First off: creating the macro.
1.)type in /macro to bring up the macro UI
2.)select new to make a new macro
1.Choose the ? Icon – the very first in the list
2.Give it a name
3.)Enter macro code
4.)Drag/drop to your action bar
5.)Clicky to enjoy.

Paladin macros that I've made and tested on the PTR:
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Healing:
Tried and true backbone of the class. Here is the macro for Flash of Light:

/cast [modifier:alt,target=player] Flash of Light; [target=target,help] Flash of Light; [target=targettarget,help] Flash of Light; [target=player] Flash of Light

In one line of code I have made this handle pretty much all situations.
-The first part says that if I hold down alt and click on the macro, I'll heal myself with FoL.
-The second part checks to see if my current target is a friendly, if so FoL him.
-Third part checks to see if my target's target is a friendly, if so FoL on friendly.
(useful when you can't tell who is tanking like in Drek'Thar fights – just target him and spam away)
-The last part says when all else fails (ie no target selected) heal thyself.

This macro doesn't ever change your currently selected target. This macro I've found is very useful and highly intuitive to use. Something to note is that I purposely put the [target=target] ahead of the [target=targettarget]. This is because I want to avoid the possibility of my friendly target, who is targeting another friendly and his target ends up with my heals (hope that makes sense).

Also swap Flash of Light with Holy Light and you have your Holy Light macro.
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Taunt:
This macro makes use of the new Taunt ability every Paladin has. I highly encourage everyone to implement this macro.

/cast [target=target,help] Righteous Defense; [target=targettarget,help] Righteous Defense

This macro will always taunt the way you want it to, whether you are targeting a hostile mob or a friend. Doesn't change your currently selected target (doesn't interrupt your auto-attacking). Doesn't work with horde, doesn't work on out-of-combat mobs.

This form of macro is also good with BoSac and BoP:
/cast [help,target=target] Blessing of Protection; [target=targettarget,help] Blessing of Protection
(also note that options in the [ ] are not required to have any particular order)
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Blessings:

/cast [raid] Greater Blessing of Light; [help] Blessing of Light; [target=player] Greater Blessing of Light

This macro will cast greater blessings on party/raid members, regular blessings on anyone not in your party/raid, and will always give you greater blessing even if you are not in a group. Works even when you don't target yourself. Must target a friendly to give him the blessing. Swap Light with your blessing of choice.
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Seals:
This one is a way to conserve space on your action bar.

/cast [nomodifier] Seal of Light; [modifier:ctrl] Seal of Wisdom

It says that if you don't hold down ctrl when activating the macro, it will cast Seal of Light, if you hold down ctrl it will cast Seal of Wisdom. Now you have access to both seals in a single action button. Important distinction here from the previously mention macros is that it contains 2 different spells. The ? Icon that you select will always take the form of the first listed spell in the macro, in this case Seal of Light will appear on your action bar.
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These macros are fairly basic, and you should try them out if you are new to macros. I've not done much in the way of more complex macros because these seem to meet my current needs. Therefore I would only be of limited help in explaining the new macro system. I'd be happy to field any questions you might have of the ones I posted here. Please post your exciting 2.0 macros.

--Acanea

Thank you for these!

I used to have a macro that would cast SoC Rank 5 and then Judge it all in one keypress.

NOTE: This is different from the macro many used to recast a seal after a judgment.

The reason for my macro was because I generally use Rank 1 SoC to melee with, as it's much more mana efficient. My old macro looked like this:

/cast Seal of Command(Rank 5)
/script SpellStopCasting();
/cast Judgement

Is there a way to reproduce this again in 2.0, or have the UI and coding changes effectively nerfed any such macro that casts two spells in one keypress (even if one does not proc the global cooldown)?

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I used to have a macro that would cast SoC Rank 5 and then Judge it all in one keypress.

NOTE: This is different from the macro many used to recast a seal after a judgment.

The reason for my macro was because I generally use Rank 1 SoC to melee with, as it's much more mana efficient. My old macro looked like this:

/cast Seal of Command(Rank 5)
/script SpellStopCasting();
/cast Judgement

Is there a way to reproduce this again in 2.0, or have the UI and coding changes effectively nerfed any such macro that casts two spells in one keypress (even if one does not proc the global cooldown)?

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Your macro is now

/cast Judgement

/stopcasting

/cast Seal of Command

As for the macros, here's one I wrote up for farming~

/castsequence reset=target Judgement, Seal of Command, Crusader Strike

It's simple, yet does the job. Basic farming/grinding macro.
Queue up SoW or SotC or whatever you're going to judge, and just spam this 1 button until the fight is over. May want to HoJ, but this macro pretty much takes care of everything in its order.

Negative. He wants the seal BEFORE the Judgement.

/cast Seal of Command
/stopcasting
/cast Judgement

That *should* do it. A simple /cast will call the highest trained rank you have, and 2.0 replaces /script SpellStopCasting with a simple /stopcasting.

Beyond that, though, I can't say that it will work positively, as I'm not ret spec on PTR.

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Q u o t e:
Negative. He wants the seal BEFORE the Judgement.

/cast Seal of Command
/stopcasting
/cast Judgement

That *should* do it. A simple /cast will call the highest trained rank you have, and 2.0 replaces /script SpellStopCasting with a simple /stopcasting.

Beyond that, though, I can't say that it will work positively, as I'm not ret spec on PTR.

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you... can't... do... that... ?

Cookie to the first person to tell me why.

I believe you can't do

/cast Seal of Command
/stopcasting
/cast Judgement

because SoC will activate the GCD, thus ending the macro right there. Nothing else beyond SoC will be carried out. On the other hand

/cast Judgement
/stopcasting
/cast Seal of Command

would work because Judgement does not activate the GCD (global cooldown).

Again, not 100% sure, but that is my understanding of the new rules.
Maybe tomorrow I can try both macros out, see which one works and which one doesn't. (yay emperical evidence)

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I believe you can't do

/cast Seal of Command
/stopcasting
/cast Judgement

because SoC will activate the GCD, thus ending the macro right there. Nothing else beyond SoC will be carried out. On the other hand

/cast Judgement
/stopcasting
/cast Seal of Command

would work because Judgement does not activate the GCD (global cooldown).

Again, not 100% sure, but that is my understanding of the new rules.
Maybe tomorrow I can try both macros out, see which one works and which one doesn't. (yay emperical evidence)

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Winner. It's that way on live as well.

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Winner. It's that way on live as well.

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Not quite. If you already have a seal active, any seal, the macro will work. The reason is, if you have /cast Judgement anywhere in the macro, it immediately checks if you have the resources for it (in this case, a seal already active) when you hit the macro and if you don't, it errors.

Thus, if you already have a seal active, it goes through with the macro, first changing seals to SoC and then judging it.

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I believe you can't do

/cast Seal of Command
/stopcasting
/cast Judgement

because SoC will activate the GCD, thus ending the macro right there. Nothing else beyond SoC will be carried out. On the other hand

/cast Judgement
/stopcasting
/cast Seal of Command

would work because Judgement does not activate the GCD (global cooldown).

Again, not 100% sure, but that is my understanding of the new rules.
Maybe tomorrow I can try both macros out, see which one works and which one doesn't. (yay emperical evidence)

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Any way you can code the

/cast Judgement
/stopcasting
/cast Seal of Command

macro so it doesn't recast SoC if Judgement is on cooldown and SoC is allready up and running?

/bump Could we get this or maybe another macro thread stickied?

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Actually, I just tried

/cast Seal of Command
/stopcasting
/cast Judgement

on the PTR and it worked so long as there was another seal already up. I judged crusader to lead in, waited for the cooldown to come back, then sealed wisdom, then stunned, then hit the macro, and I got a 1034 JoC crit. So unless there are different things in effect in the TBC beta, it should work.

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you didn't specify ranks though?

atm my macro still has the (rank 5) after command. So I run around with rank 1 soc then judge rank 5.

not that it'll matter anyway since i'm not going ret. and SoR you always use the max rank seal anyway.

Ok, so if I am right (really a newb in macro), I can do:

/cast Judgement
/stopcasting
/cast [nomodifier] Seal of Light; [modifier:ctrl] Seal of Wisdom

I sthere a way to add seal of crusader also, something like:

/cast [nomodifier] Seal of Light; [modifier:ctrl] Seal of Wisdom; [modifier:shift] Seal of the crusader

and what are the other modifier we can use with this command?

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I sthere a way to add seal of crusader also, something like:

/cast [nomodifier] Seal of Light; [modifier:ctrl] Seal of Wisdom; [modifier:shift] Seal of the crusader

and what are the other modifier we can use with this command?

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The last modifier is modifier:alt. Your macro, if you wanted to add another:

/cast [nomodifier] Seal of Light; [modifier:ctrl] Seal of Wisdom; [modifier:shift] Seal of the crusader; [modifier:alt] Seal of Justice

That should work, haven't tried it out tho.

--Acanea

/cast [target=player] Cleanse

After you've made this macro (who's name we'll say is SelfCleanse) create another macro like this:

/script SetBindingMacro("Your Prefered Key", "SelfCleanse")

This creates a macro that will cleanse yourself without ever losing your target. The second macro will bind the SelfCleanse macro to a specific key on your keyboard, preferably something close to your other keys (I chose the tilde key ` personally) so that you never have to switch actionbars to find your cleanse key. Even though Decursive and similar functions are no longer available, you can at least take care of yourself. I find this critical in PvP especially.

Note: You have to drag the SetBindingMacro macro to the actionbar and click on it at least once everytime you start the game because the spell binding will clear itself everytime you close the program. A minor inconvenience, true, but really hard to actually complain about.

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Doesn't work with Horde? Why not? Are you talking about PvP or Horde can't use this macro in PvE?

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Apologies, it wasn't clear. The taunt doesn't work when you (Alliance Paladin) target a horde player and try to cast the taunt, or likewise when the mob is focused on a horde player and you try to use the macro to taunt. Not a very common scenario, but it does happen.

I hope that clears it up.

--Acanea

I've been using this macro on test:

/cast Cleanse
/target player
/targetlasttarget

If you are targeting an enemy player the /cast Cleanse will queue the cleanse spell and then the /target player will cast it on yourself. /targetlasttarget won't do anything in this case. If you are targeting a friendly player with a debuff the /case Cleanse will cast Cleanse on them, the /target player will target yourself, and /targetlasttarget will re-target your original target.