Wait macro?

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Hey, I was wondering if anyone know if the “Wait” command still works or if it’s been replaced by something?

So, here’s what I’m trying to do:

/cast Chains of Ice
/wait 40
/w Gerrian Chains of Ice Ready!

^ But this doesn’t work…

/cast Chains of Ice
/in 40
/w Gerrian Chains of Ice ready!

^ Nor does this

Why do I need this? I need it to easier keep track of “Cold heart”, it gives me a stack every 2 seconds and stacks to 20, and the only way I hace to keep track of it right now is to watch my buffbars which is at the top right of my screen.

I have all of my spells at the bottom of the screen, my perifiral-vision is good, but not good enough to watch what’s going on in a fight, keeping track of cooldowns and whatever else…

Could anyone please help me?

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I don’t know about a macro, but isn’t there a weakaura for it?

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I don’t use nor want weakaura :frowning: I don’t like it because it takes a horrendous amount of time and effort to properly set it up :frowning:

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You only need to download the addon and the import the aura. That literally takes 5 minutes or so (including downloading and restarting WoW, taking in consideration you have a slow PC and slow internetspeed).

Anyways, from an external website I can’t link, I read the /in and /wait flags are not available anymore. So you need to look for another solution.

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The more auras you do the faster it will take to create a new one since you learn by doing. Trust me, it’s worth the time investment to learn Weakauras.

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Well… as per usual we can’t have anything nice, or have fun before blizzrd thinks that it should be removed…

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Try Tell Me When. Its good replacement for Weak Aura.
I use it both.

Tell me when is really easy to set buffs as well.

As ßa said, you can’t set /wait in a macro. Putting delay for spells in macro was never an option as far i know.

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download weak aura.

go here and import what you want

h ttps://wago.io/weakauras/classes/death-knight/frost

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theres a site called

wago.io

for weakauras, you can literally import anything you can think of.

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It really doesn’t when you get the hang of it. Wowhead has the import strings. I use WeakAura’s on all my chars for things exactly like this.

Edit: Oh Hai Gerrain! I can help you with it over discord if you like.
<—Ozzy

Edit2: I would suspect Wait was not removed for any fun element, but perhaps exploitation.

Edit 3: A clickable version of Soulshox’s link. https://wago.io/weakauras/classes/death-knight/frost

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You have never been able to use wait or pause for Warcraft macros.

It counts as automation

/cast spell1
wait 1500
/cast spell2
wait 1500
/cast spell3

on one button press, is not allowed.

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It has nothing to do with nice, it’s basic botting.

The macro UI wont do anything that makes a decision for you.

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Shows that you haven’t played too long… the last time I made timing macros you COULD do automation if it was a spell or a trinket followed by text, but not followed by a spell or trinket…

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Played since 2005, and you can string together spells or items with no cooldown or not on the GCD, you could NEVER use a pause.

Edit: Until the /castsequence command was allowed, even then each keypress moves you along the list.

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