In this issue, I’ll be writing about two more macros that I use alot. Again, they may be “taking the long way around” but I find that they save space on my action bars, and more space means I can fit more crap in there (like the bombs for the Skettis guys). These macros are the infamous Seduce macro and a warlock-specific Mounting macro.

(you can check out Part 1 and Part 3 here).

The infamous Seduce macro!

You’ve heard it in the forums, you’ve seen people asking if you have a seduce macro before pulling in Shadow Labs, and, of course, Arenas. If you don’t frequent the forums (like me) then you may wonder what the hell these people mean, a “seduce macro”? What’s to macro, you select the mob, hit Seduce on your pet’s bar, Subbucus does her thing, bingo, right?

Well, yes and no. “Yes” if you aren’t going to be involved in multiple-mob pulls that require you attacking maybe three targets at the one time, or if you’re never going into the Arenas. “No” if any of the above applies to you (and lets face it: if you’re going to be doing any instances in Outland, you will be facing multiple-mob pulls that you need to be heavily involved in).

So, what is the macro?

#showtooltip
/clearfocus [modifier:alt]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]; [target=focus,dead]
/clearfocus [target=focus,help]
/petstay
/petfollow
/stopcasting
/cast [pet:succubus,target=focus,exists,harm] Seduction; Seduction

OK, lets break this down, line by line:

#showtooltip

If you have read my previous macro post, you’ll know what this means (for those who haven’t and don’t want to, it means it will show the icon and tooltip of the spell that will be cast if you click/use this macro). Not really needed here since we’re only casting one spell, but it pays to be consistent.

/clearfocus [modifier:alt]

If you hold down the Alt key while using this macro, it will clear your “focus”. More on focus coming up …

/focus [target=focus,noexists]; [target=focus,dead]

What is focus? Focus is described by WowWiki.com as:

a secondary target system, used to keep track of a second unit other than the currently targeted unit. The focus is a sort of “target memory” meaning that the focus can be set then recalled with simple macro commands. Furthermore, the user interface supplies full real-time updates for the currently stored focus, including health and mana updates and enemy casting bars. Some user interface addons provide a complete unit frame for the focus.

Focus is awesome when you handle multiple-mob pulls because, with a crowd control ability, it means that you can cast spells and abilities on the focused target without having to manually change targets. When you get put onto Seduce/banish/Fear/DPS duty in the one pull, it can REALLY help.
So, this line then means that, if our current focused target doesn’t exist, or is dead, then make our current target the focus. Lets move on …

/clearfocus [target=focus,help]

This will clear our current focused target if our current target is on our side, or not hostile. Helpful for when you have killed your focused target, but it’s frame is still there in your display, and you don’t want to manually type: /clearfocus

/petstay
/petfollow
/stopcasting

A few pet command here, that take your pet out of combat (for those of you out there who do instances with your pet on Defensive or god-forbid Aggressive). it is told to stay where it is, then follow you, and also stop casting whatever the hell it was casting.

/cast [pet:succubus,target=focus,exists,harm] Seduction; Seduction

The very LAST line will then do what we want it to. Cast Seduction. As long as our current pet is the subbucus, and we have a focused target and it’s hostile to us.
The last Seduction is in there just in case we want to cast Seduction on a target OTHER than our currently focused target (Say, when a party member gets mind-controlled in a boss fight or something).

Going through Shadow Labs I much prefer to roll with my Imp (being affliction spec’d), but I will not hesitate to grab Kalavere when we get up to Blackheart’s room. She has saved many a group from the Long Walk in the past, and I’m sure she will again in the future.

Mounting Different Mounts

As a warlock, we have available an awesome, unique Epic Ground Mount, the Dreadsteed. At this present time, we don’t have a unique Flying Mount, so we must make do as most of the other classes do in this regard.

However, this doesn’t mean that we need to waste another action bar slot, because here we go with my Mount Macro:

#showtooltip
/stopmacro [flying]
/cast [outdoors,nomounted,nomodifier:ctrl,flyable] Golden Gryphon; [outdoors,nomounted]\ Summon Dreadsteed(Summon)
/dismount [mounted]

#showtooltip should be a no-brainer by now.

/stopmacro [flying]

You can leave this line out if you like, because it’s kinda funny if you are flying high above Nagrand and hit the button for this macro, because you will very likely automatically dismount, which can come as a shock to the opposite faction thats taking over Halaa, seeing a warlock go “splat!” right in front of them.
(PS: Leave this line in)

/cast [outdoors,nomounted,nomodifier:ctrl,flyable] Golden Gryphon; [outdoors,nomounted]\ Summon Dreadsteed(Summon)

If you are outside, not currently mounted, NOT holding down the CTRL key, and are in Outlands (flyable), then it will cause you to bring out your Golden Gryphon (replace this with whatever mount you have). If you are outside and notmounted, and either holding the CTRL key or are not in a flyable area (ie. Azeroth) then you will start casting the Dreadsteed (again, if you prefer your War Tiger or whatever, insert that in place of the Dreadsteed. (And, again from the first article, that ‘\’ at the end there: don’t type that in. It’s only there to show you that this line and the next are supposed to stay on the one line. Linux Geeks FTW!)

/dismount [mounted]

And, if you decide that you want to dismount, but moving your mouse All. That. Way. to your buffs to right-click your mount is WAAAY too much trouble, then activating this macro will dismount you. If you left the line at the top that stops this macro if you are flying, then you “shouldn’t” leave a warlock-sized smear on the ground. “Shouldn’t”.

That’s it from me on macros for today, feel free to ask any questions you may have. If you are looking for more macros that I have touched on, check out WoWWiki’s Useful Macros for a Warlock section for heaps more. I used this site as a basis for creating my macros when I first started with them, so you might find something usable. They also have macros for all the other classes there as well, it’s a great resource.