macro help for warrior

Ok i have been wondering if there is a way to prioritize attacks in a macro depending on the state of the combo. for example:

Heavy Swing>Skull sunder>Butchers Block all in one button press WITHOUT the use of /wait.

The closest iv gotten to 1 button press was:

/ac Heavy swing
/hotbar action "Skull Sunder" 1 2 <wait.4>
/hotbar action "Butcher' Block" 1 2

I still ended up having to use /wait to get it to properly work. again i am hoping that certain skills will be used depending on the state of the combo. Can someone please help me out with this?

Unless your keyboard allows for macros, no. The in game macro creator doesn't have enough freedom to make such a thing. Macros don't queue actions, it'll attempt to use them all at once

I wouldn't suggest doing macro's at all in this game (unless it's an off GCD item). effectiveness goes down the drain when you try to macro combo skills like that.

Use hotbar copy.
#1 Make these two macros:

/ac "Heavy Swing" <t>
/ac "Heavy Swing" <t>
/hotbar copy mrd 8 War 1
/macroicon "Heavy Swing"

/ac Maim <t>
/ac Maim <t>
/hotbar copy mrd 7 war 1
/macroicon Maim

#2 Copy the hotbar you want onto your marauder for the skull sunder/BB combo in slot 8. This will be your default hotbar. Mine looks like this.

http://i57.tinypic.com/2ch3z7o.jpg

#3 Copy the hotbar to mrd 7 with storms combo replacing the ss/bb skills. (Maim should be on both hotbars.)
Mine looks like this.

http://i57.tinypic.com/2v81qh4.jpg

Results: When you use maim, it will replace skull sunder/butchers block with storms eye and storms path. Using heavy swing will bring back your enmity combo. Use Non-macro skills for the others as need.
Maybe that will help. If you are on ps3/4 use /chotbar copy instead of hotbar. :3

Although this WILL not make you press less buttons, it will save you some hotbar space! :D <3

Update it a little with pictures. xD

Do yourself and everyone you play with a huge favor and don't use tank macros for anything aside from party chat announcements of fight specific things to increase party awareness, such as weather changes in Bismark ex or reminding the other tank of a tank swap. I seriously cringed seeing the pictures of the setup in the previous post.

Why. Tell me the functionality I lost. I didn't chain a single macro. No wait command. I weave in abilities just fine. You can't use storm's eye or storms path without first using maim. You honestly can't mess this setup up. If you're talking about my other skills, I like to put <t> only on my buffs and focus on skills like holmgang/Brutal.

Apparently you don't know why macros are bad.

No. Please enlighten me. The only bad thing I've seen come from macros are the wait command macros, since you can lose almost a whole second waiting for the chain to go off.

You can't queue a skill if it's in a macro, which is going to cause your dps to be lower than if your skills were not in a macro, and in the specific case for war, will very highly likely make you unable to fit in 9 hits during berserk. I tried this out with only having one macro that combines inner beast and fell cleave into one button (seemed convenient so I gave it a shot), and the delay caused by that alone made it nearly impossible to do a 9 hit berserk on a test dummy, so you could forget that ever happening in actual content.

To further explain the queuing system:

Let's say you have Skull Sunder in a macro. You press Heavy Swing first. The Heavy Swing goes off, and you then press your Skull Sunder macro. If you press the macro and the 2.5 second GCD for heavy swing hasnt finished, the macro will do nothing. You'll need to wait the full 2.5 seconds (well maybe 2.45 with skillspeed) and then press it. Due to human error, lag and latency, you'll likely miss out on a fraction of a second, because you'll probably be pressing the button at closer to 2.6 or 2.7 seconds. It's humanly impossible to press the button at -exactly- the millisecond the cooldown ends - you either press early and nothing happens, or you lose a few fractions of a second in a gap between Heavy and Skull.

If you press Skull Sunder early when it ISNT in a macro, though, it queues it up! You can press skull sunder with half a second left on the Heavy Swing cooldown and the skull sunder will IMMEDIATELY fire off as soon as the cooldown ends. . Zero gap, no lag, no risk of the press not registering. This queueing doesnt happen if the skullsunder is macroed.

That's why macros of regular GCD moves are bad - they increase the lag between skills, and sometimes result in a skill not firing off when pressed. It's the equivalent of debuffing yourself with a Slow, reducing your skillspeed.

Simply without going into the details of the previous posts (but they are correct for those willing to take the time)

Macros make your abilities have a delay rather than go when the GCD reaches 0.
Bigger delay between abilities = lower DPS.

Also if you queue whole Combos you can only do second wait times so you will either do your skills 3 seconds apart which is MUCH slower, or have the macro try to do a skill after 2 seconds and therefore miss the middle skill of your combo out.

That didn't end up being much shorter did it. Oops.

There is one macro on War that I found can really clean up your hotbar: A Defiance/Deliverance button that also swaps out Cleave/Beast and Cyclone/Decimate.

There's no queuing issue since defiance and deliverance are oGCD and you're just swapping buttons for the other skills, not adding macros to them.

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Originally Posted by Rbstr

There is one macro on War that I found can really clean up your hotbar: A Defiance/Deliverance button that also swaps out Cleave/Beast and Cyclone/Decimate.

There's no queuing issue since defiance and deliverance are oGCD and you're just swapping buttons for the other skills, not adding macros to them.

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These two are legit and awesome

The only macro a WAR needs is "ESUNA/LEECHES PLEASE <se.10>"

Fell/inner beast are clunky in macros, I'll give you that, but I still manage to hit my three fell cleaves. The rotation Iuse is:
HS>Maim>Eye>Brutal>Fracture>HS>SS>BB>HS>Berserk>Fell>Maim>pot>Eye>IR>HS>SS>Brutal>BB>Ven or Raw> Fell>Infuriate>Fell. Leaves me 1~2 Seconds. O.o

Could up tell me the setup you use to reach that 9 GCD triple Fell? It's 8 using a buff and would be 10 without, because you need to heavy swing first.

I'm super willing to learn a new rotation xD. This is just what I thought of myself.

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Originally Posted by Gil_DryJoint

Ok i have been wondering if there is a way to prioritize attacks in a macro depending on the state of the combo. for example:

Heavy Swing>Skull sunder>Butchers Block all in one button press WITHOUT the use of /wait.

The closest iv gotten to 1 button press was:

/ac Heavy swing
/hotbar action "Skull Sunder" 1 2 <wait.4>
/hotbar action "Butcher' Block" 1 2

I still ended up having to use /wait to get it to properly work. again i am hoping that certain skills will be used depending on the state of the combo. Can someone please help me out with this?

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Why are you trying to press a single button to do 3 actions? Not only are you showing how lazy you are; you're also losing time on the GCD. You should -- ideally -- be able to do 9 actions every Berserk cycle. No way you're doing that by waiting 4 seconds.

He's not waiting any time really. The idea of his macro is

Use Heavy swing.
When heavy swing is used skull suffer sunder is placed on slot 2 on hotbar 1.
2.5 seconds later he will use the non macroed skull sunder.
1.5 seconds later Skull sunder will be replaced by Butchers block.
1 second later he will use Butchers block.
I could see where this could get messed up, but it's an interesting idea, but really risky if you run other macros.

And if he just pushes 3 separate buttons, he is less likely to mess up AND less likely to ruin it with other macros. His macro could easily be messed up by actions that do NOT break combos, such as hitting IB or FC.

I agree on that xD

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Originally Posted by FridgePanic

The only macro a WAR needs is "ESUNA/LEECHES PLEASE <se.10>"

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Am I bad for not having even that macro? :D It's just 5 freaking seconds. Will the world end in 5 seconds?