Overpower - Why doesn't it work in any macro ever?

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Hello there.

I’ve got a problem that I can’t overcome, regarding the Overpower warrior skill.

I’ve crafted a handy macro that looks like this:

#showtooltip [stance:1/3] Mortal Strike; [stance:2] Heroic Strike;
/startattack
/cast [stance:1/3] Mortal Strike; [stance:2] Heroic Strike;

And it works perfectly as is.

Yet I wanted to weave in Overpower into it. Knowing that it shares GCD with the other 2 skills I’ve wanted to add it to the pool, but it turns out, that it completely blocks off the execution of the macro at all for reason I don’t understand.

I’ve modified line 3 of my macro like this:

/cast Overpower; [stance:1/3] Mortal Strike;… (rest unchanged).

It didn’t work. It ONLY let me perform Overpower alone.

Then I tried the parallel skill activation by putting a lone

/cast Overpower
at the very bottom of my original macro. Didn’t work either.

My question is:

Is it possible at all, to make a Classic Wow working macro to use and display Mortal Strike, unless Overpower is active, then using overpower isntead?

That’s what I want to achieve:

Button pressed > If Overpower is active > Overpower > END.
Button pressed >If Overpower is not active > Mortal Strike if not def stance OR Heroic Strike if in def stance.

Please, help or at least explain to me why it’s impossible to achieve!

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Not possible. To quote the US Forums…

What you’re essentially trying to do is cast 2 abilities that are on the GCD at the same time. Regardless of whether or not you’re eligible to use Overpower it still triggers an internal GCD when you attempt to use it.

Your best workaround would be to put Overpower on a modified key press (ctrl/shift/alt)

#showtooltip
/startattack
/cast [mod] Overpower; [stance:2] Heroic Strike; Mortal Strike
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