The Complete Guide to WoW Macros. Hotkeys and macros for ease of playing WoW Macros for WWII 3.3.5

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WoW has a huge variety of abilities, spells, and items that you can use. Some of them are needed in dungeons, others in arenas, and others for solo play. Some abilities are required for a specific boss, while others are required for playing in a specific team. And what can we say about shamans with their totems and blessings? To organize action bars and make it easier to manage abilities, there are two main ways: using macros and using hotkeys. In addition, there are special ones, such as, that make action panels more convenient. But you can’t live without macros and hotkeys!

The Razer Naga mouse I reviewed also supports macro creation and hotkey binding. A kind of double profit.

1) Hot keys

You need them if you want to get the most out of it as quickly as possible. big number abilities. This is especially critical when playing on and on. The meaning of hotkeys is that you press any keyboard button to activate a particular ability located in a given cell. For example, when playing World of Warcraft, I use more than a dozen hotkeys: for healing, attack, homecoming stone, and even emotions. This is really very convenient, because pressing a button is easier than moving a mouse or clicking. You can lose, die from an enemy, or miss a mega-blow from.

The main keys used are Q, E, R, Y, F, G, V, C, X, Z, CapsLock, Shift, ~, B and many others. I use most of these buttons, as well as a number of mouse buttons =). Bind a cell to hotkey can be found in the “Key Assignments” menu. Just select the cell you want to bind and press the desired key. Using hotkeys is really very convenient. Here is my action bar:

As you can see, almost all the buttons on both panels are bound to hotkeys. Believe me, this has saved the lives of me, the tank and other raiders more than once.

2) Macros in WoW

Another important part of optimizing your panels, you can create macros in WoW through the Macros menu. Very often we use the same set of abilities or the same sequence of spells. If they are located in different cells, there may be a space issue. For example, shamans have several abilities that are used in a specific cycle. For optimization, a macro of the following type is used:

/castsequence reset=10 ability1, ability2,…

Scripts in WoW can be used for different groups of totems: caster totems and melee totems, PvP totems and dungeon totems. The use of a macro of the form /castsequence is also justified for other classes. For example, they can use it to create -cycles, for tanking, and so on. All progressive players make sure to use macros to increase the efficiency of their game. In WoW, macros are not only a way to ensure the convenience of the game, but also to avoid unpleasant situations.

Another group of macros in WoW are macros simultaneous use. After all, it is known that it is much better to include all abilities simultaneously under Heroism or Bloodlust. And the famous PoM-pyroblast combo also uses this macro. The macro looks like this:

/use 13 – top accessory

/use 14 – lower accessory

/cast ... - the name of the ability, for example, Adrenaline Rush or Bestial Rage

This macro allows you to deal a lot of damage while the included accessories and abilities are active. In addition, robbers can use a macro to search victims and simultaneously launch an attack on them

/cast Pick Pockets

/cast A sneaky trick

Now no one will leave with full pockets. If the target is immune to being searched, then the attack will simply begin. It's a good idea to use WoW macros along with hotkeys. For example, I have a macro with totems for healing on F. And next to it is a macro for . Everything is convenient and compact.

A very interesting and useful macro, which I call 2 mounts in one. The essence of this WoW macro is as follows: if we are in an area where we cannot fly, then a ground mount is used. If you can fly, then use a flying mount. It’s very convenient, because, say, you can’t fly in Dalaran, but once you go to the Kras site, this opportunity becomes available. Shouldn't we bind mounts to different buttons? This is irrational. Therefore, we use the following macro:

/cast flying_mount
/cast ground_mount

In case you cannot fly in this location, the macro will throw an error and automatically use the ground mount.

You can also write wow macros in Russian. For example, the /cast command will change to /cast. Although I recommend that you stick to English terms, because most powerful complex macros are written in English language and it can be easy to get confused by the terminology. A few more examples of macros in WoW in Russian:

/hello – you will greet a specific character or everyone around
/boredom - you will show that you are bored
/lol – you will burst into cheerful laughter

It is important that you make sure to specify an icon that corresponds to the WoW macro commands. Otherwise, you can simply get lost in a huge number of different macros that do not differ from each other by icon. Fortunately, the selection of icons in the macro editor is very large and you can set any images.

Of course, in reality there are many more macros; you can write entire programs using macros, use many keys and process time. If you know how to write macros in WoW, you will have no problem creating a whole selection of different macros for any purpose. But my goal was to show what tools exist to optimize the game and how you can make your life easier. I hope this material will be useful

In this article we will look at such a useful thing in WoW as Macros. Let’s look in detail at what it is, what it’s eaten with, and how to write the macros you need yourself. Let's start with theory

What are macros?

These are grouped requests/commands on ONE button. If you think that macros will increase your damage or that pressing one button will instantly kill everyone within a 5km radius, you are mistaken. But macros can improve your gaming experience and optimize it a bit.

How to create a macro

Select “Macros” from the menu

We get to the macro menu

Here, when you click the “Create” button, you can select the macro icon and enter its name

And after that, you can enter the commands themselves that need to be used when clicking on the macro

What are macros?

Stop cast

There is such a macro:

/cast Power Word: Shield

What is he doing? When you click on the macro icon, the currently casting spell will be instantly canceled and the spell/ability indicated in the next line will be cast, in this case the Priest's Shield. Useful if, for example, you start casting a summon mount and see a hostile spell flying at you. When you press this macro, the summoning of the mount is instantly canceled and a shield is applied to you.

To avoid getting confused with the names of abilities, you don’t have to write them manually. Just open the spell book, find the desired spell and, while holding down the Shift key, click LMB on this ability. The command for executing this very ability will immediately be written in the macro.

Another very useful macro:

Mouse Over

Its functionality is to use the ability on a target using the mouse cursor. That is, in this case, the spell “Word of Darkness: Pain” will be used on the target that the mouse is simply hovering over and not selected. In large battles, you will only need to move the mouse over the opponents and press the macro. Saves a lot of time and nerves.

Now comes the macro for the order of abilities:

CastSequence

And so, let’s say we have some rather tedious and consistent moments in our rotation. That is, you just press 1,2,3 and so on in a circle. To simplify this, you can use the above macro. Abilities specified separated by commas and after the /castsequence command will be executed according to the order in which they were written. Comfortable? Very much. Important point: I advise you not to select an icon for this macro, because The game client itself places the icon of the ability that comes next in the queue.

Adding Variables

So, let's imagine that you are using a macro with /castsequence and suddenly your target dies. Yes, sometimes this happens. And now, when switching to a new target, we need to perform the sequence again. That is, if you killed a target with 3 abilities, the macro will use the 4th ability, but now we need to perform the rotation from the beginning, that is, from the first ability. To do this, we will add the reset=taeget variable to it. Now, when changing the target, the macro will be updated and start rotation again from the 1st specified ability. It looks something like this:

If you don't like updating when you change targets, you can do it every few seconds. To do this, after reset= specify a number that will mean how many seconds the macro will be reset.

Combinations

Want to use two abilities with one macro click at the same time? This is... impossible in most cases. Almost all spells, after using them, even if they do not have their own cooldown, i.e. These are instant abilities that trigger GCD—the cooldown for all abilities. This is why you cannot use two instant abilities with GCDs in one macro at the same time. Another thing is abilities without GCD. By recording them in a macro as

/cast skill1

/cast skill2

You use them simultaneously. But only if they are instant and without GCD! You can combine abilities with accessories. That is, for example, you can press Heroism and activate the accessory.

Tip

Imagine the situation: you and your friend went to BG. In the heat of battle, he shouts to you: “I'm dying! Save!" A crowd of players is running around you, projectiles, severed limbs, etc. are flying everywhere. How to find a friend here? A macro will help with this

By using it, the ability will be applied specifically to the specified target, no matter who you are targeting.

Focus

The macro is as simple as possible and is written in just one line:

Select the target you want to focus on, for example an enemy healer. Now click on the macro and the target frame will be displayed separately. No matter who you target, the frame of the selected target will not disappear anywhere and will always be visible.

This concludes the guide to Macros in WoW. This was the basis for understanding what macros are and how to write them yourself.
Study your abilities, find out which ones are on the GKD and which ones are not. Which ones can and should be put in the queue, and which ones cannot. If you have any questions, ask them in the comments.

What is a macro? A macro is a small and very simple program (written in LUA) that solves a certain range of problems.
Why are macros needed?

• Each class in the game has a huge variety of different abilities and spells, which usually take up a lot of panel space. Macros allow you to combine several of these abilities under one button at once, assigning each of them the corresponding extra keys (we will further call them modifiers) - Shift, Alt and Ctrl. Using macros, you can combine up to 24 abilities within 1-6 buttons.
• Macros allow you to combine multiple abilities under one button so that pressing it will activate them all at once, saving time. True, provided that only one of the spells in the macro has a casting time, or is instantaneous, but causes a global cooldown.
• Using macros you can also do unusual things. For example, counting your voidance (if you are a tank), or looking for the Time-Lost Proto-Dragon while flying through the Storm Peaks

• Open the "Menu" by pressing the Escape key.
• Select "Macro" from the menu and open the macro editor window.
• Create a macro by clicking on the "New" button in the lower right corner of the editor.
• Select an icon for your macro.
• Name your macro whatever you want, just not the name of the ability - don't call the macro "Fireball". Call it OSH, or Fireball, or something like that.
• Click "OK" and enter the text of the macro in the field, copying any of the ones below to make sure it works.
• When you're done writing macro code, simply click the New button or navigate to another macro in the editor. There is no "Save" button here.
• Drag the macro to the panel.

The simplest macro looks like:

#showtooltip
/use Shadowbolt

The #showtooltip command replaces the red question mark of the macro icon with the icon of the corresponding spell, in this case it is Shadowbolt. The red "?" itself is a temporary replacement for what #showtooltip will show. Using the "/use" command instead of "/cast" allows us to save an entire character, which is especially important in large macros that are close in size to the maximum limit of 255 characters.

The macro works exactly the same as the Shadow Bolt spell from your spellbook. Drag this macro onto the panel and see for yourself (if you are a warlock, of course). Of course, Shadowbolt can be replaced by any spell or ability from your arsenal. Since this macro provides absolutely no advantage over a regular spell from the book, there is no point in creating it. I brought it to demonstrate the simplest example.

Now let's move on to more useful things, expanding our useless blank into something functional. Let's add 4 modifiers to this macro. IN general view such a macro looks like:

#showtooltip
/use ability4; ability3; ability2; ability1

Or the same without at the end, which will save us a few more characters:

#showtooltip
/use ability4; ability3; ability2; ability1

(There are situations when it is necessary, we will talk about such situations below. In most cases, it makes no difference whether to use this modifier or not)

If you CTRL-click on this macro, two things will happen: #showtooltip will change the red question mark of the macro icon to the ability icon4 and the ability4 will trigger. Likewise with the ALT and SHIFT modifiers. If no modifier key is pressed, the macro will receive the ability1 icon and ability1 will trigger. If you made a mistake when writing the name of the ability, or it simply is not in the spell book, a red “?” will again appear in place of the macro icon, notifying the player that there is an error in the macro.

Thus, by writing 6 such macros you will immediately have access to 24 spells from your book at the cost of only 6 cells on the panel. You don’t have to place these macros on the panel at all by assigning hotkeys to them through the appropriate addon, for example through BindPad. It is convenient to select the hotkeys themselves next to the movement buttons - WASD or ESDF.

Here's another one real example such a macro. It demonstrates its versatility, regardless of which class uses this macro.

#showtooltip
/use Bronze Dragon; Summoning Ritual; Summon Felguard; Dark Arrow

Or without

#showtooltip
/use Bronze Dragon; Summoning Ritual; Summon Felguard;Shadowbolt

Ctrl + macro: shows the Bronze Dragon icon and summons it
Alt + macro: shows the Summoning Ritual icon and starts the ritual
Shift + Macro: Shows the Felguard icon and summons it
No modifiers + macro: shows the Shadow Bolt icon and casts Shadow Bolt

Along with rarely used and/or non-combat abilities, it is best to use hard-to-reach modifiers (for example, I find CTRL the most inconvenient). Therefore, I have the Bronze Dragon assigned to CTRL+macro. All other abilities should also be placed in order of increasing importance and convenience, but the most important ones should be left without modifiers, as was done in this case with the Dark Arrow.

You can make a macro that will cast several abilities at once with the press of one button. In this case, two conditions must be met. First, only one of these spells can have a casting time. Secondly, only one of the spells can cause a global cooldown. In other words, if a spell in a macro causes a global cooldown, then all subsequent commands to cast the spell will not work.

Here is an example from life. Warlocks have an emergency button in case his minion is killed. Typically, resummoning takes as long as 10 seconds, which is prohibitively long, especially in PvP conditions. Thanks to the Fel Dominance talent in combination with other passive talents, the summoning time is reduced to 0.5 seconds.

Here's a generally great macro that allows you to click Fel Dominance and summon a minion with one button in one click.

#showtooltip
/use Fel Dominance
/use Summon Felguard

Instead of pressing the "Fel Dominance" button and then another button - "Summon Felguard", the warlock just needs to click on this macro, which will press both buttons for him, and at the same time.

In addition to this example, if you are playing an Orc, you can also use Blood Fury to make the newly summoned Felguard look a little more epic for a few seconds.

#showtooltip
/use Blood Fury
/use Fel Dominance
/use Summon Felguard

This example works because the spells Blood Fury and Fel Domination are instant and do not cause a global cooldown, which means they can be used simultaneously after each other. The Summon Felguard spell has a casting time, so it must be at the end of the macro, since after the spell is cast, all other lines of the macro will be ignored.

Another simple, but very useful macro for a damage dealer (assist). It forces the damage dealer to switch to the target that the main tank is hitting.

/targetYourTankName
/assist

The first line forces you to target the main tank (you will have to edit the macro every time you change the main tank in a new raid). The second line selects the target of the main tank as the target. The macro is very useful and allows the damage dealer to always hit exactly the target he needs without fear of disrupting aggro. Of course, if the tank has assigned a different order of killing mobs with tags (for example, a large group of enemies), then you will have to choose the target yourself in accordance with the order of killing.

Let's now try to put together what we created in the previous two steps. If we simply take two separate macros and put them together, the resulting macro will not work the way we would like. What do you think will happen when you click this macro:

#showtooltip
/use Fel Dominance

The fact is that Fel Dominion will be cast every time you press this macro. Even when you hold down CTRL, SHIFT or ALT. If you don't want to waste such a valuable cooldown while performing the Summoning Ritual or mounting a mount, it's worth taking care of this problem.

#showtooltip

/use Bronze Dragon; Summoning Ritual; Ritual of Souls;Summon Felguard

As you can see, adding the modifier before Fel Ascendancy in the first line played a key role here. This tells the game that Fel Dominance should only be used when there are no modifiers. This is exactly what was mentioned at the beginning of the article.

However, there is still an aesthetic problem. The fact is that the #showtooltip command will always display the icon for the Fel Domination spell, regardless of which additional key this macro is pressed with. The solution is very simple and by analogy with the last line:

#showtooltip Bronze Dragon; Summoning Ritual; Ritual of Souls;Summon Felguard
/use Fel Dominance
/use Bronze Dragon; Summoning Ritual; Ritual of Souls;Summon Felguard

And finally one last problem. The macro will always cast Fel Dominance when summoning a Felguard, even if you don't need it or want to save the cooldown for the time being. So let's change the macro so that when pressed with SHIFT, the macro will use Fel Dominance, but without modifiers it will not. Let's not forget to immediately correct the #showtooltip command.

#showtooltip Bronze Dragon; Summoning Ritual; Summon Felguard;Summon Felguard
/use Fel Dominance
/use Bronze Dragon; Summoning Ritual; Summon Felguard;Summon Felguard

As a result, we got a very convenient macro, which by default summons a fel guard within ~10 seconds, and with the Shift key held down, it does it almost instantly.

You can write a macro that will use a spell only on a specific target. Let's look at this using the example of Holy Paladins.

This macro heals the paladin's current target with a Flash of Light:

#showtooltip
/use Flash of Light

But this macro always heals only you (if you are a paladin, of course), regardless of whether you have a target or not.

#showtooltip
/use Flash of Light

This macro heals the target you have in focus:

#showtooltip
/use Flash of Light

Here’s a macro that heals the player the cursor is pointing at with a Flash of Light, even if someone else is selected as the target:

#showtooltip
/use Flash of Light

You can combine the macros written above into one using modifiers:

#showtooltip
/use Flash of Light; Flash Light; Flash Light; Flash Light

1. The DC tank's strongest ability, which causes a lot of aggro on one target, is Runic Strike. It becomes available only when the death knight has dodged or parried an attack, and the Runic Strike itself does not trigger instantly, but only with the next attack of the DK.

A Death Knight who doesn't understand macros can simply place the Rune Strike button somewhere on the panel and constantly monitor the effect. However, with macros, using this ability becomes much easier. We'll just add Rune Strike before every spell that's in our rotation. This way we will never miss a triggered proc.

#showtooltip ability4; ability3; ability2; Destruction

/use ability4; ability3; ability2; Destruction

#showtooltip ability4; ability3; ability2; Deadly Strike
/use !Rune Strike
/use ability4; ability3; ability2; Deadly Strike

#showtooltip ability4; ability3; ability2; Bloody Strike
/use !Rune Strike
/use ability4; ability3; ability2; Bloody Strike

#showtooltip ability4; ability 3; ability2; A blow to the heart
/use !Rune Strike
/use ability4; ability3; ability2; A blow to the heart

#showtooltip ability4; ability3; ability2; Scourge Strike
/use !Rune Strike
/use ability4; ability3; ability2; Scourge Strike

Why is it worth it here? Exclamation point? When you proc Rune Strike, you press a button to activate it, but the strike will not work immediately, but will wait for your next melee attack. And if at this moment you accidentally click on Rune Strike again, the game will take this as an order to cancel the Rune Strike attack and you will lose the proc. Addition!Rune Strike tells you to ignore all "accidental" keypresses after activating the skill and just wait for the next melee hit.

IN latest update For many abilities there is no longer a need to use!, but to be sure it is worth using it.

2. Another example of a multi-line macro for a Death Knight - a tank. When a tank takes a lot of damage in a split second, this macro buffs the DK with Vampiric Blood and uses a Runic Healing Potion. This combination allows the tank to independently raise its health level from 20% to 80% in a few seconds and survive dangerous moments.

#showtooltip
/use something; anything; anything; Vampire blood
/use Runic Healing Potion

Here are some examples of macros that do not fit the description above. These are more likely not macros, but scripts. If you are interested in this side of the issue, more information can be found on wowwiki, on the page dedicated to macros.

1. Such a macro will be useful for completing the achievement in the Oculus "without red and green dragons." It helps synchronize Time Stop between five players. By analogy, such a script can be used anywhere, starting with countdowns to the start of the pool, and ending with some kind of pizza timers.

/in 12 /rw Cast Time Stop #1 PLAYER1
/in 27 /rw Cast Time Stop #2 PLAYER2
/in 42 /rw Cast Time Stop #3 PLAYER3
/in 57 /rw Cast Time Stop #4 PLAYER4
/in 72 /rw Cast Time Stop #5 PLAYER5
/in 87 /rw Cast Time Stop #6 PLAYER1
/in 102 /rw Cast Time Stop #7 PLAYER2
/in 117 /rw Cast Time Stop #8 PLAYER3

For DC: /run ChatFrame1:AddMessage(format("Avoidance with Stoneskin Gargoyle: %.2f%%", GetDodgeChance() + GetParryChance() + 6 + 1/(0.0625 + 0.956/(floor(GetCombatRatingBonus(CR_DEFENSE_SKILL))*0.04)) ))

For Druid: /run ChatFrame1:AddMessage(format("Total avoidance: %.2f%%", GetDodgeChance() + 5 + 1/(0.0625 + 0.956/(GetCombatRating(CR_DEFENSE_SKILL)/4.91850*0.04))))

For Paladin:

For Warrior: /run ChatFrame1:AddMessage(format("Total avoidance: %.2f%%", GetDodgeChance() + GetParryChance() + 5 + 1/(0.0625 + 0.956/(GetCombatRating(CR_DEFENSE_SKILL)/4.91850*0.04))))

3. To hunt the Time-Lost Proto-Dragon, the following macro will help us:

/tar Dirk
/tar Vira
/tar Zate
/stopmacro
/w Your_name %t is watching you!
/run RaidNotice_AddMessage(RaidBossEmoteFrame,"Here's that dragon! KICK HIM!", ChatTypeInfo["RAID_WARNING"])
/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\\interface\\RaidWarning.wav")

Anyone who wants to ideally play as a war in pve 3.3.5 should have and be able to use macros that will increase your DPS and make your game easier.
Let's see what we do.

Macros are more suitable for the Var tank pve 3.3.5

Such a macro will allow you to intervene on a friendly target, a Provocation will be launched on the enemy, and with the Shift key held down, the PVE var will intercept.

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=15 Dash, Intercept, Dash;
#showtooltip
/cast Intervention;Dash;Taunt;Interception
#showtooltip Jerk;
Intervention; Interception
/cast Dash;

Interception;
Intervention; Intervention

Well, the most important macro for a tank is the aggro macro for var 3.3.5 pve.

#show Taunting blow; Provocation; Defensive stance

#showtooltip
/cast Taunting Strike;Taunt;Defensive Stance
Macros for Fury wara pve 3.3.5
Let's start with rage, because without it there is no progress in PVE 3.3.5.
/castsequence reset=20 Berserker's Fury, Blood Fury

#showtooltip Berserker's Rage

/cast Berserker's Rage
/cast !Hero Strike

/cast !Cleave

#showtooltip Bloodlust
/cast Bloodlust
Here is a macro for a warrior in the Fury stance for battle in two variants

#showtooltip Bloodlust

/cast Bloodlust
/cast Berserker's Rage
/castsequence reset=20 Berserker's Fury, Blood Fury

/cast !Hero Strike

/cast Power Strike

/stopcasting Slam

/startattack

And remember how the macro is written and written in the game, any gap will make the macro incapable.

Spells

During your game, you are unlikely to write many slash commands that can be useful for macros. Of course, a regular emote command can add a role-playing feel to your game, but nothing more.

Type /cast, the most commonly used command in macros. It allows you to cast any spell from your spellbook or your pet's spell. The simplest example of a macro:

/cast Shadow Word: Pain

This macro will cast a Shadow Word of Pain on your target. The macro behaves exactly the same as if you were simply casting a spell from the spell bar. The game will recognize the macro as a spell and show the cooldown and distance to the target. You can even choose your macro to have the same image as the magic itself.

Why use a macro if you can just put magic on the panel? The answer is simple. Macros allow you to combine many commands, which is why they are so useful. The macro runs everything at once, so you'll say your line right after you start casting the spell. This means that if you put these commands in a different order, the effect will be the same. So if you feel like saying something only after you've actually cast the spell, you can use the AfterCast addon, which will make the next slash command only work after you've cast the spell. For example:

/aftercast /p Click on the portal to summon %t. /cast Summoning Ritual

Attention: spell names

The /cast command is very picky about how you write spell names. In order to successfully write a macro, you must be fully aware of spelling, punctuation, and spacing. The following action will guarantee that the spell is written correctly: while writing the macro, open your spell book and shift+click on the desired ability. This way you'll get the exact name of the spell in the macro, including any modifiers like druid forms for Mangle.

Use of items and accessories

Everything is very simple. The command to use items is /use. As with /cast, the most common form of notation uses the name of what you want to use:

/use Green Mechanostrider

There are also several other forms of this command.

/use<ячейку инвентаря>

This form allows you to use an item in a specific slot. The cell numbers are shown in this figure:

Uses your top accessory slot.

/use<номер сумки> <ячейка>

You can use any item from your bags. Imagine that your pet's food is always in the first compartment of your backpack. You can easily write a macro to feed the pet:

/cast Feeding the pet /use 0 1

Bags are numbered from 0 to 4 from right to left (0 is always a backpack), and cells are numbered from 1 from left to right, top to bottom (like reading):

1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8

…

1 2

3 4 5 6

7 8 9 10

…

Finally, I hasten to inform you that /cast and /use work exactly the same. /cast can use items, and /use can cast spells.

Multiple actions in one click

In general, you cannot cast more than one spell with a macro click. Most spells and some items have a global cooldown (GCD), which prevents you from performing too many actions at once. Some spells can be cast with just one button press. Any instant or non-GCD spell can be followed by another. The tooltip on a spell will tell you whether it's instant or not, but to find out if it has a GCD, you'll need to use special sites like WowHead. An example of such a macro is the following:

/cast Furious Howl /cast Blood Fury /cast Call of the Wild

Target selection

Target selection is another common macro task. Using regular macros, you cast spells on your current target. Combining the /cast and /target commands makes it possible to change the target when clicking on the macro.

The simplest macro looks like this:

/target Vasya

/target looks for matches between the letters you wrote and the targets around you. This means that if you used the command /target you and a target with that name is nearby, then you will select it. Depending on the situation, this can be a plus or a minus. Unfortunately, this macro will also target unnecessary units (for example, corpses).

Let's combine two commands - /cast and /target:

/target Blackwing Mage /cast Scourge of Agony

If there is no Blackwing Mage nearby, then you will target someone with a name that begins with M or Ma. If this is a friendly target, then the macro loses its meaning altogether. Another problem is that you may be targeting someone 100 yards away who you don't want in the first place. Therefore, in patch 2.3, the /targetexact command was introduced to fix this problem.

In addition to all of the above, you can use the unit ID instead of the name of the desired target. Unit ID is a way to identify a specific character, mob, NPC. For example, your current target can be selected using the "target" unit ID. Your character can be selected using the "player" ID, and your pet can be selected using the "pet". You can add "target" after any valid unit ID to select the target of that unit. List of unit IDs:

• "arenaN" - Member of the enemy arena team. N = 1,2,3,4 or 5.
• "bossN" - The active boss of the current encounter, if available. N = 1,2,3 or 4.
• "focus" - The player's current focus.
• "mouseover" - The unit that is (or has recently been) under the mouse pointer.
• "none" - no unit. Often used to prevent the macro from auto-casting on itself (/cast Healing Wave).
• “partyN” is the Nth member of the group, excluding your character. N = 1, 2, 3 or 4.
• “partypetN” is the pet of the Nth group member. N = 1, 2, 3 or 4.
• "pet" is the player's current pet.
• “player” is the player himself.
• "raidN" - raid member. N = 1, 2, 3,…, 25.
• “raidpetN” - pet of the Nth raid member. N = 1, 2, 3,…, 25.
• “target” - the player’s current goal
• "vehicle" is the player's current vehicle.

Other commands for selecting a target

/assist

By itself, this command selects the goal of the target. For example, if you target me and I target Yriel, /assist will force you to target Yriel.

/cleartarget

Leaves you without purpose.

/targetexact

Targets a unit with the exact name specified. If the name is spelled incorrectly or the unit is far away from you, then your target will not change.

/targetlasttarget, /targetlastfriend, /targetlastenemy

The first command will highlight your previous target. The second is the previous friendly target, and the third is the previous hostile one. If you didn’t have a goal before, the team won’t do anything.

/targetenemy, /targetfriend

These commands go through targets of a certain type one by one. /targetenemy is the same as pressing TAB, and /targetfriend is CTRL–TAB. You can also add a "1" parameter to cycle through targets in reverse order (/targetenemy 1 works like pressing SHIFT–TAB).

Note: You can only use these commands once per macro.

/targetenemy /targetenemy 1

/targetfriend /targetfriend 1

/targetenemyplayer, /targetfriendplayer

These teams take turns targeting a specific type of player character. They work exactly the same as /targetfriend and /targetenemy except that they only target players, while ignoring anyone controlled by the computer (NPCs, mobs, pets, minions). Useful macro in PvP. As with /targetenemy, you can use the "1" option to change the direction.

/targetenemyplayer /targetenemyplayer 1

/targetfriendplayer /targetfriendplayer 1

/targetparty, /targetraid

Alternately cycles through targets from your group or raid. As with /targetenemy, you can use the "1" option to change the direction.

/targetparty /targetparty 1

/targettraid /targettraid 1

Pet management

As already mentioned, you can use /cast to use your pet's abilities. The most important of them are the following:

/petattack

Causes the pet to attack your target. You can also specify a name or unit ID, then the pet will attack a specific unit.

/petfollow

Your pet follows you and also stops attacking if necessary.

/petstay

The pet stands still until it receives another command.

/petmoveto

After using this command, you need to specify the place where your pet will then go.

/petpassive, /petdefensive, /petaggressive

Sets your pet's behavior pattern, just like the buttons on the pet panel.

/petautocaston, /petautocastoff, /petautocasttoggle

These commands control your pet's auto-cast spell. The first one turns on autocast, the second one turns it off. For example:

/petautocaston Torment /petautocastoff Torment

/petautocasttoggle switches the auto-cast of pet spells.

/petautocasttoggle Fire Breath

Enables auto-cast if it is disabled and vice versa.

Other slash commands

We've covered the basics, and now I want to introduce other slash commands. Some of these may seem useless at first, but when combined with the macro options from section 2, they can be great things.

Dressing items

There are three commands for equipping an item: /equip, /equipslot and /equipset. /equip takes the name of the item and moves it to a standard slot, just like you would click on the item right click mice. /equipslot uses the inventory slot ID and item name, thereby moving the item to the specified slot.

To equip a weapon in a standard slot:

/equip Sharpened Abyssal Ax

To put an accessory in the bottom cell:

/equipslot 14 Carrot on a stick

Let's imagine that we saved two sets of things. Let's call one Tank (it has a sword and shield), and the second - DPS (two-handed). We use the following macro to switch between them:

/equipset DPS; Tank

If you have a shield in your hands, then you will wear the DPS set, otherwise - the Tank set.

You can swap the backboard and offhand using the following macro:

/equipslot 17 Merciless Gladiator's Cleaver; 17 Sha'thar Crest

Sequence of spells and items

There are often cases where you use the same sequence of spells often (for example, opening a rotation). To make your life easier, the /castsequence command was created. It uses a comma separated list of spells and items. Each time you use a macro, it will activate the current spell or item. If you successfully cast a spell, the macro moves on to the next one. That is, you must press the macro button sequentially to activate the spells one after another. As soon as the last spell has been cast, the macro jumps back to the beginning of the list. For example:

/castsequence Immolate, Corruption, Scourge of Agony, Drain Life

I hasten to note that if the Sacrificial Fire was not cast for some reason (lack of mana, out of range, silence), then the macro will remain at the same point.

Before the list of spells, you can define the conditions for resetting the sequence to start over. The basic syntax is as follows:

Reset=n/target/combat/shift/alt/ctrl

Where n is the number of seconds of inactivity before the macro will be reset. In other words, if you haven't used a macro for n seconds, then the next time you use it, you'll start with the first spell on the list. “target” resets the sequence when you change the target, “combat” - when you leave the battle, “shift”, “alt” and “ctrl” - when you activate a macro with the corresponding key held down. You can use several conditions at once. For example:

/castsequence reset=10/shift Spell 1, Other Spell, Any Item

You can write a macro that will use spells from two different sets that must be used together, but each separate set cannot be used at the same time as the other (for example, accessories with one AC). The macro will look like this:

/castsequence Berserk, Icy Blood /castsequence Trinket 1, Trinket 2

The first time the macro is pressed, it activates Berserk and Accessory 1, the second press activates Icy Blood and Accessory 2.

Random Spells and Items

/castrandom and /userandom allow you to cast a random spell from the list. This is most often used to mount a random mount. For example:

/castrandom Swift Green Mechanostrider, Black Warmechanostrider, Summon Doomsteed

Attack

Change your target and start attacking it:

/startattack Ash-Mane Boar

Stop attacking:

/stopattack Ash-Mane Boar

Manipulating Spell Panels

There are two commands that allow you to change spell bar pages: /changeactionbar and /swapactionbar. /changeactionbar takes a single number as its value and always switches to the page with that number. An example use would be hunter aspects. For example:

/cast Spirit of the Hawk /changeactionbar 1

/cast Fox Spirit /changeactionbar 2

/swapactionbar uses two numbers as parameters, and ultimately swaps the designated panels with each other.

/swapactionbar 1 2

Cancel Buffs

The /cancelaura command allows you to cancel unnecessary buffs. For example:

/cancelaura Horn of Winter /cast Horn of Winter

Exit form

With the exception of Warriors, any class with stances (Druids, Priests with Shadowform, Rogues with Stealth, etc.) can use /cancelform to exit the form. For example:

/cancelform /use Giant Healing Potion Vial

Stop casting

/stopcasting very useful command in “panic situations”, when you need to stop the spell you are casting at any moment and start casting another. For example:

/stopcasting /cast Shadowburn

Dismounting

Forces you to get off the mount.

Saving a goal for future actions

The /focus command allows you to save your goal so you can return to it later. For example, the raid leader told you to turn the add into a sheep. To start, target the mob and type /focus. Now you can use a macro to turn a mob into a sheep at the right moment:

/cast [@focus] Transformation

Scripts

What are scripts needed for?

Scripts are a very powerful tool that can solve many problems. For this reason, Blizzard has limited the scope of the scripts. Let's start with what you can't do with scripts. You cannot cast spells, use items, change the spell bar page, or influence your target in any way.

You are limited to a set of "safe" commands.

Scripts

Blizzard provides many APIs that are used in scripts to control the interface. I can’t tell you all the intricacies of writing scripts, so I’ll give my favorite script as an example. This macro will tell every player in your raid to change their goal if they have the same goal as you. It helps prevent them from removing the sheep from the mob.

/cast Transformation /run for i=1,GetNumRaidMembers()-1 do local u,t="raid"..i,"target"if UnitIsUnit(u..t,t)then SendChatMessage("Change the target! Converting to sheep...","WHISPER",nil,UnitName(u))end end

Macro options

Macro options allow you to control actions based on certain conditions and rules. I’ll give you an example right away - this macro will cast Renewal on a friendly target and Word of Darkness: Pain on a hostile one.

/cast Update;

Shadow Word: Pain

When you use a macro, the condition is checked. It checks if you can cast a healing spell on the target. If the condition is met, then Update is applied and the macro moves to the next line. Otherwise (there is no target or you cannot cast a useful spell on the target), the following condition is checked. Now it is checked, i.e. Is it possible to cast an attack spell on the target? If the condition is met, then you cast Shadow Word: Pain. If not, then nothing happens, since the conditions no longer exist.

Commands that support options

• List of commands that support options:
• #showtooltip
• #show
• /assist
• /cancelaura
• /cancelform
• /cast
• /castrandom
• /castsequence
• /changeactionbar
• /clearfocus
• /cleartarget
• /click
• /dismount
• /equip
• /equipslot
• /equipset
• /focus
• /petagressive
• /petattack
• /petautocastoff
• /petautocaston
• /petdefensive
• /petfollow
• /petpassive
• /petstay
• /startattack
• /stopattack
• /stopcasting
• /stopmacro
• /swapactionbar
• /target
• /targetenemy
• /targetfriend
• /targetlasttarget
• /targetparty
• /targettraid
• /usetalents

/userandom

[@unit] (past) In addition to checking conditions, the macro options system allows us to set the target of many actions. For example, the following macro will always apply bandages to your character, no matter who is in this moment

your aim:

/use [@player] Thick Netherweave Bandages

Works exactly the same as [@unit].

General syntax for macro options

/cast Kara \___/ \___/ | |

| parameters | command /petattack \________/ V | |

| parameters (empty) | command /castsequence reset=3Dtarget Immolate, Corruption, Scourge of Agony, Siphon Life \___________/ \__________________________________________________________________________/ | |

command parameters

Macro options allow you to select a set of parameters depending on some criteria. At the highest level, you set up sets of criteria/parameters separated by semicolons. A semicolon is treated as "else" or "else if". A criterion consists of zero or more sets of conditions. Each set of conditions is enclosed in square brackets. Syntax illustration:

/command [conditions] [more conditions] parameters; [conditions] parameters...

The team works from left to right. Once it finds a set of conditions that are true, the command is run with the appropriate parameters. If there are no conditions, then it is considered to be always true. Condition syntax

Each set of conditions is a regular comma-separated list. Conditions can be written in any order, but [@unit] always appears before all conditions. A comma is the same as “and”. The condition means "My focus is friendly and not dead."

Comment:

[conditions are very case sensitive. For example, if you write instead of , the macro will give you an error.<:parameter>>>]

The conditions themselves consist of some blocks. For example, you can put "no" in front of a condition and the condition will become the opposite. Note that does not mean the same as .

and both return "true" if there is a target to cast the spell on. In addition, there are goals that cannot be helped and cannot be harmed.

Some conditions have their own set of parameters. For example, it means “in any stance” (useful condition for classes with stances and forms, except for warriors, who are always in one of the stances). However, you can designate specific racks that require checking. The set of parameters begins with a semicolon, and each parameter is separated by a slash “/”, which means “or”. A general illustration of a single condition, where everything in the angle brackets "≠" is optional:

Why use a macro if you can just put magic on the panel? The answer is simple. Macros allow you to combine many commands, which is why they are so useful.“no” for the entire condition and all its parameters.

will mean "everything except rack 1 or 2".

Empty parameters and conditions

One of the causes of macro errors is writing an empty parameter. Often people put a semicolon at the end of a macro, which leads to some unexpected errors. For example:

/petattack [@focus, harm];

Let's analyze the macro. It forces your pet to attack your focus if it can be harmed, and do nothing otherwise. Let's look at the diagram of this macro:

/petattack [@focus, harm] ; \________/ \____________/ V V V | | | | |

options command | | parameters (empty) | |

| options (empty) |

parameters (empty)

As you can see, there is a lack of options and parameters. Remember that an empty option set will always be considered true, so if the first condition fails the test, the empty option will be used.

Empty conditions

Sometimes you will need to cast a spell on a specific target under certain conditions, but for that magic to work as normal if those conditions are not met. An example of such a case is the following macro. He will cast Flash of Light on the unit under your mouse. If there is no one under the cursor or the target is hostile, the macro will simply cast a Flash of Light on you if the cast to self option is enabled.

/cast [@mouseover, help] Flash of light

or [@] against unit parameters

Some teams use units as parameters. For example, /target party1 will target the first member of your party. /target [@party1] has the same effect. However, in most cases we are not allowed to set conditions for one unit and act on another. The following macro will not work as intended:

/target [@focus, dead] party1

WoW will ignore party1 because you previously specified the unit using the @ option.

• Conditions
• Now I will introduce you to the list of conditions and what they mean. Below I will analyze each of them in more detail.
• Full list of conditions<виртуальный клик>Many of these conditions can be tested to be false instead of true. For example, this is an active condition in which something will only happen when you are not in combat.<виртуальный клик>actionbar:1/…/6 or bar:1/…/6 - a specific spell bar is selected.
• bonusbar:5 - The control panel for a vehicle or another player is active. button:1/…/5/
• or btn:1/…/5/
• - the macro is activated by the specified mouse button.
• channeling: - maintaining the specified spell. combat - in combat mode. can be an inventory slot, item type, item subtype).
• exists - the target exists.
• flyable - it is allowed to fly in the zone
• flying - on a mount/in flying form AND in the air.
• group: party/raid - you are in the specified group type.
• harm - you can cast a harmful spell on the target.
• help - you can cast a useful spell on the target.
• indoors - indoors.
• modifier:shift/ctrl/alt or mod:shift/ctrl/alt - by holding down the specified button.
• mounted - on a vehicle.
• outdoors - in the open air.
• party - a target in your group.
• pet:<имя пета или тип>- the specified pet is active.
• raid - target in your group or raid.
• spec:1/2 - current active spec.
• stance:0/1/2/…/n or form:0/…/n - in a stance.
• stealth - invisible.
• swimming - floating.
• unithasvehicleui - the macro target has a vehicle interface.
• vehicleui - your character has a vehicle interface.

Stance is a general term used for warriors, druids, rogues, priests, and shamans. Stances are only applicable when a certain ability can only be used in one of the stances/forms. Therefore, paladin and DK power auras, as well as hunter aspects, are not considered as stances.

The simplest form means you are in either stance. , where n is the number of all your racks, defines one of the racks.

equivalent to . Shape is another name for stance. Therefore, the condition will work exactly the same as .

• Racks of designated classes: Warrior:
• 1 - Combat stance, 2 - Defensive stance, 3 - Berserker stance. Druid:
1 - Bear Form, 2 - Water Form, 3 - Cat Form, 4 - Travel Form, 5 - Moonkin Form or Reincarnation: Tree of Life..., 6 - Bird Form. modifier:shift/ctrl/alt allows you to determine the type of item that is currently equipped. :

could be an inventory slot, an item type, an item subtype. An example of such a macro:

party and raid

"True" if the target is in your group or raid, respectively.

group: party/raid

Depends on what type of group you are in.

Switchable abilities

The /cast command turns some spells on and off immediately. Examples of such spells are Stealth, Shot, Mass Dispel (green circle when casting). If you want to use a macro without immediately turning off these abilities, put an exclamation mark before the name of the spell.

/cast !Stealth /cast !Mass dispersion /cast !Shot

Focus is the unit ID, as is target, player, or raidpet1target. It allows you to contact the unit you have assigned at any time. The simplest use of focus is Keybinding. There are two hotkeys associated with focus - Remember Target and Restore Target. Remember target will assign the focus to whoever is your current target. Once you have assigned a focus, you can use it as a unit ID in other commands. Restore Target will select the memorized focus as your target.

The most common function of focus is to assign a control target (sheep, toad, etc.). The magician can choose who to sheep and remember this goal. At any time when the toad needs to be updated, the magician will only need to press the macro button:

/cast [@focus] Transformation

In addition to hotkeys, there are the slash commands /focus and /clearfocus. Without options, /focus will set your target as focus, and /clearfocus will clear your focus. You can also use unit IDs or names as /focus parameters.