Classic WoW: Macros to use on Priest

== Kala's WoW Classic Beta Priest Macro Guide ==
Classic WoW priest macros guide, feel free to check out our other guides for more tips and tricks! Macros down below.
▼ Macros:
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/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Abolish Disease
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/cancelaura Blue Skeletal Horse;
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead] dispel magic; [harm, nodead] [exists,nodead][@player] dispel magic
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/cancelaura Blue Skeletal Horse;
/cast [target=player] Dispel Magic
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/cancelaura Blue Skeletal Horse;
/cast [mod:alt] Psychic Scream(Rank 1); Psychic Scream
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/cancelaura Blue Skeletal Horse;
/cancelaura Shadowform;
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Flash Heal
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/cast [mod:alt] Power Word: Fortitude(Rank 1); Power Word: Fortitude
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/cancelaura Blue Skeletal Horse;
/cancelaura Shadowform;
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Greater Heal
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/cancelaura Blue Skeletal Horse;
/cancelaura Shadowform;
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Heal
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/cancelaura Blue Skeletal Horse;
/cast [nochanneling] Mind Flay
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/cancelaura Blue Skeletal Horse;
/cancelaura Shadowform;
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Renew
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/cancelaura Blue Skeletal Horse;
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Power Word: Shield
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/cancelaura Blue Skeletal Horse;
/cast Silence
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/cancelaura Blue Skeletal Horse;
/cast [mod:alt] Shadow Word: Pain(Rank 1); Shadow Word: Pain
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[@Simmonsredarmy1]

Gets right to the point and doesn't drag out videos. Love the content, very helpful.

[@jamesrhodes6073]

Too long of an intro

[@AkleksM]

This is the cleanest, most informative and concise vanilla wow video i have ever seen. Bravo!

[@Kalattv]

[@minuit7915]

You should watch frostadamus for professions of gold making it's the best informative wow classic content out there.

[@austinab3310]

Thanks for the video my man! Loving the content. I knew I was going to make macros come Classic, but you somehow made me hyped to do so! I didn't realize there were so many ways to customize a macros besides simple things like mouseover. Super stoked to make some and help my IRL friends do the same. Quality Content.

[@Lurkzz]

Great video mate, short and strictly to the point! +1

[@mikeg7750]

Kala thanks so much man for this series of videos. Once you start streaming again I'll def support your channel. I've seen a lot of your previous streams and have learned a lot.

[@webby8005]

Love these marcos! I usually have all my action bars to have all my spells set up, but I didn't realize you could have so many modifiers for these. I will have to try them out. 2 other macros I always used though was /target [tanks name] fill in the tanks name with well you guessed it, as well as, /assist [tanks name]. In vanilla, because aggro is harder to manage, it was known to always assist the tank so you don't accidentally pull aggro from other mobs. I didn't have the mouse over macros set up so having the /target macro, it helps always re-target the tank if needed.

[@mdougf]

Thanks Kala. Another great video bro. I'm pumped to be priest in classic

[@Thaldrion]

you are by far the best and cleanest wow classic tuber at the moment.. hands down.

[@soulance4917]

Them macros as clean as you explain this and that in you’re videos bro thanks for the help keep up the good work

[@MochrieTVHotS]

Not sure if I'll be playing priest in Classic, but the knowledge is still transferable + I'm happy as a HotS player to support you :) Good video

[@joshuapicaro8726]

I really love this video. Thank you so much!

[@Jake-ne8fp]

thanks a bunch, bever played priest in retail but i think its gonna be my main in classic. defintely gonna follow on your twitch man

[@BRC_311]

Awesome content as always! I played shadow priest back in BC after I played holy heals in Vanilla when I first started the game back in 2005. Ever since Wrath I’ve mained DK, but you’re definitely the reason I’m gonna roll Shadow Priest in Classic when it comes out. I’m so hyped!

[@Kalattv]

Love to hear it brother. Thanks for the comment

[@ian788ify]

Thanks for that! quick and helpful.

[@jos1613]

super helpful video! THX A LOT

[@_Travey]

Awesome vid. Found everything I was looking for ! Screw healing I’m ready for some shadow fun :)

[@TAC0FACE]

ty for the great video, like my new priest and learning a lot from ya.

[@CasualApostate]

Dude I just started wow 3 months ago and I’m trying to learn macros. This video is perfect and easy to follow

[@eu3145]

Big thank for this and not only!

[@JD-un6od]

Thank you so much. Great macros for this newb when Classic hits.

[@Makedeth]

Wow almost 800 subs in twitch too?! Well deserved Kala, congrats!

[@Kalattv]

People have been so kind 🖤🤘🏻

[@graemeunger1337]

Thanks for the video & thanks for the great content you have been providing. I'm wondering if you use a wand macro so that you can spam wand without it toggling wand on/off.

[@thepopeisdope559]

11 month old video still more informative than any other macro shadow priest video out there. Good shit brother.

[@Kalattv]

[@Printzor]

Thanks buddy needed these

[@michaellouwerse]

Good video mate!!

[@bwilkin23]

hey great video! thanks for making this... I have a suggestion, since you almost always use rank 1 fear, I think you should make the alt modifier use the higher rank. :)

[@palrob1714]

Great video. Thanks!

[@marcelvondermassen3262]

very informative, thx! :)

[@keilkeil8195]

Great video mate but i still wait for some pvp action with new Shadowform!

[@kalu-ig7il]

you helped me so much wit hthese priest guides,you really did.. can you please make a video for more spells ?

[@captaink8603]

crazy content, thanks for tips :)

[@sadlad2845]

Can i recommend a video of the AddOns you use and how they benefit you in PvE and PvP Cant wait to watch you OWN on launch.

[@BairyxHalls]

superb video! thanks

[@vrico222]

These are awesome! Thx.

[@Fleyz]

Good video sir. One thing to consider about the Mind Flay macro is that it is more suited for PvE imo (Maximum Efficiency). If you are Mind Flaying an opponent and they are moving out of LoS, you want a fresh Mind Flay applied at the last second before they disappear around that corner so you do the maximum damage while they are out of LoS (same applies if they are moving out of range).

[@Kalattv]

This is true, I actually added an alt-modifier into the macro yesterday so that I can recast it if that happens!

[@Fleyz]

Ahead of the game!

[@GeeRated10]

Can you do a video on your keybindings please :)

[@cfolan3598]

Ye prob most informative beta video out atm

[@Koshea69]

/awesome vid! I usually put /startattack in my macro's to auto choose a target if I haven't already targeted one, any reason you don't put that in the attacks spells?

[@vromel4331]

Bruh Thank You so much !

[@rodolfobitencourt1012]

Nice macros, gonna use them all. Btw, are there new ones that you built after this video (as you mentioned in the end)?

[@CYellowan]

Pretty solid vid dude. I have to ask, is it possible to make a macro where you use inner focus, directly to mind blast? I cannot make it work but then again i am terrible at macros. If it isn't possible then fair game. I am on old vanilla on a private server btw, dunno if this means anything. Cheers and gl.

[@BlessedByFate]

Currently on stress test, I can't get stuff like /cast [target=self] "spell" to work. Did Blizzard fix these modern macros?

[@brodieb5066]

Hey can you plz do a keybind video for priest on your setup?

[@TAC0FACE]

yes please

[@Matt-zp4oc]

Yes please. This is badly needed

[@CaptainKraft]

Are there any decent pvp healing guides out there? If not, is that something you could make a video for? Thanks!

[@fabiansivebro1929]

Ey man do a short vid of how to think when pvping?

[@napkinslol7906]

I saw this video pop up in my feed and came.

[@MichaelNates]

You have good videos . Do you have any content on shadow priest for BFA ?

[@yournumberonepal]

Looks good.

[@Mexi99]

So in your other video you said we should be able to heal all dungeons with shadow spec talents. I’m 44 and finally starting to have some trouble healing. I mean only if it’s a crazy pull. Any pointers besides the obvious? Love all the videos keep it up! You made me love a priest

[@Oakbard]

Do you move your character using W E R keyboard buttons? I do, and I have found that I can't use SHIFT and ALT macros and keep moving at the same time? Or do you use you mouse for all your movements? How do you overcome that problem? Great content btw. Cheers.

[@skyekingdom0]

if you have leatrix addon you can have it set so you don't have to dismount or stand to cast spells

[@joshuamonti5079]

Kurtis! thank you :) i play Shadow aswell!

[@rasmuserlandsson2204]

Hmm... does the downranking of fear and horror effects not also put a lower value on the effet of the horror and fear itself? Not just the number of targets? Or is the mana purpose JUST for how many it fears? If it's the latter, this is a huge tip and I thank you so much. /main ud spriest also, 40 tourny champion when?

[@mrjuderaw87]

when i use these it takes me off my mount but doesnt cast so i have to re press is that how it normally works?

[@GmoneyMozart]

How do you target the F1 - F4 player in party?

[@teapotdome]

Have you noticed the power word: shield macro doesn't work until you relog after you mindcontrol a mob that can pw:s like the elite overseer in searing gorge?

[@thedevolis]

can you actually combine [mod:alt] with nochanneling? for example to downrank mindfly for mana conservation?

[@nyroku8580]

maybe it is not important cause you go shadow but I started binding 2 spells on 1 key (macro) + selfcast example: renew/sw:P /cast [harm] sw:p /cast Renew /cast [mod:shift] [target=Xmstek] Renew I bind that on one button and you can do this with smite/heal mindblast/heal and so on greetings

[@Jive33]

I am using these macros but the spells won’t cast when I dismount. All that happens is I get dismounted when I click the macro. Then I have to click it again to use the spell.

[@earlgrey1]

Can you make a warlock one? Great vid.

[@juanapps4837]

Ok dude, if the other videos were amazing this just blows my mind. Amazing! thanks for the content

[@Kalattv]

Engineering is 1000000% necessary for PvP. I promise

[@mjgx911]

is there a macro you can use to autocast shield when at 20% health?

[@Supaa7Battlechair]

HI Kala, i have a problem with selftargeting with "alt" at all the "cancelaura" spells, for example flashheal doesnt heal me if i do "alt" flashheal. it just ignores the "alt-button" and heals the target i have. you know the problem? would be nice if you can help me. best Alex

[@Krissam2k]

All those /cancelaura Blue Skeletal Horse; can be replaced with simply /dismount

[@cyrilmercer3925]

Damn

[@-_-Raziel]

Came to say this... hahaha

[@Archaik_]

I have that in my macro but it tells me Im mounted, dismounts me, and doesnt cast the spell. Why?

[@cyrilmercer3925]

@@Archaik_ Gotta click twice

[@Target135]

Do these macros work on people you aren't partied with? Like you're walking past a warrior and want to heal him you can hover over his actually character and use em?

[@baltod4978]

Thank you for the video! I'm pretty new and I've seen other videos say that you should marco a wand (I suppose so you don't accidently cancel your wand cast if you press it again?), but I don't get the difference between doing that vs. just pressing the wand shoot key... would you happen to know? I tried hitting the normal wand shoot twice in WoW SoD, but it doesn't cancel it out. So I'm not sure why I would make a wand shoot macro vs. just hitting the wand shoot key. Thanks!

[@ychris1110]

Yo @Kala can you show me a spellswap macro that makes it so the macro as a shaman lightningbolts when u have targeted a enemy and heals you or allies when you have nothing targeted?

[@Oakbard]

Does the mouseover only work when you hover over the nameplate of the character or can you hover the actual character in the world too?

[@nickrounsville]

Im not very good with macros, but wanted a macro for mind flay that not only didn't interrupt casting, but had a shift modifier for rank 1. I ended up with this #showtooltip /stopmacro [channeling] /cast [mod:shift]Mind Flay(Rank 1);Mind Flay(Rank 6)

[@baronbad5907]

Is there a way to get silence to work with a mouse over macro ???

[@andrewmclellan481]

Hey had a question on these macros. Why is [help,no dead] here twice, once within the @mouseover brackets and once alone. I don't understand the this one...seems it does mouseover first and if there is no mouseover then it does the target, and if there is no target then it does the player? Is that right? /cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Abolish Disease

[@jaskillz1]

you can also use /dismount [mounted]

[@Andys_venture]

Does it matter the level you put in? or will it automatically do the highest level spell

[@scamer97]

I’m new to macros... like brand new I never understood them at all lol. What are “mouseover” macros ? You press the button than click on whom ever your trying to cast on?

[@philipjernas8112]

Make a video on good addons to use as a healer/shadow priest for PvE/PvP :)

[@bankjobworldofwarcraft5853]

Holy Priest Macro video pretty please!

[@keyanklupacs6333]

Is there a way to do the cancel shadow form with help / harm macros so it won't cancel my form if I'm targeting an enemy?

[@TAC0FACE]

1:55 can someone tell me how to "Build in the self cast" so I can have just one button for dispel? Or is it wiser to have a separate dispel for myself like kala here?

[@Odinsfall]

In my opinion it is wiser to have a separate keybind - preferably 1 button with no modifier so you can react and hit it quickly - but overall whatever you're comfortable with matters more than anything. Try this: #showtooltip /cast [mod:shift,@player] Dispel Magic; [@mouseover,help,nodead] Dispel Magic; [harm, nodead] [exists,nodead][@player] Dispel Magic Replace "shift" with your modifier of choice. This macro will try to Dispel from yourself first if you're holding the modifier, otherwise without holding the modifier it tries to target your mouse-over target first, then your selected target, then yourself if you have no target at all.

[@Bucketandamop1]

I would also like to know how to build in the self cast macro

[@bkillthelights50]

when i try the abolish macro it spams it in the chat is that normal or am i doing something wrong lol thanks

[@Deathhybr1ds]

thxso much

[@rcberry13]

In vanilla you could cast a holy spell while in shadowform and it would automatically take you out of shadowform. no need to cancel the aura

[@roemernikolaj]

hello, is it possible for me to go out of shadowform and cast greater heal and then enter shadowform again with just 1 button? Or is this impossible because of GCD?

[@envertaylansahin9256]

@Kala Hello there. I want to ask you about different topic. For example priest used a power word shield on me. I want to track how much absorb it has and if i get some damage, it should be updated and showed me the remaining amount of absorb. Can you help me about this ? I guess it's possible in weakaura but dont know how to do it.

[@FMboompow]

Okay - is there any updated mouseover and self dispell macros for classic SOD?

[@xXF4ITHL3SSXx]

In the New Classic Game, if i use your macro's i have to push them twice to work, 1st to dismount, and then another time to cast the spell. any reason why this may be the case?

[@russellruby1293]

kala please do a detailed video about the differences between troll and undead shadow priests. i always lean toward troll but im theorycrafting. many of us making this choice would like expert advice.

[@curiousfishie]

I watched Defcamp the other day using a troll priest and while pvping/dueling he used the Beserker racial for quicker casting speed. Risky but it paid off very well. The undead priests have that really nice Devouring Plague bonus tho... I have no idea what Blizzard was thinking with Night Elves Starsurge (useless). Lol I do play a night elf priest for that extra minor Dodge tho...plus Fear Ward from dwarves is SO over saturated.

[@jake212]

im curious. i love the cancle aura for heal spells and mount! that was kinda exactly what i came here for! i thougth why not have a macro that when you hit shadow form you would switch your bar to main bar 1, and when you hit the button again it would switch to bar two where you would keep all your healing spells? keeping other key binds free for other spells. Basically a macro that hits the arrows to the right of your main bar to switch between the bars depending on if you go in or out of shadow form?

[@danielsmith4083]

I do exactly this by using Dominos. It has a paging feature where you can switch bars based on Shadow Form. 1-5 on healing bar are heal, greater heal, flash heal, renew and prayer of healing, then in shadow form 1-5 switch to mind blast, SWP, mind flay - and the last 2 were kind of optional - went for mana burn and a simple /stopcasting macro. All other abilities I have bound so I can use in both forms.

[@MrWaza24]

For some reason your psychic scream macro keeps using my max rank even though it says to use rank 1

[@TDoc89]

Very Great Video! I have a question not about Makros but about pve and raids? How u Play shadow without SW:Pain? Is shadow in pve Even useful or you just need alot luck that a Guild takes u?

[@florianwewers6981]

obviously you use SWP in pve, your guild needs to put down 3 debuff slots for you (shadow weaving, mind flay, SWP). Every guild wants at most 1 shadow priest some don't even want 1 and just take a heal priest specced into shadow weaving. So yes, you basicly need a LOT of luck to actually be able to raid as shadow.

[@brandonbutler3828]

i was excited to put macros on my priest but i copied pasted macros and only changed my mount name and macros did not work. i tried with /dismount instead and still didnt work. mouseover command does not work either. do i need to install and addon for these macros to work? any help would be appreciated

[@brysloat]

ps you can use space bar as a macro name so there is no text over the icons :)

[@youtubar3lis]

Why use tier 6 on the picture for the clip :D ?

[@a.o.skurtt]

is there a macro to auto wand when not casting?

[@ziggs123]

Classic sp doesn't have vt?

[@Anubrogue]

I can't imagine that no one else has this issue. But when I'm using macros with /dismount or /cancelaura [mymount] and then /cast [renew/Shadowword: Pain/Powerword: Shield] it doesn't work instantly, because it does it at the same time. It will say that I'm still mounted and can't cast it. Any solutions?

[@Odinsfall]

I believe the process of dismounting and using an ability is always going to take minimum of 2 key presses so having it macro'd into all of your abilities is a waste of time and space in your macros. Personally I use the Add-on LeatrixPlus which has an auto-dismount feature whenever you try to press a button that requires you to be dismounted, so you press the button to dismount, then press it again to use the ability. I highly recommend LeatrixPlus as it has a ton of useful features that can save you installing multiple Add-ons, however if you want something that just passively sits in the background exclusively dedicated to dismounting you, then LetMeCast is something you can throw in your AddOns folder and forget about. Sorry I don't have the solution to your problem, hopefully the Add-on suggestion will suffice.

[@w4cky]

Can you do the 1-10 lvling and the professions ench and tailoring? i heard it on stream but it went 2 fast.

[@loukou1]

Hey! Make sure to check out the priest lvling guide that's on the channel! He goes over that.

[@LadE89]

Ye, I believe you can simply /dismount right? This way it doesn't have to be mount specific.

[@Kalattv]

Nice, if that's true that makes things way easier. One of my reasons for making this video was to learn from the comments too, because I'm not a BFA player, these styles of macros are new to me :)

[@martinkolenak3739]

or there is an addon called EZdismount i think but not sure if its updated for classic

[@alexheyzavizky7368]

/dismount wasn't here back in vanilla (so u have had to use Ezdismount addon or smth else). But it should work on Classic if Blizz hasn't changed it back on purpose.

[@baray786]

Hi Kala. How is healing dungeons as shadow specced? Whats the highest dungeon you can heal? Thanks

[@gmmay70]

Having done it ages ago, you can do any five man content as shadow easily, as long as you have the right gear. Well, that and as long as you've got a moderately competent tank and no morons in your group. I usually load up on mp5 since I'm constantly casting inside the 5sr. With a good tank, you can make runs that much faster because you're adding significant DPS, which usually provides adequate healing for the rest of the group (via VE), allowing you to spot heal the tank as necessary.

[@valentin5367]

Never used a macro so this might be a dumb question, but if I prefer to use say shift-f when you use alt-f I just replace the "alt" in your script with "shift" correct? Thank you for the amazing content btw.

[@iobster5380]

yes

[@kallah0e990]

All of the logos you have at the beginning. Are you sponsored by them?