GoNomar wrote:
Shadow-X wrote:
Solo HO:
/useability Lucky Break
/useability Dirty Tricks
/useability Pierce
I use this macro to set off an heroic opportunity when I’m fighting solo. Note that you can only get three combat arts to fire in a macro if one of them is your heroic opportunity starter.
Only thing I don't like about it is you can't shift the HO wheel with evade, to try and bring up Ringing blow instead of the 4th Swindler's luck in a row.
/useability Lucky Break
/useability Dirty Tricks
Is my Solo HO macro. That way when SG comes up I can try to bounce it.
More important than the fact that you cannot shift the HO, it is, in my opinion, a bad idea to try to complete HOs with the same macro that starts them. The HO starter chain completer (Dirty Tricks in the case above) could be resisted, could miss, or could be interrupted. This will not stop the macro from continuing. It will go ahead and use the HO completer skill (Pierce in the first macro). So the following could easily happen.
You hit the macro, Lucky Break fires off, the HO starter chain comes up. Dirty Tricks queues, but it is resisted, failing to complete the starter chain. Pierce fires off, but it just hits normally. That is, no HO is completed. It takes a moment for you to notice the starter chain wheel is still up. So you hit Evade. Evade completes, advancing the starter chain. Quick Strike is the only available skill to complete the chain, so you fire it, and it misses, failing to complete the HO. Now you have to wait for another skill to recharge before you can complete the HO, but so much time has elapsed by now, the HO timer expires before one does.
Had your macro been just Lucky Break and Dirty Tricks, you could have hit the macro, and determined that Dirty Tricks did not comlpete the starter chain. Hit Evade, then hit Pierce. This would have completed the HO in the above situation since Pierce and Evade fired okay. And assuming Pierce does miss, in the above example Quick Strike would be available to try to complete the HO. As it was, you ran out of skills and could not compete the HO because you "wasted" Pierce because the HO was not ready for it.