Edit 05/18/07: Whoo yay for CMs. Post limit extended!

Edit 05/14/07: A lot has changed since November, including some of the stickies mentioned here. I'll rewrite this introduction soon in order to bring it up to date. I'll also be pruning some of these macros - some of the "brute force" macros may no longer be valid, and many of the cludgy workarounds here (particularly the shadowform macros) might be simpler to accomplish with the 2.1 macro command changes. I'll remove this note once all my fiddling is complete. :) Sorry for the mess!

I've been reading Neuro's Macro Guide for WoW 2.0 and I've started working on updating all of my favorite macros. I'm not a scripting natural - if anyone finds errors in these please let me know. I am moving as many of the contributions upthread as I can, but I'm prioritizing the macros that don't closely mirror a macro already quoted. I've tried to explain how to modify these enough within the thread itself.

These are coming in faster than I can test them, so any help and your patience as we get these verified would be lovely. Thanks, and I hope these help you!



If you'd like to know more about how macros work and how you can make your own, I highly recommend Cogwheel's Macro Introduction and FAQ:
https://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=96143900&sid=1

Nightshroud has also added a fine discussion about how to construct your macros to Lux et Umbra:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=86706393&sid=1#10

And for old time's sake, here's the link to Neuro's (reposted) guide to 2.0 macros. This was the original source for many would-be macro writers: https://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=102812453&sid=1



Table of Contents

Crowd Control Macros (Post #3)
- Shackle Undead, Party
- Focus: Shackle Undead
- Focus: Shackle Undead

Healing Macros
- Heal if Friendly
- Heal Friendly or Self, Announce
- Announce Heal or Heal Failure
- Mouseover Heal
- 5-Button Mouse Crazy Heal

Miscellaneous Macros
- PI and Announce
- Hero Charm and PI
- Hero Charm and PI
- Mouseover Dispel
- Raid Shield Macro

Miscellaneous Macros continued (Post #6)
- script: Binding Mouse Macros

Space Saver Macros
- Modifier: Single or Party Buffs
- Left/Right Click: Single or Party Buffs
- Left/Right Click: Ground or Flying Mount

Combat Macros (Post #8)
- Castsequence MB and SW:P
- Mind Flay Check
- Castsequence Inner Focus and Devouring Plague
- Combat Pain Suppression, Nocombat Res
- Drop Shadow, Heal, Back to Shadow
- Target/Targettarget Smite
- Castsequence Pain Suppression, Inner Focus, Flash Heal, Renew, PW:S
- Shadowform and Action Bars
- Berserking, PI, Inner Focus, Smite

Changelog (Post #9)


How to Setup a Macro
1. Start WoW
2. Type /macro in the chat window and hit enter OR press the Esc button and select Macros
3. Press New
4. Enter a name for your macro
5. Select an icon for your macro
6. Copy or write in the macro text
7. Move the icon to your action bar, or just press "x" to close the macro dialog

You could also see the official WoW page on making macros: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/basics/macros.html


Useful Reference Sites:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Interface_Customization
http://borkweb.com/story/wow-priest-macros <-- this thread, only prettier ;)
http://www.warcraftrevolution.com/class_guides/priestmacros.php <-- also this thread, but out of date. I'll be working with the site owner to get that cleaned up.

wow, that last one will be super useful for shadow priests, especially in PvP

You could set it up for VT -> VE - > SW:P - > MB -> MF

Shadow always has to cast this little ritual when were engaging someone. Consolidating it would be sweetness.

Crowd Control Macros

/cast [harm] Shackle Undead
/stopmacro [noharm]
/p Shackling %t! DO NOT TOUCH!
This macro will cast Shackle Undead if the target is hostile. It will then tell the party that you're shacking the target. The stopmacro line will prevent the announcement if the target is not hostile, cutting down on unnecessary spam. However, I think you'll still get a /p message if you attempt to cast shackle undead on a non-valid target. (confirmed for 2.0.1)

macro 1: /focus
macro 2: /cast [target=focus] Shackle Undead
Braks' Focus Combo Macro (ty Braks!) allows you to set your focus and bind a spell directly to that focus. You should be able to cast the second spell without ever losing your current target. If used with a heal spell instead of shackle, this should also be very helpful for MT/Raid healing. (confirmed for 2.0.10)

/focus [button:2]
/cast [target=focus,harm,nodead] Shackle Undead; [harm] Shackle Undead
/stopmacro [target=focus,noharm]
/script SendChatMessage(UnitName("focus").." is shackled! DO NOT BREAK!");
Modified this one from Neuro's thread, courtesy of Pinkflowers. "It will attempt shackle my focus if my focus is an enemy, and it will call out in /say when I do this. If my focus is set to a friendly target, it will still shackle my target but will not spam chat." I added the nodead check because I was getting an error in situations where my focused shackle target died, and I tried to shackle a different one. I also added the ability to right-click the macro and set your shackle. (confirmed for 2.0.10; note: I need to verify the behavior of the chat message.)


Healing Macros

/cast [help] Greater Heal
/stopmacro [nohelp]
/p Healing %t
This simple macro will cast Greater Heal (the highest rank you have) if the target is friendly, and alert the party about whom you're healing. It will stop the announcement if the target is not friendly. (confirmed for 2.0.10)

/cast [help] <Healing Spell>; [target=player] <Healing Spell>
/script local n if(UnitIsFriend("player","target")) then n=UnitName("target") else n=UnitName("player") end SendChatMessage("Healing"..n.."in 3 seconds","SAY",nil)
Llenyd and Augur wrote this one. It will heal yourself if the target is harmful, otherwise it will heal your target - and announce whomever you're healing, including yourself. The above macro would only announce your targetted healing. (confirmed for 2.0.1)

/run if(IsUsableSpell("Heal")) then SendChatMessage("Healing %t","SAY") else SendChatMessage("Healing %t Failed","SAY")
/cast Heal
Serik dug up the "IsUsableSpell" command, which in addition to your standard announcement macro also allows you to announce when a Heal fails due to mana issues or other difficulties. For a version that's combined with Llenyd and Augur's targeting macro, see post #279 (page 14).

/cast [target=mouseover] Flash Heal
This macro uses the target=mouseover function to allow you to Flash Heal whomever your mouse hovers over - without losing your current target. Say you've got your MT in spam heal mode and squishy DPSer runs up saying "Healz Pls." Well now you can throw him a quick boost without losing precious time cycling back to your MT. (confirmed for 2.0.10)

/cast [button:1, help] Flash Heal; [button:1, harm, target=targettarget] Flash Heal; [modifier:alt, target=player] Flash Heal; [button:2, target=party2] Flash Heal; [button:3, target=party3] Flash Heal; [button:4, target=party4] Flash Heal; [button:5, target=party5] Flash Heal
For you uber mouse wielders out there, Llenyd's macro lets you heal your party without losing your target. Button 1 casts Flash Heal on your target if the target is friendly, otherwise it casts on the target's target. If you hold alt while clicking, it will cast Flash Heal on the player. Button 2 will cast FHeal on party member 2, button 3 will cast Flash Heal on party member 3, button 4 on party member 4, and button 5 will cast on party member 5. Don't forget that you'll need to save your bindings in order to have this carry over between sessions - see post #6.


Miscellaneous Macros

/cast Power Infusion
/script local n,r=UnitName"target";if(r)then n=n.."-"..r;end;SendChatMessage("Power Infused.","WHISPER",nil,n)
This is the update for Tanara's "PI Whisper Notification to Target " macro. (confirmed for 2.0 by Prays and Spoon)

/castsequence [target=player] Zandalarian Hero Charm, Power Infusion
This is Tanara's "Top Trinket +PI" macro. Trinket slots will not be a valid term in the "/castsequence" macros - you'll have to specify the item name like the one in italics here. If I remember right, the name is case sensitive but only has to be long enough so that the term isn't ambiguous. For example, "Conjured" could call conjured water or conjured cinnamon roll. You would have to write out to "Conjured Cinn" to get the term non-ambiguous.

I wrote Tanara's macro as a sequence so that if the trinket was on cooldown, then the Power Infusion wouldn't cast. There's no way to "use spell if item is not on cooldown" in the new scripting language - the developers deliberately removed that functionality. So I can't translate those other cooldown macros for you. :) Remember, you'll have to press the button twice (with no failure) to get the Power Infusion spell cast. (funtionality being added in 2.0.2)

/use Zandalarian Hero Charm
/stopcasting
/cast [target=player] Power Infusion
/stopcasting
/cast [target=player] Inner Focus
Spoon's BAM macro (ty Spoon!) should use the Hero Charm if it's not on cooldown, then cast Power Infusion, then cast Inner Focus - all with one click. It differs from the above macro in that there's no cooldown check. If the Hero Charm is on cooldown, you'll just receive an error message but the rest of the spells will execute.

/cast [target=mouseover] Dispel Magic
Sylphael's macro (ty, Sylphael!) will cast dispel magic on whatever target your mouse is presently hovering over. So if you bind it to a mouse button and hit that button while hovering over a character, you'll cast dispel on that character. Anyone else thinking "Shazzrah!"? (confirmed for 2.0.10)

/cast [raid] Power Word: Shield; [target=targettarget, raid] Power Word: Shield; [target=player] Power Word: Shield
Our first macro using the "raid" conditional! As Harmegido explains, "pretty simple macro to cast shield on your target if he's in your group and friendly or if your target's target is friendly and in group, or else shield yourself." Thanks, Harmegido!

You have posted a beaitufl thing, please keep them coming.

I can't wait to only need 1 button for SWP+VE or SWP+VE+SW:Death ;D

I think this one will become popular:

/cast [nochanneling:Mind Flay] Mind Flay

Should cast Mind Flay only if you are not currently already channeling Mind Flay.

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Miscellaneous Macros, continued

/script SetBindingMacro("BUTTON#","MacroName")
This isn't a macro per se, but it's useful. This is how I bound my [target=mouseover] Dispel Magic macro to my fourth mouse button (and my Abolish Disease to my fifth). In my case the script looked like /script SetBindingMacro("BUTTON4","MouseDispel"). There are also some addons you can use for a similar functionality, including Clique.

/script SetBindingMacros("BUTTON4","MouseoverDispel")
/script SaveBindings(2)
This allows the keybindings you've saved above to carry over between sessions. Note that this will only save the keybindings for that particular character - if you'd like to save the bindings between accounts, replace SaveBindings(2) with SaveBindings(1).


Space Saver Macros

/cast [modifier:alt] Prayer of Shadow Protection; Shadow Protection
/cast [modifier:alt] Greater Heal(Rank 1); Greater Heal
/cast [modifier:alt] Holy Nova(Rank 1); Holy Nova
Spoon's spacesaver macros - now your low ranked or single-cast spell can be the same button as your high ranked. All you'll have to do is hold the alt key to toggle between them. Remember, you'll need to remove the "alt as self-cast" default functionality in your keybindings in order to use alt as your particular modifier. (confirmed for 2.1.x)

/cast [button:1] Prayer of Shadow Protection; [button:2] Shadow Protection
Nightshroud posted this one in the stickied thread. It's similar to the above space-saver macro, but this version uses [button:1] and [button:2] as the conditionals; the party buff will cast if you left click but the single buff will cast if you right click. You can do similar macros for ground versus flying mount, or conjured versus purchased water. Lots of possibilities with this one! (confirmed for 2.1.x)

/cast [button:1] Swift Palomino; [button:2] Ebon Gryphon
This is based off of the right/left click macros Nightshroud posted. You'll need to replace the italicized items with the particular breed and color of your mount. Once that's done, left-clicking will summon your ground mount, and right-clicking will summon your flying mount. (confirmed for 2.1.x)

Combat Macros

/castsequence reset=combat/target Mind Blast, Shadow Word: Pain
This macro uses the new "cast sequence" ability - yay more bar space! When you first click it, it should cast Mind Blast - when you click the button again, it will cast Shadow Word: Pain. The sequence will reset to Mind Blast if the player drops out of combat, or chooses a different target. (confirmed for 2.0)

(I'd love to figure out how to pop a PW:S in there after the Mind Blast, but I don't know if you can change targets mid-sequence. Come to think of it... it might just work on its own if you enable the "self-cast" feature in your Advanced Interface Options.)

/cast [nochanneling:Mind Flay] Mind Flay
Llenyd's macro (ty Llenyd!) should cast Mind Flay only if you are not currently already channeling Mind Flay. For those "duh" moments. :)

/castsequence reset=170 Inner Focus, Devouring Plague
Idejder's Devouring Plague macro is a good example of the timed reset macro (ty, Idejder!) . This macro will, on the first button press, cast Inner Focus. On the second press, it will cast Devouring Plague. The sequence resets after Devouring Plague, or if enough time passes between button presses (170).

/cast [combat] Pain Suppression; [nocombat] Resurrection
Idejder's macro here will check combat status - if the player is in combat then the macro casts Pain Suppression. If not, the macro casts Resurrection. The new macro language treats the semi-colon " ; " as an "or" statement, allowing you to have multiple actions in your macro that depend upon the conditions.

/castsequence [stance:1] Shadowform, Flash Heal, Shadowform
For our shadow friends, this macro will drop shadowform on the first click, cast Flash Heal on the second click, and revert you to shadowform on the third click. If you are not in shadowform, it won't do anything.

/cast [harm] Smite; [target=targettarget, harm] Smite
Quoting Llenyd: "For Surge of LoL. You can use this to cast smite on enemies as normal, or if you trigger SoL while healing, you can quickly throw in the smite against the target of whomever you are healing." Thanks Llenyd!

/castsequence reset=180 Pain Suppression, Inner Focus, Flash Heal, Renew, Power Word: Shield
Wickidspliff's "safe mode" macro. :) The reset reflects the Pain Suppression and Inner Focus cooldowns, so if you don't finish the sequence it should be ready to start from the beginning once the cooldowns are up.

# show Shadowform
/changeactionbar [stance:1] 1 ; 2
/cast Shadowform
Sorry I missed this one, Chamberlaine! This macro, when you're changing to shadowform, should switch to action bar 2. If you're already in shadowform, it will switch to action bar 1. And if you have the correct bar up it shouldn't do anything. (a little buggy, investigating)

/cast Berserking
/stopcasting
/cast Power Infusion
/stopcasting
/cast Inner Focus
/stopcasting
/cast Smite
Sirona's Troll Berserking / Power Infusion / Inner Focus -- Smite macro does just what it says. :) If any of the first spells are on cooldown it should give you an error message, but continue on through the other spells. You can also turn this into a healing macro if you change the final spell.

Change log:
July 06, 2007: Sectioning off the miscellaneous macros a bit, and accordingly moving the last two posts down by one slot.

May 16, 2007: Updated some confirmations, and added the nodead check to Pinkflowers and Neuro's shackle macro. I think I know what the issue is with the shadowform & action bar macro, but I'll have to snag one of my dark sisters to test before I can update. ^.^

May 11, 2007: Added the link to Nightshroud's newish Macros discussion in Lux et Umbra. It's a fabulous resource!

February 09, 2007: Updated with a table of contents, and instructions for entering your macros. (Hey, it worked for the mages!) This necessitated yet more post takeovers - if you're still around, please delete your post if it's between the macro guide. Thank you so much!

January 30, 2007: I've added the /script function for binding macros to keys to the OP, since it had come up in the thread.

January 05, 2007: I haven't had much time to verify these, but I have made updates to the ones I've gotten around to tinkering with. Thanks for all the contributions, everyone!

December 27, 2006: <3 to whomever deleted the post that was previously in slot #2!

December 15, 2006: Now that this thread has become so long, I'm combing through for good example macros to move upthread. This means I'm mostly erasing my early reponses and using them for more OP. If anyone in between the updated posts could delete any extraneous material, it would be much appreciated!!

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Q u o t e:
You have posted a beaitufl thing, please keep them coming.

I can't wait to only need 1 button for SWP+VE or SWP+VE+SW:Death ;D

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I think these one button wonders are a bad idea since half the time you're not going to be in a good position to get all these spells off in that order. I say, keep the spells seperate so you can have flexibility in your spell casting order. This will mean the difference between a good priest and a bad one. I would save these for trinket \ power infusion \ inner focus combos.

Secondly, use clique to assign click casting for your heals. This inherently keeps your main target while being able to heal teammates and frees up your spellbar for other spells.

double...ignore.

I am not a macro super guy are anything similar, I have been playing around on PTR and this is the macro I am using to tap ZHC before I smite.


/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
# show Smite
/use Zandalarian Hero Charm
/cast smite

I am still trying to figure out how to cast Power Infusion , Inner Focus, and ZHC at the same time while Casting Smite Similar to what this macro did. ( one button Press and can keep spamming smite over and over with no errors, then when ZHC, IF , or PI was up it would recast them before the next smite) If anyone has a clue on this please help out. I know that the macro below no longer works. But if it can be salvaged into the new format that would be great.

/script CBN=CastSpellByName; SSC=SpellStopCasting; if GetInventoryItemCooldown("player", 14)==0 then TargetUnit("Player"); UseInventoryItem(14); CBN ('Power Infusion'); SSC(); TargetLastTarget(); CBN ('Inner Focus'); SSC(); end; CBN ('Smite')

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Q u o t e:
This is a very key macro set

macro 1:
/focus


macro 2:
/cast [target=focus] Shackle Undead

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I currently use a similar macro for MT targetting. I'm hoping something like this will work (to condense hotkeys):

/focus [modifier:alt, harm]

/cast [target=focus, nodead] Shackle Undead

If you hold down the alt key, it will set your focus and then cast shackle on that focus.
If you do not hold down the alt key, it will just cast shackle on your focus.

Can you simulate the implied targetting used by city of heroes and later EQ2, so that if you cast a harmful spell with a friendly targeted, the spell is targeted at their target (target=assist maybe?), and if you cast a heal with an enemy targeted, the heal targets the person being hit?

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Q u o t e:
Can you simulate the implied targetting used by city of heroes and later EQ2, so that if you cast a harmful spell with a friendly targeted, the spell is targeted at their target (target=assist maybe?), and if you cast a heal with an enemy targeted, the heal targets the person being hit?

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Yes, they show mods of this type in the thread the OP linked to:

/cast [help] Greater Heal; [target=targettarget, help] Greater Heal

/cast [harm] Smite; [target=targettarget, harm] Smite

Reported!!!








for sticky..

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Q u o t e:
I currently use a similar macro for MT targetting. I'm hoping something like this will work (to condense hotkeys):
/focus [modifier:alt, harm]
/cast [target=focus, nodead] Shackle Undead

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It works. I just tested it on the PTR. The "nodead" was unnecessary though. When I removed it and tried to cast on a dead focus, I'd just get "You have no target." There seem to be special mechanics to using [target=focus] with a dead focus.

I prefer leaving the "nodead" out. If I'm trying to shackle my focus, and my focus is dead, I'd like the failure message so I realize I'm trying to do something unnecessary. I don't want it to silently fail. Then I might just think I was lagging.

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Q u o t e:
Miscellaneous Macros
/cast Power Infusion
/t You have been infused.
I took a crack at updating Tanara's "PI Whisper Notification to Target " macro. I'm not sure, though, if "/t" is a valid command - because it has a target it I thought it might operate a little differently than "/p" or "/s". If it is, and if I'm understanding the new language right, any %t modifier should be unnecessary; the macro has an unspoken [target=target] function if no special target is already specified in the macro. As you can see, I'm still trying to wrap my head around this stuff. ;)

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Whispers are not really "targetted"; it's a different system. You still need the %t. The new targetting methods are only for special commands like /cast, /use, and /castsequence.

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Q u o t e:
/castsequence [target=player] 13, Power Infusion
This is Tanara's "Top Trinket +PI" macro. I'm still awaiting confirmation that 13 is a valid term in this particular macro, but I think it will be. I wrote it as a sequence so that if the trinket was on cooldown, then the Power Infusion wouldn't cast. There's no way to "use spell if item is not on cooldown" in the new scripting language - the developers deliberately removed that functionality. So I can't translate those other cooldown macros for you. :)

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This didn't work for me on the PTR just now. (I did Blessed Prayer Beads + Renew, but it's the same idea.) /castsequence doesn't seem to work with items, only spells. If you don't care about the cooldown check you can always do this though:

/use 13
/cast [target=player] Power Infusion

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Q u o t e:
I am not a macro super guy are anything similar, I have been playing around on PTR and this is the macro I am using to tap ZHC before I smite.


/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
# show Smite
/use Zandalarian Hero Charm
/cast smite

I am still trying to figure out how to cast Power Infusion , Inner Focus, and ZHC at the same time while Casting Smite Similar to what this macro did. ( one button Press and can keep spamming smite over and over with no errors, then when ZHC, IF , or PI was up it would recast them before the next smite) If anyone has a clue on this please help out. I know that the macro below no longer works. But if it can be salvaged into the new format that would be great.

/script CBN=CastSpellByName; SSC=SpellStopCasting; if GetInventoryItemCooldown("player", 14)==0 then TargetUnit("Player"); UseInventoryItem(14); CBN ('Power Infusion'); SSC(); TargetLastTarget(); CBN ('Inner Focus'); SSC(); end; CBN ('Smite')

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/stopcasting is the new form of SpellStopCasting().