Cast one spell, then another until a condition is met

Post by Teddiursa

At the moment I am using this silly macro:

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/castsequence reset=120/combat Lichborne, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil, Death Coil

Does it work for the intended function? Yup, and perfectly so, however I'm wondering if might be a way to make this a bit less... "silly"? It's obvious that the intended function is to cast Lichborne and then Death Coil as much as possible. Is there a way to do this without using this little "loophole" of bad coding?

Post by Wanderingfox

Nope. In fact it was done like this specifically to prevent circumvention. The way you've written it requires no conditional logic. It just says cast lichborn then cast death coil 8 times. Reset this after 120 seconds or on combat change.

The way you want to write this is "if lichborne is off cooldown then" and this the exact behavior that Blizzard does not want. Way back in the day it was possible (using the old macro system, which could cast spells directly while using logic code). Unfortunately, this lead to multiple classes being playable by spamming a single button (Rogue for example).

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Post by Wanderingfox

Pretty sure they made fall through like that not function... though I haven't tested it recently. It might be the case that it will fall through if its on cooldown but won't fall through if the spell is technically usable (I know for a fact that that logic will not work for something like /cast backstab /cast mutilate).

Post by Teddiursa

I've tried that macro and it doesn't seem to work. Thanks, guess I'll stick with this lol.

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Cast one spell, then another until a condition is met

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