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October 09, 2009, 10:55 AM
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remen 70 Human Warlock hyjal US PvE Guild: Crisis Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 41/5/16 |
Casting Macro's
I am posting this to let my fellow warlocks know about an experiment i did regarding casting macros. While i know using casting macros is bad for the lack of flexibility as in it's hard to change targets which results in getting out of sequence but I thought using it on a boss where you did not change targets much would be ok. Well that's wrong I found that in a stand up fight like XT where I was not taking care of the adds I was loosing incinerates to the other lock in the raid as in 208 to 141 more than a little bit. It was hard mode and lasted almost 10 min. Some of the difference is his haste which is 100 points higher than me but that is not enough to account for this kind of shortfall. Oh I only got the gravity or light thing one time so that wasn't a factor. Anyway i tested this shortened macro casting /castsequence reset=target/combat incinerate, incinerate, incinerate, incinerate against just spamming the incinerate button. The idea is to see if over one min if i get the same # of incinerates using the macro as I do spamming the incinerate button and guess what spamming the incinerate button yielded 27 incinerates and using the macro yielded 24 incinerates. I did repeat this and it was consistent some times i lost 1 or 2 more incinerates but never less than 3. What I use in combat is /castsequence reset=target/combat immolate, chaos bolt, incinerate, incinerate, incinerate, incinerate just for the record. I insert the conflag when the CD timer is up. I am not at all sure why this is it should be the same but it's not at least not for me anyway. i thought I would share this so anyone else that's maybe using the macros will know. |
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November 14, 2009, 12:09 AM
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Kimzi 80 Gnome Warlock Thorium Brotherhood US RP PvE Guild: Corrupted Morality Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 0/14/57 |
Re: Casting Macro's
I never really thought about it, but that would make sense, as your system takes a certain amount of time to parse and process the macro every time you use it. I do find the discrepency surprisingly high though. |
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November 14, 2009, 12:38 AM
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Character Info
Cormanthor 80 Human Warlock Gnomeregan US PvE Guild: Knights who say Ni Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: Various |
Re: Casting Macro's
It might be related to the /stopcasting changes Blizzard made late into The Burning Crusade (?) in an effort to make addons like Quartz unnecessary. There is a time period where the UI will send data to the server even though it thinks you are still casting -- an effort to reduce DPS lost due to lag. This change may not have the same level of benefits to a /castsequence macro. It would be interesting to see if a change in your lag greatly increases the difference between the two tests.
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November 14, 2009, 03:05 PM
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Re: Casting Macro's
Thinking I could eke out more DPS, I tried out your macro using my raid set and then my normal soloing set. I then used both sets with my normal rotation (Immo, CB, Conflag, Incin, x3) and found that I did 500-600 more DPS using my normal rotation than using your macro on each set. What I did find interesting with your macro is that the times to cast all spells, including Conflag, timed perfectly with Immolate's expiration. I found I was casting Immo right at the 1-2 second mark before Immolate expired which seems like all is good in the world. This meant I could get in the four Incinerates your macro uses versus the three my normal rotation uses which seems really great when you think about the ease of use. But, the timing can be attributed to what the poster above stated about the time delay to parse your macro which makes everything seem to work just fine. However, I was able to do more DPS because I was casting CB when it expired versus when your macro got around to casting it. Yes, your macro produces more Incinerates, but less CB means lower DPS. Even if you deleted the fourth Incinerate from your macro I think you would find yourself standing there waiting to cast something. If you spammed your macro instead, you would clip Immolate and lower your DPS even further. I say all this for two reasons: 1 - The timing of the macro results in lower DPS and you should probably drop using it because 2 - Incinerates are fillers and should not be used on a set number of casts but rather casted when the other spells are on CD So, what I tried was a combination of macros for all the spells but nothing beat out my DPS on my normal rotation. After trying everything, I think putting all spells on one macro is a bad idea because as the fight progresses certain spells are on CD, others available, and no macro can predict which is the correct spell to cast next. |
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