[quote quote=11070]Hey everyone! I just wanted to give my feedback/input on some tweaks I’ve made with Mr. Webber’s macros that are more PVE focused.
First off Mr. Webber thank you so much for creating a great base with your warrior macros for people like myself to toy and tinker with. I’ve taken what you had and centered it around PVE priority and warrior cooldowns to really tear up the DPS charts.
Disclaimer*- Yes arms AOE is killer when it comes to raiding AOE fights (ie: Spoils fight in SoO). Yesterday in normal I topped the charts as ARMS on that fight beating everyone in my guild that has the legendary cloak. I don’t even have the cloak yet but when I do OMG! The problem is arms single target just can’t do what fury does. I will make a new topic with my fury macros so everyone can try and provide feedback. Also I do not include all warrior CD’s in macros because when raiding yes you want to blow everything at the start, but after that it can become very situational when to use them next. I have a CD macro myself to blow everything when needed.
Lets start with Arms AOE:
Someone mentioned in this thread earlier that Mr. Webber’s aoe macro wasn’t triggering Thunderclap, and they were right. No worries I have created a fix. Give this a try:
/startattack<br>
/castsequence reset=0.3 0,0,0,0,0,Overpower<br>
/castsequence reset=0.3 0,0,0,0,Mortal Strike<br>
/castsequence reset=0.3 0,0,0,Slam<br>
/castsequence reset=0.3 0,0,Colossus Smash<br>
/castsequence reset=0.3 0,Thunder Clap<br>
/castsequence [combat] reset=3 10,Bloodbath,Bladestorm<br>
/cast sweeping strikes<br>
/cast [combat] Berserker Rage<br>
/cast [combat] Blood Fury<br>
/cast Charge
In case you were wondering what the 10 means, 10 is the command for your gloves in which I am an engineer. Glove on use, Bloodbath, and Bladestorm are all a 1 min CD so I can use all 3 at the same time. In Mr. Webby’s macro he has sweeping strikes in there as a castsequence which isn’t needed as you can just place it like I have and it will trigger off CD every time. Also if you find yourself being rage starved with this macro, keep in mind I have full set bonuses on my warrior, so the 2 piece bonus grants me a lot of extra rage. If you don’t have that yet, take sweeping strikes out and use it when you can since it costs 30 rage. Really you don’t need it as you will still top AoE charts without it. Also don’t forget to use a shout when bladestorming, its free. Again try it out and give me your feedback.
Arms Single Target:
/castsequence reset=0.3 0,0,0,0,0,Dragon Roar<br>
/castsequence reset=0.3 0,0,0,0,Slam<br>
/castsequence reset=0.3 0,0,0,Overpower<br>
/castsequence reset=0.3 0,0,Mortal Strike<br>
/castsequence reset=0.3 0,Execute<br>
/castsequence reset=2 Colossus Smash, Heroic Strike<br>
/cast !Colossus Smash<br>
/cast [combat] Berserker Rage<br>
/cast [combat] Blood Fury<br>
/cast [combat] Bloodbath<br>
/cast [combat] 10<br>
/cast Charge<br>
/startattack
A couple of things here. Dragon Roar is better for single target than Bladestorm is. Reason being, You are losing out on 6 seconds of your main abilities while bladestorming while Dragon Roar is instant. Also the way I have it in the macro doesn’t always make it used on CD. This is fine as it actually isn’t a priority to use. Your other abilities are. It will only use it when there is nothing else. Ideally you don’t want to use Dragon Roar inside of a Colossus Smash. Unfortunately this might happen as you can’t predict when CSmash will be used since CSmash will constantly proc being an Arms warrrior.
Also you will see I have execute in there. Again I have full 4 piece set bonus which can proc Execute above 20%. This way when it procs it will be used. I have a separate execute macro for Fury, but with arms I just use this one all the way through, above and below 20%.
Last thing, I’ve read people saying they were rage capped and would have heroic strike bound separately when they needed to rage dump. I am never raged capped as I have heroic strike to be used right after a CSmash. Remember you ONLY want to heroic strike inside of a CSmash anyways.
Try those out everyone and let me know what you think. I see Mr. Webber and I are on the same server, maybe he and I can get together in game and tweak some things even more for you Arms warriors out there! The only thing is he would have to go horde
Again I will post my 5.4 fury macros in a new thread, since I mainly raid as Fury. Thanks Mr. Webber for a great base with these macros, and hopefully all the PVE warriors out there can use these tweaks I’ve came up with to top some charts!
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Ryan, yah I just slapped the AOE one together without much real thought and yes I am very much open to constructive feedback, because that is what this site is for. Your post is great and in 3-4 days when I get back home I will try it out.
I know I told you guys that I wasnt going to be playing my warrior anymore, but I decided to. They seem pretty awesome in 5.4 and I want to start gearing mine up. I was having a tough time deciding upon a Ret Pally, Frost DK or Arms Warrior. I love Shadow, but I would also like a really cool melee toon to play with. Id also like to start doing some pve and warrior seems like the funnest in my opinion for pve.
Anyway thanks for the macro. Excellent post and thanks for the kind compliments. Ryan you should message me privately and give me your battletag. I would love to chat you up.