A Question to those with multiple 60s

[cd288]

Originally Posted by Tewaz [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It isn't the dance that killed me it was the sheer number of times you have to hit Canni 3 + GCD to get down there. Canni 4 is such a breath of fresh air.

Can you automate this with a macro? Can't recall if something like that is legal on P99 or not

[DeathsSilkyMist]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Can you automate this with a macro? Can't recall if something like that is legal on P99 or not

https://youtu.be/7K7oSx2vplg?feature=shared

This is how I canni dance. I dance every other tick using a Macro. You just need to click the macro once and then click your GCD item once between the first and second canni cast. Two buttons every 12 seconds. This works for canni 1, 2, and 3. You can squeeze two canni's in between one tick, so you don't have to try and cast canni once per tick.

Details are in the video description, but I'll copy them here:

This is the macro I am using:

/stand
/pause 1
/pause 21, /cast 1
/pause 21, /cast 1
/sit

After the first cast of Cannibalize, hit your GCD item so you can Cannibalize the second time. Do not worry if you are a bit too slow or fizzle. Just wait until the next dance, as you see in my video. I am pressing 1 to start the macro, and then pressing 2 as soon as the first Cannibalize finishes casting.

This will work for Cannibalize 1, 2, and 3. It will not work for Cannibalize 4 due to the slower cast time.

If you look in the video, I have my inventory UI up. This is so I can watch the HP/Mana number for the tick change, rather than my health/mana/stamina bar at the top right. This is because the tick usually occurs initially as a +1 to Mana, rather than the full amount. This means your percentage bar is not very accurate when gauging the tick, because getting only +1 to mana will probably not change the percentage. Usually when you see the number go up by 1, that means the tick has occurred, even if the number is inaccurate at the time.

Finally, make sure Cannibalize is in your top spell slot. The top spell slot is special, because it will refresh instantly, instead of waiting for the spell cooldown to finish. This does not mean you can get around the spell cooldown (you will get a red message if you try to do this with spells that have a long cooldown), but it does mean you can start casting the spell simultaneously while the cooldown is counting down. As long as the spell cast finishes after the cooldown finishes, the game will allow you to cast the spell. This means the trick only really works for spells that have a short cooldown, and luckily Cannibalize is one of those spells.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

https://youtu.be/7K7oSx2vplg?feature=shared

This is how I canni dance. I dance every other tick using a Macro. You just need to click the macro once and then click your GCD item once between the first and second canni cast. Two buttons every 12 seconds. This works for canni 1, 2, and 3. You can squeeze two canni's in between one tick, so you don't have to try and cast canni once per tick.

Details are in the video description, but I'll copy them here:

Interesting thanks. Can you macro the GCD into that somehow (i.e., one click of macro does canni, GCD, and second canni)? Or is that getting into illegal on P99 range

[DeathsSilkyMist]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Interesting thanks. Can you macro the GCD into that somehow (i.e., one click of macro does canni, GCD, and second canni)? Or is that getting into illegal on P99 range

No problem!

As far as I know you can't macro a clickie sadly. I 100% hope I am wrong on that, but so far I haven't found a way to do so that is legally allowed.

[WarpathEQ]

Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No problem!

As far as I know you can't macro a clickie sadly. I 100% hope I am wrong on that, but so far I haven't found a way to do so that is legally allowed.

You can macro a clicky but not directly. It requires the use of 2 slots on your hotbar (1 for macro, 1 for clicky) and binding both slots to the same key in the options menu. Have to play with the macro a little bit, likely build a short pause in, to get it to fire correctly 100% of the time.

I have clickies macro'd in with my bard songs so I can twist 9-10 effects at a time.

Clickes with cast times and spells that often fizzle wouldn't work very well for this. Instant clickies definitely. May also not work well for non-bards as high level skill means its extremely rare a song doesn't fully fire. I actually learned this technique reading a monk thread, very popular method to link your epic clicky to a macro with the kick line of skills since the skills will always fire (one downside is unlike directly linking the skill button to your hotbar, you won't get the visual of the button grey'd out when the skill is on cooldown if you hotbar a macro, you can leave the skill bar up to still get the visual cooldown though)