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Macro Changes Now Live: Target Markers and Chat Messages

  • Linxy By Linxy

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This post was originally published on the Battle.net forums by Linxy from the Community Manager team.

To ensure that macro usage aligns with our overall goals for addons, there have been some minor changes made to macro capabilities that were recently deployed to the live client:

  • Macros are prevented from setting a target marker on more than 3 units within a very short time.

And the following restrictions only apply while the player is in an active encounter:

  • Macros are no longer allowed to send chat messages to chat channels that are not exclusive to the group (custom chat channels, guild, communities, etc).
  • Macros are still allowed to send chat in group-exclusive channels (/raid, /party, /rw, etc), but are prevented from sending multiple messages to those channels within a very short time. In addition, all members of the group must be inside the instance or macro chat will not be allowed in these channels.
  • Macros are still allowed to send chat in whispers but the whisper target must also be in the instance. Macros are also prevented from sending multiple whispers within a very short time.

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