Warrior Macros for Cataclysm

For Warriors in World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm expansion, leveraging the power of macros can significantly streamline gameplay, enhance your combat efficiency, and ensure you’re maximizing your potential, whether in PvE or PvP situations. Below, you’ll find examples of practical macros tailored to Warrior gameplay, reflecting strategies and abilities relevant to the Cataclysm era.

Basic Attack Macro

Optimizing your basic attack sequence with a macro can help maintain efficiency in your rotation, particularly for Arms Warriors:

#showtooltip Mortal Strike
/startattack
/cast Mortal Strike
/cast Overpower

This macro starts your auto-attack if it’s not already active and casts Mortal Strike, followed by Overpower, ensuring you’re efficiently executing your rotation.

Stance Switching Macro

Warriors often need to switch stances quickly to adapt to changing combat scenarios. This macro switches you to Battle Stance and equips a two-handed weapon, optimizing for an offensive posture:

#showtooltip Battle Stance
/cast Battle Stance
/equipslot 16 [Your Two-Hander's Name Here]

Replace “[Your Two-Hander’s Name Here]” with the actual name of your weapon.

Charge Macro

Charging effectively can set the tone for an engagement. This macro ensures you start your attack immediately after charging, integrating a rend to prevent stealthy classes from vanishing:

#showtooltip Charge
/startattack
/cancelaura Bladestorm
/cast Charge
/cast Rend

This setup is great for ensuring that you seamlessly transition into combat, keeping your target under pressure from the get-go.

Burst Damage Macro

Unleashing your full damage potential at the right moment can turn the tide of battle. This macro combines several abilities to maximize your burst damage output:

#showtooltip Recklessness
/cast Recklessness
/use [Your Trinket Slot]
/cast Sweeping Strikes
/cast Death Wish
/use Golemblood Potion

Replace “[Your Trinket Slot]” with either 13 or 14, depending on which slot your on-use trinket is equipped in.

Defensive Macro

For times when you need to quickly fortify your defenses, this macro can provide an immediate boost to your survivability:

#showtooltip Shield Wall
/cast Defensive Stance
/cast Shield Wall
/equipslot 16 [Your Shield's Name Here]
/equipslot 17 [Your One-Hander's Name Here]

Replace “[Your Shield’s Name Here]” and “[Your One-Hander’s Name Here]” with the actual names of your equipment.

Paladin Macros for Cataclysm

For Paladins, macros can greatly enhance gameplay across all three specializations: Holy, Retribution, and Protection. Here are some tailored macro suggestions that can help streamline actions, allowing you to focus more on your environment and less on your action bars.

Generic Paladin Macros

These macros are useful regardless of your Paladin’s specialization, offering quick utility spell deployment on mouseover targets, saving crucial seconds in both PvE and PvP.

Hand of Protection Mouseover:

#showtooltip Hand of Protection
/stopcasting
/cast [target=mouseover] Hand of Protection

Lay on Hands Mouseover:

#showtooltip Lay on Hands
/stopcasting
/cast [target=mouseover] Lay on Hands

Cleanse Mouseover:

#showtooltip Cleanse
/cast [target=mouseover] Cleanse

Retribution Paladin Specific Macros

For Retribution Paladins, focusing on maximizing damage output while maintaining utility, the following macros can prove invaluable:

Focus Repentance:

#showtooltip Repentance
/cast [target=focus] Repentance

Cancel Aura for Avenging Wrath (to prevent spell steal):

/cancelaura Avenging Wrath

General Druid Macros

These macros provide utility and streamline actions for any Druid role, making them essential tools for efficient gameplay.

Instant Rebirth (Combat Resurrection):

Ensures that Rebirth is cast with maximum efficiency during combat situations.

#showtooltip Rebirth
/stopcasting
/cast [@mouseover,help][help][@player] Rebirth

Mouseover Healing Touch:

Allows you to cast Healing Touch on your mouseover target, crucial for quick healing without changing targets.

#showtooltip Healing Touch
/cast [@mouseover,help][help][@player] Healing Touch

Prowl/Cancel Form:

Instantly shifts you into Cat Form and activates Prowl. If already in Cat Form, it activates Prowl.

#showtooltip Prowl
/cancelform [noform:3]
/cast [noform:3] Cat Form; Prowl

Shift to Bear Form and Growl:

Useful for quickly gaining aggro in a pinch or when tanking. Shifts to Bear Form and casts Growl.

#showtooltip Growl
/cast [noform:1] Bear Form; Growl

Travel Form/Cancel Form:

Smart macro that shifts you into the appropriate travel form depending on your environment. Cancels any current form if already in the desired travel form.

#showtooltip [swimming] Aquatic Form; [outdoors] Travel Form; Cat Form
/cancelform [form:3/4/2]
/cast [swimming] Aquatic Form; [outdoors] Travel Form; Cat Form

Feral Specific Macros

For Feral Druids, managing forms and cooldowns is crucial for maximizing DPS or tanking effectiveness.

Feral Charge – Bear and Bash:

Combines Feral Charge in Bear Form with Bash for a quick engage and stun.

#showtooltip Bash
/cast [noform:1] Bear Form; [form:1] Feral Charge - Bear; Bash

Ravage without requiring Stealth:

Utilizes the Stampede talent proc for a free Ravage.

#showtooltip Ravage!
/cast [nostealth] Ravage!

General Mage Macros

Focus Polymorph:

Instantly polymorph your focus target without changing your current target.

#showtooltip Polymorph
/cast [@focus] Polymorph

Stopcasting and Counterspell:

This macro stops your current cast and immediately casts Counterspell on your target, ensuring crucial interrupts.

#showtooltip Counterspell
/stopcasting
/cast Counterspell

Ice Block:

Instantly cast Ice Block. Can also be used to cancel Ice Block if you’re already in it.

#showtooltip Ice Block
/stopcasting
/cancelaura Ice Block
/cast Ice Block

Spec-Specific Macros

Fire Mage

Combustion Setup:

Combines multiple abilities to prepare for a powerful Combustion. Ensure you have Heating Up or Hot Streak before using.

#showtooltip Combustion
/cast Fireball
/cast Pyroblast
/cast Combustion

Frost Mage

Pet Freeze with Deep Freeze:

Instantly freezes the target area with your Water Elemental’s Freeze ability and prepares for a Deep Freeze if the target is susceptible.

#showtooltip Deep Freeze
/cast [@pettarget] Freeze
/cast Deep Freeze

Icy Veins with Trinkets:

Activates Icy Veins along with any on-use trinkets you have equipped for a burst of spell casting speed.

#showtooltip Icy Veins
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Icy Veins

Utility Macros

Blink Forward:

Ensures you Blink in the direction you’re moving, not where you’re facing.

#showtooltip Blink
/cast [@player] Blink

Quick Food/Drink:

Use one button to eat or drink based on whether you’re in combat. Replace “Conjured Mana Cake” with your food/drink item.

#showtooltip
/use [nocombat] Conjured Mana Cake; [combat] Conjured Mana Pudding

General PvE Macros for All Specs

Death Coil Self-Heal with Lichborne:

When you have the Lichborne talent, this macro lets you heal yourself with Death Coil.

#showtooltip Death Coil
/cast Lichborne
/cast [@player] Death Coil

Mind Freeze Interrupt:

Instantly interrupts your target without needing to switch from your current target.

#showtooltip Mind Freeze
/cast [@target] Mind Freeze

Blood Spec Specific

Death Strike Healing Boost:

Combines Vampiric Blood with Death Strike for a significant self-heal boost.

#showtooltip Death Strike
/cast Vampiric Blood
/cast Death Strike

<h3>Rapid Fire + Call of the Wild:</h3>
<pre><code>#showtooltip Rapid Fire
/cast Rapid Fire
/cast Call of the Wild</code></pre>

<h3>Deterrence:</h3>
<pre><code>#showtooltip Deterrence
/cast Deterrence
/cancelaura Deterrence</code></pre>

<h3>Misdirection:</h3>
<pre><code>#showtooltip Misdirection
/cast [target=mouseover,help,nodead][target=focus,help,nodead][]Misdirection</code></pre>

#showtooltip
/cast Silencing Shot
/cast Kill Command
/cast Chimera Shot

Basic Spell Cast with Pet Attack Macro:

#showtooltip Haunt
/cast Haunt
/petattack

Cooldown Combination Macro:

General Structure:
/use [Potion or Trinket]
/cast Demon Soul
/cast [Guardian Summon, if applicable]
/cast Soulburn
/use [Trinket or Racial Ability]

Wind Shear Macro:

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast [@focus,exists][@target] Wind Shear

Interrupts your focus target or current target.

Purge Macro:

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast [@focus,exists][@target] Purge

Removes beneficial effects from your focus target or current target.

Hex Macro:

#showtooltip Hex
/clearfocus [modifier:alt]
/focus [@focus,noexists]
/clearfocus [@focus,help][@focus,noharm]
/stopcasting
/stopmacro [@target,noharm]
/cast [@focus,exists,harm][@target] Hex
/y Casting Hex on %F

Sets a target as your focus and casts Hex on it, pressing alt changes the focus and casts Hex.

Bind Elemental Macro:

#showtooltip Bind Elemental
/clearfocus [modifier:alt]
/focus [@focus,noexists]
/clearfocus [@focus,help][@focus,noharm]
/stopcasting
/stopmacro [@target,noharm]
/cast [@focus,exists,harm][@target] Bind Elemental
/y Casting Bind Elemental on %F

Similar to the Hex macro, but for Bind Elemental.

Elemental Mastery and Lightning Bolt Macro:

#showtooltip
/cast Elemental Mastery
/cast Lightning Bolt

Activates Elemental Mastery and casts Lightning Bolt immediately afterward for increased damage.

Leap of Faith Mouseover Macro:

/cast [target=mouseover,help,nodead][]Leap of Faith

Casts Leap of Faith on your mouseover target if they are a friendly, alive player. Otherwise, it targets your current target.

Dispersion Cancelaura Macro for Shadow Priests:

#showtooltip Dispersion
/stopcasting
/cast Dispersion
/cancelaura Dispersion

Enables quick casting and cancellation of Dispersion for Shadow Priests.

Generic Mouseover Heal Macro:

#showtooltip Heal
/cast [target=mouseover,help,nodead][]Heal

Replace “Heal” with any healing spell to cast it on a mouseover target if they are a friendly and alive target. Otherwise, it casts on your current target.