Blizzard has deployed hotfixes with a set of macro restrictions on live servers, limiting target marker usage, chat messaging during boss fights and whisper functionality inside instances.
If you rely on macros for raid callouts, automated messages, marker assignments and whispers, some of your setups may need adjusting. Here’s what changed and what still works:
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.
