/castsequence and seals

#0 - Nov. 15, 2006, 9:10 p.m.
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First off i want to say, i love the idea of /castsequence, thank you for implementing it slouk.

Now to the nitty gritty.
Alot of paladins currently use a macro that works to cast a seal and then on the next button press judge the seal. Seeing as it requires a script to do this in live we cant use the same macro to do this in TBC.

Now /castsequence is a great way of getting around this problem of lack of scripted casting, but the way /canstsequence works is inharently broken in combination with the seal and judgement system.
A way of doing this macro would be to use /castsequence Seal of Whatever, Judgement and this would work excelently if you use judgement before your seal expires on you, but when your seal DOES expire and you still havent judged it you run into a problem.

Seeing as you must have a seal active to cast judgement, if your seal expires BEFORE you cast judgement then your sequence is locked onto casting judgement, which you cant cast unless you have a seal on, which you cant cast because your stuck on judgement.

Im sure everyone sees the dillema here.

Now the first reply to this thread im absolutly SURE will be "just use the [time=30] argument in your castsequence nub!"
Well that WOULD work, except if you hit the macro to cast judgement and it fails to cast, you have those 30 seconds reset, and you have to wait another 30 seconds for your macro to reset.

Now what i am requesting is that we get a new function for castsequence, [timer=sec] this works alot like time, except it starts the timer when the sequence is initiated, and then it doesnt ever reset the timer.
#16 - Nov. 15, 2006, 11:29 p.m.
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Actually, in that case, my original proposed macro works just fine.

/castsequence reset=30 Seal of Wisdom, Judgment

That's not based on the presense of a buff...it's based on time. If you hit it once, you cast the Seal...if you hit it again within 30 seconds, you cast judgement. If don't, it resets and you cast the Seal again. If you cast the seal and immediately cast the judgment after, it resets.

I'm not being stupid and missing something here, right?


Nope, that should work fine. Just don't click it again when Judgement would fail, or it'll stay on Judgement and reset the timer.
#17 - Nov. 15, 2006, 11:30 p.m.
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i was under the impression that the "reset" time does not refresh each time you click the button.


The reset time does refresh each time you click the button.

Edit: It's more of an idle timeout than a way to synchronize with cooldowns.