Rogue Macros

[Healaryduff]

Set Tricks of the Trades Target Macro

This is a two macro system, One macro to cast Tricks of the Trade and another to set the target of that macro.
NOTE: The set macro cannot be used in combat since the game will not allow macro editing during combat.

Step 1: Create a blank macro named TotT

Step 2: Create the following macro named as you please, for this example SeTTotT

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/run ToT = UnitName("target")
/run if not InCombatLockdown() then EditMacro('TotT', nil, nil, '#showtooltip\n/cast [target='.. ToT ..'] Tricks of the Trade', nil); print('Tricks of the Trade set to : ' .. ToT); else print('Cannot change TotT now!'); end;

Usage :

* Target the player you want to set as your Tricks of the Trade recipient and use the set macro (SeTTotT), you will see a chatlog message confirming the macro worked.

* Use the TotT macro whenever you want to use Tricks of the Trade.

Apply Poisons

With this macro, you can left click to poison your main hand, right click to poison your offhand, hold down the alt button when you do it to use Crippling Poison or the ctrl button to use Mind-Numbing Poison.

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/use [nomodifier] Instant Poison IV; [modifier:alt] Crippling Poison II; [modifier:ctrl] Mind-numbing Poison III
/use [button:1] 16; [button:2] 17


That's all that I can see that are useful for assassination spec.

[Askance]

Well thank you again! Not sure I can see much use for the poison one as those choices are made out of combat, and quite rarely; I'll save my valuable button space for ones I need urgently!

The ToT works well, thank you; the only problem I have with using it is I'm used to casting TotT on the focus rather than my target. As best I can tell (eg from http://www.wowwiki.com/Focus_target) if I have an enemy (or nothing) targetted and a friend as focus, TotT will hit the focus, not try for the target? The reason this is an issue is that it's a lot easier in a raid to focus on someone not in your group (it's a right-click option) than to target them (you basically have to find their toon in the crowd and click on them). Not sure if anything can be done about this, I guess it would take a second macro so I could use one for my target and one for my focus.

The other thing I didn't realise until looking into this is that I can cast TotT up to 30 seconds before combat, within that span the 6 second timer doesn't start until I do my first damage! Very neat, Blizz.

[Healaryduff]

There are several different ways to go about it. But essentially you want what works best for you.

Now as far as selecting a target to give them TotT, you no longer have to do that with this macro. This macro will automatically select the person you designate (before the fight) to give TotT to and you don't have to even switch targets.

The other method would be using a mouseover feature similar to the way I give out Power Infusion. The mouse over function works well when you have when an addon like grid, because instead of finding that person in the fight and having to click on them...you just click their name on the grid addon and they are selected.

[Healaryswank]

In regards to your difficulties selecting someone as your focus target, my suggestion would be to keybind setting focus to a certain button. Personally I use C or V, can't remember which. But then all you need to do is target that person and press the focus button you have set up.

[Askance]

Actually it's the other way round - putting focus on someone is easy, you just right-click on their name in the raid list and it's an option liste dthere. It's the targetting that's hard.

But in any case I'll give it a shot next time I'm in a 25man and see how it goes. Much thanks!

[Healaryswank]

Ah in that case I take it you don't have raid frames shown on your screen?

[Askance]

Ehm ... no ... (quickly Googles WoW raid frames) ...

[Viscelock]

Usually this is the case if someone hasn't played a healer, but trust me, even as DPS or Tank, Raid Frames makes a HELL of a difference.

[Healaryswank]

I use AG_Unit Frames (spelling format may slightly differ). As someone who has never used them I would suggest trying that one out. It is minimalistic and sleek in look and not at all hard to configure. I'll post a screen shot if I'm in a raid anytime soon.

Or if you can find room on your ui for Grid I would recommend that even more.

[Healaryduff]

Grid can take up less room than AG or pitbull though, unless you mean memory space.

[Askance]

FYI in VoA 25 I just did nearly 7k against Toravon and 7,659 against Koralon ! So these changes are definitely helping, that must be something like a 2k improvement. I can only thank you again.

[Cayna]

Im pretty hopeless with macros and Im even more hopeless at targeting a specific person to use ToT on....so what I have been doing is finding out who the MT is (or OT if Im with that group), before the fight I target them and set focus. You can then unlock your set focus and put it where ever you want, I have it down the bottom so that the focused persons frame is directly above my ToT button. I can then quickly click the set focus frame and ToT in like less then a second.
Will try the macro for sure but like I said....Im pretty hopeless at them ;P

[Askance]

Yes, I've just discovered that you can focus on someone, click on the focus icon which makes them a target, then clear the focus. So I'm cool now.

[Operative]

Two easy macros to manage your tricks, it allows you to cast it w/o target swapping. Also an addon like power auras will let you know the moment its off cd so you can recast it. Very important with the 2 pieces set bonus.
/focus
/cast [target=focus] Tricks of the Trade

[Askance]

I'm using RoguePowerBars for the cooldown stuff, it seems to work well enough for me. As far as set bonuses go, I've outgrown the set with the rupture bonus (the vanCleef series) but haven't yet graduated to Tier10 with the ToT bonus.

[Askance]

Set a new PB today, 8.4k against Saurfang in a guild ICC run. And I picked up a piece of new gear [Toskk's Maximized Wristguards] which will take my wow-heroes score over 3,000 ...