Pet Emote Binds

I'm trying to setup some binds for my pets to put on a fireworks show. I planned on using shift+numpad1-6 for each individual pet and shift+numpad0,7-9 for variations or all at once triggers. I've run into a problem though. It seems no matter what I do I can get them to use emotes in binds. I can get them to do it when I just use the chatbox to enter the commands but as soon as I set up a bind to it they just end up saying it.

Would someone please help me out. I'm sure I'm just screwing up the bind syntax. At least I hope it is me screwing up and not that the game just won't let you do it anymore.

I tried over and over to get a pet emote to work in a bind file. As a Demon Summoner sometimes the tier 2 pets screaming really gets on my nerves. I never succeeded.

I am able to do it with a macro thought so I had to be happy with that. Even complex macros work fine. I just stick a few fun ones on power bar 9 and switch to it if I'm going to be waiting a while. Using goto command first will keep the pets from breaking out of the emote unless a player pushes them around a lot or you get attacked.

Well for starters, I made a firework show using macros for the Toy King and his bots. As far as I know, you can't use /binds for pet emotes after a certain nerf.. You can /bind macros buttons though so, like me, you can make a seperate macro tray.

now, for my macros, I used their names which I grouped together accordingly.. Tier 1 all have S's in their names, Tier 2 all have "Lord" and Tier 3 has its own name so you can just work with that. So for instance,

/macro FW1 "petsayname S <em fireworkbloom>"
/macro FW2 "Petsayname Lord <em fireworkrocket>"
/macro FW3 "petsayname Prince <em fireworksparkle>"

and then you can do something like

/macro MF1 "petsayall <em firworkbloom>"
/macro MF2 "petsayall <em fireworkrocket>"

ect.

Now, you can mix them as well

/macro FWF "petsayname S <em fireworkbloom>$$petsayname Lord <em fireworksparkle>$$petsayname Prince <em fireworkrocket>"


Hope that helps a bit..

Now, for your issue Snilloc, you can do a similar macro for your demons.. I have the same issue as you so I made a specific macro for it that is definitely needed for EVERY demon MM. I was trying to find just the right emote that will keep them shut up but also make them look natural when I discovered this handy one.

/macro Silence "petsayall <em ledgesit>"
/macro Silence2 "petsayall <em ledgesit>$$local Silence!"


The first one will just silence them if you don't want to say anything to them and the second is like telling them to be quiet locally. It's interesting the way ledgesit behaves for them and not sure if it works on any other MM pet. They basically stand still and sway just like normal but no growling or yelling or anything until they are moved or move.

Incidentally, for your information, demons are the only MM pets that you can NOT use the firework emotes with.. a shame really..

What may not be clear from the earlier answers is that the emote needs to be in angled brackets: <em popdance>, for instance.

This tripped me up for a while, because I figured it was just a typical documentation kind of convention indicating "put your specific thing in here".