World of Warcraft: macros process Ctrl and Alt keys, but not Shift
Just one more little news bit before the big rolling restart scheduled for WoW Europe: all experienced World of Warcraft players use macros to create a stream of successive spell combinations, or sequenced talents to ensure the perfect killing arrangement for PvP scenarios, provided you’ve got enough keys for them.
But macros can be tad bit difficult to work around once you’ve keyed in modified keystrokes for some of your more complicated tasks. While it would be funny to use macros for just about everything you do, it might be unlikely that you’ve achieved that level of automation if you use anything mapped to a Shift keystroke combo when using it for inventory type sequences:
shift + /use <inventory#>
Why? Because Shift keys are processed internally by the World of Warcraft system, according to scallywag Slouken (arrr!). However, for some combinations, the Shift modifier will work, if macros are written in alternative ways. Like the one pointed out by Jaden, a level 60 Gnome Mage:
shift + /use Talisman of Ephemeral Power
shift + /use 13
The first arrangement will work, though the second, while essentially similar to the first, won’t work. It’s not a bug, but perhaps it’s just a little system limitation squeezed in the huge code that is World of Warcraft. Now imagine trying to find that niche…
Via WoW Forums
Just one more little news bit before the big rolling restart scheduled for WoW Europe: all experienced World of Warcraft players use macros to create a stream of successive spell combinations, or sequenced talents to ensure the perfect killing arrangement for PvP scenarios, provided you’ve got enough keys for them.
But macros can be tad bit difficult to work around once you’ve keyed in modified keystrokes for some of your more complicated tasks. While it would be funny to use macros for just about everything you do, it might be unlikely that you’ve achieved that level of automation if you use anything mapped to a Shift keystroke combo when using it for inventory type sequences:
shift + /use <inventory#>
Why? Because Shift keys are processed internally by the World of Warcraft system, according to scallywag Slouken (arrr!). However, for some combinations, the Shift modifier will work, if macros are written in alternative ways. Like the one pointed out by Jaden, a level 60 Gnome Mage:
shift + /use Talisman of Ephemeral Power
shift + /use 13
The first arrangement will work, though the second, while essentially similar to the first, won’t work. It’s not a bug, but perhaps it’s just a little system limitation squeezed in the huge code that is World of Warcraft. Now imagine trying to find that niche…
Via WoW Forums
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