Cataclysm Classic Guide to Druid's Best Macros

This guide will provide examples of macros and explain how to build them, so that you can configure your own macros as you need.

A macro is a button assignable to your bars and key binds that represents a sequence of commands entered into the WoW text box.

At its simplest, you can make a macro that reads:

• /cast Rejuvenation

Which when pressed would do the same as simply casting Rejuvenation from your spellbook or bars.

You can then evolve the macro slightly in order to cast on a mouseover target instead, which is usually not possible without addons or macros:

• /cast [@mouseover] Rejuvenation

Which is quite helpful, but you can take it even further, such as having two buttons in one as displayed below:

• /cast [@mouseover,nodead,help] Rejuvenation; Starfire

If you mouse over a target, it will still cast Rejuvenation, but if you are not, it will cast Starfire instead!

• #showtooltip
• /cast [@cursor] Hurricane

This sort of macro can be used with any ground-targeting effects such as Hurricane and will instantly cast them where you have your mouse cursor, saving you a click.

Here are all possible targeting modifiers:

• [@cursor] — Casts the spell at your cursor's position.
• [@player] — Casts the spell at your position.
• [@target] — Casts the spell at your target's position or on your target.
• [@focus] — Casts the spell at your focus target's position or on your focus target.
• [@mouseover] — Casts the spell at the target's position or at the target that is under your cursor's position. Contrary to [@cursor], this also works for single-target spells if you have nothing targeted.

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• /cast [swimming] !Aquatic Form;[outdoors] !Travel Form; !Cat Form

This is a great macro that is a one-button Travel Form. It will put you into either Travel Form, Aquatic Form, or Cat Form depending on if you are outdoors, in water, or elsewhere.

• /cast [nostealth] Rake; [stealth] Pounce

This puts both Rake and Pounce into the same bind, so you do not need two separate buttons, depending on if you are in stealth or not. You can modify this with any two abilities for when you are and are not stealthed.

• #showtooltip Prowl
• /cast [noform:3] Cat Form
• /cast !Prowl

This macro will allow you to quickly go into Cat Form to use Prowl from any form with just one button.

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• /cast [nomod,stance:1] Mangle (Bear)
• /cast [nomod,stance:3] Mangle (Cat)
• /cast [nomod,nostance] Cat Form

This macro allows you to use Mangle with a single button, no matter what your form is. It will also put you into Cat Form if you are not in a form yet.

• #showtooltip
• /cast [nomod,stance:1] Faerie Fire (Feral)
• /cast [nomod,stance:3] Faerie Fire (Feral)
• /cast Faerie Fire

Mostly useful if you use different specs often, this macro will allow you to use Faerie Fire (Feral) when in a form and the regular Faerie Fire, otherwise.

• #showtooltip Solar Beam
• /stopcasting
• /castsequence [@arena1] Entangling Roots, Solar Beam

For 3v3 Arena players, you can use @arena1, @arena2, and @arena3 as a modifier on your macros to cast your spells at those players, in the order they appear on your Arena frames. This allows you to quickly react with your interrupts and crowd control without targeting or focus requirements, in this case even combining both for the infamous root inside beam combo against enemy healers.

We only recommend this kind of macro for 3v3 because focus and regular targeting should be enough for 2v2, and 5v5 would require too many key binds if you wanted to be able to target the full enemy team.

• #showtooltip Berserking
• /stopcasting
• /cast Berserking
• /use 10
• /cast Starfire

With this macro you will use your gloves enchant Synapse Springs, Berserking, and then continue to spam Starfire, allowing you to do high burst damage and use your cooldowns with a single button.

• #showtooltip
• /stopcasting
• /cast Solar Beam
• /cqs

Stops casting for a quick Solar Beam. /cqs cancels queued spells, allowing you to immediately decide to cast a different spell after pressing this macro, regardless of what you were clicking before.

• #showtooltip Hibernate
• /cast [@focus] Hibernate
• /cqs

This macro crowd controls your focus target with Hibernate so you can set a focus target before combat and not worry about it again when refreshing.

Now that you have learned about macros, we recommend you to also learn about addons as both are closely interlinked and critical to improve your gameplay: