i had to hit it 2 times. Once to stop casting, a second time to cast it. I just cant figure out why its not playing ball with me. As you said, the totem always drops at the player so thats why i cant figure out why hovering over a player can be any sort of a conditional issue.

edit: so i did the following macro still cant explain it. Seems if I cast this too quickly after io cast a heal it only interrupts, no totem. If i wait till the heal is half cast then it all goes off with out a hitch. Cant explain any of it but im done fussing. thanks for the help.

#showtooltip tremor totem
/stopcasting
/cast [@mouseover][] tremor totem

6

Tremor doesnā€™t use a radial. Just plonks down.

Could just be a GCD issue.

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7

Totems are on global cd.

8

Its the GCD

I use
#show Tremor Totem(Earth Totem)
/stopcasting
/cast Tremor Totem(Earth Totem)

You cant just stop casting at he beginning and drop the totem. So if you immediately use this macro as you start to cast you are in the GCD window and it will make you stop casting but not drop the totem.

However right after you cast you can ā€œload the next spellā€ before the end of the GCD so as soon as the GCD ends it immediately goes to the next spell.

As you enter this part of the GCD the macro is one push. It seems to be about halfway of the GCD.

Before this you have to double mash it. No amount of lines is going to change it. You are just at the mercy of the GCD.

9

Iā€™m embarrassed to admit I was tired, thought GCD was ā€œgreatest common denominatorā€ and meant there was a logic issue. Everyone was right, the global cool down was the actual problem and I thought it was strange things causing it. Thanks for the help.

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