[BUG]

[Juffel-GSE]

🔵 Describe the bug: As a Shadow Priest, I find mid fight often my mind flay cast in my sequence just stops casting. This happens when it gets empowered and becomes 'mind flay: insanity' for 1 cast then goes back to being 'mind flay' I think may be the issue. I can see if I look at my macro right after a fight with the issue present ends, it has changed in my sequence to 'mind flay: insanity' and hasnt changed back to Mind Flay so it doesnt cast mind flay any more during that fight it appears. I do find that the next fight it does swap back and can be ok until a longer fight where the issue can happen again.

🔵 To reproduce: (Steps to reproduce the behavior)

1. Using a sequence with /cast [nochanneling] mind flay, or variations such as '[known:mind flay] Mind Flay; [nochanneling:Void Torrent, nochanneling:Mind Flay: Insanity] Mind Flay: Insanity' or any variation of that.
2. Try a dungeon or a delve, after mind flay is empowered to mind flay insanity periodically the sequence will just no longer cast mind flay at all until it becomes mind flay: insanity again for 1 cast. It won't cast regular mind flay once it starts to happen until the fight ends and you start the next fight.

🔵 The error: No errors given.

🔵 Screenshots: The top image is how I wrote the macro and how it appears when it is working. The bottom image is what I noticed when I opened my sequence immediately after exiting a fight where the issue occured and noticed it was changed to mind flay: insanity.

🔵 Expected behavior: When mind flay is present, cast mind flay. When it is empowered and becomes mind flay: insanity, cast mind flay: insanity. After empowerment ends and the spell reverts to Mind Flay, cast Mind flay.

🔵 GSE.lua file: Please provide your GSE.lua file or the export string for the specific macro that is causing an issue.

• To find the GSE.lua file:
  1. First, make sure you have enabled the "File Name Extensions" checkbox in Explorer (View tab)
  2. Browse to C:\path\to\wow\_retail_\WTF\Account\YourAccountName\SavedVariables\ or /path/to/WoW/_retail_/WTF/Account/YourAccountName/SavedVariables
  3. Copy the GSE.lua file to your Desktop
  4. Rename this copy to GSA.lua.txt
  5. Then just drag it here in your message GSE.lua.txt
• Note: If you do not include your GSE.lua file you are wasting your time and mine. 90% of the time, the first thing I will ask for is "Can you please upload your GSE.lua file?". This file is needed with the error to work out Why that error occured for you.

🔵 Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10 64bit
• Game Version retail, I think we are on 11.02? What ever the current retail version is as of 21/10/2024.

🔵 GSE Version:

• Version: 3.2.17-a
• Downloaded From: https://www.curseforge.com

🔵 Additional context: I think I've provided all I can think of, please let me know if you need more thank you.

[TimothyLuke]

The solution is /use [known:391403] Mind Flay: Insanity; Mind Flay

[TimothyLuke]

It's a WoW bug, unfortunately, not a GSE bug. GSE asks WoW with casts as opposed to use what is the base spell and sometimes WoW forgets. See #1644 and https://github.com/TimothyLuke/GSE-Advanced-Macro-Compiler/wiki/Base-Spells-and-Translating-Sequences-and-Macro-between-languages.

[Juffel-GSE]

The work around is working nicely, thank you for the quick reply!

[TimothyLuke]

The spellID is Mind Flay: Insanities spell id - solves the : in the spell name issue with [known: Mind Flay: Insanities]