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How can I disable use of a macro if a spell is on cooldown?
As a Shadow Priest, I use a macro to announce to those nearby who I'm casting Power Infusion on. I do this for clarity in a raid and Mythic+ setting. It works fairly well.
The problem I'm encountering is that I'm sometimes pressing this macro before Power Infusion's cooldown timer is over. This causes the /yell message to send regardless of whether I actually cast Power Infusion or not, leading to me awkwardly mentioning in voice chat that I've not, actually, cast Power Infusion.
Here's my current macro:.
#showtooltip Power Infusion.
/target [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player].
/cast Power Infusion.
/yell Casting Power Infusion on %t.
/targetlasttarget.
I'm abusing /targetlasttarget to make this an easy-to-use mouseover macro.
Is there a way to make this macro not execute at all if Power Infusion is on cooldown?
Question from user Spevacus at gaming.stackexchange.com.
Answer:
So Blizzard removed the ability for a macro to make a determination whether or not to cast a spell. People were abusing this and making automated combat macros that would always cast the most effective barrage of spells/attacks in combat, and it was a game-changer for people on both sides.
You can check that a spell is on cooldown in Lua (https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/API_GetSpellCooldown), but you can't call that from a macro.
(Calling Lua from a macro was the main part of what was removed from the macro abilities.).
Answer from user Tim S. at gaming.stackexchange.com.
As a Shadow Priest, I use a macro to announce to those nearby who I'm casting Power Infusion on. I do this for clarity in a raid and Mythic+ setting. It works fairly well.
The problem I'm encountering is that I'm sometimes pressing this macro before Power Infusion's cooldown timer is over. This causes the /yell message to send regardless of whether I actually cast Power Infusion or not, leading to me awkwardly mentioning in voice chat that I've not, actually, cast Power Infusion.
Here's my current macro:.
#showtooltip Power Infusion.
/target [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player].
/cast Power Infusion.
/yell Casting Power Infusion on %t.
/targetlasttarget.
I'm abusing /targetlasttarget to make this an easy-to-use mouseover macro.
Is there a way to make this macro not execute at all if Power Infusion is on cooldown?
Question from user Spevacus at gaming.stackexchange.com.
Answer:
So Blizzard removed the ability for a macro to make a determination whether or not to cast a spell. People were abusing this and making automated combat macros that would always cast the most effective barrage of spells/attacks in combat, and it was a game-changer for people on both sides.
You can check that a spell is on cooldown in Lua (https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/wiki/API_GetSpellCooldown), but you can't call that from a macro.
(Calling Lua from a macro was the main part of what was removed from the macro abilities.).
Answer from user Tim S. at gaming.stackexchange.com.
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