Weapon Switch Discussion

Droodood

Droodood

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So I've been playing my veteran warrior recently and have come across something quite nice but I need some people's opinions about it.

While I'm mainly enchanted towards fury I enjoy arms's qualities while premading. So when I am spec'd Arms I have an extra Bloodied Arcanite Reaver in my bags with another Crusader enchant on it.

So what i do is when I get a Crusader proc i use the following macro:

/equip Bloodied Arcanite Reaper

And it will switch out my weapons and give me the chance for another crusader proc so that i may have 2 crusader procs

With one proc i get 251ap and with double procs i get 351 (Out of a battlegrounds)

I have recommended this to other people but a few have said that it is not worth the GCD that it takes to switch a weapon. But i have a remedy for this!

Instead of using just the macro i have stated about to switch. You need to pair it with a /cast macro (I use rend because it has no CD).

This will not only switch your weapon but also apply rend to your target (if you are in range of course). But the best thing about it is it does both of these things in a shared GCD.

I would love to know your opinions on this and maybe an explanation why it can share a GCD if you use the macro.
 
So abilities share GCD with weapons...can someone make a list of the abilities...or if to lazy just tell me which of mine share GCD ...thinking cast holy shock then switch to Windsong weapon...Iddk all the pieces are there someone test for me, I can't be bothered to do it
 
Turtle said:
So abilities share GCD with weapons...can someone make a list of the abilities...or if to lazy just tell me which of mine share GCD ...thinking cast holy shock then switch to Windsong weapon...Iddk all the pieces are there someone test for me, I can't be bothered to do it
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no no, he said that rend has no gcd in the 1st place (I think). For pally, you'd use the taunt ability? Or he's saying that you can switch weapons and do any spell in the same gcd if macro'd together. Maybe he just happened to choose Rend, because like he said, it has no cd.
 
Imo I would switch to ele force, but that is just preference.


And yes, if you swap weapons right after you cast an instant spell/ability the wep swap won't trigger an aditional GCD but will just blend into the GCD triggered by your spell/ability
 
Allybeboba said:
You are still losing auto attacks.

/cheers
Sweetsidney
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Yup, you'll still lose auto attacks, but this method is better than the way people usually do it, and imo switching wep for a chance of double crusader/EF > losing a few auto attacks
 
Losing a white hit is definitely worth the potential payoff. Don't fret over it too much.
 
I couldn't make out what your question is stating Droodood. There's no way around the GCD created by weapon switching and there shouldn't need to be an explanation for why a GCD is created...because blizzard made it that way?

To restate what has already been stated; If you are not weapon switching as Arms then you are doing it wrong. Sit in defensive stance, spam rend on as many people as possible and focus on weapon switching the second you get a crusader proc. Atm I am using three weapon switch macros and that is working out fine. I usually don't need a 4th because by the time my 3rd crusader procs; the first one is about to fall off so I switch back to the first one.

Don't try to make a fancy macro for weapon switching. Just use Equipment Manager and deselect everything but your weapon. I recommend different weapon mogs to know which weapon you have up.
 
Mrcer said:
I couldn't make out what your question is stating Droodood. There's no way around the GCD created by weapon switching and there shouldn't need to be an explanation for why a GCD is created...because blizzard made it that way?

To restate what has already been stated; If you are not weapon switching as Arms then you are doing it wrong. Sit in defensive stance, spam rend on as many people as possible and focus on weapon switching the second you get a crusader proc. Atm I am using three weapon switch macros and that is working out fine. I usually don't need a 4th because by the time my 3rd crusader procs; the first one is about to fall off so I switch back to the first one.

Don't try to make a fancy macro for weapon switching. Just use Equipment Manager and deselect everything but your weapon. I recommend different weapon mogs to know which weapon you have up.
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Yes there is around the GCD created by weapon swaping
 
<--- Is incredibly proud of everyone for creating a helpful thread.

Thank you for your feedback :)
 
What about, get like 5 weapons with EF enchants and use macro, to use them with 5 different spells (1 weapon = 1 spell). You should get insane amount of EF procs, if it works.
Just theory = not sure if it works like that.
 
Kageroo said:
What about, get like 5 weapons with EF enchants and use macro, to use them with 5 different spells (1 weapon = 1 spell). You should get insane amount of EF procs, if it works.
Just theory = not sure if it works like that.
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Weapon switching from one EF to another will not increase EF's proc rate since EF has a flateline rate of 10 RPPM + Haste scaling. The only way to improve it's proc rate is by stacking haste.
 
starter accounts have no benefit to weapon switch aside from strike of hydra.
 
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