Not having any lucky, 7+ years now of not being able to trigger shimmer only once.
I even have 2 shimmer binds, in hopes that I can make a macro that uses shimmer only once when I spam it.
muhahahha I figured it out and I am notn going to tell anyone!
Nevermind, nope, doesn’t work FML
maybe cuz my spellqueuewindow is 1400 lmao
changing it to 0 didn’t work either
Man, my alter time macro doesn’t work either. Why did blizzard add spell batching!!?? It screwed the game up.
The issue is between your chair and keyboard.
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Make it a cast sequence macro and put a random ability after the shimmer. Or maybe a toy or something. 
Try something like:
Castsequence reset=1 blink, spellsteal
I would probably put a spell here that you aren’t specked in to.
Use whatever you want where I put spellsteal.
It’s not a good idea but it may work for what you described
Why even have shimmer? Floes is superior imo and blink gets you out of stuns. Being able to cast Spark, Surge, RoP, Shifting Power and AB on the move is very beneficial in M+ and raids.
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when you mash shimmer - you probably actually need double
I figured it out, but its highly depedent on latency with the new spellqueue system added a few xpacs back
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I’ve kinda had this opinion since shimmer came out. I never got the idea of “let me just spec out of my 15 second human racial+escape while playing a squishy as hell caster who dies if a melee sits on him for longer than 2 seconds.”
Blink is literally a shorter CD than every single stun in the game and can always be up for just that purpose. I will never understand why so many take shimmer.
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Because you can actually continue casting and not even be hit by the stun. (whoa, kinda like ice floes)
OMG MELEE HAS 1000000 GAP CLOSERS SPRINTS AND ALL
Shimmer displacement and improved blast wave does wonders at giving you 10 seconds of free casting
disable your hold to cast
Any spell not attached to the GCD and has multiple stacks has this issue. Hold to cast is casting it twice
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For real?
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Yea nah, its off, I do not think I’ve ever enabled it. It’s just the spellqueue system and shimmer being off GCD. If you have 200MS+ like myself, then pressing shimmer only once is impossible because even if you have a macro like:
#showtooltip Alter Time
/castsequence reset=5 alter time, Drakebreaker’s Cuffs
it will send and queue 2 presses and ultimately use the alter. However, if you have like 40ms like a normal person, the macro likely works.
To be honest there should be a macro to detect how many charges there are remaining and only use the 1st charge if the available charges are = to 2. Then when you spam it, if there is only 1 one charge it won’t use it. Then you would have to have another key for standard shimmer if you need to indeed use it twice really fast.
#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=5 shimmer, Drakebreaker’s Cuffs
I have this macro, which seems to work, the only unfortunate thing is if you have high latency like 200ms+ and bind it to scroll wheel and spam scroll wheel, the ‘new’ spellqueue system will send it twice into spellqueue ultimately using shimmer twice and there is no tolerance for negative spellqueuewindow if you have high latency(ms). Which would make it so if you have 200ms and you are spamming the ability faster than 200ms each press, then it won’t queue those presses back to back. Unfortonately the spellqueuewindow only goes in 1 direction. So that if I set my spellqueue to 1400~, and press frostbolt twice once at 1ms and once at 2ms, then it will queue frostbolt twice. In-fact any 2 presses inside that 1400 window will queue twice. It would be nice to have a negative spellqueuewindow so that if you are spamming an ability faster than your latency(200ms) then the game will disregard those presses to what ever the negative number is set to. Spellqueue is ultimately a bettersystem than reading and sending the presses to the server and back in an MMO.
Have you tried not spaming it? pretty ez
When you are in a moonbeam with no trinket or block, you have to press it as soon as the roots break as you waddle forward out of the beam.