When you are using channel tag in macros you can cause issues with the spell queue in game and get incorrect pauses in your GCD.
For example if you have a macro like this:
#showtooltip
/stopmacro [channeling:Mind Flay]
/cast Mind Blast
And you try to queue a Mind Blast spell out of your Mind Flay channel you will get a delay in between these spells where it should queue the action properly. This was working before the 11.2 patch.
Bumping this, I’m having ths same issue.
#showtooltip
/stopmacro [channeling]
/cast Arcane Missiles
This issue has been driving me crazy but at least I now know the cause. I made another thread about this, but was thinking it was some kind of network issue only I was experiencing because it was almost like very micro lag where buttons just did nothing.
I use variations of this macro for like 99% of my buttons so I was constantly having spells failing.
#showtooltip
/targetenemy [noharm][dead]
/stopmacro [channeling:Mind Flay/Mind Flay: Insanity/Void Torrent/Penance/Dark Reprimand/Ultimate Penitence/Divine Hymn]
/cast [spec:3] Mind Flay
/cast [spec:2] Smite
/cast [spec:1] Smite
I guess I just gotta git gud until they fix it.
Blizzard, please fix this ASAP. Casters that actually have to cast and channel a lot (priest) feel infinitely better with these type of macros.
Bumping this for visibility, please fix.
Since patch 11.2, my channeling macro intermittently delays after Evocation finishes channeling.
Macro:
#showtooltip Arcane Surge
/cast [nochanneling:Evocation] Neural Synapse Enhancer
/cast [nochanneling:Evocation] Arcane Surge
0:05 Macro is working as expected
1:26 Macro is working as expected
2:46 Macro is not working as expected
Bumping this. I use the same macro as Publik and it made playing archon impossible
Bumping too, every primary ability for shadow can make use of a macro to max out ticks of MF:I or Void Torrent(this less so for Archon) but will absolutely make you not able to cast anything for seconds after a channel.
I too have become extremely inconvenienced by the major delay in updating the status of the channeling macro condition.
Please fix this, something is up even without using this macro. Archon is almost impossible to play with this GCD issue
bump, same issue here
bump, same issue
No WONDER my Arcane Missiles are not firing when I spam them. Good grief Blizzard, this patch is so buggy.
Bumping for awareness.
The nochanneling macro has worked since 2004 iirc. 11.2 broke a macro command that has worked for 21 years.
How is this still not fixed?
Bug is still happening on multiple characters. Alot of my abilities are macro’d so they don’t interrupt my fel devastation. So i’m not able to use abilities on occasion for up to 2 seconds after the channel ends. Also same for my priest w/ divine hymn. Wild that it worked forever and now its broke all of the sudden.
Bumping again, incredibly annoying bug seeing as how I’ve been using these macros for years.
Bumping as well as this really needs to be fixed - channeling is already a problematic casting method when compared to other kinds of casts and having this additional burden at the same moment of removing Mind Spike as an option for priests who don’t want to channel is nuts.
truly a multi-dollar company
Still bugged. 3 weeks now since 11.2 dropped.
Still bugged, any confirmation that blizzard is at least aware, even?
I just use a no channeling macro and have no issues, though its slightly different to what everyone else seems to run. Below similar things are macro’d to all my abilities to not interrupt SPK or CJL
#showtooltip Crackling Jade Lightning
/cast [nochanneling][channeling:Spinning Crane Kick] Crackling Jade Lightning
mine does have channeling in it too, but I think because I start with the nochanneling portion first it doesn’t have that same hiccup.