Macro on spell based on the form

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Hi all
I am looking for building macros that do the following
If I am in bear form do ironfur
If I am in caster mode do lifebloom (only if it is available)
If I am in cat form do rake (if it is specced)

the idea is to have less keybinds and at the same time play the current form in a bit better way

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/cast [form:1] Ironfur; [form:2] Rake; Lifebloom

Add in some known:spellid conditions if you want to change them based off talents but with what you provided there’s no need for them.

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So I want to do the following
if I am in bear form (either as guardian or as resto druid) cast ironfur

if I am in caster form cast lifebloom
/cast[spec:1] Ironfur;
/cast Lifebloom

The above only casts lifeloom

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Make sure you have the macro on each of your form bars. Unless your forms are in a weird order i.e. bear isn’t 1 and cat isn’t 2, then the macro should work as intended.

[spec:1] = Boomkin btw

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can I make it work if this is not in the forms bars?
Where I can find the list of all spec:X
and what spec:X is the caster form?

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Forms/Stances and Specs are totally different things.

  • Specs are your specs (Balance, Feral, Guardian, Restoration) and are numbered in the order they appear on the Specialization Tab (aka Alphabetically)
  • Forms are your shapeshift forms (Bear, Cat, Travel, Moonkin, Treant, Mount) and numbered in the order they appear on your Form/Stance Bar, Caster/Not being in a form is noform

No. If you’re not pressing the macro you’re not using the macro. It needs to be on whatever button you happen to be pressing.

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so correcting it, should be
/cast[form:1] Ironfur;
/cast Lifebloom

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/cast [form:1] Ironfur;
/cast Lifebloom

This means: If I am in form 1, cast Ironfur. After that (whether you were in form 1 or not) cast Lifebloom (which will fail if Ironfur is on the global cooldown, if not, bye bear form).

If instead you do

/cast [form:1] Ironfur; Lifebloom

It means if I am in form 1, cast Ironfur, else cast Lifebloom.

IDK how these spells behave, but the latter will save you from unnecessary error messages at best and unpleasant unshifts at worst.

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This is still the macro you want.

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so it works like that ?
If in form1 ironfur
If in form2 rake
else lifebloom

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Correct. That said, that particular macro is no different than placing those spells in the same location on Bar 1 for the various forms.

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