Not trying to be cheap or funny. I do understand why potions are important. Often I hear players complain they wasted their pre-pot if the RL calls off a pull. I just created a macro linking my 2 minute CD to my potion & trinkets. Always found it easier and means i use it once at pull and again in the middle of the fight.
Have another macro of the same but without potions for open world or trivial content.
Switching macros on the action bar may not sound convenient to everyone, but has just worked for me. Just wanna know if a pre-pot is still better for any reason.
I mean do you not understand the premise or like…I guess if you dont get it, it’s because the stat increase directly increases through put. Which plainly means for the duration all your CD on your opener benefit from that stat increase.
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yeah what Bynx said, and that the potion cooldown doesn’t start when you use it out of combat (pre-pull) if I remember right.
I don’t raid or do any hard combat so I hardly ever buy or use pots though.
I do get it. The duration of the potion is 25 seconds. I’m just asking if there is any harm in macroing it to your CD so that you automatically use a potion when using ur CD. Saves me a keybind since that is ideally when I would want it, right?
Yes, there is harm and you shouldn’t do it. You want to be able to use it on demand, not when your macro makes you.
You’re going to want to use your potion maybe 2 seconds before the fight starts. You don’t want to use your trinkets until after you’ve got your prep stuff out of the way. Like a shadow priest might want to wait until they get void form before popping their trinkets which may be several seconds after the prepot.
The trinkets will be up again and probably used on CD well before you would consider the second use of a potion. If lust wasn’t used on the pull then the lust cast is probably the time you’d use your second potion. You might have used your trinkets a couple of times before that happens. I’m fine with macroing trinkets unless there’s a specific reason not to, but potions, if you’re raiding, you should probably have more control over when to use.
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You get two uses instead of one, no need to complicate it anymore than that. If you just map it to your spells then you will get only one pot and may not use it at the best time.
EDIT: and yes, don’t cast your big CD’s before pull, unless you know that you have to to get it back up in time for a certain window instead of holding it i suppose.
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Sounds fair. Thanks a lot. Had already been using 2 per fight but this way can maybe get more out of the potions and trinkets.
Yes as others have said, macroing the potion to cds is the most wasteful ways of using them.
I use one on the prepull, do my setup as the fight begins THEN use my CDs. You get enough of the potion to last you through the setup and your CDs.
Then you use your second potion dependant on what you need to do in the fight. Such as during the bloodlust phase, if it’s not on pull, or during a burn phase where you have to burn something down asap where lust is not used, but cds are (for example if you are in the bwonsamdi phase of the rastakahn fight) etc.
you can put [group:raid] in front of your potion in the macro and never have to switch
I typically pre-pot and then save the second one for Bloodlust. If you macro it into a CD then you’re just going to cast it the next time you use the macro, assuming the pot is off CD. That may or may not be the most optimal time to use it and since you only get one during a fight using it at the wrong time will cost you a not-insignificant chunk of DPS
They just need to get rid of this stupid pre pot thing and just give you two potion uses per fight. Make it count as one of the two if a potion effect is running when the fight starts.