Macro is life?

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I hear ya, and sometimes feel the same.

Not a must. All things you can do with macros, you can do without macros. Some may say that macros make things easier.

Here’s an example (not warrior specific). Let’s say you want to look for a group to run Deadmines, and you want to ask in the following channels:

  1. General
  2. Trade Chat
  3. Looking For Group

You could type, LF4M heals/dps for Deadmines in each of those channels, or you could make a macro to do it for you.

Here’s what the macro might look like:

/1 LF4M heals/dps for Deadmines
/2 LF4M heals/dps for Deadmines
/4 LF4M heals/dps for Deadmines

You can then use that macro as you would any other skill, and put it on an action bar. That can either be assigned to a keybind or you can click it.

For warrior tanking, for example, you may wish to begin a pull by using Charge. In Classic WoW to use Charge as a warrior, you must be in Battle Stance. There are 3 stances, 1. Battle Stance, 2. Defensive Stance, 3. Berserker Stance (order is significant).

If you would like to make a macro that will cast Charge for you (or if you are not in Battle Stance, it will put you in Battle Stance first), you can do so pretty easily with the following macro:

/cast Battle Stance
/cast Charge

You might want the macro to show the icon from Charge. To do so, you could either look for the Charge Icon in the list, or you can add #showtooltip Charge to the macro, like so:

#showtooltip Charge
/cast Battle Stance
/cast Charge

Then you might think, “Oh hey, that’s OK, this macro will put me in Battle Stance if I am not in Battle Stance. Then it will Charge (if I am in Battle Stance), so I want it to show the Battle Stance icon if I am not in Battle Stance and I want it to show the Charge icon if I am in Battle Stance.”

OK, then to do so, you can say something like if in stance 1 (which is Battle Stance), then cast Charge. Otherwise, cast Battle Stance.

/cast [stance:1] Charge; Battle Stance

And then do the same thing for the #showtooltip part:

#showtooltip [stance:1] Charge; Battle Stance
/cast [stance:1] Charge; Battle Stance

You be the judge! Like a lot of things, macros can be a helpful tool, and are not so difficult once you know a bit about how they work.

I put together a warrior tanking guide that also includes a section on some macros. Maybe that’s of some interest to you.

Good luck out there!

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