My Most-Used WoW Macros! Easy Macros to Improve WoW Gameplay

My most-used macros! Looking at what WoW Macros are and how I use macros in WoW to improve everything including healing, disenchanting, PvP targeting, PVE marking and more. Find some macro templates below to make your own! Macros containing spells will typically take on the icon of that spell automatically- if not or if you want something else, you're free to select your own macro icon from the menu.
Mouseover Macro (for healing or friendly spells onto allies- swap the spell name in for Heal)
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/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Flash Heal
Basic Shift Mod Macro (you can swap in Alt or add more lines with options for nomod, shift, alt)
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/cast [nomod] Psychic Horror
/cast [mod:shift] Psychic Scream
Raid Marker Skull Macro (swap other numbers for the 8 to change the marker)
/script SetRaidTargetIcon("target", 8)
Disenchant Tidespray Linen Bracers macro
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/cast [nochanneling] Disenchant
/use item:161984
Extra Action Button Macro
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/click ExtraActionButton1
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro to Macros
:53 - Cooldown Combo Macros
1:19 - Mouseover Macros
3:37 - At Player Macros
3:55 - At Cursor Macros
4:47 - Raid Marker Macros
5:17 - Ground Marker Macros
5:33 - Countdown Macros
5:49 - Use Spam Macros
6:26 - Extra Action Button Macro
6:57 - Find Target Macros
7:19 - Toy and Spell Macros
8:02 - Disenchanting Macros
9:02 - Details Toggle Macro
9:17 - Chat and Spell Macros
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[@UGotTheFunk]

Typing /macro in a macro, you can create a macro to open the macro window

[@Megogoat12]

big brain time

[@Vexicrypt]

5Head

[@MrGumblum]

A friend of mine macro`d "/roar" into every single one of his Prot Paladin buttons... he got kicked from his M+ Group :D

[@kigut7443]

ive run with a few players who have done something similar. we also kicked them

[@godlygamer911]

good

[@Awesomeamh99]

i had friend macro his orc to /whoa on every spell, granting us the pleasure of "THRALLS BALLS!" every 2 seconds

[@greenFuneral]

@@Awesomeamh99 that is actually big brain play

[@ericshun3331]

I played with IGN scyther, he kept saying syther!!!! Hahaha

[@MafiaCow01]

Protip: when making modifier macros, instead of creating another line and copy of "/use ", you can save space by adding a ; after the spell you're using. Eg. "/use [mod:shift] Devour Magic; Spell Lock" will give your warlock its interrupt on a normal push, but remove a magic effect from your target on a shift-push. ^_^

[@Nathanyel]

Basically, this will execute the first spell/item in that line where the conditionals in the brackets fit.

[@TheDaroki]

Like your "I'm Hazel" macro, I created one for my Worgen warrior that would yell, "Squirrel!" every time I Heroic Leaped at something.

[@_NightQueen_]

How bro I cant even use macros correctly I suck so bad at them

[@Shagz2001]

This is one of my favorite macros for mount summoning. I got a few favorite mounts I use, but sometimes I need to use a specific mount (for vendor/repairs, taxiing my friend, or if I'm underwater). /cast [mod:shift, mod:ctrl] Brinedeep Bottom-Feeder /cast [mod:alt] Sandstone Drake /cast [mod:ctrl] Grand Expedition Yak /cast [mod:shift] Sky Golem /run if SecureCmdOptionParse"[nomod]"then C_MountJournal.SummonByID(0)end Hold down Shift and Ctrl, it'll summon my Brinedeep Bottom-Feeder Alt... Sandstone Drake Ctrl... Grand Expedition Yak Shirt... Sky Golem If no mods are used, it'll summon a random mount that you have favorited. Press it a 2nd time and it'll dismount you. (Any suggestions to improve it are welcome)

[@MrRinani]

You could change out the first part with [swimming] instead of modifiers, not sure how it will handle with the nomod part, but that is what I use for mounting so it changes if you are in water.

[@accidrainn1334]

That is awesome thank you I can't wait to try this ❤️👍🏻🙏🏼

[@APCJunky]

...watched this incase I had missed a trick with wow macro's - and there it was - Rainbows!

[@mebrandonb]

"HI I'M HAZEL *MURDERS COW*"

[@nicholasoutland2396]

I died laughing seeing that and then laughed even harder that others found it just as funny and posted it!

[@meltheredcap6307]

One of my gnome priests (I, er, have a few) yells "YAAAAAARGH!" every time he uses Psychic Scream. Another says "Bless your little cotton socks!" when she heals people. I also have Hunter's Mark and /petattack macroed together on my hunters. Those mouseover macros, though, thank you! A lot of my toons are going to be using those.

[@geekmp3]

Tell me we all remember every Death Knight macro'd "get over here" with Death Grip?

[@aminemessabhia1163]

Doing that on my priest :v

[@AbidingMedal955]

I definitely did this. No shame

[@FatMan2539]

I did this in MoP, and then didn't play my DK much, if at all during WoD or Legion and forgot about it only for it to show up in some BfA stuff, needless to say I was... less than impressed with myself

[@CDuff86]

My hunter pet call said "____ I choose you". Barrage now says "say hello to my little friend"

[@PhilosophicalMusings]

Hazel, of all the macro videos I looked at, yours was the most clear. Thanks.

[@Cordeneaux87]

Been playing for 15 years, the @cursor and @player are going to make life better! Always learning!

[@ConcertsAtHome]

So well put together! The editing on this is fantastic and as always your videos are both very informative and very fun at the same time. Thanks for sharing your awesomeness.

[@SKjear]

I absolutely love help/harm macros on my healers for M+ combine it with mouseover so I can target enemies to dps and just hover allies to heal.

[@darkroomzen]

Similarly with resto Druid; my cat skills have mouse over heals bound so I can instacast heals without pressing any form buttons. No matter what form I’m in mouseover 2 does rejuv, etc.

[@jammas.-.3843]

Thank you! These will come in handy when I go back to playing WoW at some point.

[@89tsupra]

Thank you for this video, I just recently discovered your channel and I love your content and tips! Keep them coming :D

[@Lxnchy]

Did not know half of these. So helpful. 👌🏻

[@daverhoden445]

Thanks for sharing these and have a wonderful, wonderful day.

[@Ayuima69]

Excellent video, I never knew there were so many different in-game options to using the macros with shift or mouse over options, I thought people used add-ons for these actions. Really helps better Management.

[@bitbastard]

Hi Hazel, love the video - U taught me something "/wm " so I'm returning the favor - "/tm [1-8]" instead of /run script also if u have a targeting macro u spam and u want to place a target marker and leave it on "/tm 9"(doesn't exist) "/tm [1-8]" - this will prevent the tm from blinking on/off

[@ericjam6346]

Thanks for putting the macro script in your description! Thanks Hazel!

[@Dani_Krossing]

Thanks Hazel, extremely useful!

[@Fishbeaverduck]

HOLY SHIT, this disenchant macro will change my life. I love you Hazel

[@mastervyler8064]

you changed my life with toy macos! mind blown! Thank you for your work, so great!

[@elbardo_lux]

That's a very complete guide :D only thing I can think of is that you can add /use 1 to 14 to activate on use effects from your gear since they are usually off the GCD. 13 and 14 ar the trinckets and those are the ones you'll use the most.

[@melanierhianna]

Back in Cataclysm, before I took a rest from WoW for roller derby, I had a couple of macros on my mage to let the my guild know what I was doing. There was “Expelliarmous, err, no.... ungulate!” hooked in to polymorph, and “Let’s do the time warp again...” on, well time warp.

[@arminho21]

My favourite flavor macro is "An illusion? WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?" in my NB's racial :)

[@lilithesque]

OH MY. I did not know about @player, you just made my day! That feather will finally see some decent use!

[@ABlackcross]

My friends and I would get together on Saturday to run dungeons. One night I left my laptop unattended and one of my friends changed all my buttons to yell something every time I pressed them. They thought it was hilarious. I thought so later.

[@Talal1Alansari]

Thanks, this has been very helpful.

[@mattmeeks2640]

This is so useful, thank you so much!

[@Adreal2010]

I used to use addons for healing but switched to mouseover macros during Legion and i find it soooooo much easier. Definitely worth it.

[@sparklydolphin7421]

These are so useful, thank you!

[@Duckie313]

I use macros a lot, and often found my macros to be too long for standard /m, but there is an addon for that. M6 is the name of the addon, lets you write nice long complex macros, and also the macros are shared between toons so you can write it once for one toon, and use it on alts as well. Especially handy for my mount macros. I have 1 button mounting with mod: for different type of mounts, like flappy where I can fly, swimmy in water, passenger mount for when I need to carry someone etc.

[@daisyglum]

these are awesome! thank you for the vid

[@Assywalker]

Hey Hazel, one of my favourites is "/swapactionbar 1 2" which does, what the arrows next to your action bar in the standard UI do. With this trick you can have multiple spells, that are on the GCD in a pseudo castrandom-macro. Now you can combine that with castsequence, reset-conditions and internal CDs of skills to create all kinds of loops and priority systems. For example on my brewmaster monk, I was able to combine: - Keg Smash (used on pull and on CD) - Blackout Kick (used on CD) - Ironskin Brew (used every 6sec) - Tiger Palm (used every 6sec) into a single button with no modifier needed

[@callynn1]

shift+mousescroll does this too, no need to waste a bind to it.

[@Assywalker]

@@callynn1 Where do I waste a key bind?

[@Assywalker]

@@callynn1 Oh, now I get it. You thought, "/swapactionbar 1 2" would be its own button. It's not. I'd put "/swapactionbar 1 2" in the first macro and "/swapactionbar 2 1" in the second one on the second bar. Sry for not making that clear.

[@PsyJoeTV]

The shiftmod macro that one was really nice. With alt and ctrl modifications, I'm basically down to 6 keys on my warrior.

[@patrickmccurry1563]

I imagine some are going to say that this all super basic. But as someone that never really messed with macros, I really appreciate this guide. Thank you.

[@patrickwilkerson1728]

Good video. There are macros also to use your generic trinkets Which can be: /use [bag slot number for the trinket, can be 11 or 12] Example: /use 11

[@Datenauflauf]

very helpful if you have the on-use-trinket always on the same spot. or you just start to do so when you start using the macro :)

[@Qstorm88]

Very helpful, thanks!

[@hikarinokishi4622]

I was looking for disenchant macro. Thanks :)

[@andrewosborne1447]

/castsequence macros can be really useful for spells that are always cast in a sequence. I.e. for a spriest’s searing nightmare something like /castsequence reset=3 Mind Sear, Searing Nightmare, Searing Nightmare Will make a single button that can be pressed three times and will, in sequence, cast searing nightmare while channeling mind sear (which is the only time it ever gets pressed).

[@SandalTolk]

You can also keybind mob markers using the default wow options. I bound them to 0...9 on the number block which is really nice. 0 is the skull, rest just in order and marking goes really fast with this :)

[@dominikaaeriar]

As a hunter main I have macro for almost all of my abilities, the same for my healer alts and vengeance DH, still I learned (or was reminded about) some useful stuff, that I might use. Thanks.

[@pkavenger9990]

You are Awesome, this is what i need.

[@theultimatescrub]

Hey Hazel, Just want to let you know - the Target Markers are actually available in Keybinds, and we no longer need to have macros for easy 1 press marking! Great video! I had totally forgotten about mod!

[@stefanmds4684]

Amazing Macros!

[@mikefranks4528]

OMG, Hazel! The priest Angelic Feather macro is a Godsend! Thank youuu.uuu..uuuu..(crying)

[@ebutuoy8272]

Was waiting for the squirrel at the end to get a "HI, I'M HAZEL" to the face.

[@thebearisradd]

There is a Wowhead Link add on you can use where you can press Ctrl+C when you are moused over items, mobs, npc, and quests and a Window will pop up with a link to the Wowhead page for that selection. It has the URL visible so you could grab the IDs of items that way without leaving the game.

[@nabra5231]

Hey Hazel, great video as always, but what about Help/Harm macros with mouseover for the helpful spells? They're game-changing for healers!

[@IqarP15]

First time I used macro's was FFXI. Never went back. Played ten more mmo's and just button smashed what I needed.

[@bover-5]

Yep, I had every single spell macro'ed to change out my gear for optimal results. Had the full set of elemental staves for BLM, had Convert / Cure IV for RDM, etc... everything. Then I started WoW and went, "Man, this is way easier..!" and promptly forgot that I could even do fancy things like this.

[@RainWalking]

Appreciated for the macros in the descrption

[@Echo_Isles]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@Echo_Isles]

There's a key I periodically hit when I think I'm hitting a button to cast, and I can't figure out why it's not doing anything. I mapped a macro for /Roar onto that so my toon roars when I hit that (wrong) button. It quickly tells me I need to move my fingers back onto the correct keys

[@insubordinate3917]

GSE and Macro Toolkit are both great add-ons for macro creation. Personally I've always used both since gse allows me to make 1 button macros and the tool kit helps me figure out the commands as well as shorten them or extend the macro characters.

[@Antimuffin]

As a druid I have a travel macro that picks either a form or a mount depending on my situation. I also have a combat macro to shift to the appropriate form depending on my spec. I also have a RUN macro that either pops Dash or whatever form is fastest for my environment.

[@KouD3Graw]

Hazel is a WoW goddess lol These are amazing.

[@alwaysyouramanda]

Omg! LOVE LOVE LOVE

[@jay68]

Very cool thanks for the info, very useful. Quick query, how do you know which spells are under GCD?

[@camiblack1]

Even more fun is when I learned how to combine the mouseover and decluttered my mod keys with a help/harm macro. SOmehow in one group I was actually NOT the worst DPS in a dungeon because of this... on a HPreist.

[@arianabipur2219]

an amazing video 2 thumbs up

[@jonathanabgrall6075]

@cursor macros for classes with ground targeted spells are a life saver, specially on Hunter.

[@ooanticsoo4475]

Good macros. I was surprised that you didn't have any @targettarget macro. Great for stuff like intervene/pain supp or external cds when you are too lazy or don't have enough time to moseover.

[@Madsciencegg]

something that completely changed healers for me and allowed me to save soo much bar space is Help;harm macros. basically if you have say flash heal on 1 you can also have crusader strike on 1. this allows you to target and enemy and use crusader strike but if you mousover a friendly target or nameplate it will instead flash heal them. so while healing you are targeting enemy's and dpsing in all free time with the same binds you use to heal while mousing over. having one bind for every dps ability with a heal attached to it makes healer bars way more manageable

[@x1plus1x]

I once made a macro called "Panic Button" which I would mash repeatedly. It had a series of casts like Unending Resolve (shield), Healthstone, Health Potion, Bandage, /healme,

[@aizekcasaubon2328]

These are nice! Though, I do the alt macor without the macro, I just did it with the keybinds.

[@lucifermeowstar4604]

I always mimic your voice lol best intro.

[@Psoewish]

I know this is a very informative video on macros and stuff, but the biggest takeaway for me is macroing in my nongcd toys with abilities. Gonna have to adopt that one haha

[@Bob-uh5zc]

Hi and thank you for putting this list together. When I try to use the "Find" macro to find an NPC, I get the message " you have no target" in red on my screen with verbal as well?

[@Dani_Krossing]

MIDDLE MOUSE BUTTON NOT WORKING FIX: For anyone using the middle mouse button for macroes, apparently WoWs UI is buggy and have issues with mouse over on raid frames if you use the middle mouse button. But here is how to fix it... 🙂 1. Re-bind your "middle mouse button" to a regular key, using a software like Razer Synapse or ICUE, you know... depending on your type of mouse. 2. Use the "Clique" addon for your middle mouse macroes, instead of making a regular macro. Hope this helped 🙂

[@212citagain]

You can have boss quotes and sounds play with your macros It's quite fun hearing

[@drizzlingrose]

you can check your garrison progress anywhere with "/script ShowGarrisonLandingPage(2)" you can also bind a button in the keybinds menu if you want a permanent button for it ^^ its useful for garrison goldmaking and such :3

[@DeviousWizard]

In classic I use /tm8 or /tm 8 to skull mark dangerous mobs, or mobs outside my line of sight. Good for warning group of patrol, keeping track of danger like Mor'Ladim in the Raven Hill Cemetary in Duskwood :P

[@tomekc1113]

More more more like this please :) thank you

[@lildasani]

thanks for the macro vid.

[@DavidHdezES]

Excellent video, but what is the correct macro for priest discipline spell Penance, offensive (dealing damage to target), and defensive (healing you)?

[@x1plus1x]

Warlock: 1. pet attack and opener macroed together, so my pet will attack whoever I recently cast immolate. Knowing this, you can control your pet easier even when you cancel the cast. Also, pet will start attacking at the start of the cast rather than then end of the cast. 2. "G" for me is life drain, Shift G is health funnel 3. Rclick to place demonic portal. That way place demonic port, and port to demonic portal are no longer two buttons. also, there is a console command to prevent the "item not ready" spam when you macro toys to spells (as you should).

[@Gzero562]

/startattack is a must-have for me on any melee class I play.

[@04138]

Really a must-have for classic

[@jimmycurrire7868]

Hi I got a question about comparison macro when you're comparing let's say an item you picked up versus an item you're wearing If you hold shift for too long it's usually some kind of windows sticky key pop up can you alleviate that by making a comparison macro

[@Syrick]

It's worth noting that the target raid markers can be keybound from the system settings, no need for a macro. I use number pad 0 and . for Skull and X, and 123etc for the rest.

[@richardm.garciajr.9930]

Hi Hazel, I just had 1 question: How do you feel about Overwolf buying Curse Forge?

[@MrScabbyballs]

The modifier macro blew my fucking mind. How have I been playing for so long and not found out about them?!

[@1980rlquinn]

For as many macros here that require correct cursor placement, do you have an addon recommendation or tip for making the cursor more prominent? In many raid and arena fights especially I lose sight of my cursor and often lose another few moments trying to find it again >.

[@oceancream9071]

QUESTION! 🗡 I tried doing the" find " one, but when I try to use it says, " Running scripts could compromise your character causing the loss of items or gold." What do I do? I don't see typos. Is it safe to proceed?

[@redrenegade13]

I'm a hunter sooo /cast Disengage /use Prismatic Bauble /yell YEET Everyone loves a good rainbow YEET. Combo with the posthaste talent and we get the same fastrunning rainbows Hazel mentioned. :) Go forth and YEET, fellow hunters!

[@SuperQualifyed]

a good one for druids, if indoors or in combat casts cat form, if outdoors/not in combat cast travel form one button for your fastest form available /cancelform /use [indoors] Cat Form(Shapeshift); [combat] Cat Form; Travel Form(Shapeshift)

[@lautarostanislavsky403]

How can i do to make a mouse over + shift mod in the same macro? I tried to do it but i can't make it work

[@skyesthelimit6792]

That DE macro is nice. U...R...AWESOME. Tyvm. Kay

[@artstrutzenberg7197]

the 4x6 button bar on the bottom left of your screen....is that mapped to the orbweaver control?

[@jordaneubank]

Help/Harm Macros saved my Action Bars

[@hoenn1999]

For my disc priest I macro’d my damage and healing spells to the same buttons so it casts the healing spell in allies and the damage spell on enemies

[@draheim90]

I assume you can combine shift mod and mouseover macros? Just realized that this would be great for, say, my Shaman so that I have have “1” be Healing Wave and “shift + 1” be Healing Surge.

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

The cursor one works great for Prot warr using Ravager tyty. But is there a macro so I can cast it where im standing so that I don't even need to point the cursor?

[@Vampyria1836]

I think the most useful macro I have in retail is one that shifts me straight from druid form to Gilnean human if I'm in a form, but otherwise just acts like "Curse of Two Forms." And of course, all of my Classic characters' abilities are macro'd with /dismount /stand, so that I don't get those error messages about not casting while sitting.

[@Milkymilkshakes89]

How does one deal with explosives in the fastest way? Does blizzard allow you to mouseover an enemy and cast a spell with one-click? I want to be able to click on an enemies nameplate/healthbar with my left mousebutton to cast frost shock for example, to deal with explosives

[@mugglescakesniffer3943]

I do like where the Tank uses the Skull macro.

[@StFeenix]

I had that yell macro on my boomkin, and everytime I cast starsurge I yelled something like "BOOM in da face" until someone yelled back to me "Yell that crap one more time and I report you!" x) After that I changed my macro to activate yell only somewhat 5% of the time.

[@erelan5994]

xD i have a "meow* on my feral

[@Andarethh]

Not a druid but I have the /moo emote macroed into taunt abilities on all of my tauren characters, which is super fun as the bovine races will actually moo out loud rather than just text.

[@kats5269]

I have a freind who's demo lock yells Rick and Morty punch lines when he casts certain spells and it's the best thing

[@dylanbrewer8605]

Grass, tastes bad!

[@goaliedude32]

I'm demo lock main, does he have a video of it? That's hilarious. Probably when he hits tyrant

[@kats5269]

@@goaliedude32 He does not sorry

[@Infinite_Curiosity00]

I use the heal macros as well. Seems like it would help new players out a lot if this was default on all healing spells. Or, an in game optional tutorial.

[@jacovanderschaaf3044]

what is marco or addon that i see ppl use when they silnce or remove buff from npc/player? can be realy helpful like in boss battles were 5 ppl target the same guy but no one want to use the silnce befor some els does ?