Warlok aff cast sequense error?

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/castsequence reset=3 Agony, Corruption, Siphon Life

this macro is to multi dot but when i spawn it for some reason it stay stuck in coruption

but if i push 1 time per sec it works well

i wanth a macro to spawm like 3 times per sec and multi dot with out it getting stuck

thx

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it should work, as long as you’re not taking 3 seconds to hit the button again for the next cast. i use a similar one when i’m mindlessly farming.

maybe try changing the 3 to a 5. it’ll give more slack before resetting to agony.

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reset=3 means reset if you haven’t pressed the button for 3 seconds. It will also automatically reset when it gets to the end of the sequence.

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It’s impossible to fire all 3 of those abilities in 1 second because all of them are on the Global Cooldown.

The Global Cooldown (GCD) is a mechanism WoW has to force a “minimum pause” between most spell casts. For most spells the GCD starts at 1.5 seconds and haste can reduce that down to 0.75 seconds.

The GCD and spell casting time overlap and whatever is longer determines when you can cast your next ability. For example, if your haste-modified GCD is 1 second,

  • casting an instant spell (like those 3 abilities in your castsequence) requires you to wait 1 second before you can cast another ability. The spell fires instantly, but you still need to wait 1 GCD to fire another spell.
  • casting a spell with a 0.6 second cast time requires you to wait 0.4 seconds to reach the GCD minimum before you could cast another spell. The spell fires as soon as the casting time is completed (at 0.6 seconds) but you still need to wait to fire another spell.
  • casting a spell with a 2 second cast allows you to cast another spell immediately because the 2 second cast time was longer than the GCD.

To see what abilities are on or off the gcd and how long their gcd’s are search on wowhead.com. Anything with a GCD of 0 is off the GCD and can be cast at the same time as other abilities and anything with a GCD >0 is on the GCD.

For macros, WoW only allows 1 GCD ability to be triggered per macro activation. Either way /castsequence will only casts 1 ability per macro activation, like /cast, it just cycles through a list of abilities. It will do you no good to rapidly activate the castsequence macro faster than the GCD. If you want it to work correctly you have to click-GCD pause-click-GCD pause-click the castsequence.

Lots of great stuff on wowpedia.fandom.com for macros
Info on the GCD,
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Cooldown#Global_cooldown

And on castsequence
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/MACRO_castsequence

And for macros in general
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Macro_commands
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Macro_conditionals
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/UnitId
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/InventorySlotId

And check the sticky posts in this forum.

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