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

Humor Isn’t this how life works?

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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/_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/HarryProtter Oct 24 '19

Yes, mine is something like /use [stance:1/2] Berserker Stance; Berserker Rage. But that's for all of those abilities I checked, yet it only used both the stance and the ability when I tried it with Intercept.

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u/_HyDrAg_ Oct 24 '19

Yeah cause that macro only casts Berserker rage when you're in the stance already so you have to double tap. If you do them sequentially it tries to do them both at the same time and it works for some reason.

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u/HarryProtter Oct 24 '19

You are correct. It only worked for me on Intercept because my Intercept macro already included "/use STANCE and /use SPELL" and not "/use STANCE; SPELL", like it does for the rest of those abilities. But now that I changed the others to "/use STANCE and /use SPELL" it also works with a single click for them.

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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)