Ding 66 and More Macros
Macros are a wonderful tool. One of the easiest uses for macros is to spam Frequently Asked Questions in guild chat. You can store many guild messages and spam them when necessary, like the IP address of your Vent server, by using the /g command.
/g Legendary Vent Server Info IP 123.456.789.012 port 1234
But macros are much more powerful than simple message tools. Here’s a rundown of some of the more simple macros I use every day.
The Pull Shot - This macro is designed to bring a single mob by doing the least amount of damage possible, enabling a warrior or our pet to grab aggro easier.
/cast Arcane Shot (Rank 1)
/stopcasting
/cast Hunter’s Mark
Walking through this macro, we see an instant Arcane Shot with the lowest damage possible, then prevent the Auto Shoot feature from engaging with the /stopcasting line, then cast Hunter’s Mark. We could’ve marked the target first, but we would’ve increased our RAP against the mob, and we wanted to do as little damage as possible.
The Totem Shot - This macro is designed to automatically kill those low-health, hard-to-find totems that Shamans drop in battlegrounds. As fast as they drop them, I take them out.
/target Totem
/cast Arcane Shot (Rank 1)
Notice that you don’t have to specifically name the totem; the macro will find the closest “Totem”, no matter which one it is. And since totems only have 5 health points, it’s a waste of mana to use anything higher than Rank 1. This particular macro can be modified for many situations.
The Eye Shot - The spawning eyes in Strat Dead have more health and can be hard to see. So, when the “The Living Are Here!” text is seen in your chat log, just spam this macro while spinning in place.
/target Eye
/cast Arcane Shot (Rank 
The Mite Shot - There is a quest in Terokkar Forest called The Infested Protectors where you have to kill a bunch of very small wood mites that spawn 3-5 at a time. You can use this macro to really speed up your destruction of these things by taking advantage of Multi-Shot’s tendency to go after multiple mobs.
/target Wood Mite
/cast Multi-Shot (Rank 5)
You’ll target the closest mite, then Multi-Shot will kill three of them. Yeeha!
The Aspect Switch - When you get Aspect of the Viper, you’ll want to switch back and forth with Aspect of the Hawk frequently. Now we get to use a really cool feature of WoW 2.0, the castsequence tool.
/castsequence Aspect of the Hawk, Aspect of the Viper
With one button, you can switch between these two aspects.
The Track Switch - The castsequence tool can do more than two spells, so it is also great for tracking.
/castsequence Track Beasts, Track Humanoids, Track Undead, Track Elementals
With one button, you can switch among these four tracking modes! Isn’t that nifty?
Go play with these and we’ll do more later, including macros that act based upon what you have equipped, whether you are mounted or in combat, resetting the sequence of spells, and lots of other cool stuff. But now it’s time for me to try Kill Command.
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Oh! Wish I’d read this post last night!
That totem macro would’ve been great for one of the boss fights in the Slave Pen last night. Some guildies took me with them for my first run through the Slave Pens last night, and the second boss (can’t remember what the hell his name was) dropped totems that healed him.
We wiped on the first try against him… Part of that was admittedly my fault. I didn’t notice he was dropping totems until about halfway through the fight, and no one had thought to tell me before hand that he did it. Being the only party member with Ranged DPS, it was obviously my job to be on totem duty. I was clueless the first time around, lol. Anyway, second try, we got him. I kept having to hit Tab to target the totems, since they were hard to spot, and it was a bit tough sometimes to get them down right away, since my weapon was slow (and on a shot rotation), so that macro REALLY would’ve been handy!
I’m definitely gonna use it the next time I venture into the Pens, that’s for sure.
Thanks for the macro suggestions! I need all the help I can get with those, lol!
Yes, good post Damh and a good introduction into macros as I just started playing around with them a bit over the weekend.
I was interested to see your example where you cast two spells separated by a “/stopcasting”. I was trying to setup a macro that would cast Thorns, then Mark of the Wild, but couldn’t get it to work.
I did some searching around and found some articles that seemed to indicate that with the new release you could only cast one spell per macro. But your example would seem to contradict that.
I am admittedly a beginner in macros, but if you could clear up this confusion for me it would be great. As a Druid, I like to constantly have fresh Thorns and MotW buffs and was hoping to re-apply them with a single button click. Now that I’ve also talented to Omen of Clarity, that would be an obvious one to add also.
No matter what I tried in the macro, all that ever happened is it would cast the first buff, then stop. Any ideas as to what this n00b might be doing wrong?
The reason your macro is failing is that it is not possible to “wait” in a macro. Any spell that has a cast time will make a macro stop at that spell. Basically, any spell that activates the global cooldown cannot have a spell follow it in a macro.
But you can cast multiple spells by pressing the same key more than once using the /castsequence command.
/castsequence Thorns (Rank 6), Mark of the Wild (Rank 7)
Assign this macro to F4. Press F4 the first time, and it will cast Thorns, press F4 again, and it will cast Mark of the Wild.
Okay, the castsequence I’ll try. I did find a post mentioning the cast time issue, but all those buffs are instants for me, so I was thinking they shouldn’t affect the macro.
They changed it so you would have to hit the macro once for each spell, instead of before where you could just hit the button once and it would do everything in the macro.
It’s just a few more button mashes (of the same button, just multiple times)
I like the new system since they’re easier to write and seem to have more options.
Thank you for this, very informative. This will help my hunter as I get him to 70, but this will also help my Shaman as well. I was looking for a faster way to get my totems down, I’m am going to try /castsequence on this. Thanks again.
Old post, but since I just did the Wood Mite quest, just thought I’d add…
Volley ftw on wood mites
Explosive trap is even more fun on those wood mites.