Comments on: /stopcasting in Mage Macros: still relevant

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:13:00 +0000

Actually, I quite like dismounting in the air.. it feels nice to drop to the ground while the mob is still working out what hit it…

I noticed there is actually a setting in the interface menu that is for automatic dismount… but it appears to be off by default

By: Kiryn

Kiryn — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:09:56 +0000

Normally it’s supposed to auto-dismount you if you’re on the ground, but not dismount you if you’re on a flying mount.

If you accidentally get dismounted from a flying mount when casting, there’s an option you can check (or uncheck, I forget) in the interface options.

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:11:46 +0000

The /stand and /dismount are admittedly carry overs from a previous patch.

A while back if you were sitting, or mounted your cast would fail, and you would get some error message.

So I build that into the macros.

I know I have still encountered some situations where the “new” auto-stand & auto-dismount on spell cast hasn’t occurred.. but can’t for the life of me remember where right now.

From memory the original comment about /stopcasting was in reference to lag… which is now accounted for with the queuing system… unless of course ou just need to get a spell off

By: Arioch

Arioch — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:05:56 +0000

I missed the comment where someone said that stopcasting had lost its relevance, but they were probably thinking of the older macros where it was required to get acknowledgment for the next action and forgot that sometimes you really do just want to STOP CASTING the current spell. =)

This could just be due to my personal settings… but I’m confused as to the inclusion of /stand and /dismount in several of your macros.

Anytime I cast a spell from a seated position, it automatically forces my character to stand and I dismount prior to casting when mounted with no macro help.

(Matter of fact this has caused some annoyance while flying around and accidentally triggering a spell that did not require a target, thankfully I have slow fall!)