Comments on: Blood Tap

By: Henrique

Henrique — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:14:39 +0000

Well personally I already use blood tap in AoE tanking Situations as frost tank.I Cast DnD, IT+PS Pest (Get out of runes or get all runes in cooldown as you prefer) then I can use BT + BB after this I can dump A FS or wait for any KM procs (normally activates loads of times) and unleash a HB then OB +OB (pray for more KM and rime procs =P)… basically that’s my use for BT.

By: Pendraggon

Pendraggon — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:27:50 +0000

…and what would that macro look like? Not real familiar with modifiers.

By: Wondermike

Wondermike — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:08:25 +0000

With Pandhoul’s macro above, you could set that to all abilities individually and remove the need for a BT/Cancel BT macro. You could even add a modifier so you don’t have to use BT if it’s not needed at the time.

By: Skeleton Jack

Skeleton Jack — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:42:25 +0000

I personally think that any macro using Blood Tap and another abilitiy at the same time is begging to screw yourself over. While you can do one that incorporates an attack, I find many times that I will find new and different ways to use BT throughout an entire raid. I don’t want multiple BT buttons, and I also want to be free to use BT for various things rather than being locked into only one ability every time.

The same goes for putting it into other abilities like Bone Shield. I don’t always want to use BT when I BS, etc. That’s one of those things that defines and differentiates between playing well, and playing the best that you can. Macros limit you in those circumstances, imo.

By: Skitzophrenik

Skitzophrenik — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:27:24 +0000

I Would think another Useful macro would be

#showtooltip Blood Strike
/cancelaura Blood Tap
/cast Bloodstrike

This way it gaurantees your Rotation wont be thrown off when you use BS with BT about to fall off and lose your DR

By: Pandhoul

Pandhoul — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:29:27 +0000

For using cooldowns that require runes (Bone Shield, Strangulate, Unholy Armor or Ghoul Frenzy) you can use this macro which is spammable. I find myself spamming buttons more often than not in order to hit them as soon as GCDs come up so I find this more useful than carefully trying to press BT another ability and then BT again especially when you consider that canceling the aura is as easy as simply holding the key down too long.

Macro:
#showtooltip Bone Shield
/cancelaura Blood Tap
/cast Blood Tap
/cast Bone Shield

Replace Bone Shield with whatever ability your spec calls for.