General Macros
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General macros and templates that you can use to enhance your spellcasting abilities.
Universal Macros
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Healing Macros
DPS Macros
Elvenbane’s Personal Macros
These are my personal macros that I use for each spec.
General Macros
Heart of Azeroth Essence Macro
Alt: Self Cast
Mouseover: Cast on Mouseover
Reticle: Cast at Cursor (while in combat)
Default casting behavior. This condition also serves to generate the correct tooltip.
CC Macros
Clear Focus (shift), Set/Shackle Focus (alt), Shackle Target
Clear Focus (shift), Set/Mind Control Focus (alt), Mind Control Target
Dispel Macro
I use BindPad for this and have it bound to the key to the left of 1: `
Mass Dispel (alt), Dispel Magic (harm), Purify Disease (help, shadow), Purify (help)
Angelic Feather Macro
7.1.5 introduced the [@cursor] and [@player] conditions for reticle targeted spells. The following macro casts Angelic Feather at your feet.
Dispersion Cast/Cancel Macro
Click to cast, Right click to Cancel – You can replace [btn:2] with any other conditional you’d rather use.
Spirit of Redemption Cancel Macro
For whatever reason, Spirit of Redemption is no longer considered a buff and is now a form. You can add any of the usual macro conditions to it if you’d like.
Reticle Spell Macro
This is a basic macro for reticle spells such as Shadow Crash and Holy Word: Sanctify
Alt: Cast at Player
Combat: Cast at Cursor
Default casting behavior. This condition also serves to generate the correct tooltip.
Nochanneling Macro
nochanneling returns false while another spell is channeling. This allows you to prevent spells from casting and is often used to prevent Penance clipping.
Single condition:
Multiple conditions:
Using the /stopmacro variant prevents you from needing to add nochanneling to each condition within your macro, vastly simplifying the construction and cutting down on the number of characters required. It also makes it so you don’t need to specify the #showtooltip as the /cast will do it for you like usual. I personally prefer this method even for single condition macros.
Healing Macros
Base Healing Macro
This is the base macro that all my healing macros are derived from.
Alt: Self Cast
Mouseover Friend: Cast on Mouseover
Target Friend: Cast on Target
Target Enemy Targeting Friend: Cast on Enemy’s Target
Default casting behavior. This condition also serves to generate the correct tooltip.
Basic Help/Harm Macro
This will cast one spell when mousing over or targeting a friend and another when mousing over or targeting an enemy.
Penance Macros
This is a collection of Penance macros that give you more control of whether or not you’re casting on a helpful or harmful target.
Self (alt) > Mouseover > Target
Self (alt) > Mouseover Help (mod) > Mouseover Harm > Target
Mouseover Harm > Target Harm
Self (alt) > Mouseover Help > Target Help
Carafe of Searing Light
Essentially it’s just combining the Base Healing Macro with the Offensive Macro for Healers, with an added condition that you be in combat for Carafe to fire.
If you need to save space start by replacing “Carafe of Searing Light” with the Trinket slot: 13 – Top, 14 – Bottom.
DPS Macros
DPS Mouseover Macro
This is a basic mouseover macro for offensive spells such as Shadow Word: Pain, Vampiric Touch, and Void Eruption (Void Bolt)
Mouseover Enemy: Cast on Mouseover
Default casting behavior. This condition also serves to generate the correct tooltip.
Offensive Macro for Healers
This macro is primarily for healers who want to play Disc but want to play it like a traditional healer. Basically allows you to dps while having fiendly players targeted or moused over.
Mouseover Enemy: Cast on Mouseover
Target Enemy: Cast on Target
Mouseover Friend Targeting Enemy: Cast on Friend’s Target
Target Friend Targeting Enemy: Cast on Friend’s Target
Default casting behavior. This condition also serves to generate the correct tooltip.
Shadow
** Important **
Before using these macros make sure you unbind the Action Page 1 – 6 keys in your key bindings. If you don’t, pressing any of the shift modified macros will cause you to change action page instead of casting the appropriate spell.
I’ve included the keys I have them bound to but you can use whatever.
#1 – Leap of Faith (shift+alt), Psychic Scream (shift), Vampiric Touch (alt), Shadow Word: Pain
#2 – Vampiric Embrace (shift+alt), Dark: Void (shift), Mind Sear (alt), Mind Flay
#3 – Power Word: Shield (shift), Shadow Word: Death/Shadow Crash (alt), Mind Blast
#4 – Shadowfiend (mod), Void Eruption/Void Bolt
#5 – Silence (shift), Fade
DPS Potion (ctrl), Dispersion (shift), Dark Ascension/Surrender to Madness (alt), Void Torrent (if in SF/VF), Shadowform
Holy
** Important **
Before using these macros make sure you unbind the Action Page 1 – 6 keys in your key bindings. If you don’t, pressing any of the shift modified macros will cause you to change action page instead of casting the appropriate spell.
I’ve included the keys I have them bound to but you can use whatever.
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Note: alt click will cast the unmodified spell on yourself. ie Alt-1 = PoM on self
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#1 – Leap of Faith (shift+alt), Divine Star/Halo (shift), Prayer of Mending
#2 – Symbol of Hope (shift+alt), Guardian Spirit (shift), Flash Heal
#3 – Holy Word: Salvation (shift+alt), Holy Word: Sanctify (shift), Holy Word: Serenity
#4 – Binding Heal/Circle of Healing (nomod), Divine Hymn
#5 – Heal (shift), Renew
Num- (Number 4 on my Naga) – Desperate Prayer (ctrl), Angelic Feather [@player] (shift), Apotheosis/Holy Word: Salvation (alt), Prayer of Healing
Discipline
** Important **
Before using these macros make sure you unbind the Action Page 1 – 6 keys in your key bindings. If you don’t, pressing any of the shift modified macros will cause you to change action page instead of casting the appropriate spell.
I’ve included the keys I have them bound to but you can use whatever.
Note: alt click will cast the unmodified spell on yourself. ie Alt-1 = Plea on self
#1 – Leap of Faith (shift+alt), DStar/Halo (shift), Penance
#2 – Rapture (shift+alt), Pain Suppression (shift), Power Word: Shield
#3 – Schism (shift), Holy Nova (alt), Shadow Word: Pain
#4 – Power Word: Solace (shift), Shadowfiend (mod), Smite
#5 – Shadow Covenant (shift), Power Word: Barrier (mod), Shadow Mend
Num- (Number 4 on my Naga) – Evangelism (ctrl), Angelic Feather [@player] (shift), Power Word: Radiance