Okay, so I don’t see that being addressed anywhere, so I will post about it. Apologies if someone has already reported this issue.
Seems like you can’t link spells in chat or when you open your macro-creation interface. Which makes making macros harder, especially for a feral where some spells have the same name in bear and cat form in Cataclysm. When you type /cast Feral Charge it only works for bear. Feral Charge doesnt work in cat. And before you say anything about the name “feral leap” , “feral charge - cat” and so on, the name is just Feral Charge in Cata for both Bear and Cat. And that is just one example.
Is it a bug or you just can’t link spells in Cataclysm?
P.S I have tried disabling all my addons, so its not an addon issue as well.
I’ve come to this post by googling my problem, which is exactly same. I can link Items to chat, Talents also, but anything in the spellbook, I cannot. The game just tries to cast the spell instead of linking it. I tried relogging, disabling addons, restarting the game, nothing solved.
I’ll leave a tactical dot to see if it’s a general problem or something I’ve done is causing it
Yip, this is something that worked in versions before Cataclysm, and works in Retail.
So this is a break that applies very specifically to Cataclysm.
The only thing I’m unsure of is whether it was also broken in Cata 2010.
That’s definitely related to the CATA changes involving removal of spell ranks.
Item name link work without issues for both chat and macro since unlike spells, items works the same as before.
Also, I wouldn’t call it exactly “bug”. They simply didn’t (re)write the code on the server side to allow linking spells to chat and macro.