By Matticus @ nostockui
WowWiki’s Intro to Macros
WowWiki: Howto Make a Macro
WowWiki’s useful macros for every class
EpicAdvice.com macros wiki
Spellbinder addon
GCD (Global Cooldown) explained
LUA scripting language
Macro Explain
This is a brief guide that demonstrates how to make the most commonly used action-bar macros by building one up from basic to full-featured, with explanations at each step, using programming conventions designed to conserve as much of the 255 macro character limit as possible.
But first, what exactly are macros? Macros are small, simple programs* written in Blizzard’s chosen scripting language, LUA, that solve several problems:
1: Invite a friend/random person to a group.
2: Convert to Raid
3: Make sure you’re the leader
4: Make this macro
/tar Wild Turkey
/script SetRaidTargetIcon(‘target’,8)
5: It will add a SKULL icon over the turkey, makes them very easy to find.
Enjoy
I want to start this off by saying that I have been using this method since release of wrath. I’m sure I got the basic idea from a guide somewhere but have heavily modified to my liking. That being said, lets do this…
I’m not going to bother wasting time on telling you how to gear. If your having problems there then you have dozens of articles here already telling you. I’m simply going to tell how to simplify it. I’m currently in a casual guild and tank ToC 10 and ToC 25 regulars with this, so it is a viable choice for raiding as well as heroics or leveling.
Glyphs:
For this method it is not required, but I highly suggest Glyph of Cleaving, threat on 3 targets as opposed to 2 is great. Glyph of Revenge is not needed in my opinion. I’ve never had threat problems.
Talents:
Talent Calculator – World of Warcraft
is the spec I’ve had for months. I’ve been considering dropping Concussion Shot and Vigilance for 2 points in Armored to the Teeth or Improved Spell Reflection but never got around to testing it. 3% dmg reduction from vigilance is awesome for my OT, but not really needed with the simplicity of Wrath raiding. With my gear this puts me at roughly… (all unbuffed, no self buffs either)
33.3k Health
49% dodge/parry
25% block, blocking 1147 (unmodified by glyph or crit block)
61% armor
7% hit
25 expertise
2288 ap
Macros:
Shield Block – No hassle revenge with trinket activation and Bloodrage.
#showtooltip Shield Slam
/castrandom Revenge, Shield Slam
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Bloodrage
Devastate – Threat macro.
/castsequence reset=combat/target Cleave, Devastate
Thunder Clap – Shield Block in rotation without wasting toolbar space.
#showtooltip Thunder Clap
/cast Shield Block
/cast Thunder Clap
Charge – Charge, if cooldown then Intercept. If enemy has friendly targeted Intervene.
#showtooltip Charge
/castsequence reset=15 Charge, Intercept
/cast [help] Intervene; [target=targettarget, help] Intervene;
Last Stand – Let your healers know whats up.
#showtooltip Last Stand
/cast Last Stand
/yell Last Stand Activated! I’ll lose 12.6k health in 20sec. Be ready healers!
Toolbars:
I found that a lot of my guild members didn’t know that they could automate most of the fight as a DD by writing some macros which auto-target important mobs over less important ones.
Code:
/cleartarget
/tar Nether Portal
/tar [noexists][dead] Infernal Volcano
/tar [noexists][dead] Mistress of Pain
/tar [noexists][dead] Felflame Infernal
/tar [noexists][dead] Lord Jaraxxus
/cast Wrath
Create a macro for each of your main spells (adjust the last line. mine is for boomkins) and go brain /afk 
How it works:
- The macro first removes the current target so that it is not targeting a unit. Afterwards, it tries to target the first unit. When it does not exist since it has not spawned or is dead it goes to the next unit and so on. The [noexists][dead] switch performs this behavior.
- After choosing the correct target, all other lines fall through since the current unit exists and lives, and it casts the spell you have specified.
by Mike Schramm
Parry and dodge are very similar abilities — both of them help you to completely avoid damage from bosses as a tank. But they do have a very few important differences (Parry speeds up your next attack swing, and is affected by diminishing returns at higher levels of the stat), so when you’re gearing up at endgame, you want to make sure to balance them out in the right way.
Fortunately, HC’s macro (written by Theck of Maintankadin, apparently) is foolproof. Just plug this macro in, and hit it every time you’re choosing gear:
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(“If ratio above 1.88 start getting Parry. Currently at: “..string.format(“%.2f”, (GetDodgeChance()-10)/(GetParryChance()-10)))
If your ratio of Dodge to Parry rating is above 1.88, you can start picking up Parry gear to balance them back out, or if not, keep working on your Dodge rating. Like I said, foolproof.
Tanks who know what they’re doing might have other insights (and feel free to share those in the comments below), but as an easy and simple guide to what you can start stacking when, I like the way this macro works. I’ll definitely have it on the bar as my pally moves towards endgame.
Interact with target. How many people actually use this. Its starting to become more popular, especially with bot developers. First off you need to press escape and go into key bindings. Look for “Interact with target” and bind it to an easily accessible key (º for me, left of number 1).
Right click to move might also have to be enabled for some of these. Here are ways you can put this to use:
Grinding, target + loot faster – yep, sounds silly, but I’m sure farmers will appreciate not having to use the mouse to right click the target (move to him) and right click again to loot.
/targetlasttarget
*press interact with target key binding*
Facing targets – Ever get annoyed (especially melee classes) when an enemy goes behind you? Especially in pvp when rogues move behind you. Might be more viable if you use a mouse a lot to turn, but if you are more of a key presser, just spam you interact with target key. This also makes you run to the player if they are out of distance.
Open NPC dialog box – Ever been at a crowded NPC and not be able to click it? AH? Flight path? Handing in Victory in Wintergrasp when 10000 people on mammoths are covering quest giver?
/target Tactical Officer Ahbramis
*interact key binding*
Can interact with NPC’s through walls – A good example is a macro I found and is also in my gold guides post. You can stand by the mailbox in SW outside AH entrance and access the AH at the same time. Saves ALOT of time from running
/cleartarget
/targetexact Auctioneer Jaxon
/cleartarget [dead] [noexists]
*interact binding*
These macros will cancel your auctions if they are undercut. I don’t camp the AH, don’t relist so I don’t use them myself, but if you have the free time for the 1s war, here is a weapon. Again, I advise against 1s wars as camping AH wastes your time.
This macro requires Auctioneer to be installed and a fresh scan.
/run i,k,o=1,1,”owner”;while k do k=GetAuctionItemLink(o,i);if k then _,_,_,_,_,m=AucAdvanced.Modules.Util.SimpleAuction.Private.GetItems(k);n,_,c,_,_,_,_,_,b,d=GetAuctionItemInfo(o,i);if m and d<1>m*c then CancelAuction(i);end;end;i=i+1;end
Another macro just lists auctions, doesn’t cancel:
/run i,k,o=1,1,”owner”;while k do k=GetAuctionItemLink(o,i);if k then _,_,_,_,_,m=AucAdvanced.Modules.Util.SimpleAuction.Private.GetItems(k);n,_,c,_,_,_,_,_,b,d=GetAuctionItemInfo(o,i);if m and d<1>m*c then print(k,b,m);end;end;i=i+1;end
It feels like it’s taking eternity for prospecting all your ores / milling your herbs when doing it the usual way , so here’s a macro that will help people speed up.
For prospecting :
#showicon Saronite Ore (Or whichever ore you are prospecting)
/cast Prospecting
/use Saronite Ore (Or whichever ore you are to prospect)
For milling :
#showicon Adder’s Tongue (or whichever herb you are milling)
/cast Milling
/use Adder’s Tongue (Or whichever herb you are to mill)
Turn on Auto-loot and all you need to do is just click on the macro to do the process.
Note : The macro won’t work if the first item from your bag is a stack of 1/2/3/4 , you’ll need to put that stack as last.The macro will only work if the current stack to be prospected / milled is a number of 5/10/15/20.
Hope it helped somebody.
So .. new server? .. Perhaps you rolled a DK? ..
I just rolled a DK on a PVP server, and gold is definitely an issue atm. However I have come to save the day ..
/run if not THO then local f,t,c=CreateFrame(“Frame”,”THO”),1,0 f:SetScript(“OnUpdate”, function(_, e) c=c+e if c>3 then c=0 SetTracking(t) if t==1 then t=2 else t=1 end end end) THO:Hide() end
/run if THO:IsVisible() then THO:Hide() else THO:Show() end
Make that Macro and your tracking will automatically cycle between Mining/Herbing on a 3 second timer. (You can also have it cycle Hunter tracking as well. but I am too lazy, and this is for farming.) I went fro 0/0 Miner/Herbalist to 300/300 in about 5′ish hours.
Press once to start. Press it again to make it stop, and in no time you will be well on your way to riches beyond your wildest dreams 
** Bonus Tip ** Never .. EVER, go to the AH on your leveling toon. ALWAYS send everything to your AH/Bank Alt. You would be surprised how much time you spend in there.
This is a little tip for those of you, who have got many titles and want to have them changed automaticly!
Just type in the following code in your chat:
/run local f,t=NEN or CreateFrame(“Frame”,”NEN”)f.t=0 f:SetScript(“OnUpdate”,function()f.t=f.t+arg1 if f.t>5 then f.t,t=0,GetCurrentTitle()if t>0 then for i=1,111 do t=mod(t+1,111)+1 if IsTitleKnown(t)==1 then SetCurrentTitle(t)break end end end end end)
Your title will change automatically every 5 seconds. You can also add this code into a macro to activate it every time you log in!
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