A Guide to Mages comment thread

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more likely to ignore key warnings like "inc patrol" and so on.
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It is much harder to ignore the vocal emote for incoming. When my squeaky little gnome yells "DANGER APPROACHES", it cuts through even the loudest battle. I think everyone should have it macroed.

worst-case you hit the sheep and pop it.  Then you turn your attention away, and 1.5 seconds later it's a sheep again.  No macro is going to say "I'm polymorphing the add, so don't hit it, and if you do I'll polymorph it again, so go back to what you were doing" and no macro should.

But, if the baddie is sheeped then popped and then the popper sees another sheeping message, they do know it is coming (the arcane cast sound can easily be lost depending on battle noise and the orientation of the players) and can focus on the others. If it happened a second time, I assumed they wanted it popped and left it. However...

There are times where a mage will hit the polymorph key multiple times thanks to annoying line of sight issues (usually slopes).  I annoy even myself when I spam "Polymorphing %t" three or four times into party/raid chat.
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This is what finally pushed me into moving my macro to the popbar and placing the spell on a main bar. It seems to only take very small depressions in the land to cause the line of sight problem. I, too, was annoyed seeing the message multiple times when it happened. I don't know if character size is factored into LoS but, if it is, being a gnome just magnifies the problem.