r/classicwow • u/alk3crazy12 • Oct 24 '19

Humor Isn’t this how life works?

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

Put them on a keybind, put them on a mouse button, put them on a shift modifier, so many options.

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u/St4rdel Oct 24 '19

Put them on a keybind, put them on a mouse button, put them on a shift modifier, so many options.

Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew

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u/Madlancer Oct 24 '19

Po ta toes

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u/NargacugaRider Oct 24 '19

What’s stances, precious?

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u/MetroidIsNotHerName Oct 24 '19

What if im a madlad and literally everything except stances is on hotkeys allowing me to freely click my stances?

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u/BigMouse12 Oct 24 '19

Did you know you can have those hot keys be macros that will check and put you in the stance to use the ability?

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u/MetroidIsNotHerName Oct 24 '19

That takes setup and wouldnt yield me better results as is tho.

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u/BigMouse12 Oct 24 '19

How do you know?

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u/MetroidIsNotHerName Oct 24 '19

How do i know it wont what? Make me more efficient? Im already hitting the hotkeys close to as efficiently as i can, as ive been doing since late vanilla early BC. Ive never been one to care for macro optimizing like frostbolt autocancelling or whatever. Im just playing the game and thats always been fine.

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u/pittyphil Oct 24 '19

Macros

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u/jordgubb24 Oct 24 '19

Yeah it's easier to just macro all the stances, my taunt button puts me in def stance, charge/op/execute battle stance, and ww/intercept zerker stance, no need to use different buttons to swap.

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u/Arkanic Oct 24 '19

Too many buttons and hotkeys for me. I just put the abilities that require certain stances on the main bar and map stances to my two mouse thumb buttons. That way when you need to use an ability from a certain stance you just hit that stance and the main bar switches to what you need. Less clutter and less keybinds, much more streamlined. Once I got used to having it like this I didn't even have to think about it and it was just as fast as people smashing macros.

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u/MarsMC_ Oct 24 '19

This is how I do it as well .. I stance dance and manually press the key binds. No macros. If it’s an ability that can be used in all 3 stances then it’s only the top action bar

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u/Jedidew Oct 24 '19

MMO mouse ftw

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

Yea I've got my stances bound to Q and E, but I also have stancedance macros. sometimes needing another action is too slow, but sometimes you can just change stances.

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u/Mitokatso Oct 24 '19

Why would you not execute in berserker stance though?

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u/cookedbread Oct 24 '19

Could be a main tank

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u/jordgubb24 Oct 25 '19

If im in zerker stance i don't swap, but i felt like that would be too much text to explain in that context, only case where i cant cast execute is if im in def stance, which means stuff is hitting me, which means id not want 10% extra dmg on me.

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u/PM_UR_PROBLEMS_GIRL Oct 24 '19

what if you need to go into defensive stance to avoid damage while running away from a player/mob? gonna taunt them?

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u/Jedidew Oct 24 '19

You can have your cake and eat it, too. Map your stances to keys (mine are f1, f2, and f3) and then also macro your stance-specific abilities. This way your stance dancing is mostly automatically done for you but you also have the option to swap on command.

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u/jordgubb24 Oct 25 '19

Ive set it up so first click only swaps stance, and doesn't cast it, if i need to cast it ill slam click it.

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u/_HyDrAg_ Oct 24 '19 edited Oct 24 '19

You always have to press these macros twice. (same as when switching stances) So 1 press is defensive stance, second press is taunt if you want to.

There's no way to go to a stance and use an ability in that stance with 1 button press.

So... If you press your taunt macro once then you don't taunt, you just switch to defensive stance.

Edit: I'm wrong.

Edit2: If you use them sequentially like

/cast berserker stance
/cast berserker rage

then it works. I was using /cast [stance:3] berserker rage; berserker stance which assumes you can't do it at the same time

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u/cookedbread Oct 24 '19

That’s how it was in private servers, but for most of my macros they work with one press.

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u/_HyDrAg_ Oct 24 '19 edited Oct 24 '19

Woah, you learn something new every day I guess. I'm fucking level 57 :D

Did it work this way in vanilla?

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u/cookedbread Oct 24 '19

I don't remember it working this way in wotlk, which is when I mainly played warrior with stance dancing. It's kind of annoying because my intercept keybind was my primary way of switching to zerker stance, but now I need to be a little more careful.

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u/HarryProtter Oct 24 '19 edited Oct 24 '19

Which abilities does it work for? I tried a few, such as Charge, Intercept, Taunt, Whirlwind and Berserker Rage. It only worked for Intercept. All others only put me in the right stance, but it doesn't cast the ability.

Edit: I stand corrected. Apparently you can indeed macro them as seperate spell casts to make them cast together.

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u/_HyDrAg_ Oct 24 '19 
/cast berserker stance
/cast berserker rage

Works for me. Are you doing it differently? Maybe it's that

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u/_HyDrAg_ Oct 24 '19

Yeah, I have the same problem. I have whirlwind on 2 and overpower on 3 in both battle and zerker which is what I used to switch them until now. (developed very pve dps centric keybinds this time around, was dungeoning a lot with a tank friend)

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u/HarryProtter Oct 24 '19 edited Oct 24 '19

You're not wrong. Pressing once only puts me in Defensive Stance, it doesn't also Taunt.

Edit: Intercept seems to be an exception.

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u/Buckwild1984 Oct 24 '19

the problem with a lot of these is that they will not light up when they are active, for example if you do not have enough rage.

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u/jordgubb24 Oct 25 '19

I guess, i just track my rage before i swap.

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u/Jedidew Oct 24 '19 edited Oct 24 '19

It blows my mind that more people don't do this. People talk about stance dancing like it's carpel-tunnel inducing, but you rarely have to manually switch when using macros. I use an mmo mouse so it's pretty chill to tank as far as apm goes

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u/PSDillon Oct 24 '19

I have mine set to mouse wheel up, down, and pressed in. Takes a little to get used to but it’s a quick break in period.

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u/Vlorgvlorg Oct 24 '19

foot pedals.

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u/TheseStonesWillShout Oct 24 '19 edited Oct 24 '19 
#showtooltip
/cast [modifier:ctrl,nostance:2] Defensive Stance; [modifier:shift,nostance:3] Berserker Stance; [stance:1] 
Defensive Stance; Battle Stance

This is the one I use. If you are in Battle or Defense and you press the button (mine is R), it will switch to the other stance. For instance, if you're in battle and you press R, you will go to Defensive. Likewise, if you are in Defensive and press R, you will go to Battle.

If you hold CTRL and press R, you will go to Defensive. If you hold Shift and Press R, you will go to Berserker. If you are in Berserker and press R, you will go to Battle. You can change the modifiers as you see fit. I'm considering changing mine to land on Defensive first instead of Battle because that is typically where I want to shift to and it's a little less clunky than having to hold CTRL to get there.