Nice macro for Spellcleave groups

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Was doing my first couple of SM GY Spellcleave groups until we started using a macro to keep track of who’s supposed to cast the next Frost Nova in the rotation.

Say your group has 3 mages:
Mage1
Mage2
Mage3

The Frost Nova rotation is Mage1 first, then Mage2, then Mage3.
Use this macro when you Frost Nova:

#showtooltip Frost Nova
/cast Frost Nova
/target Mage1|2|3*
/tm 6
/targetlasttarget

*Mage 1 would use /target Mage2, Mage2 would use /target Mage3, Mage3 would use /target Mage1

What this does is cast frost nova, then target the next mage in the rotation, then puts the blue square marker on them, and then target whoever was your last target.

This way, the entire group (and most importantly, the Mage who’s supposed to cast the next Frost Nova) knows that Mage1 has his Frost Nova on cooldown, and Mage2 is next for the Frost Nova.

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You only need 1 nova… if you are needing more than 1 you are in a bad group

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1 … maybe 2, but yeah! With 3 mages in a party, you should be able to clear from “first try”.

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With 5 nova you can get Shatter on every spell, assuming there’s only 1 or 0 Mage that use Blizzard and the others use Arcane Explosion / CoC, it’s better to use many Nova as possible so mob stay rooted and target closest people instead of the guys who have aggro, and the 50% crit apply for all Mages.

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Was getting 70k xp/h with only mage lock as aoe in zf… this whole notion that spellcleave is mandatory to get insane xp is pathetic

6

Why the rage bra’s. Was just sharing a marco.

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Since this topic is open, I have a question about macros.

For an example, is there any differences between these macros?

#showtooltip Wing Clip(Rank 2)
/cast Raptor Strike(Rank 7)
/cast Wing Clip(Rank 2)
/startattack

And

#showtooltip Wing Clip
/cast Raptor Strike
/cast Wing Clip
/startattack

In first macro I putted all my highest level spell in (Rank…) and in the second I didnt put any rank of spells. If I use second one, will it cast my highest rank of spells or lowest? Or maybe that macro wont work?

Maybe its a stupid question, but I am using macros with “rank” and after I level up my spells I need to change them. It would be a lot easier if I can make macro like second one and not to change it anymore.

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That is correct, if you omit the spell rank in your macro, it’ll always cast the highest rank.

So if you hate the fact that you have to replace your Rank 1 Arcane Shot on your action bar everytime you learn a new rank, you can also just make a macro
#showtooltip Arcane Shot (–> omit rank, so it always shows the highest rank)
/cast Arcane Shot (–> omit rank, so it always casts the highest rank)

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