- Macros -
Retaliation, Shield Wall or Recklessness
One macro to make one button handle your special long cooldown moves. When using Retaliation it is often advisable to switch to defensive stance and use challenging shout.
/cast [stance:1] Retaliation; [stance:2,equipped:Shields] Shield Wall; [stance:2,noequipped:Shields] Battle Stance; [stance:3] Recklessness
/stopcasting
/cast [stance:1,modifier:ctrl] Defensive Stance
Shield Bash or Pummel
Will use the Shield Bash ability if you have a shield and are in the correct stance, otherwise will place you in Berserker Stance and use Pummel.
/cast [stance:1/2,noequipped:Shields] Berserker Stance; [stance:1/2,equipped:Shields] Shield Bash; [stance:3] Pummel
This can be combined with Spell Reflection. If you are out of range to Shield Bash or Shield Bash is on cooldown you try to use Spell Reflection with this macro. Since Spell Reflection does not work on Berserker Stance and you are clearly meeting a caster if you use it I have made it swich from Berserker to Battle Stance if you have a shield equiped.
/cast [nostance:3,equipped:Shields] Shield Bash; [stance:3] Pummel; Berserker Stance;
/cast [nostance:3,equipped:Shields] Spell Reflection
/stopcasting
/cast [stance:3,equipped:Shields] Battle Stance
Charge/Intercept
This macro will Charge the target outside of combat, Intercept when in combat and switch to the appropriate stance to do so.
/cast [nocombat,stance:1] Charge; [combat,nostance:3] Berserker Stance; [nocombat,nostance:1] Battle Stance; [combat,stance:3] Intercept
All in one charge
If you are in combat, this macro will make sure that you are in berserker stance, then cast intercept. If you are not in combat, you will be placed into battle stance, then charge. The icon will also change to indicate which skill will be used. Either way, if you are using a shield, you will be placed in defensive stance. Delete the last line if you don't want to be placed in defensive stance.
#show [combat] Intercept; Charge
/cast [stance:1/2,combat] Berserker Stance; [stance:3,combat] Intercept; [stance:2/3,nocombat] Battle Stance; [stance:1,nocombat] Charge
/stopcasting
/cast [equipped:Shields] Defensive Stance
The same ideas can lead to Charge from Battle Stance from out of combat. If in Battle Stance and combat Thunder Clap and switch to Berserker Stance with one key pressed. If in Berserker Stance you pop Berserker Rage and if in range Intercept. If you are out of combat and do not have control pressed you will switch to Battle Stance though. If you press the button again you switch to Defensive Stance. A very nice macro to spam when you start combat especially if you have talents reducing the cost of Thunder Clap. Put it on a key you access from Battle and Berserker Stance and put an Intervene macro on the same key in Defensive Stance.
/castsequence [combat,stance:1] Thunder Clap; [combat,stance:3,nomodifier:ctrl] reset=2 Berserker Rage, Defensive Stance
/stopcasting
/cast [nocombat,stance:1] Charge; [nocombat,nomodifier:ctrl] Battle Stance; [stance:3] Intercept; Berserker Stance
Intervene
Puts you in Defensive Stance if you aren’t in it already, then checks to see if the target is friendly and if so casts Intervene. If you are targeting a mob, then it targets the target (your teammate) and casts
/cast [nostance: 2] Defensive Stance; [help] Intervene; [target=targettarget, help] Intervene;
From Defensive Stance this macro will switch to Battle Stance if you are out of combat. If you are in combat and you have /focus on a party/raid member you will intervene to him (e.g. useful on Murmur). If you don't have focus on a party member, or you have the CTRL button down, the macro will have you intervene your target (if in a party/raid) or else to your target's target.
/cast [nocombat] Battle Stance; [target=focus,raid,nodead,nomodifier:ctrl] Intervene; [raid] Intervene; [target=targettarget,raid] Intervene
Heroic Strike/Charge
Activates Heroic Strike for your next Melee attack and charges the enemy. If you wish to see the icon and tooltip for whichever is active (depending on combat status), leave the macro as is. If you wish to see one or the other, modify the first line accordingly (for instance, #showtooltip Charge) so that you can either watch the cooldown on your charge/intercept or you can change it to have your heroic strike tooltip to show you the damage bonus.
#showtooltip
/cast [nocombat] Charge; [stance:3,modifier] Intercept
/cast Heroic Strike
Charge/Intercept and Hamstring
This is a nice combination for PvP. Assign this macro to a key on your keyboard, then use your mouse software to assign the side thumb button to the key. Double click the mouse button as needed for fast rundowns and hamstrings. Single click after the fight is over to pop back into Battle stance.
#show [combat] Intercept; Charge
/cast [nocombat,stance:1] Charge; [combat,stance:3] Intercept; [nocombat,nostance:1] Battle Stance; [combat,nostance:3] Berserker Stance
/stopcasting
/cast [stance:1/3] Hamstring
Target then Charge and Bloodrage
Targets a nearby enemy or assists a fellow player and Charges if out of combat, or casts Bloodrage once you enter combat.
/targetenemy [noexists]
/assist [help]
/cast [exists,nohelp,nocombat] Charge
/cast [combat] Bloodrage
Target then Charge, or Throw with Bloodrage, or Overpower in combat
Targets a nearby enemy, or assists, and charges. Or if ALT is held down, then cast Bloodrage and hurl a throwing weapon. Also enters attack mode if not attacking. When in combat, use Overpower if available. I use a extra menu bar above this and put Overpower there so I can see when it is available (otherwise hit it after the enemy dodges).
/targetenemy [noexists]
/assist [help]
/stopmacro [noharm]
/cast [nomodifier:alt, nocombat] Charge
/startattack [harm]
/cast [modifier:alt] Bloodrage
/stopcasting [modifier:alt]
/cast [modifier:alt] Throw; Overpower
Boss Starter
This macro allows you to easily charge a boss for extra rage and threat, then switch back to defensive stance and bloodrage. This makes it easy to start off a boss fight with tons of rage as well as a good amount of threat. Stacking sunders will now be a piece of cake.
/script CancelPlayerBuff("Blessing of Salvation")
/cast charge
/stopcasting
/cast defensive stance
/stopcasting
/cast bloodrage
Charge/Defense
Charges the target and immediately switches to Defensive Stance. Not useful once in combat.
/cast [stance:1,nocombat] Charge
/stopcasting
/cast [stance:1] Defensive Stance; Battle Stance
Intercept/Defense
Intercepts the target and immediately switches to Defensive Stance.
/cast [stance:3] Intercept
/stopcasting
/cast [stance:3] Defensive Stance; Berserker Stance
Mocking Blow/Stance
Activates battle stance with the first use (if not in it) and uses mocking blow on the second.
/cast [stance:1] Mocking Blow; Battle Stance
If you are already in Battle stance the following macro will use Mocking Blow and switch to Defensive Stance with one key press.
/cast [stance:1,combat] Mocking Blow
/stopcasting
/cast Defensive Stance
Defensive Stance/Taunt
Activates defensive stance on first use and taunts on second.
/cast [stance:2] Taunt; Defensive Stance
Berserker Stance/Berserker Rage
Activates berserker stance and uses berserker rage on second click.
/cast [stance:3] Berserker Rage; Berserker Stance;
Berserker Rage/Defensive Stance
Once in the Berserker Stance, this macro activates Berserker Rage and immediately switches to Defensive Stance.
/cast [stance:3] Berserker Rage
/stopcasting
/cast [stance:3] Defensive Stance; Berserker Stance
Always Overpower
Overpowers the target after switching to Battle Stance (if necessary).
/cast [stance:1] Overpower; Battle Stance
Intercept/Hamstring
Activates Berserker Stance and Intercepts the target followed by using Hamstring on the target.
/cast [stance:3] Intercept; Berserker Stance
/stopcasting
/cast [stance:3] Hamstring
Bloodrage & Berserker Rage
Will use both skills at the same time, 1 button press.
/cast Bloodrage
/stopcasting
/cast Berserker Rage
Sunder & Shield Block
This is a nice tanking macro if you are trying to establish aggro and get some early damage mitigation.
/script CancelPlayerBuff("Blessing of Salvation")
/cast [stance:2] Sunder Armor
/stopcasting
/cast Shield Block
Mouseover Sunder Armor
This macro will let you sunder a mob by simply putting the mouse over it, its unitframe, or its health bar (the 'v' key) without losing your current target and without interrupting your swing timer or auto-attack. This macro can be applied to all warrior instant attacks to do things like Mortal Strike, Shield Slam, Shield Bash, Revenge, Hamstring, Intercept, etc. something while targeting something else. You can also use it to sunder crowd controlled mobs without breaking the crowd control (sunder causes 0 damage and you aren't auto-attacking the CC target).
/cast [target=mouseover, exists, harm] Sunder Armor; Sunder Armor
Devastate/Sunder/Mouseover
This macro will cast Devastate, unless you are holding control, or mousing over a live hostile target. If you are holding control or mousing over a live hostile target, it will cast sunder.
/cast [modifier:ctrl,harm,nodead]Sunder Armor;[target=mouseover,harm,nodead]Sunder Armor;Devastate
Sunder Armor, Devastate and Revenge are all on the 1.5 sec global cooldown. Shield Block and Heroic Strike are not. If you have plenty rage as in some boss fights a mouseover macro can be combined with burning rage moves that is not on the global cooldown. Spamming it with unlimmited rage will make all your normal attacks be Heroic Strikes and make you use Shield Block everytime it's not on cooldown. The 1/3 chance that you use Revenge is enough to use it fairly quickly everytime it's up. When your target has 5 Sunder Armors applied you simply stop mouseing over it. At the same time the macro can be used to apply sunders to other mobs than your main target.
/castrandom [target=mouseover, exists, harm, nodead] Sunder Armor; Devastate, Devastate, Revenge
/cast Shield Block
/stopcasting
/cast Heroic Strike
Arms Spec AoE Spam
An arms spec warrior might find this useful to spam when a large number of targets are available and crowd control is not an issue.
/cast [nostance:1] Battle Stance; Sweeping Strikes
/stopcasting
/castsequence reset=6/target [stance:1/2] Thunder Clap, Cleave, Demoralizing Shout
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear(); UIErrorsFrame:Show()
Nobrain dps spam
The following macros is simply no brain spam your desirable dps moves macros for diffrent specs.
Protection spec.
/castrandom [stance:1] Overpower,Devastate; [stance:2] Revenge,Devastate; [stance:3] Whirlwind,Devastate
/cast Bloodrage
/stopcasting
/cast Heroic Strike #only desirable if plenty rage or low dmg Devastates
/startattack
Arms spec.
/cast [modifier:ctrl] Sweeping Strikes
/stopcasting
/castrandom [stance:1] Overpower,Mortal Strike; [stance:2] Revenge,Mortal Strike; [stance:3] Whirlwind,Mortal Strike
/cast Bloodrage
/startattack
Fury spec.
/castrandom [stance:1] Overpower,Death Wish,Bloodthirst,Rampage; [stance:2] Revenge,Bloodthirst,Rampage; [stance:3] Whirlwind,Death Wish,Bloodthirst,Rampage
/cast Bloodrage
/startattack
Arms/Fury spec.
/cast [modifier:ctrl] Sweeping Strikes
/stopcasting
/castrandom [stance:1] Overpower,Death Wish,Bloodthirst; [modifier:ctrl] Death Wish; [stance:2] Revenge,Bloodthirst; [stance:3] Whirlwind,Death Wish,Bloodthirst
/cast Bloodrage
/startattack
2 hand/1 hand + shield switch
Useful macro for switching your gear around depending on the situation. Switch depends on right click or left click of mouse. Between brackets enter the name of the weapons you want to switch around.
#show [noequipped:shield] <second weapon here(1 hander)>; <first weapon here (2 hander)>
/equip [button:1] <first weapon(2 hander)>
/equip [button:2] <second weapon(1 hander)>
/equip [button:2] <shield or other offhand>
Stance Weapon Switch
Switches to assigned weapon/shield combination when using this macro to switch stances. Slot 16 is main hand. Slot 17 is offhand. Replace the weapon/shield names with your character's equipment.
Defensive Stance
/cast Defensive Stance
/equipslot 16 King's Defender
/equipslot 17 Shield of Impenetrable Darkness
Battle Stance
/cast Battle Stance
/equipslot 16 Warbringer
/equipslot 17 Vindicator's Brand
Berserker Stance
/cast Berserker Stance
/equipslot 16 Warbringer
/equipslot 17 Vindicator's Brand
Altimatum's (Shadowsong-EU) Organised Key-binding Macros
Although macro's can be used to do several things at once I find them most useful to organise key-bindings on characters where stance dictates available options such as druids, priests, rogues and warriors. With the macros below I have bound every skill I have onto seven macros. They hope to provide as few 'context orientated' buttons to press as possible meaning that they can all be bound very close to where my left hand sits on the keyboard as well as being as intuitive as possible.
A few notes to, erm.. note...
I tested these on test realms, version 2.2.
I'm an arms, night elf warrior. So, if you're a gnome, for example, you might like to replace Shadowmeld with Escape Artist or with Blood Fury if you're an orc, etc. If you haven't taken Sweeping Strikes, Piercing Howl and Mortal Strike things will need to be rearranged, perhaps dramatically.
I use a mac. On windows some key-combinations are unavailable, i.e. alt+tab. So if you want to bind something to the tab key you'll need to replace alt with something else, if another modifier is unused in that macro.
There are some areas where either context or compactness has been sacrificed because of space issues. For example, Thunderclap and Whirlwind are in the 'Next Swing' macro.
Here is my macros-local.txt file:
MACRO 16777222 "Big Cooldowns" INV_Misc_QuestionMark
/cast [nomodifier,stance:1/2]Spell Reflection; [nomodifier,stance:3]Berserker Rage;
/cast [modifier:alt,stance:1]Sweeping Strikes;
/cast [modifier:ctrl,stance:1]Retaliation;[modifier:ctrl,stance:2]Shield Wall;[modifier:ctrl,stance:3]Recklessness;
END
I have these bound as follows:
§ (` on windows) as 'Engage'.
1 as 'Next Swing'.
2 as 'Shouts'.
3 as 'Big Cooldowns'.
Tab as 'CC'.
Q as 'Instant' (I strafe with the mouse).
E as 'Instant 2'.
I'd be delighted to know people's experience with these if tried, with suggestions and improvements/additions.
One-Button Pull Macro
This macro will allow you to pull with just one button, regardless of what you have equipped. When selecting the icon for this, using the red question mark at the top will show correct icon on the bars.
#showtooltip
/show [equipped:Thrown] Throw; Shoot
/cast [equipped:Thrown] Throw; Shoot
Autoattack when "casting" in all stances
This Macro simply starts to attack your target in case you dont have enough rage for eg. intercept. Since attacking is basicly all a warrior does this macro comes very handy for nearly every situation, pvp as well as pve. Just edit the spells you want to use. You will attack even if you are alredy in combat and cant charge, you will attack even if taunt is on cd and so on. This also works if you want all 30 min cds on one button.
#showtooltip
/show [stance:1] Charge; [stance:2] Taunt; [stance:3] Intercept
/startattack [harm]
/cast [stance:1] Charge; [stance:2] Taunt; [stance:3] Intercept