Action Bars Part One

The next part of my setup planning is focused on the Action Bars. Since I will probably be using Taeo's UI my Action Bars will be using Bartender 4.

Planning.

I talked about planning your action bars in this article. Since I am not Multi-Boxing, I will be using my Merc Stealth Keyboard. I have chosen to compress as many abilities as I can into as few keys as possible. I will use four action bar pages(Caster, Bear, Cat and Stealth) as my Primary action bar and use a half of another action bar for my forms. I have chosen to use an action bar for Forms since I plan to Macro some Forms.

Key Bindings.

My Primary action bar will have the keys from 1 to 6 as well as Q, E, Mouse3 and Middle Mouse. My shifting bar will use the keys 7 through to 11(there is an 11 key on the Merc Stealth).

Caster Form.

In Caster Form I like to have my Balance Spells at the ready, and my Healing Spells available while still having access to Buffs. Now thats a lot of keys to bind. Instead I will use Macro's with Modifiers to simplify this. Balance Spells will be un modified, Healing Spells will use Shift and Buffs will use CTRL. Here is a listing of each Key and the Ability/Macro I plan to use. Each Macro will have a first line of #show tooltip.

Q. Natures Grasp/Cyclone

/cast [mod:shift] Cyclone; Nature's Grasp

Cast Natures Grasp or Cyclone with Shift.

E. Abolish Poison/Remove Curse

/cast [mod:shift] Remove Curse; Abolish Poison

Cast Abolish Poison or Remove Curse with Shift.

MM. Shadowmeld
Cast Shadowmeld.

M3. Faerie Fire
Cast Faerie Fire

1. Attack/Lifebloom/Thorns.

/cast [mod:shift] Lifebloom;[mod:crtl] thorns
/startattack

Cast Autoattack, Lifebloom with Shift or Thorns with CTRL.

2. Wrath/Rejuv/MotW

/cast [mod:shift] Rejuvenation ;[mod:crtl] mark of the wild; wrath

Cast Wrath, Rejuv with Shift or MotW with CTRL.

3. MF/Nourish/GitW

/cast [mod:shift] Nourish;[mod:crtl] gift of the wild; moon fire

Cast MF, Nourish with Shift or GotW with CRTL.

4. SF/Regrowth/Hibernate

/cast [mod:shift] Regrowth;[mod:crtl] hibernate; star fire

Cast Star Fire, Regrowth with Shift or Hibernate with CTRL.

5. Roots/Wild Growth

/cast [mod:shift] Wild Growth; Entangling Roots

Cast Entangling Roots or Wild Growth with Shift.

6. Hurricane/Tranquility

/stopcasting
/cast Barkskin
/cast [mod:shift] Tranquility; Hurricane

Cast Barkskin with Hurricane or Tranquility with Shift.

7. Flight/Travel

/stopcasting
/cast [swimming] Aquatic Form;
/cast [indoors] Cat Form;
/cast [flyable,nocombat] Swift Flight Form;
/cast [combat,outdoors] Travel Form;
/use [nocombat,outdoors,noswimming,noflyable] MOUNTNAME;
/dismount [mounted]

Aquatic if swimming, Cat if indoors, Flight Form if Out of Combat/Outside, Travel if Combat/Outside, Mount if no flying and dismount if nothing else.

8. Bear Form

9. Cat Form

10. Travel Form

11. Caster Form

/cancelform

Cancels any form.

Unbound. Ressurect

/cast [combat] Rebirth ; Revive

Ressurect your Target, in-combat or not.

Next we will look at my Feral Forms, but that can await another day.

Razorbax