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Stance Shifting Spells/Talents
Bug #:	7728
File:	Neuron
Date:	08-30-12 11:22 AM
By:	NyghtWyng
Status:	Confirmed (Working on Fix)
There seems to be an issue with spells and talents that take on different abilities based on your stance. An example I just played with was Shadow Word: Insanity, which is the Shadowform alternative to Power Word: Solace. In the spellbook, it shows as Power Word: Solace until you shift to Shadowform, then it becomes Shadow Word: Insanity. Now, the thing is, when you drag Shadow Word: Insanity to your action bar while in Shadowform, it doesn't work, and results in the big red question mark. This is because Ion is treating it (as one would expect it to) as the spell that's being dragged to the bar. However -- and this is something I'm not sure how as a coder you can work around -- the actual spell is still Power Word: Solace. It's just shifting visually for the user. Which is to say that if you take the button and make it a macro that reads: #show Power Word: Solace(); /cast Power Word: Solace(); while you are in Shadowform, it will shift appropriately to Shadow Word: Insanity. Weird, but at least in the interim it's a fix anyone can do on their own. Again, not sure how to code a fix for that because I think it's a relatively new behavior.

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By: Maul - 08-31-12 03:28 PM

This is all part of what I term as Blizzard's "mighty morph'n spells". I have yet to get a handle on how to deal with it, but I am aware of it and pondering a solution. Thanks

By: dewin - 09-25-12 08:35 AM

With Macaroon, you could work around this problem by using action IDs instead of macros for the affected abilities. Perhaps getting that functionality of Ion working would fix it?