Help With Macros, Please!

[ChaoticCrimson]

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Ah, okay that doesn't seem so bad! Would there be a practical way to set it to use Swiftcast before Verraise while it's available, too? I'm guessing you could probably just put /ac "Swiftcast" before the line to cast Verraise, right?

[CelestialWyrm]

Ah, okay that doesn't seem so bad! Would there be a practical way to set it to use Swiftcast before Verraise while it's available, too? I'm guessing you could probably just put /ac "Swiftcast" before the line to cast Verraise, right?

Correct, however macros can get wonky sometimes and if you try to use it when Swiftcast is on CD, you won't be able to cast Verraise with the macro and have to resort to the normal action. Personally I don't include Swiftcast in the macro and just manually use it before using my Raise macro, in case I need to raise when Swiftcast is still on CD.

[ChaoticCrimson]

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That makes sense. I wasn't sure how practical it'd be to add it in, but it's not a big deal to just pop Swiftcast manually first before using the macro. Thanks for the input everyone!

[StragoMagus]

Correct, however macros can get wonky sometimes and if you try to use it when Swiftcast is on CD, you won't be able to cast Verraise with the macro and have to resort to the normal action. Personally I don't include Swiftcast in the macro and just manually use it before using my Raise macro, in case I need to raise when Swiftcast is still on CD.

It will still cast Verraise even if Swiftcast is on cool down. In fact, I know tanks that use this fact to place all their defensive buffs in one macro to rotate their abilities that’s not on cool down. The issue might have to do with latency for some.

[ULoki]

Ah, okay that doesn't seem so bad! Would there be a practical way to set it to use Swiftcast before Verraise while it's available, too? I'm guessing you could probably just put /ac "Swiftcast" before the line to cast Verraise, right?

Why do you need swiftcast when you can proc dualcast and that's instant too?

[ChaoticCrimson]

Why do you need swiftcast when you can proc dualcast and that's instant too?

Well, that is true. The thing is if a situation has deteriorated to the point where I'm going to need to do any resurrecting I'm probably going to need to act as fast as possible, especially given that I'm probably saving a healer. With Dualcast, that's still at least a two second delay for me to Vercure someone before Dualcast gets its proc. With Swiftcast, I can immediately rez and then heal or rez someone else as needed. At least that's my figuring.