Skull Me
Jan/100
The purpose of this addon is to simplify marking in heroics or raids. It will automatically mark your target after a set amount of seconds, allowing you to focus on more important stuff than a key binding. It can be used by a tank or a dps. It also supports a basic kill order system, and has a option to create a Deadly Boss Mods timer to show when it will mark.
Wow Macros
Jun/090
This is an article on making a macro. A macro is a list of slash commands. Common slash commands include the following:
- /say (/s)
- /whisper (/w, /talk, /t)
- /reply (/r)
- /emote (/e, /em, /me)
- /dance
- Oh, and for you PvPers out there, I mustn’t forget /spit
With macros, these commands can be used from action buttons, and many of them can be used at once. Each unique command goes on its own line and is written exactly as it would be typed it in the chat box. For instance, a macro that makes the player yell “Everybody, dance now!” and burst into dance would be written as thus.
/y Everybody, dance now! /dance
A mostly complete list of slash commands is available at List of Slash Commands though at the time of this writing some of the new commands in 2.0 have not been added. WoWWiki is a great source of additional information for macros, especially scripts using the /run command (which will be covered later).
Note: I will take this early opportunity to let you know that macros run all at once. This means that when you click the button, the macro runs each command from start to finish before returning control to the game. This has two important effects. First, if you write a macro that takes a long time to execute (like /run for i=1, 100000000 do end), the game will freeze for as long as it takes to run the macro.
Second, and arguably more important, there is no way to wait in a macro without freezing the game. This fact will become much more apparent when we start dealing with the /cast command and its ilk. Some addons can provide a way to issue a command at a later time, but they can only be used for “benign” functions like chatting, emotes, and issuing commands to other addons (though equipping weapons in combat is allowed).