Welcome, fellow priests and priestesses.


DISCLAIMER: Do not read this introduction if you're only looking for macros: jump to the next post now

This thread is a resurrection.

Some of you remember (or at least I hope so) that there used to be a Priest Macros post on this forum, a long time ago, born with the new versions of World of Warcraft's forums. It had its seat among the other sticky posts, and grew longer and longer thanks to the support of many priests and even some other players that passed by and asked their questions. I spent a lot of time answering many, many of them. Writing the answer is hard. Posting the answer and realising that you didn't copy it and that the forum ate it forever, and that you have to write it again, is even harder. But most of all, even though entertaining, the hardest work was to produce the macros (and even sometimes the addons, maybe coded for only one user). It took me hours. Maybe days if I include the little addons.

Sadly, this thread got "unstickied" with all the others when a forum cleanup occurred. It almost matched the day where Slouken and Iriel posted the new macro options and all the API changes on the US forum for the patch 2.0. Therefore, I decided not to request a new sticky on my old thread, but to rebuild it. Once again, I spent a lot of time, trying to understand with no way to test anything how the new macros would work, finding examples, trying to make categories to make them easier to find and every possible thing that could make this post better.

And again, a Priest Macros thread was alive. It grew as well as the old one, maybe even better as people wanted to replace their old macros. I coded some few addons again, I met via whispers in game, or IRC talks, some priests that I talked a lot about interface with, and helped them coding small stuff, or coded stuff for them.

And I got a temporary forum ban.

You will tell me that no one cares. Actually, I wouldn't have really cared myself if this ban hadn't deleted all my posts, and therefore all the threads I had started. Good bye, Macros Post.
Wondering if I would have to post everything again, I of course sent a mail to Blizzard, asking if this was a mistake, if it was intended, if they knew if it could be brought back (off-topic: I also asked the exact reason of my ban).

Ten days later, still waiting for any sign of life from the not-so-active (oh, really?) customer service, I wrote a second mail, still in a humble and diplomatic tone.

Three more weeks, and PoM got nerfed. I got my second forum ban, and sent a third mail to the same email address. After three days, I received an answer explaining me that this kind of matter couldn't be solved by mail and that I had to fill a online request, which I did of course. Now, another ten days have past, and I still got no answer.

Therefore I feel like I have to post this thread again. It is not fair, whether I have done mistakes or not (I still got no answer about the exact reason of any of my bans), that priest community misses the Priest Macros thread that all the other classes have an equivalent for. So I checked my backups and found the "release" version of this thread.

Sadly, there were mistakes that I do not remember and will have to be corrected again. There are other macros that haven't been added. I have to make a summary again, etc etc...

But what else? What else when you get an answer from the Customer Service only once every four tries? If my mails were impolite, I would understand, but they were not. What else am I supposed to do?
None of you probably cared. Most of you probably didn't read and they were right. Still, if someone asks me why there are mistakes or gaps in this thread, I can point him this wall of text and Blizzard's Customer Service.


Layrajha, level 70 priest on Grim Batol alliance, is proud to bring back to life what had been unfairly taken. Here is the guide to the priest macros.

Summary

• General Macros (http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=220402193&postId=2201823494&sid=1#3)
  • Cast a Spell
    
  • Use a trinket (or another equipped item)
    
  • Equip an item
    
  • Use an item from your bags
    
  • Target someone
    
  • Focus (if you don't know what this is, you should try it out)
  
  
• Random Macros (http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=220402193&postId=2201823494&sid=1#4)
  
  
• Macro Options (http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=220402193&postId=2201823494&sid=1#5)
  
  
• Useful Macro Examples (http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=220402193&postId=2201823494&sid=1#6)
  • Desperate Prayer for Shadowpriests
    
  • Shackle Undead macros
    
  • Shadow PvE cycle

Reserved.

General Macros



Cast a spell:

• Cast the highest rank of spell_name that you know:
  /cast spell_name
  example: /cast Flash Heal
  
  
• Cast the Nth rank of spell_name:
  /cast spell_name(rank N)
  example: /cast Greater Heal(rank 2)
  
  
• Cast a sequence of spells (you of course need to press the macro again everytime you want the next spell of the sequence to be cast):
  
  • Cast the spells spell_name1, spell_name2, spell_name3 (etc...) in this order (you can precise the rank to use too):
    /castsequence spell_name1,spell_name2,spell_name3
    example: /castsequence Inner Fire, Power Word: Fortitude, Shadow Protection
    
    
  • Same, but the sequence will start again to the first spell after N seconds:
    /castsequence reset=N spell_name1,spell_name2,spell_name3
    example: /castsequence reset=10 Inner Fire, Power Word: Fortitude, Shadow Protection
    
    You can replace one (or more) of the spell names by item names to use items instead of casting spells in this sequence.
  
  
  
• Cast a random spell from the list spell_name1, spell_name2, spell_name3 (etc... and you can precise the rank to use too):
  /castrandom spell_name1,spell_name2,spell_name3
  example: /castrandom Holy Fire,Smite(rank 1) (not sure if there's any way to make that useful :p)
  
  You can replace one (or more) of the spell names by item names to use items instead of casting spells from this list.

Use a trinket (or another equipped item):

• Use the trinket in the upper slot:
  /use 13
  
  
• Use the trinket in the lower slot:
  /use 14
  
  
• Use the trinket called trinket_name wherever it is:
  /use trinket_name
  example: /use Zandalarian Hero Charm

Equip an item:

• Equip the item called item_name as if you right-clicked it in your bag:
  /equip item_name
  example: /equip Anathema
  
  
• Equip the item called item_name in the inventory slot N (Rings are 11 and 12, Trinkets are 13 and 14, and you probably don't care about the others):
  /equipslot N item_name
  example: /equipslot 13 Zandalarian Hero Charm

Use an item from your bags:

• Use an item called item_name wherever it is stored:
  /use item_name
  example: /use Major Mana Potion
  
  
• Use a random item from the list item_name1, item_name2, item_name3 (etc...):
  /userandom item_name1,item_name2,item_name3
  example: /userandom Black War Tiger,Black War Steed
  
  
• Use items in a sequence of items one after each other:
  See the spell cast macros (/castsequence)

Target someone:

• Target the unit called target_name:
  /tar target_name (example: /tar Bigtank)
  
  
• Target someone by unit identification:
  
  • Target yourself:
    /tar player
    
    
  • Target your focus ("focus" is a new unit identification that can be set fast and remembers an important target for you, probably a main tank, a mage that often dies, a boss or something like that. See the "Set focus" macro below):
    /tar focus
    
    
  • Target the Nth party member (you aren't the 1st, there are 4 party members in a full group):
    /tar partyN
    example: /tar party2
    
    
  • Target the Nth raid member:
    /tar raidN
    example: /tar raid8
    
    
  • Target the target of a unit which identification is unit_ID:
    /tar unit_ID
    example: /tar party1target
    
    
  • Target the pet of a unit which identification is unit_ID:
    /tar unit_IDpet
    example: /tar raid3pet or even /tar raid23pettargettargetpet. Not sure it'll help a lot though...
  
  
  
• Target your last target:
  /targetlasttarget
  
  
• Clear your target:
  /cleartarget

Focus:
"Focus" is a new unit identification that remembers an important target for you, probably a main tank, a mage that often dies, a boss or something like that (copy-pasting myself, yes, i know ^^).

• Focus can be set on any unit that has an identification (see above in the targeting macros what identifications are). To set the unit which identification is unit_ID as your focused unit, use:
  /focus unit_ID
  example: /focus (probably the one you're gonna use most)
  
  
• Target your focused unit:
  /tar focus
  
  
• Clear your focused unit:
  /clearfocus

Random Macros

Yes, this post needs a serious update :p


Ask a random mage / druid for buffs / water
(seen on the french UI forum, thanks Magus)

/run a=0 d={} for i=1,GetNumRaidMembers() do if UnitClass("raid"..i)=="Mage" then a=a+1 d[a]=UnitName("raid"..i) end end local n=d[random(1,a)] SendChatMessage("Hi, "..n..", may I have an Intellect Buff please?","WHISER",nil,n)

This is an example, you have to replace Mage and the text of the whisper depending on what you're asking for. (The ..n.. basically means that the name of the person you are gonna whisper will be displayed here. You could use a simple message as well of course)


Whisper your target

/run SendChatMessage("My Message is Here","WHISPER",nil,UnitName("target"))

You can change the "My Message is Here" part to whatever suits your macro.

Macro options



Options are the way macros can make very slight choices for you. Usually, it won't really be a decision but more a way to make a compact button that does several things depending on a situation, but you'll always know what it will cast when you press it. Basically, the syntax looks like that:
/command [option] action; [option1,option2] action
I don't want to give a lot of theory, so I'll just list the options and give examples, it's probably the best way to explain.

The options sorted from the one i consider the most useful to the stupidest, so read the first 5/6 ones before to request a macro :)

• Executes an action on a specified unit rather than on your target (here unit_ID, see the part about targeting macros above to know what unit identifications are):
  [target=unit_ID]
  example: /cast [target=targettarget] Flash Heal (casts Flash Heal on your target's target)
  example: /cast [target=focus] Shield (casts a shield on your focus target, a mage AoEing for instance, see the "focus" part above)
  
  
• Executes an action only if the target is friendly:
  [help]
  example: /cast [help] Shield
  
  
• Executes an action only if the target is enemy:
  [harm]
  example: /use [harm] Zandalarian Hero Charm
  
  
• Executes an action only if you are in shadowform:
  [stance:1]
  example: /cast [stance:1] Mind Flay;Renew (casts mind flay if you are in shadowform, renew if you aren't)
  
  
• Executes and action depending on if you are pressing alt/ctrl/shift or not
  [modifier:key]
  example: /cast [modifier:ctrl] Prayer of Fortitude;Power Word: Fortitude (casts PWF, or PoF if you pressed ctrl while clicking)
  
  
• Executes an action only if you are in combat:
  [combat]
  example: /cast [combat] Flash Heal;Greater Heal (casts flash heal if you are in combat, if not, it casts greater heal instead)[/i]
  
  
• Executes an action depending on if you're mounted or not:
  [mounted]
  example: /use [mounted] Reins of the Black War Tiger;Major Healing Potion (will either use a healing pot, or dismount so you can press it again to use the healing pot)
  
  
• Executes an action only if you're channeling a spell
  [channeling] (or [channeling:spell_name] for a test on a specific spell)
  no example, i couldn't think of something :p
  
  
• Executes an action only if your target is dead
  [dead]
  example: /cast [dead] Resurrection;Greater Heal
  
  
  
• Other options that aren't really useful in my opinion (at least for priests):
  
  • [stealth]
    
  • [flying]
    
  • [indoors]
    
  • [outdoors]
    
  • [swimming]
    
  • [pet:name or family] (choose depending on if your pet has the given name or is from the given family)
    
  • [actionbar:bar] (choose depending on if an action bar is shown or not. i didn't get the point)
    
  • [button:button (same as "modifier" but with any button, i think)
    
  • [equipped:invslot or itemclass or itemsubclass (probably for rogues: if i have a dagger, then evicerate, else blablabla)
  
  
  
  
• Another important thing: /stopmacro
  This command is meant to be used with an option, and if the requirement of the option are matched, it stops the macro. For example:
  /cast inner focus
  /stopcasting
  /stopmacro [help]
  /cast holy fire
  /s Be burnt!
  (casts inner focus (with a stopcasting to remove the "little" cooldown), then if your target is friendly, it stops; else, it continues and casts holy fire and says a stupid sentence that i could have made better)
  
  
  
• A last and not really important thing: #show
  If you want a macro to show a specific spell's cooldown/range, it is easy, you just have to put #show spell_name at the beginning. Example:
  #show Mind Blast
  /cast inner focus
  /stopcasting
  /cast mind blast
  (without the #show, this macro's button would have displayed inner focus' cooldown and no range thing, while now, it will show mind blast's cooldown and will be colored when you're out of mind blast's range)
  
  
  
• Macros that always try to cast a "no GCD" spell.
  Those macros (the example above with inner focus and mind blast), which are supposed to be used instead of your normal spell (here: mind blast) have an annoying side effect: they trigger a written error message (and a vocal one, depending on your settings) when the bonus spell (here: inner focus) is on cooldown ("This spell isn't ready yet").
  There's a way to correct that and make those macro good again, it is to use _incoming advertising_ an addon i have made and posted here: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?s=&id=6388
  How to use it? It's written on the page there, but basically, you have one command to stop errors and one to enable them again: /err0 and /err1. The previous macro would become:
  #show Mind Blast
  /err0
  /cast inner focus
  /err1
  /stopcasting
  /cast mind blast
  And voila, no more error spam :)

Useful Macro Examples

I will write here the macros that appear later in this post, either in my answers to other priests or in suggestions if you have a favorite macro that you would like to be added. I'm probably not gonna add everything, I'll try to keep the redundancy as low as possible, and I will rather thank you in the thread than in this post to make it less messy (unless you want a copyright ^^).
This post will be divided in several "mini-post" as soon as i can make enough real categories. At the moment, it would be worthless.


Desperate Prayer for Shadowpriests

• If you are not in Shadowform, the first click will cast Desperate Prayer, the second one will cast Shadowform.
  If you are in Shadowform, the first click will remove Shadowform, the second click will cast Desperate Prayer, and the third click will cast Shadowform again.
  The cycle resets after 10 seconds, you can of course change it.
  /cast [stance] Shadowform
  /castsequence [nostance] reset=10 Desperate Prayer, Shadowform

Shackle Undead macros

• If you have no focused unit or if your focused unit is dead, this macro will in one click: set focus on your current target, put the orange raid target icon on it, and shackle it.
  If you already have a focused unit that is alive (probably because you have already used the macro once), it will cast shackle on it without changing your target.
  If you don't know what this means, as it's extremely helpful, either try it to understand how it works or just post here and I'll try to explain it better.
  /focus [target=focus,noexists]
  /focus [target=focus,dead]
  /cast [target=focus] Shackle Undead
  /run SetRaidTarget("focus",2)
  
• Reset the previous macro (might be useful in a messy fight in which you want to shackle a new target before the old one is dead). It removes the raid target icon on your focused unit (unless it's not your icon but a new one, because the raid leader might have set your target to skull for some reason and you don't want to remove skull). Then it clears your focus.
  /run if GetRaidTargetIndex("focus")==2 then SetRaidTarget("focus",0) end
  /clearfocus

Shadow PvE cycle

• It will cycle your shadow spells with a decent (but not optimal) order. VE isn't included, you have to press it separately if you want it up. The macro starts back to the beginning of the cycle if combat ends or if you change target. It's a "1 button Karazhan raid" macro. Don't forget that some parts of the instances require more than that :)
  /castsequence [nochanneling:Mind Flay] reset=target/combat Vampiric Touch,Shadow Word: Pain,Mind Flay,Mind Flay,Mind Flay,Mind Flay,Vampiric Touch,Mind Flay,Mind Flay,Shadow Word: Pain,Mind Flay,Mind Flay,Vampiric Touch,Mind Flay,Mind Flay,Mind Flay

Mount / Dismount

• When you bind your mount to a key, if you mount and press the key right after, there is a mechanism that prevents you from dismounting during about 1 sec (except if you right click the mount buff). It is annoying because it happens from time that you mount and want to dismount right after (a mob spawns, you are attacked, anything like that). This macro will mount and dismount faster than a simple use of your mount item:
  /dismount [mounted]
  /stopmacro [mounted]
  /use Black War Steed Bridle
  Of course you have to replace the name of my mount with the name of yours. You can just open your bags, write the first part of the macro, and shift+click on your mount to automatically write the last line with no spelling mistake. I'll edit that when the [flying] option becomes available.

About healing in raids

• Clique VS Mouseover macros
  
  There are various ways to heal in a raid situations.
  
  Maybe some unexperienced players will enter a raid with no addon, no idea about what raid frames are, and will only be able to decently heal their own group, because they will not see the life of anyone else.
  Then, they will probably enable Blizzard's raid frames. Now, we're one step beyond, as we can see the life of everybody in the raid.
  What comes next is that you need (yes, you really need it, in my opinion) something easier and faster to read. The consensus is Grid (direct link: http://files.wowace.com/Grid/Grid-r62183.zip on wowace), which is a modular lightweight and screen-estate saving grid of party/raid unit frames. Modular means that it is based on simple modules that can be activated or not (many addons indeed add new modules for Grid and can be downloaded from http://files.wowace.com/ as well). Lightweight means that it's small, so it won't be too CPU or memory expensive. Screen-estate saving means that you will not have some huge thing in the middle of your screen that hides half the 3D world.
  
  After you have either enabled Blizzard's raid frames, or downloaded a raid-frames addon like Grid (which is what you really should do, even if you don't usually like addons), you are ready for more.
  
  Again, the beginer will click on someone's frame, and then use a healing spell. The problem is that it is a bit slow. There are two main options to make this faster:
  
  
  • Clique
    
    Clique is an addon by Cladhaire, an important addon coder and staff member of wowinterface.com. It can be downloaded from http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info5108-Clique.html and it is very easy to install and to use. Just read Cladhaire's fast guide on the previous link.
    
    What it does is that it allows you to configure what a click on a unit frame should do. Let's pick an example. A unit frame is, for instance, your target's frame, or one of Grid's buttons, or one of the frames of your party members. You may want that a ctrl+leftclick on some raid member's frame casts Dispel Magic on him or her. Grid the best way to do that. You configure rules that look like "[Modifiers]+[Mouse Button] => [Spell]". Above, we said that "[Ctrl]+[LeftButton] => Dispel Magic". It is even easier than this to configure. The only thing you have to be careful about is that most of the time, you want to keep your left click for targeting (unless you're in deep modifications ^^).
    
    People that heal with Clique basically configure a rule for the spells that they use the most, and they use these modified clicks on Grid's frame to heal or dispel the raid. Of course, you will probably not have enough buttons to bind everything simply (unless you want to use every combination of modifiers, but good luck with that), so you will sometimes have to target someone and cast whatever occasional spell you need, but it's a very nice addon.
    
    If you want to have a very fast view of Clique, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4942694326108730311 is a 1min30 video of a "first time" using this addon.
    
    
  • Mouseover Macros
    
    Mouseover macros are macros that cast a spell on the target on which your mouse is. For instance, if I bind my mouseover macro for Flash Heal on [3], then I could heal someone in the raid by pressing [3] on my keyboard while holding my mouse over his Grid button.
    
    People who use this approach just define one macro per healing spell, and bind them to different keys, easily reachable with their left hand without looking at their keyboard. Then, they use their right hand to move the mouse over the Grid button of whoever needs healing, and press the hotkey for the relevant healing spell. Simple, fast, efficient.
    
    So now, what do mouseover macros look like? Let's take the example of Flash Heal:
    
    
    • Very simple macro:
      

      /cast [target=mouseover] Flash Heal

      
      This one simply casts Flash Heal on your mouseover target, and fails if you have none.
      
      
    • A bit more clever:
      

      /cast [target=mouseover,exists] [] Flash heal

      
      If you aren't mouserovering anyone, it casts Flash Heal on your current target instead.
      
      
    • Yet a bit better:
      

      /cast [target=mouserover,exists,help] [exists,help] [target=targettarget,exists,help] Flash Heal

      
      If you have a mouseover target and if it's friendly, it casts Flash Heal on it. Else, if your have a (normal) target and if it's friendly, it casts Flash Heal on it. If your had no friendly current target, you may be targeting the boss, and you may want to cast Flash Heal on the boss' target, so the macro eventually checks if the target of your target is friendly.[/url]
      
      My favourite would be the last one. I dislike macros that might do things that you don't want them to do. For instance, there are people who choose to add an option that casts the spell on you if all the other tests failed. Good, but if you were trying to cast something on someone, and you pressed your hotkey accidently a bit too early while your mouse wasn't really on the frame yet, you'll Flash Heal yourself, while you are at full health and don't care about it. Here, if you are fighting trash, just don't pick any target, and you can "spam" your hotkey while moving your mouse: you won't take the risk to waste a GCD. So, the macro over here can be used three ways: Either you have no target, and you use it purely for mouseover, or you target the boss and you use both the mouseover part and the target's target part, or you use it as a very simple spell that heals your target.
      
      You would of course have to create one macro per spell that you are using, and to bind them all afterward.
    
    
    
  • Clique VS Mouseover Macros
    
    Mouseover macros should be best in most situations if you're looking for a maximum speed. But to be honest, I think that Clique remains viable. Or, at least, I think that it's quite viable to split your healing spells between Clique and Mouseover macros, because it will reduce the number of hotkeys you'll need for your macros and the number of modified clicks you'll need for Clique.
    
    Anyway, at this level, your UI is already probably far more efficient than the average healer's UI, so you can probably test a bit and pick the one you prefer.
    
    As a Shadowpriest, I don't have mouseover macros, and I use Clique for Shield, Dispels, and my four buffs (PWS / PoF / Shadow Prot / Prayer of Shadow Prot). I guess that one could, as a healer, use the same Clique options as I do, and mouseover macros for the real healing spells. Or other mixes. It's really up to you.
  
  
  
  
  
• Other raid healing macros
  -- Currently Empty --
  

A Shackle Macro using the focus option

• The Macro:
  

  /clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
  
  /clearfocus [target=focus,help]
  
  /focus [target=focus,noexists]
  
  /clearfocus [target=focus,help]
  
  /cast [target=focus,exists] Shackle Undead

• Description:
  This one does everything in one button:
  • Press it once: If your target is friendly, nothing happens. Else, it becomes your focused target, and you cast Shackle Undead on it.
    
  • Press it again while your focused target is alive: even if you are targeting someone else, you will cast Shackle Undead on this target.
    
  • Press it again after the fight (or whenever your focused target is dead): if you have a new target, it will start shackling it just as in step one. If you have no target, it will clear your focused target.
• Pros:
  
  • Everything in one click (including the clearfocus)
    
  • Reliable in chained pulls even if you don't have much time to get prepared
• Cons:
  
  • If you screw up by using this macro the first time of a fight on the wrong target, then you need to manually clearfocus or to focus another target. Therefore, it's advisable to have a very simple clearfocus macro bound somewhere, or even a button in an action bar at a place that you don't use much.
  
  
  
• Modifications:
  
  
  • Hold shift to reset the macro (if you picked a bad target)
    
    
    • New Macro:
      

      /clearfocus [mod:shift]
      
      /clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
      
      /clearfocus [target=focus,help]
      
      /focus [target=focus,noexists]
      
      /clearfocus [target=focus,help]
      
      /cast [target=focus,exists] Shackle Undead

    • Changes:
      Now, if you hold shift while using the macro, it will start by clearing your focused target. It basically corrects the screw-up risk: if you picked the wrong target, just target the good one, hold shift and use the macro again, and it will focus your new target and shackle it. You can of course replace shift with ctrl or alt.
      Basically, it's better than the one above if you don't already have something bound on the same modifier + hotkey.
    
    
    
  • Add a raid target icon to your shackled target
    
    
    • New Macro:
      

      /run SetRaidTarget("focus",0)
      
      /clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
      
      /clearfocus [target=focus,help]
      
      /focus [target=focus,noexists]
      
      /clearfocus [target=focus,help]
      
      /run SetRaidTarget("focus",2)
      
      /cast [target=focus,exists] Shackle Undead

    • Changes:
      If you are promoted in a raid, the target your are shackling will be given a raid target icon (here, the orange icon, which matches number "2" at the 6th line of the macro). This icon should be removed whenever you clear your focused target. You can replace the "2" with something else. See http://www.wowwiki.com/API_SetRaidTarget for the list of the numbers associated to the various raid target icons.
    
    
    
  • Both of the above changes
    
    
    • New Macro:
      

      /run SetRaidTarget("focus",0)
      
      /clearfocus [mod:shift]
      
      /clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
      
      /clearfocus [target=focus,help]
      
      /focus [target=focus,noexists]
      
      /clearfocus [target=focus,help]
      
      /run SetRaidTarget("focus",2)
      
      /cast [target=focus,exists] Shackle Undead

    • Changes:
      This is the merge of both the above changes. Holding shift will reset the macro by focusing your current target and shackling it, and the raid icons will be used. It's a 253/255 characters macro, so you can't really play with it far more :)

Help in Arena

• Nullify enemy shadowfiends, assist helpful shadowfiends:
  
  
  • The Macro:

    /cast [target=shadowfiend-target,exists,help] Power Word: Shield; [target=shadowfiend-target,exists,harm] Dispel Magic

  • Description:
    Casts a Shield on an evil shadowfiend's target, or dispels an helpful shadowfiend's target. If a shadowfiend hits a shield, no mana will be returned, thus it is nice to shield up if you see enemy shadowfiends, and to dispel shields if you have your own shadowfiend up. Of couse, you can remove a part of the macro if you only want one of the two effects.
    
  • Pros:
    
    • Annoys the oom priest from the other team
      
    • If he's using the same trick, and if you've already spammed some dispels, prevent him from doing the same to you
  • Cons:
    
    • Might act a bit random if several shadowfiends are up at the same time
  
  
  
  
• Dispel BoF / BoP from your warrior friend's target
  
  
  • The Macro:

    /cast [target=bigpapa-target] Dispel Magic

  • Description:
    It casts a Dispel Magic on the target of the player called "bigpapa". Obviously, you should insert the name of your favourite warrior friend here instead of "bigpapa" (or ask your friend to pay a character name change). If ever you're healing your mage friend while your warrior friend asks for a Dispel because of BoF or BoP, you won't need to lose your current target (the mage) to please your other friend (the warrior).
    
  • Pros:
    
    • Fastest way to do what you want to do here: dispel the warrior's target
  • Cons:
    
    • It's one more macro to bind, because you'll obviously keep a normal dispel button / hotkey somewhere, or maybe more.
      
    • It requires a bit of communication (it's not really the macro, but more the strategy that does): if the warrior calls for a dispel and switches target too fast, it'll be useless, and you'll be dispelling the wrong target. If the warrior calls for the dispel while you're far out of range, or stunned, then you should let him know that you cannot help him, because he should switch target. Etc etc... Arena = Communication skills.
  
  

Last Reserved.

Nice, we have a macro topic again :). Reported for sticky.



ps. Well done btw ^^.

Thanks for your encouragement :)

And bump "for sticky reports" (can't bump for sticky, but people might read and report for sticky :p).

reported for sticky.

Good to have this back. Nice work as ever.

Thanks for bringing this back and reported for sticky.

can anyone help with a macro?

i have:
/castsequence reset=10 Shadowform, Desperate Prayer, Shadowform

but it just casts shadowform twice in a row and then tries to cast desperate prayer when im back in shadowform? :S

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Q u o t e:
can anyone help with a macro?

i have:
/castsequence reset=10 Shadowform, Desperate Prayer, Shadowform

but it just casts shadowform twice in a row and then tries to cast desperate prayer when im back in shadowform? :S

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I didn't understand the cause of the problem with your macro (it does the same strange thing with me), but anyway, here is one that works:
/cast [stance] Shadowform
/castsequence [nostance] reset=10 Desperate Prayer, Shadowform

Heres a question, I'm trying to make my macros more efficent

on one button I have ( ` as it happens)

/focus
/setraidiconthingymagidthatIcant remeber to a moon

the on another button I have

/cast [tar=focus] shackle undead (or whatever it is for it to work properly)

So i dont have to change targets to reshackle (great for Kara)

Do you have a way of improving these? 1 button would be better than two obviously :)

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Q u o t e:
Heres a question, I'm trying to make my macros more efficent

on one button I have ( ` as it happens)

/focus
/setraidiconthingymagidthatIcant remeber to a moon

the on another button I have

/cast [tar=focus] shackle undead (or whatever it is for it to work properly)

So i dont have to change targets to reshackle (great for Kara)

Do you have a way of improving these? 1 button would be better than two obviously :)

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What I use isn't perfect either:

Macro 1:
If you have no focused target, it will raid mark it (with the orange mark), it will focus it, and it will try to cast shackle on it. If you already have a focused unit, it will cast shackle on it without droping your current target.
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/cast [target=focus] Shackle Undead
/run SetRaidTarget("focus",2)

Macro 2:
You will have to use this after each fight to reset the 1st macro. If you don't, you'll often not be able to shackle as the 1st macro will try to cast shackle on the dead mob of the previous pack instead of marking and shackling the old one.
It will unfocus the old focused unit and (probably, this part isn't tested) remove the raid target icon if it's still yours (if the raid icon has been changed, it won't be removed).
/run if GetRaidTargetIndex("focus")==2 then SetRaidTarget("focus",0) end
/clearfocus


Edit:
I just pictured that the 1st macro could be made better. I haven't tested what comes here, so i'm not sure if it works or not, but the improvment would be that:
- You are fighting pack 1
- You focus a mob and shackle it
- The fight ends, you don't clear your focused unit
- Next pack has a mob that you try to shackle with macro 1
- Instead of trying to shackle a dead unit, it resets the macro because it checks that actually, the unit you're trying to shackle is dead
You would still need a clearfocus macro (maybe only clickable but still) for messy fights in which you change your mind about who to shackle :)

/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/focus [target=focus,dead]
/cast [target=focus] Shackle Undead
/run SetRaidTarget("focus",2)