I Honked That One Up

BRK » 27 January 2007 » In Macros »

So, as pointed out on The Hunter’s Mark by the kind and talented Larrissa, I really made a festering, sweltering mess of a macro on the WoW Forums.

The problem was to create a macro that would send a pet to attack and recall that pet, all by pressing the same button. I shall not befoul your eyes with the horror that was my macro, needless to say it didn’t work. My apologies to all those who wasted time messing with that offal of a macro.

However, there is a macro that I have devised and tested that sort of does the requested job:

/petfollow [modifier:shift]
/petattack [modifier:ctrl]

Assign this guy to a hotkey, perhaps F4.

If you hit F4 by itself, nothing happens. However, if you hit CTRL-F4, you will send your pet to attack. Then, if you hit SHIFT-F4, your pet will return. I don’t claim that it’s a useful macro, but it does solve the problem and is a nice research project.

Now, lets make a macro that solves a problem of mine. With BRK, I used a simple macro to feed him:

#show Roasted Quail
/cast Feed Pet
/use Roasted Quail

As readers of BRK may know, I am toying around with a Warp Stalker. BRK is a meat eater, while my nameless warp hunter prefers fruits. I want to use the same button to feed whatever pet I have out without having to swap-out macro buttons. We’re going to lose the “show” feature of the previous macro, but add some functionality in its place:

/cast Feed Pet
/use [pet:Cat] Roasted Quail
/use [pet:Warp Stalker] Deep Fried Plantains

And there we have it. A nice macro that will feed the appropriate food to the appropriate pet. Woot!

I use lots of macros in my WoW playing. They deserve a large post of their own, so I’ll save them for later.

Macros | January 27, 2007

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2 Responses to “I Honked That One Up”

  1. Lassirra on January 29th, 2007 12:47 pm

    LOL!

    Well, I did change the macro over to the new one, and it works great! (When I remember it’s there, that is, lol.)

    I’m going to have to try that Feed Pet macro you made. It’ll certainly save time sifting through my bags for Roasted Quail every time Pasha needs a snack. (Which is usually after the poor fella takes one for the team as an Off-Tank….)

    Btw, how are you liking the Warp Stalker? I’ve been toying with the idea of taming a new critter from TBC, but haven’t really decided which to get, as yet. Let me know what you think of the Warp Stalker. (Their Warp talent kinda piqued my interest, so I may get one of my own at some point…)

    Anyway, thanks for the macro help! I can be so clueless with those sometimes, lol!

  2. Keystone on January 30th, 2007 9:54 pm

    You’re telling me that insane looking creature doesn’t eat meat? That pet looks like he would rip the flesh of my Mage’s bones!!! Ouch!

    Did you think of a name yet?

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