Pseudocoded

So Kadomi at Tank Like A Girl found the most wicked tool today and posted about it on Twitter – Fitzcairn’s Macro Explain-o-matic. What it does is simple – it takes macro code and breaks it down into plain English.

Now, this assumes that you have macros to test it with. What better reason for me to do a post about my macros that I use most than this? Bear in mind that quite a few of these are Draenei-specific since I absolutely LOVE Gift of the Naaru. Text in bold is my macro name as it is in WoW, and below is the macro code in italics. Go throw it in the Explain-o-matic and see how it works!

NOW IS THE TIME!
#showtooltip Call of the Wild
/y Power of Greatness, show your true form before me! I, RIlgon, command you under our contract…
/cast Call of the Wild
/cast Rapid Fire
/y RELEASE!

Mend/Naaru
#showtooltip Mend Pet
/cast [modifier:shift, target=pet, nodead, exists] Gift of the Naaru; Mend Pet

Naaru Me or Tank
#showtooltip Gift of the Naaru
/cast [modifier:shift, target=targettarget, exists, help] Gift of the Naaru; Gift of the Naaru

Focus Lock
/focus
/p [Misdirection Macro Ready - %t is my Focus!]
/ra [Misdirection Macro Ready - %t is my Focus!]

Misdirector
#showtooltip Misdirection
/cast [target=focus,exists,nodead] Misdirection; [target=pet,exists,nodead] Misdirection
/ra Misdirecting %f.
/p Misdirecting %f.

Boom, STFU, Shot
#showtooltip Chimera Shot
/cast Chimera Shot
/cast Silencing Shot
/use 10

(Note: I have a variant of this for Steady, Aimed, Kill, and Arcane, too – just replace Chimera with the other shot. Equipment slot 10 is my gloves, to use my Hand-Mounted Pyro Rockets)

1-Minute Cooldowns
#showtooltip Saronite Bomb
/cast Serenity Dust
/cast Kill Command
/cast Savage Rend
/use Saronite Bomb




I think you’ll find this tool to be crazy useful – and I hope my macros are even slightly so! :P

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 Uncategorized

4 Comments to Pseudocoded

  • khatian says:

    Looks cool, still beta though. Doesn’t correctly know what is off our GCD and what is on.

  • Oh, obviously, that’ll be refined over time. I’m sure most of us know what is and isn’t, though, and the pseudo-coding of a macro is a great way to look at something like my Naaru macro and go “oh, that’s how it works…”

  • The Resource Site Spotlight post inspiration came from Myze, the ghost of a blogger that still haunts BA chat and knows the guy that coded it.

    Now I wish it spoke LUA… ;)
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  • Pike says:

    This is pretty cool =O

    It hates my mount macro though. XD

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