Macro character limit - creative help needed

[Sephalo-golemagg]

Hi there.
I’ve been asking around on discord channels but can’t seem to find an answer to my problem. I have a very specific idea for a macro but can’t make it because it requires too many characters.

Is there anyone here that been through the same problem and found a solution? Perhaps a great addon to make macro’s longer or allow me to activate a macro through a different one?

This is the text I’d like to put in the macro:

#showtooltip [noharm] Intervene; [combat] Overpower; Charge
/dismount [noharm,stance:2][harm,stance:1]
/startattack
/cast [stance:2,noharm] Intervene; [noharm] Defensive Stance; [stance:1, combat] Overpower; [nostance:1] Battle Stance; Charge
/equipslot [harm, worn:shield] 16 Drake Talon Cleaver; [noharm, noworn:shield] 16 Deathbringer
/equipslot [noharm, noworn:shield] 17 Drillborer Disk

What it will do:

• If my target is friendly it will swap to def stance, dismount AFTER i swapped to the right stance, intervene and swap to 1H+shield.
• If my target is unfriendly and I’m in combat, it will swap to battle stance, dismount AFTER I swapped to the right stance, overpower and swap to 2H weapon.
• If my target is unfriendly and I’m not in combat I’ll do the above but replace overpower with charge.

Any ideas?

[Altermaniel-mograine]

Macros can activate other macros using /click. For example /click BT4Button39 would click your action bar slot called BT4Button39 which can activate another macro. To find out what an action bar slot is called you can put this macro in the slot /script print(GetMouseFocus():GetName()) and click it (has to be a click not with a shortcut).

[Sephalo-golemagg]

Thanks a lot! I managed to get what I want now by combining 3 macros!

The main macro (I keybind this):
#showtooltip [help] Intervene; [combat] Overpower; Charge
/click [help] MultiBarRightButton1; MultiBarRightButton2

The Intervene one:
#showtooltip Intervene
/dismount [stance:2]
/cast [stance:2] Intervene; Defensive Stance
/equipslot [noworn:shield] 16 Deathbringer
/equipslot [noworn:shield] 17 Drillborer Disk

The Charge/overpower one:
#showtooltip [combat] Overpower; Charge
/dismount [stance:1]
/startattack [stance:1,harm]
/cast [nostance:1] Battle Stance; [combat] Overpower; Charge
/equipslot [worn:shield] 16 Drake Talon Cleaver

[Dottie-thunderhorn (Dottie)]

Isn’t there an addon that increases the characters you can use in a macro?

[Sephalo-golemagg]

That’s also what I’ve been looking for, but apperantly it only works in retail and not in classic.
Altermaniel’s suggestion works fine!