Cataclysm Classic Guide to Warlock's Best Macros

Macros can make your life easier by combining certain spells and abilites to be able to be used at once, for example, being able to use your trinket, racial cooldowns and spells all with the press of one button! Or to be more Warlock specific, you can make a macro that will cast Soulburn and the Summon Felhunter in one single press. There are many types of macros that can help maximize your damage, while also freeing up many actionbar slots and keybinds. On this page, we will list a handful of helpful macros to aid you in your gameplay and to also help you maximize your damage as a Warlock.

Feel free to simly copy paste any of the following macros if you want to use them and check back frequently as I'll be adding more when I find some more helpful ones.

• Mouseover Macro

This macro is one of the most helpful macros in the game for Warlocks. This allows you to cast your spells and DoT's on targets, without needing to target them, but rather simply holding your mouse over the target instead. An example of this in action is you can target the boss, then adds come out and you can very easily just hover your mouse cursor over the extra add and press Corruption without ever having to untarget the boss! This is so great that I personally have every single spell and ability on a mouseover macro.

• #showtooltip Spell Name
• /cast [@mouseover,help][] Spell Name

• Cooldown Macro

This is another extraordinarily helpful and in my opinion mandatory. This macro will pop ALL of your cooldowns in one single press of the keybind. This is great as it ensures that you get full value out of all your cooldowns at once, since you will almost always be wanting to pop these at the same time, but also freeing up many keybinds and actionbar slots. For example, the one below will pop your Demon Soul Blood Fury Orc Racial, your main DPS potion ( Volcanic Potion), and will use your Synapse Springs (If you're Engineering).

Also note that the number 10 in the macro is your Glove slot. You can put /use 10 and then it will always use your glove, which will have your Synapse Springs on it. If you don't do this then you will have to change the macro to type in your Gloves everytime you get a new pair of Gloves. You can also add trinkets if you have an on use trinket and anything else that you want to put into this macro.

• #showtooltip Blood Fury
• /use Volcanic Potion
• /cast Demon Soul
• /cast Blood Fury
• /use 10

• Cursor Macro

This macro removes the big green circle that you have to click again when using things like Rain of Fire, Engineering Bombs, Shadowfury, etc. This is just nice to not have to click once again to use the spell or item

• /cast [@cursor] Rain of Fire

• Spec Swapping Macro

This macro changes spec to your dual spec option whenever you press it. This is nice to just be able to quickly swap your specs with one button, rather than having to open up the talent window on the interface.

• /run local i=GetActiveTalentGroup(); SetActiveTalentGroup(i==1 and 2 or 1)

#showtooltip /cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Shadow Bolt /cast [@pettarget, exists] Shadow Bite /cast [@pettarget, exists] Legion Strike /cast [@pettarget, exists] Firebolt

• Pet Macro 1

This macro should be baked into your main filler spell, which is Shadow Bolt for Affliction and Demonology, and Incinerate for Destruction. This makes it so whichever Demon you have out, will cast it's main ability the instant it comes off cooldown. While you can set your pet abilities to auto cast in game, there is always a tiny gap before they cast it, resulting in a slight DPS loss. This macro will ensure they cast it isntantly, giving you more DPS! If you're Destruction, change the first line from Shadow Bolt to Incinerate.

• #showtooltip
• /cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Shadow Bolt
• /cast [@pettarget, exists] Shadow Bite
• /cast [@pettarget, exists] Legion Strike
• /cast [@pettarget, exists] Firebolt

• Pet Macro 2

This macro will make sure your Demon starts attacking when you do. You don't want this macro'd to ALL of your abilities, but instead just one of your main ones to ensure it is attacking. I don't suggest macro'ing it to all your spells, because in the example of your Summon Imp if he's casting Firebolt and you tell it to attack mid cast, it will stop casting to swap to the new target if you swapped. Thereforth I just use it on a main spell for each spec.

• #showtooltip
• /cast Hand of Gul'dan
• /cast Conflagrate
• /cast Haunt
• /petattack

• Soulburn Macro

This macro is mainly for Demonology Warlocks for when you Pet Twist. See our Demonology rotation page for more information on Pet Twisting and it's importance. This simply lets you press one button to cast Soulburn and Soul Harvest

• #showtooltip
• /cast Soulburn
• /cast Soul Harvest

• Soulburn: Seed of Corruption Macro for Affliction Warlocks

This macro is specifically for Affliction Warlocks and will allow you to press one keybind to cast Soulburn and then Seed of Corruption, freeing up a keybind.

• #showtooltip Seed of corruption
• /cast Soulburn
• /cast Seed of Corruption
• /cqs

• Hellfire Macro for Demonology Warlocks

This macro is specifically for Demonology Warlocks. This will cast Hellfire and if pressed again, will cancel your channled Hellfire. This is nice to you don't need to press escape to stop channeling your Hellfire, since you can now channel this while moving, you can no longer move to stop the channel.

• #showtooltip Hellfire
• /cast [nochanneling] Hellfire
• /cancelaura [channeling] Hellfire

There are many addons that can help Warlock maximize their DPS or just make your life easier. Below is a list of addons that both increase the quality of your gameplay and the quality of life while playing the game.