Trying to get this Tricks macro working

Guides UI and Macro
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#showtooltip
/cast Dismantle(PvP Talent)
/cast [target=focus][@targettarget ] !Tricks of the Trade

It works for the most part. If I’m in PVP, it uses Dismantle and when I’m in PVE, it uses Tricks instead. The problem is that I can’t get the Tooltip to show properly, and sometimes Tricks fails to activate and gives an “incorrect target” error.

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Well, if your focus has an enemy targeted, it will attempt to use Tricks of the Trade on an enemy target which is an incorrect target.

Can’t you just use /cast [@focus] Tricks of the Trade
?

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You cannot have 2 targets for it only one, pick one… Either the focus or
targetoftarget not both…

#showtooltip
/cast Dismantle(PvP Talent)
/cast [@focus] !Tricks of the Trade

#showtooltip
/cast Dismantle(PvP Talent)
/cast [@targettarget] !Tricks of the Trade

4

Well, I never focus an enemy so that wouldn’t be an issue.

Use to work just fine.

5

It’s not casting on your focus, it’s casting on your focus’s target. If your focus has an enemy targeted it would fail.

6

But it’s not…?!

7

Assuming

  • you selected the default “?” icon image or didn’t change the icon.
  • you are actually flagged for pvp
  • you currently have the Dismantle pvp talent selected

The tooltip and icon should show Dismantle. Otherwise it may be a “?” or it may be whatever wrong icon image you selected. But unless you provide more info on how its wrong, who knows…

But fixing the current macro to work better

#showtooltip
/cast Dismantle(PvP Talent)
/cast [@focus,help,nodead][@targettarget,help,nodead] Tricks of the Trade

You had target=focus (same as @focus with more text) without specifying if the focus existed, was friendly, or alive. This means that, as you originally had written it,

  • if you don’t have a focus, the spell fizzles.
  • If the focus is not friendly, the spell fizzles,
  • if the focus is dead, the spell fizzles.

We now check for all of those: help (friendly and exists) and nodead ('nuf said).

If you don’t have a focus, or its not friendly or it’s dead, the macro will use the @targettarget, but only if its not dead and friendly too.

The Tricks of the Trade can still fail:

  1. if your living, friendly target is out of range (nothing you can do about that in a macro)
  2. If your living, friendly target used the Neural Silencer, which makes him immune to certain “annoyances” including Tricks of the Trade for 12 hours.
  3. If the “targettarget” is you. There’s nothing you can do about that either in a macro.

I also removed the “!” which did nothing for you. “!” prevents you from canceling an ability (or turning it off) by accidentally casting it a second time.
In the heat of battle its real easy to double-tap a macro button resulting in screwing yourself. But Tricks of the Trade isn’t an on-off ability, like stealth. You don’t cast it once to turn it on and cast it again to turn it off. You can only turn it on and the effect lasts whatever duration it lasts and it goes on CD for 30 secs. Immediately activating the macro a second time does nothing.

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Indeed. That’s been the biggest annoyance is that it won’t show Tricks Icon while not PVP flagged, So I can’t watch the CD. I didn’t know whether or not there was a way to compensate for that.

Otherwise, this macro been in my Macros for godknows how long so I don’t know why I had it written as it was.

I’ve since rewritten it. Thanks.

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Change the order or have a pvp specific macro and a pve specific macro