Macro for Shadow Priest?
The other day I was dualing with a Shaman. He is elemental build. He has a macro that can cast 3 spells in a roll, very fast that killed me instantly. The first one hit me like 4300, then follow by 2800 and 1300, 3 hits within 2 sec. He said with that macro, he is owning PvP. The bad thing he said there is a 3 mins cool down on one or more of his spells. I am not sure which one because I don't play Shaman. Now my question is, is there a macro for shadow priest that can do some combo like this which do a great damage?
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clubs: [Folding@Home] Bloodlust for shamans, decreases their casting time.
As a shadow priest, I've never played one, but I'm sure if you want a one button cast all...you'll need to use a /castsequence.
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Bartlesville, OK im sure hoping he didnt use a 10 min CD on a duel lol. it was more than likely the 31 point ele talent, the one that makes your next spell a 100% crit chance and cost no mana, prob hit that then chain lightning
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clubs: [Folding@Home] Meh, I'll pop Recklessness when fighting a Shadow Priest or Paladin to prove a point.
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Can someone check to see what's wrong with this macro? I try to run it and it casts the first one and then immediately saying there is another action is in progress and it won't cast the second spell.
/cast Shadow word: Pain (rank 5)
/stopcasting
/cast Vampiric Embrace
I want to be able to click on this macro and cast these 2 spells in a roll. I am a newbie when it comes to macro.
Do I have specify the rank?
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clubs: [Team Discovery] There's a 2 second cooldown after you cast SW: Pain and Vampiric Embrace. Macros execute all commands at the same time, hence the reason you're getting the "another action is in progress" warning.
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hmm the only combo that would be three almost instants would be NS + LBolt + Frostshock+ Another shock, but their is still the normal cool down/global timer
most likley he got off a chain lighting as the dual started, then popped NS+LBolt then hit you with a frostshock.
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Global CD is 1.5 secs for all classes except rogues (which has a 1 sec CD).
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Kancel
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probably lightning bolt, nature's switftness+lightning bolt, and a shock. When coupled with bloodlust/heroism this can likely occur within 2 seconds, possibly not including initial cast time of first lightning bolt.
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Alexoi
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I did that but I have to press the button again to cast the next spell in the macro. Is there a way to just do one click and it will cast 2 spells in a roll?
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one idea is you could open with silence if you think they will blow all their CDs at once. some shammy can outburst most mages, sad really. that and now warlocks out AE mages.
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said by Alexoi See Profile :
Can someone check to see what's wrong with this macro? I try to run it and it casts the first one and then immediately saying there is another action is in progress and it won't cast the second spell.
/cast Shadow word: Pain (rank 5)
/stopcasting
/cast Vampiric Embrace
I want to be able to click on this macro and cast these 2 spells in a roll. I am a newbie when it comes to macro.
Do I have specify the rank?
Try this:
/castsequence reset=notarget Shadow word: Pain, Vampiric Embrace
I have found that /stopcasting has bugged on me quite a few times. i.e. stop an instant cast spell, poped errors up, froze my macro on a spell, ect.
I have not played a preist past lvl 10 but if you add comma's after each spell, if there is an order that you primarily use.
For example, I have a framing macro for my mage. five spells that kill anything non-elite level 1-72.
/castsequence reset=notarget Pyroblast, fireball, scorch, scorch, scorch
if you do not add ranks to your spells it instantly casts the highest level of that spell that you have. and reset=notarget resets the macro once the mob is dead because there is no longer a target. best for no stop farming. if you want your macro to reset after a specific amount of time put in reset=#. # is the amount in seconds that you want it to reset. If you go through all of your spells in the macro it automatically resets and starts over.
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OP: The only difference between what you stated you wanted to do and /castsequence is that you have to mash the button for each spell sequence in the /castsequence command. This is by design - Blizzard doesn't want users to have the ability to write a single macro to cast a bunch of spells at the same time. As far as instant cast spells, perhaps that's different - I have no idea.
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said by Gork See Profile :
OP: This is by design - Blizzard doesn't want users to have the ability to write a single macro to cast a bunch of spells at the same time. As far as instant cast spells, perhaps that's different - I have no idea.
If that is the case, it is notgoing to work then.
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You can't have spells be chain casted. He probably had something similar to a priest version of:
Trinket
Inner Focus
Spell
You can have a trinket go off, a spell that doesn't trigger the global cooldown and then your own spell.
I play a shadowpriest with 1142 shadow unbuffed. Top damage in every raid I step into. I have a macro bound to VT to do the following
/use Ancient Crystal Talisman
/use Icon of the Silver Crescent
/cast Vampiric Touch
Swap the names out for your own trinkets. Use that to cast your VT instead of your regular VT button.
I have a macro for my mindflay that ensures that I don't accidentally recast it and cut off my last tick. It is:
/cast [nochanneling:Mind Flay] Mind Flay
Replace your mindflay with that above macro.
As far as shamans go, it's a hit or miss. Shadow word death their grounding totem. Get a silence off, get two dots on them (they can't purge them) and nuke them with a mindblast. If they were smart enough to put a grounding totem down, wand the totem and get in there and fear before he gets a heal off. By then you can open up with another mindblast/death combo and they should be dead.
Ultimately, it's skill vs. skill. Elemental shamans are plenty geared to duke it out with a shadowpriest. Whoever sucks more is going to lose.
But to answer your above post, /stopcasting doesn't help when you're prefixing it with an instant cast.
And if you end up using castsequence, then you're really not learning how to play. Shadowpriests are not about cast sequences. They are about priorities. You keep dots up. You flay or mind blast between dots. As far as PVP goes, keep some range on your opponent. Deal with the totems, damage them down first, CC with silence and/or fear and hope you can burn them down faster than they can burn you/heal themselves.
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Thanks for the Mind Flay macro, I will use that for now on.
As for fighting shamans, I never thought of using SW: Death on totem. I always use wand and it takes a time to kill the totem. When I was fighting that shaman, he first purge my shield and inner focus, then immediately cast that macro that hit me 3 times and I am dead. I didn't even get a chance to cast dot. He said he use trinkets in his macro to do guarantee instance cast nest spell and cirtical his for the next spell.
After you explain all these, I learn more on how to do pvp. What I ususally do when I start the fight is to cast vampiric touch, Mind Blast, then mind flay until he reaches melee range, then I cast fear immediately follow by SW: Pain, vampiric embrace, then mind flay to keep him in the range. Correct me if I am wrong, the reason I cast mind flay right after fear is to keep him in the distance that I can do mind blast or another mind flay. What happen before was I cast fear, he ran so far that is out of my reach and he casted heal on himself and back to 80% health. But please tell me if I am doing it correctly by casting vampiric touch first as the starter.
Also, Can you give me some advice on how to fight against mage and warlock? I never win a match when fighting a mage and warlock. Mage just turn me into sheep and hit me with fireball or that Pryro (don't know how to spell that one) then freeze me, blink out, another fireball and keep doing that until I m dead. Warlock just dot me then fear and deathcoil. By the time I gain control, my health is already down to 40% left.
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said by Alexoi See Profile :
Also, Can you give me some advice on how to fight against mage and warlock? I never win a match when fighting a mage and warlock.
Give it up! No one can beat warlocks! Bwahahahahaha!!!
OK, seriously, warlock dots are instant cast (mostly) so there's not much you can do about them. They take time to kill you, though. Mostly in the 20 - 30 second range. This gives you time to work your mojo. The big key to fighting a warlock is to find a way to resist or overcome fear. If you can't beat fear, you're gonna lose. The instant damage spells from warlocks, like shadow bolt, soul fire, etc. take anywhere from 1.5 to 3 seconds to cast and can be interrupted. If you can do something that will cause the warlock to get hit repeatedly (even if it's for small damage) it will make his spell casting slow and difficult.
Of course, there's always the warlock pet to consider as well. The succubus can make you stand there and look stupid and the felhunter can silence you. Even the imp can lay some decent dps on you.
I stink at PVP but the only way I ever lose a duel is if I get stunned and can't cast. Even then I sometimes recover by having the succubus charm them until the stun wears off. Actually, I'm curious what other warlocks do when that happens. Do the PVP masters rely on trinkets or is there something else to overcome stuns?
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When I was a BM hunter I ate locks for lunch, one on one. Although, if I didnt have good food handy I would often die of the dots long after the lock was dead. As a survival hunter I have more problem with them, but I can usually still take them, especially if I happen to have my PvP trinket on and its cooldown is up. But again, as soon as they are dead i have to eat like crazy or die from dots. This is talking about your run-of-the-mill lock though, if I face a lock in full arena gear, they can usually get me.
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said by saillaw See Profile :
This is talking about your run-of-the-mill lock though, if I face a lock in full arena gear, they can usually get me.
As a mage, I have the wost time with locks possible. Esp since I am not frost. Against SL locks there is next to nothing that I can do, my dmg is a joke on them, and a HS crit heals them for much too much.
As far as fighting Spriests, they are easy for the most part. I cs the mind flay, and steal the shield, just scoch them down. WotF and Trinket take care of any fears.
BM Hunters are difficult for me to kill when redkitty is up, but still possible. I just AP PoM pyro them and usually they die soon after.
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said by chaud See Profile :
said by saillaw See Profile :
This is talking about your run-of-the-mill lock though, if I face a lock in full arena gear, they can usually get me.
BM Hunters are difficult for me to kill when redkitty is up, but still possible. I just AP PoM pyro them and usually they die soon after.
LOL, Red Kitty, that cracked me up. I have a 70 Hunter on a PVP server and the first thing I do when attacking a clothie is hit the red kitty button and unload on them. Works pretty good.