What's wrong with this macro?

No lost GCD's, but I think a "spell not ready yet" message does appear. Also, if it is on CD, then the next spell won't cast if you pressed it while casting Wrath, but that happens with or without the Starsurge.

As I understand, you get attack queues now that works somehow together with latency. If you use an ability, and use another one before the first is finished casting or the GCD is over, the next ability is queued. When you finish the cast/GCD, the next ability is used. It does mean that you can't spam keys while on GCD's. I've had cases with a Feral where I changed my attack and had spammed the previous one a bit. I would still use the last, spammed attack before changing to the new attack.

In the Wrath/Starsurge macro, I think what happens is that while Wrath is being cast, pressing the macro again causes the Starsurge to be queued. If the Wrath finishes and Starsurge is off CD, then that is cast next. On CD causes an "not ready yet" message or similar. If you don't press the macro while Wrath is still being casted, but wait until it's finished, then Starsurge never gets queued because it's on a separate /cast command.
 
Aha!

I hadn't considered the new ability queue system implemented with Cataclysm. In fact just thinking about it now I don't even have it enabled. That's probably how it's working. The client doesn't even check if the ability would be ready at that point in time (Too much overhead I'm guessing) and just queues it regardless and lets the server decide.

BTW, OT here but is that latency compensation thing worth it? I heard a few horror stories from some EU players around it actually making things worse and causing additional delay but that's probably silly Europeans ad their 50ms latency.
 
Latency compensation thing works wonders for me, used it on vodacom 3g with 450ms latency and now using it on my Web Africa ADSL on 180ms latency and both works great.
 
I haven't played around with it yet. Mine is set to default, which is what your latency is. Only thing I noticed is the fact that I get queued attacks when I spam a key and I want to change quickly. Like getting a crit with Shred or Mangle and wanting to change quickly to FB, but because I spammed, it will include another Shred or Mangle before getting to the FB. Some people have complained that it messes the rotation up.

Shouldn't affect spellcasters much unless you're spamming instant casts.
 
Made a breakthrough with one of the macro's today. Specifically for the Feral Charge -> Ravage macro if you are talented in Stampede.

The modified attack is called Ravage!, so the macro is as follows

/castsequence Feral Charge(Cat), Ravage!
 
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