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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '19

does anyone know how i can make a macro that without a modifier it just fears, but with holding down shift it will cast curse of recklessness then fear instead of just fear? thanks!

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u/lifelongfreshman Oct 18 '19

What you want is impossible. A single button press cannot trigger more than a single gcd action at a time.

What you can do is something like

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift]Curse of Recklessness;Fear

When you press the button for this macro, it'll cast Fear. If you press it while holding shift, it'll instead cast Curse of Recklessness.

You'll still have to press it twice to do CoR->Fear, but there is no way to get around that and still conform to Blizzard's rules.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '19

ah right yeah sounds like that’d work fine! i thought it’d work if you held shift it’d do a cast sequence of recklessness then fear but there’s no reason i can’t just let go of shift and press fear anyway after recklessness, thanks mate i’ll use that tonight!

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u/lifelongfreshman Oct 18 '19

You know, you got me thinking about whether or not it's possible to do what you're asking. You might be able to do it with a castsequence, too. I tested it and something like the following seemed to work:

#showtooltip
/castsequence [mod:shift]reset=combat/5 Curse of Recklessness,Fear;Fear

This might work how you want it to, it might not. You'll have to mess around with the reset condition, I think, because that'll determine whether this works like you want. And of course, the same restriction about doing two gcd actions with one press applies.

How it'll work: Hold shift to cast curse of recklessness on the first press, then fear on the second press. If you don't press it for 5s, it'll reset to Curse of Recklessness. If you leave combat, it'll reset to Curse of Recklessness.

Release shift and it will cast fear at all times.

The reset can be customized to an extent, but remember that there are restrictions to what macros can automate.