Protection Warrior PvP Useful Macros — The War Within (11.1.0)
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 Protection Warriors can benefit from.
This page is part of our Protection Warrior PvP Guide.
Focus target Macro
- #showtooltip StormBolt
- /cast [@focus] StormBolt
Using this macro will use Storm Bolt on the target currently set as
your focus. This makes it easier to CC a non-kill target should it be
necessary. It works with any other abilities such as
Disarm.
Cancelaura Macro
- #showtooltip Execute
- /cancelaura Bladestorm
- /cast Execute
Allows you to cancel buffs on you like Bladestorm to regain control
of your character. It is worth keeping a separate bind purely to cancelaura
buffs like
Blessing of Protection or
Blessing of Freedom, so you
can gain the benefit of the buff initially but then cancel it to prevent it
from being stolen with
Spellsteal.
Burst Macro
- #showtooltip Avatar
- /use Avatar
- /use 13
- /use 14
Activates your trinket slots together with your Avatar. Ideal for
when using trinkets like
Sinful Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity. Make sure
you are not activating the slot that holds your
Sinful Gladiator's Medallion.
Cursor Macros
- #showtooltip Heroic Leap
- /cast [@cursor] Heroic Leap
Immediately casts Heroic Leap at your cursor. Works great for
abilities like
Spear of Bastion as well.
Charge + Intervene + Hamstring
- #showtooltip Charge
- /cancelaura Bladestorm
- /cast [@mouseover, exists, help, nodead] Intervene
- /cast [exists, nodead, harm] Charge
- /cast Hamstring
This macro combines Charge,
Intervene, and
Hamstring into the same button. This is possible, because
Charge and
Intervene are off the global cooldown.
Intervene uses the @mouseover function here, so you can mouseover
either a friendly target or their party frame to override
Charge and
instead cast
Intervene on them.
Bodyguuard
- #showtooltip Bodyguard
- /cast [@mouseover, help, nodead, exists] Bodyguard
or
- #showtooltip Bodyguard
- /cast [target=<playername>] Bodyguard
The first macro lets you cast Bodyguard on the target you mouse
over with your cursor, whether partyframe or unit frame, and the other is tied
to only target a specific player. Use whichever one you find the most
useful.
Changelog
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Reviews for Patch 11.0.7.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Season 4
- 19 Mar. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.6
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.5
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviwed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5
- 09 May 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.1.
- 21 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 30 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 28 Feb. 2022: Page reviewed and approved for Patch 9.2.
- 08 Nov. 2021: Page reviewed for Patch 9.1.5.
- 04 Jul. 2021: Reviewed and approved for Patch 9.1.
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This guide has been written by Karanze, an experienced Gladiator Warrior player who has been a Stormforged/trusted member in the popular Warrior class discord Skyhold. You can watch his stream on Twitch.
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