S Priest Macros

[Mithwen]

So ... we lost Twisted's excellent post of the macros he uses when we switched forums a while back. I've been meaning to repost those ... and now I am ... 6 months later. Here's some of the stuff I use:

Trinket Macro:
#showtooltip Vampiric Touch
/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/use Icon of the Silver Crescent
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/script UIErrorsFrame:Show()
/cast Vampiric Touch
I put the specific name of the trinket in there after having /use 13 in the script mess me up by using my pvp trinket. I don't think you need to put the stuff in about UIErrors but I hate seeing crap like 'item not ready' all the time. This is how TB had it anyway.

Chain Casting Macro:
#showtooltip 'Spell'
/cast [nochanneling:Mind Flay] 'Spell'
This macro will allow you to spam your next spell and not interrupt your MF channeling. It's kind of like a stopcasting macro except it's not at all a stopcasting macro. It's still helpful now that things are queued server side because you can just start spamming your next Mind Flay or Shadow Word: Pain near the end of the current MF without fear of breaking your channel.

Inner Focus/cast macro:
#showtooltip Shadow Word: Pain
/cast Inner Focus
/cast Shadow Word: Pain
I didn't use the chain casting macro here because 1. I don't often cast pain after MF and 2. I'm a little unsure of the syntax to combine the two so comments welcome, of course. I also didn't add the error suppression although you certainly could.

Shackle Macro:
#showtooltip
/focus [target=focus, noexists][target=focus, dead]
/cast [nomodifier, target=focus] Shackle Undead
/stopmacro [nomodifier]
/clearfocus [modifier:ctrl]
I like this macro cause I click on my shackle button. Your mileage may vary. There's certainly fancier focus macros out there.

And that's about it for my macros.

Pika.

[Raptace]

I actually like that trinket macro... I might have to throw that in to my spells. Though I do like sometimes to wait till my trinket goes off from a crit to hit the other one... gives me about 1800 spelldmg when both trinkets are procced...

[Mithwen]

I think macroing your trinkets is pretty awesome. I know I'm forgetful or get worried about moving or what have you and I can forget to hit the trinket. Also, there is some lag on your personal click speed if you click trinket hit button as opposed to just macroing it up.

As you suggest it's a good idea to have more control over when you hit your trinket than just 'hit it when I cast Vampiric Touch' which is what I have it macroed to. This is actually not the best way to do things for cases where you don't want to lead a boss fight off with your trinketed damage. What you can do instead is add a modifier such as shift. I'll throw up an improved version on that when I get a chance to test it out (not just right now ... thesis is wailing at me and I need to get groceries). Alternatively, I invite someone (Wenge!) to just chuck one up.

I think just about everyone should have a trinket macro. :)

I invite folks to take a look at the shackle macro as well. I actually ripped mine off from a banish macro at http://www.wowwiki.com/Useful_macros/Warlock. Any caster who can CC oughta have a focus macro. Course, you probably all already do!

Pika.

[Nortibiry]

I actually like that trinket macro... I might have to throw that in to my spells. Though I do like sometimes to wait till my trinket goes off from a crit to hit the other one... gives me about 1800 spelldmg when both trinkets are procced...

Not to derail the thread, but does waiting to stack the trinkets actually increase your overall damage done, versus popping the one whenever it's up (assuming no issues with mobility/threat/phases/etc/etc)?

[Wenge]

for fire mages, we get a 20% enrage effect (molten fury, you know, third row from the bottom, right side, looks like firey spider webs), so it's nice to try to time a trinket or something to the 20%. Right now we have Attic popping heroism at around that point, and I'll try to keep a mana stone available for it because I get a +spell when I tap a stone.

other than that, I have combustion, icy veins, and my icon of the silver crescent bound to my fireball key. I have a macro on it that when shift is down prevents it from procing the trinket/combustion/icy veins.

icy will not stack with heroism in 2.4. fuck blizz.

[Vand]

icy will not stack with heroism in 2.4. fuck blizz.
Yes it will. (source (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=4976291142&postId=49757844425&sid=1#0))

[Mithwen]

omg threadjacked.

I have a trinket that I could wait to proc and then stack my other one on but ... I doubt it's that worthwhile for me to bother ... there's so many things I could wait for before I hit the trinket button (like imp shadowbolt debuff) but I don't find it that useful to wait, and I could be waiting a long time. It's one thing if you KNOW you're getting more damage under 20% but waiting for a proc ... I wouldn't bother. Steady damage probably wins out over omg wtf burst damage. Your mileage may vary, of course.

Pika.

[Nortibiry]

I was more interested in if, on paper, having more spell damage for less of the time wins out over having less for longer. Ie is 400 +damage for 20 seconds as good as 200 +damage for 40 seconds? Better? Worse? I think waiting on trinkets to stack would lead to a situation more like 350 +damage for 20 seconds versus 200 for 40, just because of the opportunity cost.

Molten fury, heroism, and the like are a little different because you're looking at a percentage increase down the road, so you're for example trading off 200 +damage now versus 220 +damage down the road -- waiting would make sense as long as you didn't lose a trinket usage over the course of the fight trying, at which point it gets a little trickier to model.

But of course I'm not a caster... at all :) So I don't really know, and my assumptions may be way off. Off the top of my head trying to stack trinkets could make sense, say, when you could refresh a bunch of DoTs with the spiked spell damage number, in which case again it'd get more complicated to figure out the opportunity cost of waiting versus the increased damage gained.

[Raptace]

Well the Sextant is completely random, it can go off from a lifebloom crit, a prayer of mending crit, shadowbolt crit, immolate crit, etc. Sometimes I wait, sometimes I don't.
Most of the time I just hit the icon whenever and alot of times the sextant will go off from a crit from that dmg, so then I get both. I have no idea what the hidden cooldown is for the sextant, but it goes off an awful lot.