I’m pretty sure I’ve been living under a rock.. but yesterday I -finally- figured this out.
I have several outfits that change depending on the circumstances (Outfitter does the changing). Each outfit has its own trinkets. Some of these trinkets have “Use:…” abilities and I need them to show up to remind me to use them. If I don’t see the trinket I forget to use the trinket.
Enter button macros:
#show 13
#showtooltip 13
/use 13
#show 14
#showtooltip 14
/use 14
Place each of these in a button bar. They will always show whatever trinket is in the top slot (13) or the bottom slot(14).
Mousing over each button will show the tooltip for that trinket.. sort of.. it actually seems to try and do the comparison I have setup with EquipCompare.. but at least it makes it so I can read the tooltip to figure out if I really want to trigger this trinket.
Clicking the button will trigger the “Use:…” ability of that trinket.
No matter what I’m doing.. those two buttons will always show trinket 1 and trinket 2. Happy-ness from macros.
I’m pretty sure I’ll need to setup similar macros for other armor with “Use:… ” abilities.
This is totally one of those “Why didn’t I think of that?!” moments… Nice!
Very nice. I usually just bind my trinkets to common spell so that they are always triggered, but this is nice and simple and perfect for multiple gear sets.
I feel really dumb right now. Nice post.
Why not just use the Trinketmenu addon? http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/675/
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1778019289&sid=1
You are only allowed to have a single #show or #showtooltip in your macro. It works like spellcasts does so you can chain options together like this:
#showtooltip [pet]Freeze;Summon Water Elemental
This macro is so simple and awesome. Great idea! Thanks for posting it.
I found that TrinketMenu and Outfitter didn’t play nice together. And since I like Oufitter more.. TinketMenu got the boot.
You can also combine effects, like I do on my hunter:
#showtooltip
/cast Rapid Fire
/stopcasting
/use 14
Getting maximum mileage out of my attack power trinkets you might say
Hi,
The macros are indeed great. However, you can make them simpler.
“#showtooltip” will find the active “/cast” or “/use” and show that.
So, you can have very simple macros:
#showtooltip
/use 13
#showtooltip
/use 14
Trinketmenu does indeed do this for you.
If you don’t have it, it is a good replacement