Oh I also realised – it’s worth having faire fire (feral) on your cat/bear bars again for rogues/ferals so you can stop them stealthing from range too.

But was that an invitation to clean up macros???

I should get around to writing a macros post at some point… but basically the thing I always say when writing a macro is that in almost every case you only need to have the name of spell in the macro once (there are exceptions, e.g. you have a castsequence and a cast of the same spell in the same macro).

It is largely about being cleaner and avoiding hitting the 255 character limit – but there is in theory a slight efficiency reason as well. Macros are evaluated line by line (we proved that back on the wowhead macros forum at some point – you can rewrite a macro within itself) so if you can inline the conditions it is more efficient.

So your skull bash macro would end up looking like:

#showtooltip Skull Bash(Cat Form)
/cast [nostance:3] !Cat Form
/cast [nomod, @target][mod:shift, @focus] Skull Bash(Cat Form)

I’m not sure if that is exactly what you are wanting – I guess you would be happy to skull bash your current target if you are holding down control or alt? If so change the last line to:

/cast [mod:shift, @focus][] Skull Bash(Cat Form)

The [] says to revert to default behaviour (i.e. on your current target or give you the hand if it is a friendly target spell and you have no target). They are evaluated in (left to right) order so, if you are holding shift, focus is your target, otherwise it reverts to default behaviour.

On that particular macro I’d probably set up it to use bear form skull bash rather than shifting to cat – but I’ve run out of macro slots…

Anyway I’ll leave it there!

But my powershift macro is this – pretty simple, but basically I used it to go eat on mages that keep trying to slow me – it just powershifts in whatever form you are in so you can continue doing whatever you are doing. Actually I’ve modified it slightly from mine because I don’t have moonkin form (or tree of life – the spec:1. spec:2 should be right for you druid though). Only slightly annoying thing is it shows the ? icon if you are out of form. You could add a ; Travel Form at the end to put you into travel form if you use it from caster form (or replace Travel Form with your preferred ‘default’ form):

#showtooltip
/cast [stance:1] !Bear Form; [stance:3]!Cat Form; [stance:2] !Aquatic Form; [stance:4] !Travel Form; [stance:5,spec:1] !Moonkin Form; [stance:5,spec:2] !Tree of Life

And one more for good measure – this is my ‘travel’ form macro (which also powershifts on reuse), basically means it uses the best form for where I am… which is pretty much just for use in twin peaks…:
#showtoolip
/cast [swimming] !Aquatic Form; !Travel Form

Rake/Lacerate… that’s the kind of stuff I am looking for.. useless in Kitty form yes, but a little less useless.

I have barkskin split out as well… that’s just the “I’m pooping my pants, and I don’t want to go bear, but people are looking at me funny, so guess I better macro”

I have a Boomkin powershift macro, but not one for resto… but hey, while you are dusting off my other macros, no reason why you don’t share your powershift macro… for no other reason that “powershift macro” sounds very cool.

Umm trying to remember what you have in cat/bear form when you’re boomie/resto. Most of the toolset actually.. however the useful

However the main other things you’ll want apart from pounce in cat is if you have a pesky rogue/feral stick a bleed on them with rake/lacerate – particularly for rogues they can’t remove it so it’ll break their stealth after the 3s delay even if they do cloak/vanish.

BTW – unless you are specced feral you won’t have survival instincts! Particularly since you don’t have much on your bars it might be worth splitting barkskin out and just using it if you need it – you don’t have the damage reduction stuff from feral spec so you might find you need all the time anyway, but often frenzied regen is all you need and if they continuing to beat on you it is just feeding the heals.

Apart from that a good powershift macro so you can free yourself while running away is all I’d recommend (I have a nice one for powershifting regardless of my current form if you want I’ll dig it out). I still tend to fill up my cat/bear bars even when in the caster specs, but your damaging attacks aren’t going to do that much so apart from utility and adding bleeds I wouldn’t worry about the attacks overly much.

Must resist to clean up your macros…

I know where your coming from Bear, I don’t mind being busy the 1st 24 hours of a day, it’s the extras that wear me down. My boss questioned why I claimed 44 hours for a task for last Thursday… but we both agreed it was a close estimate.

Maybe I can lend you my Magely Timewarp… once it’s off cooldown.

Life has been on the “full on” mark for a while now… last 7 weeks have been 16-18 hour day stretches of work with Odin in between.

I’ve even started a few posts, but haven’t had the energy to complete them, or even post them if they come close to satisfaction… Time is both short and passing by so fast.

But rest assured, I am well if tired, and the extended family are all alive and well.

Don’t ask me what to do in cat form. Cat form is for sprinting and stampeding roar. I have no other use for it.

I hope BBB can enlighten you more but it’s good to see some movement on your site