Elemental Shaman PvP Useful Macros — The War Within (11.0.5)
Macros are crucial to be successful in PvP. They allow players to use abilities on enemies without having to target them. This helps increase overall damage/healing and general awareness in the arena. Here are a few macros that all Elemental Shamans can benefit from.
This page is part of our Elemental Shaman PvP Guide.
Useful Elemental Shaman Macros
Arena Targeting
This macro allows you to target each of the enemy team players without clicking with your mouse. This is a more efficient method of changing targets. You should replace "arena1" with "arena2" and "arena3" for subsequent macros.
- /target arena1
Arena Target Interrupts
This macro will use your Wind Shear interrupt on the specific enemy team player without changing targets. Again, replace "arena1" with the desired enemy.
- /cast [target=arena1] Wind Shear
Targeting Teammates and Self
As the following macro works like the enemy targeting macros above. To target your teammates insert "party1" or "party2"; to target yourself, replace with "player".
- /target party1
Cursor Macros
Cursor macros reduce the number of times you have to press a key or mouse click by casting the specific spell or placing the totem where your cursor is pointed with a single press of the macro. This applies to multiple abilities for an Elemental Shaman: Earthgrab Totem Static Field Totem, Earthbind Totem, Earthquake, and Capacitor Totem.
- /cast [@cursor] Earthbind Totem
Focus Cast Macros
Setting and monitoring your focus target is critical to being aware of when crowd control is coming and when cooldowns are being used. In response, the following macro uses your abilities on the set focus target instead of on the active target of the player. Replace Wind Shear with Hex, Earth Shock, or Purge.
- /cast [target=focus] Wind Shear
Cleanse
This is one of the most important macros, as this will instantly dispel your friends from Curses without having to switch targets.
- /cast [target=PLAYERNAME] Cleanse Spirit
Alternatively, you can make the macro target the generic party members, as used in earlier friendly team targeting macros.
- /cast [target=party1] Cleanse Spirit
Earth Shield Friend Macro
If you select the Earth Shield talent, you want a way to easily apply this ability to your teammates without having to switch targets or click their nameplates. The below options for this macro should allow you to maintain a high uptime on Earth Shield and maximize one of the best Elemental Shaman utilities for their team.
- /cast [target=PLAYERNAME] Earth Shield
Alternatively, you can make the macro target the generic party members, as used in earlier friendly team targeting macros.
- /cast [target=party1] Earth Shield
Purge Friendly Target Macro
This is one of the most important macros, as this will help free your teammates from Mind Control instantly without switching targets and is a must.
- /cast [target=PLAYERNAME] Purge
Alternatively, you can make the macro target the generic party members, as used in earlier friendly team targeting macros. If you take Greater Purge replace 'Purge' with 'Greater Purge.'
- /cast [target=party1] Purge
Healing Teammates
This is for healing teammates without having to switch targets. We use macros for targets specifically by their name to make sure we heal the correct target without a doubt. This approach is more precise but takes time to maintain the macro if you play with various players.
- /cast [target=PLAYERNAME] Healing Surge
Alternatively, you can make the macro target the generic party members, as used in earlier friendly team targeting macros.
- /cast [target=party1] Healing Surge
Fire or Storm Elemental Special Offensive Ability
This is a significant offensive cooldown which can be integrated into your burst if using Primal Elementalist. You will need to press this macro twice to make the special effect work. The first press summons the elemental; the second press will use the ability on the Elemental Shaman.
- /cast Fire Elemental
- /cast Storm Elemental
- /cast Call Lightning
- /cast [talent:6/2] Eye of the Storm
- /cast [talent:6/2] Meteor
Changelog
- 21 Oct. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for TWW Launch.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for TWW pre-patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Dragonflight 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updatedfor Dragonflight 10.1.5.
- 06 May 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.1.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Dragonflight 10.0.7.
- 13 Jan. 2023: Updated for mid-season changes.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
- 31 Jul. 2022: Updated for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 27 Feb. 2022: Updated for Patch 9.2 of Shadowlands
- 17 Nov. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1.5 of Shadowlands.
- 04 Jul. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1 of Shadowlands.
- 14 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands pre-patch.
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