Friday, October 24, 2008

Non-Combat Pet Macro

From Free Candy For Everyone, a nice macro to pull out a random non-combat pet:

/script CallCompanion("CRITTER", random(1, GetNumCompanions("CRITTER")))

3 comments:

  1. Thank you very much! I had been doing it manually myself (/userandom, or something like that, but I had to change it when obtaining any new pet), so this will come in handy!

    How about mounts?

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  2. The problem with mounts is you can't really differentiate between slow ground mounts, fast ground mounts, slow flying mounts, or fast flying mounts.

    If you want a flying mount, you might end up pulling out your old warhorse from level 40.

    Blizzard would need to add some way to specify speed and ground/flying type before a random mount macro makes sense

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  3. You CAN choose between a ground and a flying mount in one macro by using the 'flyable' parameter, but I don't think you can choose randomly between fast and slow now that mounts are in a spellbook. (Before you could just carry fast mounts but not the slow ones.)

    I'm a hunter and I like to change aspects when I mount and dismount, so I use:

    #showtooltip
    /cast [nomounted, noindoors] !Aspect of the Monkey
    /cast [flyable, nomounted, noindoors] Swift Green Wind Rider; [nomounted] Swift Gray Wolf
    /cast [mounted] !Aspect of the Hawk
    /Dismount [mounted]

    You can add "noflying" to the Dismount parameter to prevent yourself from accidentally casting a spell/dismounting and falling to an ugly death... but I'm such a doofus when it comes to landing that I want to be able to dismount quickly when I'm close enough to the ground. (*^_^*)

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