Hi All,
Arcane mage here. Anyone have any good macros to use with some of the changes to our spells?
Thanks!
Arcane doesn’t need many changes in the macro department for Shadowlands. The only real thing I can think of is Arcane Power. Since it is not on the GCD anymore, we can stack an on-use trinket with it again:
#showtooltip
/use Arcane Power
/use 13
The 13 denotes the first trinket slot in the character screen. 14 is the second trinket.
There are a multitude of other possible macros, but they all already work in BfA and won’t change for SL. For example an Ice Block macro:
#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cancelaura [mod:shift] Ice Block
/use [nomod] Ice Block
Pressing the key activates Ice Block. Holding Shift and pressing the key removes your Ice Block again so you can continue playing without waiting the full 10 seconds or manually right clicking the buff.
Some neat stuff which many people don’t know is that you can start eating food while in GCD and even mount up. This means we can combine Prismatic Barrier or Slow Fall into eating / mounting up. Take these two macros a example:
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/use Prismatic Barrier
/use Conjured Mana Bun
/use Lightning-Forged Augment Rune
This macro does three things for only one button press: you get your Prismatic Barrier up, start eating one of your delicious Mana Buns for mana regen (the specific food will change for Shadowlands because of the new level range) and activate your Augment Rune. That’s the infinite one you can buy for 50k gold from being Exalted with the Rajani. That macro helped me getting more uptime for these things and reduces wasted time because your always eating and getting that nice mana back to 100%.
/use [nomod] Prismatic Barrier; [@player] Slow Fall
/use [nomod] Arcanist’s Manasaber; [mod:shift] Grand Expedition Yak
When pressing the key, you use Prismatic Barrier and mount up on your normal mount, for me it’s the Arcanist’s Manasaber. Holding shift grants yourself Slow Fall and summons the Grand Expedition Yak. Rarely useful, but sometimes (M+, BGs) you are in a nofly zone and want to jump over a large gap. Slow Fall and being faster due to a mount will give you the best results in that regards. You can expand that macro with other mounts, for example with [mod:alt].
Personally I really like my auto target macro with damage spells. Just helping out my laziness by not having to target enemies.
#showtooltip
/targetenemy [dead][noharm][noexists]
/use Arcane Blast
This automatically targets the next enemy when you don’t have a target right now, the target is dead or you can’t damage the current target.
You already got some mouseover macros?
#showtooltip
/use [mod:alt, mod:shift, @player] Slow Fall; [mod:alt, @player] Remove Curse; [mod:shift, @mouseover, help] Slow Fall; [@mouseover, help] Remove Curse; [mod:shift, help] Slow Fall; [help] Remove Curse; Spellsteal
This allows you to cast Slow Fall (with Shift) or Remove Curse (without modifier) on yourself (with Alt), on your mouseover target or, if you don’t hover your mouse over anything, your current target. It also checks if your current target is an enemy and then uses Spellsteal.
So many macros, so much fun and saved keybinds! <3
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