Warrior MACROS Please!

This is what I've been able to find on the internets thus far....

/mk “attack1″
/ac “Heavy Swing”
/ac “Tomahawk”

* If Ranged, it will mark using Tomahawk, if Close it will mark with Heavy Swing. Heavy Swing Priority so it won’t cast tomahawk after heavy swing if in melee range.

/macroicon "Overpower"
/ac "Bloodbath" <me>
/ac "Internal Release" <me>
/ac "Mercy Stroke" <t>
/ac "Overpower" <t>

This Optimizes healing received from OVerpower+ Convalesence. I manually put up Fracture to get healing from the DoT as well.

Lastly....

/macroicon "Foresight"
/ac "Foresight" <me>
/ac "Featherfoot" <me>
/ac "Awareness" <me>

This makes it much easier to stagger defensive buffs. Press/click first time, activates foresight. Press/click again, Featherfoot. Third time, Awareness. There may be situational uses for the defense cooldowns, for example boss mechanic where they engrage and start to crit you, you'd use awareness to negate it.... but for all other fights where you try to minimize overall damage.... it's a good macro.

With that said, I've scoured the internet and can't really find anymore... are there any you use that you'd like to share. All contributions are appreciated in advance.

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/macroicon "Foresight"
/ac "Foresight" <me>
/wait 1
/ac "Featherfoot" <me>
/wait 1
/ac "Awareness" <me>

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Fixed. You need the /wait command. Now they'll cast in sequence. Press the bound Button once, and watch it cast in order. Be sure to always use the macroicon of the highest CD skill that was cast last. This will ensure that when it comes off CD, the rotation is ready to go with all skills in the Macro off CD.

You shouldn't need any macros for skill combos, just your buffs. It's up to you though. Just remember that with /wait 1, if there's any type of latency spike, you might miss a buff. Anything below 1.5 seems to have issues, specially if you're moving.

I'm confused with some of your macros. Overpower doesn't heal you, so I don't know why you would want it macroed with convalesence. Also, Convalesence and the Fury stacks don't increase healing you receive from self heals such as bloodbath, Storm's Eye, Inner Beast, and (I think) Thrill of Battle, or Second Wind. So Convalesence doesn't really help maximize any of your self heals.

I have a similar tomahawk macro but it honestly sucks. (Mine is Mark/Tomahawk/Overpower). Having mark on that makes the target you're using your primary skill on have the mark above his head blink in and out. It's honestly not that convenient, and it tends to be better to mark before battle, imo.

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Originally Posted by shoultzilla

Fixed. You need the /wait command. Now they'll cast in sequence. Press the bound Button once, and watch it cast in order. Be sure to always use the macroicon of the highest CD skill that was cast last. This will ensure that when it comes off CD, the rotation is ready to go with all skills in the Macro off CD.

You shouldn't need any macros for skill combos, just your buffs. It's up to you though. Just remember that with /wait 1, if there's any type of latency spike, you might miss a buff. Anything below 1.5 seems to have issues, specially if you're moving.

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You don't need the wait command. Without it it works as a fallthrough macro meaning you push the button 3 times and it uses all 3 skills, or whichever the first one on the list is that isn't on cooldown. It's a) faster because the animation is shorter than 1 second and b) more versatile (you may not want to use all 3 cooldowns all the time).

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You don't need the wait command. Without it it works as a fallthrough macro meaning you push the button 3 times and it uses all 3 skills, or whichever the first one on the list is that isn't on cooldown. It's a) faster because the animation is shorter than 1 second and b) more versatile (you may not want to use all 3 cooldowns all the time).

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Exactly. I prefer to stagger my defensive cooldowns. To use Featherfoot only after Foresight is off... same with awareness. I'd rather have 60+ seconds of little mitigation than 20 seconds of FULL OVERKILL mitigation.

I just wish some of the PLD cross class abilities included a defensive cooldown other than Awareness.

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I'm confused with some of your macros. Overpower doesn't heal you, so I don't know why you would want it macroed with convalesence. Also, Convalesence and the Fury stacks don't increase healing you receive from self heals such as bloodbath, Storm's Eye, Inner Beast, and (I think) Thrill of Battle, or Second Wind. So Convalesence doesn't really help maximize any of your self heals.

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Yeah sorry.. i'll need to adjust it... that second macro is to be used in Conjunction with BLOODBATH. The internal release makes it crit for additional heals. It's really only intended for tanking a group of 3 to 4 mobs where that don't hit hard and don't require crowd control.

I'll fix the macro now.

When playing a WAR, honestly you should be using Bloodbath on Cooldown. It's not much of a cooldown in terms of mitigating damage, but over time it has an effect (at level 50, over the course of 30 seconds it can be 1000-1500 heals depending on various factors).

So honestly you should Either macro it into something you use frequently, or you should combine it with your DPS cooldowns (Internal Release and Berserk).

The Macros I find most useful, for me, are:

/micon "Skull Sunder"
/ac "Blood Bath" <me>
/ac "Skull Sunder <t>

I use this on Skull Sunder because I am always pressing the button during the cooldown. I tried it with heavy swing instead, and the problem is that sometimes I would trigger the global cooldown, but not actually get an attack out which set my combo rotation back at the start of the pull, and that sucks in terms of Enmity.

My Damage buff macro is:

/micon "Berserk"
/ac "Internal Release" <me>
/ac "Berserk" <me>
/ac "Unchained" <me>

I only ever use all 3 skills at the start of the fight, because damage is usually pretty light during the first 30 seconds and I can afford the time without my stacks of Wrath. Later in the fight I will use Internal Release and Berserk, but I will not use Unchained because I will be managing my Wrath stacks for Inner Beasts or to maintain the 15% healing. This is the order you want it in also, so you can get the most out of Berserk and so you can use Unchained early while only having 4 stacks from your combos.

You could also put bloodbath into this macro, and you would want to put it in first.

I'm thinking about macroing Foresight and Vengeance into other commonly used skills. Foresight because it's such a small mitigation you have to use it on cooldown to get much out of it (it works out to ~5% mitigation against Physical Damage only) and Vengeance because it's a little damage / enmity, and it's also a free Wrath stack off of the GCD.

I prefer to macro my off GCD skills into single cast non-opener skills, because I always press them while the global cooldown is going, which actually saves some time when compared to using them one on top of the other because you can cast them during the GCD, just not until your animation finishes.

Finally, I think I may try Haymaker. I will probably macro it into Storm's Eye since I hardly ever use the skill, and I think the 20% slow from haymaker would be useful (also note it doesn't interrupt your combo).

That would leave me with the following macros:

/micon "Fracture"
/ac "Vengeance" <me>
/ac "Fracture" <t>

/micon "Haymaker"
/ac "Haymaker" <t>
/ac "Storm's Eye" <t>

and

/micon "Maim"
/ac "Foresight" <me>
/ac "Maim" <t>

And finally, my emergency macro:

/micon "Convalesence"
/ac "Thrill of Battle" <me>
/ac "Convalesence" <me>

(I used to have Second Wind in this but I'm thinking I will drop that skill for Haymaker as per above).

I leave Featherfoot out of Macros as I try to get as much spread out cooldowns as possible, and I would rather not stack them all together. I also should get around to macroing Mercy Stroke into something, but I find the skill so underwhelming I don't think it's that big of a deal. I may need to find space on my bar for Holmgang as well, which I've been meaning to try, and space is at a premium playing with a gamepad.

I've heard people talk about how useful Macros are, but I'm not really sure why you would/should use them rather than mousing over the skill or clicking the numbers.. :(

@Hachiko

Really great info. Thank you very much.

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Originally Posted by Kite32

I've heard people talk about how useful Macros are, but I'm not really sure why you would/should use them rather than mousing over the skill or clicking the numbers.. :(

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A lot of it depends on what you're comfortable with. Everything you can do with a macro, you can do without. The main purpose of macros is to increase efficiency and make specific functions easier. It's especially important for healers, who can use macros to mitigate the amount of time switching back and forth between a huge amount of targets.

For a class like WAR, you'll find most macros are used to clean up the skill bar, or group together skills that you'll end up using together all the time anyway. Hachiko posted some great macros for keeping CD skills up for those of us that tend to be forgetful with them (something I should probably look into doing, really).

I'd recommend waiting until you hit level 50 and complete your skillset before going in and setting your WAR macros. For healers, it's more of a necessity to set everything working at maximum efficiency, but for WAR, you want to figure out your preferred layout before you go setting everything else up.

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Originally Posted by Zell

Yeah sorry.. i'll need to adjust it... that second macro is to be used in Conjunction with BLOODBATH. The internal release makes it crit for additional heals. It's really only intended for tanking a group of 3 to 4 mobs where that don't hit hard and don't require crowd control.

I'll fix the macro now.

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Conalesence and Wrath stacks don't increase Inner Beast or Bloodbath healing, there is a thread about it here or on the bug forums.