Enhancement Weapon Swapping

[Stormstriken]

Getting into Enhancement and I've realized that building for a 2h is really cheesy (it won't work, but then sometimes you'll instagib somebody) so I'm trying a dual wield build. I have realized though that it would be a good idea to swap to a 2-hander to cast Stormstrike and then swap back to the 1-handers for the remainder of the fight. I seem to be having trouble swapping back to the dual wield set though. Some people have told me that there's a GCD incurred for weapon swapping, but this doesn't seem to be a problem when switching from my DW weps, just to them. Is there like a specific macro I can use to instantly swap back to my DW weps, or is the GCD intentionally just for one-handers?

[Bucovsky]

If you want to have 1 button to swap between 2x 1h and 1x 2h, here's the macro:

/equipslot 16 mainhandname
/equipslot 17 offhandname
/equip twohandname

You can also make a macro like this:

#showtooltip stormstrike
/equip name-of-totem-that-improves-your-windfury-damage
/equip twohandname
/cast stormstrike

If you're using this stormstrike macro, you'll have to swap back to one hand:

/equipslot 16 mainahndname
/equipslot 17 offhandname

If you play only with dual wielding weapons, you could consider making a macro to swap between 2x 1h and 1x 1h + shield. Simply go for :

/equipslot 16 mainhandname
/equipslot 17 shieldname

If you're using macros which cast a particular spell and change the weapon meanwhile, you have to use it carefully. If you use this macro before your global cooldown is finished, youl'll just waste additional global cooldown (weapons swap, therefore you waste global cooldown), then when it's already swapped, you can cast your spell. The trick is, you have to use such a macro when you don't have global cooldown, so it swaps at the same moment when the spell is cast, making you waste just one global cooldown.

[Stormstriken]

If you want to have 1 button to swap between 2x 1h and 1x 2h, here's the macro:

/equipslot 16 mainhandname
/equipslot 17 offhandname
/equip twohandname

You can also make a macro like this:

#showtooltip stormstrike
/equip name-of-totem-that-improves-your-windfury-damage
/equip twohandname
/cast stormstrike

If you're using this stormstrike macro, you'll have to swap back to one hand:

/equipslot 16 mainahndname
/equipslot 17 offhandname

If you play only with dual wielding weapons, you could consider making a macro to swap between 2x 1h and 1x 1h + shield. Simply go for :

/equipslot 16 mainhandname
/equipslot 17 shieldname

If you're using macros which cast a particular spell and change the weapon meanwhile, you have to use it carefully. If you use this macro before your global cooldown is finished, youl'll just waste additional global cooldown (weapons swap, therefore you waste global cooldown), then when it's already swapped, you can cast your spell. The trick is, you have to use such a macro when you don't have global cooldown, so it swaps at the same moment when the spell is cast, making you waste just one global cooldown.

Thanks, dude! You really helped out a lot. Basically, this is going to require a lot of timing on my part to make sure that I don't cast before the GCD is up to avoid incurring another GCD when I have my weapon swaps macro'd to my spells. I'm going to toy around with that, thanks again!

[Zapcraclepop]

Actually, due to recent changes this is not true anymore.

You will incur the GCD anyway now. I never managed to get 2x 1h to equip though, using your macro. it would equip one, trigger the gcd, then equip the second. You could at that time trick it by having it equip a shield and a 1h, say for your shock, then when you pressed Stormstrike the second melee weapon would fly in your hand before the cast.

Sadly, the only thing you can swap now is relics. Even that is unintended though, from what our dev says. Expect that to go to the waste side soon as well.


Hate to necro old logs, but someone might stumble across this at one point or another, so might as well keep the info accurate.