[Guide] Paladin 96969 Macro

[Ualaa]

The Paladin 96969 Macro

The 96969 macro, is essentially three abilities with 9 second cooldowns, combined with two abilities with 6 second cooldowns.

By weaving them together, each "9" ability is used every 9 seconds, while each "6" ability is used every 6 seconds.

Each of our "9" abilities lasts 8 to 9 seconds, while each of our "6" abilities is on a six second cooldown.

This is almost perfect; we need to add 1 point to "Improved Judgements" in the retribution tree, and Holy Shield lasts 8 seconds not 9.

We then mash a single macro, a castsequence, casting each spell in order. Because each ability is an instant cast, our client does not need to wait on the server to acknowledge the completion of each spell; this means, the GCD is the only limitation on our macro.

Our "9" second abilities are: Holy Shield, Judgement, and Consecrate.

Our "6" second abilities are: Hammer of the Righteous and Shield of Righteousness.

The macro uses 255 of the 255 characters, if you judge both Wisdom and Light or 254 of the 255 characters, if you judge Light twice. There aren't enough characters to judge Wisdom twice, unless you use an addon.

I like to use a "Click" macro, to call my 96969 macro because I would like to include "start attack" and the option for my DPS to attack without my Paladin joining in (ranged mob which will die before it closes to melee).

My 96969 macro prioritizes: Holy Shield > Judgement > Consecrate. I like this, because I have the option to manually Consecrate as the mobs arrive, and it will have refreshed by the time my sequence gets to it. Many people prioritize Judgement over Holy Shield, both because of the initial threat and because the Paladin will take more damage this way, and if healing is not an issue, this means more mana to the Paladin via Spiritual Attunement.

My "Click" is simple:

#show Holy Shield
/stopmacro [mod]
/startattack
/Click MultiBarRightButton12

Naturally, change the "click" to point to where your 96969 macro actually resides. If you had trinkets, which you want to automatically execute whenever the cooldown allows, include them in this macro.

And my 96969 is:

/castsequence reset=9 Holy Shield,Hammer of the Righteous,Judgement of Light,Shield of Righteousness,Consecration,Hammer of the Righteous,Holy Shield,Shield of Righteousness,Judgement of Light,Hammer of the Righteous,Consecration,Shield of Righteousness

[Lindline]

Nice guide. Will be front-paged sometime today.

[TheMuffinMan]

This is how I setup my Paladin tanking

First of all I followed your click casting guide here:
[WoW] Using Click Castsequences

Using that guide I know my spam speed is 5. (For those other than Ualaa, it is important to read that guide it understand using click macros to operate multiple castsequence macros)

I then setup my macros like this:

Main Click Macro:

#show Hammer of Righteous
/startattack
/Click MultiBarRightButton1
/Click MultiBarRightButton2
/Click MultiBarRightButton3
/Click MultiBarRightButton4
/Click MultiBarRightButton5

Castsequence Macro 1:

#show Hammer of the Righteous
/castsequence reset=combat Hammer of the Righteous,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Castsequence Macro 2:

#show Holy Shield
/castsequence reset=combat Holy Shield,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Castsequence Macro 3:

#show Shield of Righteousness
/castsequence reset=combat Shield of Righteousness,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Castsequence Macro 4:

#show Judgement of Wisdom
/castsequence reset=combat Judgement of Wisdom,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Castsequence Macro 5:

#show Consecration
/castsequence reset=combat Consecration,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,

Assuming a relatively steady spam rate, this macro can be adjusted to take care of the issue of the 96969 macro +/- 1 second issue with some spells/cooldowns.

EDIT:
You can obviously move the spells around in order to alter your priority to your own taste as Ualaa mentioned above.

[Ualaa]

I really like "click sequences", for a lot of my classes especially my DPS.

You can create a fully functional 96969 macro, without the use of click sequences. The one major advantage of setting up a click sequence for your rotation, is the option to change the order.

Our 6 second abilities are Hammer of Righteousness (which can be glyphed to hit multiple targets) and Shield of the Righteous (which is much more threat, but to a single target).

Our 9 second abilities are Judgement, Consecrate and Holy Shield. With "click", we are free to include two Judgement of Wisdom casts in our rotation, without running out of characters. Similarly, we can move Consecrate to the first position for AoE pulls or the last position for bosses and smaller pulls.

I personally wouldn't use a click sequence for the 96969, but it does have advantages.

[TheMuffinMan]

My Consecrate and Holy Shield are 8 seconds:
Consecration - Spell - World of Warcraft
Holy Shield - Spell - World of Warcraft

And my Judgement spells are also 8 seconds because of:
Improved Judgements - Spell - World of Warcraft

So the castsequences work better for me

Castsequences also give you the option of using
Glyph of Consecration
if you choose.

[EaTCarbS]

Glyph of consecration isn't really a good tanking glyph compared to the other available ones.

[TheMuffinMan]

Agreed, I dont personally use it, but some offtanks do

[burningforce]

great guide and tips

I plan on switching my warrior for a pally soon, and wanted some pally macros

thanks

[Lindline]

The 96969 Rotation.|Multiboxing.com

Check it out!