Useful universal macros

[Aura]

These macros are the difference between good players and excellent players, Now by no means are these going to make you pro but they help you become better. (I am not pro before anyone comments) The point is your wasting binds on your bar ect and cluttering it but with these you can react faster and become a better player overall with practice. They work for me but may not work for your playstyle so just give it a try.

 

The first macros I am going to explain are.

 

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/use [nomodifier] [mod:shift,@Party1] [mod:alt,@player]

 

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/use [nomodifier] [mod:shift,@Party1] [mod:alt,@party1]

 

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/use [nomodifier] [mod:shift,@Party1] [mod:alt,@party2]

 

Its really simple to understand so [nomodifier] means do not modify anything with a standard keypress so for this example I am using Lifebloom so if I do

/use [nomodifier] Lifebloom it will cast Lifebloom at who I am looking at and its reliable.

Now if i add [mod:shift,@party1] this enhances your capabilities without wasting an extra keybind so many players run around with 2 keybinds one is for your target and the other is for your friend so as most people do for example:

keybind 1: /cast lifebloom

keybind 2: /cast [@friendsname] Lifebloom

 

wasting 2 keybinds instead you can do 2 ways.

 

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/use [nomodifier] lifebloom [mod:shift,@friendsname] Lifebloom

 

In one keybind you can either normal cast lifebloom at target or yourself or you can press shift and cast at who ever you have put in @friendsname. Now for universal 2v2 macros you can make it do it to your 2s partner no matter who it is without having to change the name by changing @friendsname to @party1 so for example

 

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/use [nomodifier] lifebloom [mod:shift,@party1] Lifebloom

 

Party1 is always the person that is in your party first and the person at the top.

Now you can apply this method into 3v3 as well by adding an extra one for more complexity but saving keybinds for example if I am doing 3s I use this macro.

 

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/use [nomodifier] Lifebloom [mod:shift,@party1] Lifebloom [mod:ctrl,@party2] Lifebloom

 

So if I press shift & keybind it will cast on the first party member and if I do ctrl & keybind it will do to my second party member so In one go you are ultimately saving 2 keybinds also you do not need to target your party members which saves valuable time when trying to heal for example.

 

Now this very method can apply to focus targets for dps players so lets use druid again with the same macro but instead of @party1 you will change to @focus for example:

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/use [nomodifier] Cyclone [mod:shift,@focus] Cyclone

 

So If you didn't understand the macro at first I assume by now you do so as you can see I now can cast cyclone at my target or my focus without having to use more than 1 keybind slot or target different people.

 

Now for arena you may want the same thing I did for party1 and party 2 but for arena enemy targets which you can do by changing it to arena1, arena2 or arena3

 

So for example

 

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/use [nomodifier] cyclone [mod:shift,@arena1] cyclone [mod:ctrl,@arena2] cyclone

 

now I do not know if there is a limit and I doubt you would want more but if you wanted to master these macro methods and use them efficiently for 3s with practice you could do all 3 so back when I took it serious I would use this in a cyclone macro

 

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/use [nomodifier] cyclone [mod:shift,@arena1] cyclone [mod:ctrl,@arena2] cyclone [mod:alt,@arena3] cyclone

 

Now this is really confusing when you first start 3v3 but if you can master that you basically have the whole enemy team on fast efficient lock down.

Think about it you could use that macro for warlocks fears on all targets then have the same one for mortal coil ect.. same as pet subbucus every class can benefit from these macros.

 

Now I have spoken a lot and most of you probably wont even read half of it but the last one that I will give you that I still use to this day and has never let me down is the focus macro.

 

Yes I have a dedicated macro for focus now you may think why because there is a built in feature in wow but that is not as efficient as I like so here it is.

 

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/clearfocus

/focus [target=mouseover, exists, nodead]; target

 

Its really simple if your mouse is over a target it will focus it (even the name plate in arenas) if your targeting someone and want to focus someone else you can just mouse over and it will work. All you need to do is press the macro again for clearfocus to remove and job done.

 

I have spoken a lot I hope it helps many of you.

 

Kind Regards

Edited July 29, 2016 by Aura