Macros with shift/alt/etc modifiers

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Post by Corveroth

You can use a combination of macros and keybindings, but if a keybinding and a macro would respond to the same key combination, the keybinding takes precedence. For example, I have, on my druid, my shapeshifts rebound to Shift-1 through Shift-5 (Dire Bear, Aquatic, Cat, Travel, Swift Flight). On the 3 key, I wanted to place my CC spells- Cyclone, Entangling Roots, and Hibernate. My initial macro for that looked like this:
/cast Hibernate; Entangling Roots; Cyclone

However, pressing Shift-3 activated Cat Form, not Roots. So I had to change the macro to using Alt-3 for Hibernate, and Ctrl-3 for Roots, to avoid that interference.

So, in short, you can bind an actionbar slot to S, and write a macro that will cast different spells depending on modifier keys. However, you need to make sure nothing is bound to Shift-S or that will take precedence.

Post by HighFive

To elaborate:

using will cast the ability if any modifier key is pressed.
using will cast the ability if no modifiers key are pressed.
using . The ability will be cast if the alt key is not pressed.
using will cast the ability if either shift or ctrl is pressed.
using will cast the ability if shift or ctrl, or neither of them is pressed.
using will cast the ability if both shift and ctrl are pressed.

Did I miss anything?

A macro containing lots of the mod conditional is this rogue all-in-one poison macro (taken from wowwiki):/use Anesthetic Poison; Deadly Poison; Crippling Poison; Mind-numbing Poison; Wound Poison;Instant Poison
/use 16; 17

edit:(yes I did)
Cogwheel said:

While modifier keys can only be one of shift, ctrl, or alt, there are a number of system variables that you can use in your modifier conditions as well. For instance, the SELFCAST variable means "whatever your self-cast modifier is set to." The default is alt (holding the alt key while casting a spell will attempt to cast it on yourself) though some addons give you the option to change this. If you create a macro like:

/cast Greater Heal

It will work as expected no mater what you have set as your self-cast key. Some other variables and their defaults (though with arguably much less utility) are as follows:

* AUTOLOOTTOGGLE (shift)
* STICKYCAMERA (ctrl)
* SPLITSTACK (shift)
* PICKUPACTION (shift)
* COMPAREITEMS (shift)
* OPENALLBAGS (shift)
* QUESTWATCHTOGGLE (shift)

Macros with shift/alt/etc modifiers

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