Mage macros to live by, die by and pwn by.

Until I started attending raiding and participating in heroics, I didn’t really use many macros. Sure, I had the standard issue /target x macro for hunting those elusive mobs from my days in Azeroth – but that was about it.

So I hear you ask, – what macros would I recommend? Well, here is my top list, that I have. (Disclaimer: I am a macro nubbin so these macros may or may not need tweaking before they work… all are based one macros that I stole from another blog - the name eludes me at the moment but I think it might have been Critical QQ)

Notes:
/Stopcasting is added as the first command line in each macro as this ensures that you are not doing anything else that might prevent all the macro executing correctly.

/use Name of trinket 1 – this will activate the named trinket if it is equipped – if you have two trinkets that do not share a global cooldown, say, scryers bloodgem and Pendant of the violet Eye, you can add /use Name of trinket 2 in the next line to activate the second trinket.

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Frosting the night away:
Spec: Deep frost


For this one you want access to your water elemental. The idea here is that you pop your Icy Veins, trinket and summon your Water Elemental. This allows for a short period of burst-pew-pew and is fantastic for trying to get those high damage shatter combos off with the ranged frost nova.

#Showtooltip summon water elemental
/stopcasting
/cast icy veins
/stopcasting
/use name of trinket1
/cast summon water elemental

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POM PYRO: – the fun way
Spec: Arcane-fire.


Probably the most common damage macro out there, to perform this little trick you want enough talents in arcane and fire to get Presence of Mind and Pyroblast. Various combinations of arcane or fire talent distribution will get you this and will both bring their own benefits and play style. This particular macro assumes you have gone primarily down the arcane tree for Arcane Power. (Deep arcane produces some amazing crits from this.) This macro again sets you up for some serious Pew-Pew as you have your trinket and arcane power running for follow up casts. The biggest downside is you generally have to wait for the tank to have a good 7 or 8k aggro on top of you to ensure you don’t turn into a gooey mess on your team mates. I have hit for over 7k crits with only 900 +spell damage in a raid situation – add on top the 40% dot if you took ignite – that’s almost 10k damage in one global cooldown.

#Showtooltip Pyroblast
/stopcasting
/cast Arcane Power
/stopcasting
/use Name of trinket 1
/cast presence of mind
/stopcasting
/cast pyroblast

Sit back, and watch the pain.

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PomPolymorph:
Spec: Arcane


This macro simply allows you to instant-cast your polymorph spell, although I would personally recommend using the Polymorph Focus Macro below and just manually activating Presence of Mind.

#showtooltip Polymorph
/stopcasting
/cast presence of mind
/stopcasting
/cast polymorph

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Pom-WTF:
Spec: Arcane-Frost


This is my current fling. This macro will activate Arcane Power, Icy Veins, Trinkets AND Presence of mind, and fling out an instant frostbolt (sub with any other spell you would like to insta-cast) The opening frostbolt and the followups regularly hit for an excess of 5k damage, which is tasty! You have your trinkets, arcane power and Icy Veins flowing for their duration meaning you enter a state I shall call RFHDwtfomgasm (Rapid Fire, High Damage, WTF, OMGasm) I easily get 1200-1500 sustained dps over this duration – excellent burst damage for boss fights or when you just have to say NO! (Impressive coming from someone with only badge gear, Kara gear and heroic gear.)


#Showtooltip frostbolt
/stopcasting
/cast Arcane Power
/stopcasting
/cast presence of mind
/stopcasting
/cast icy veins
/stopcasting
/use Trinket1
/cast frostbolt

Then make them suffer!

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PomPolymorph:
Spec: Arcane

This macro sets a focus target and casts your polymorph at it. You can clear the focus by holding shift when you cast (or when the target dies or goes out of range) - this will clear or retarget the macro. This is a great macro that means you dont have to search for that sheep when its about to break. Great when used in conjunction with Xpearl unit frames as you get a window for your focus that you can keep track of the targets condition and poly duration. It can be tricky to get the hang of at first. Quick target changes, or the fact that hitting the button more than once resets the cast bar is irritating but you adapt.

#showtooltip polymorph
/clearfocus [modifier:shift]
/focus [target=focus,noexists];[target=focus,dead]
/clearfocus [target=focus,help]
/stopcasting
/cast [target=focus,exists,harm]polymorph;polymorph