WotLK 3.3.5a Macros

Sets your mouseover as focus, falling back to your current target. Useful for tanks, interrupt targets, assigned healers and secondary bosses.

/focus [@mouseover,exists,nodead][@target,exists,nodead]

Removes the current focus target.

/clearfocus

Stops melee and ranged auto-attacks. Useful when a boss becomes immune, reflects damage or requires controlled DPS.

/stopattack

Allows physical DPS and tanks to remove an accidental or threat-saving Hand of Protection immediately.

/cancelaura Hand of Protection

Uses whichever level-80 Healthstone version you received, starting with the strongest.

#showtooltip Fel Healthstone
/use item:36894
/use item:36893
/use item:36892

Activates Hyperspeed Accelerators and the chosen cooldown. Only combine cooldowns when their timing should always match.

#showtooltip YOUR COOLDOWN
/use 10
/cast YOUR COOLDOWN

Normal press: Hand of Salvation. - Shift + press: Hand of Freedom. The same action-bar button now contains two related abilities. The three standard modifiers are:

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift] Hand of Freedom; Hand of Salvation

The result is: 1. Shift casts Spell A. 2. Ctrl casts Spell B. 3. No listed modifier casts Spell C. The final spell without a condition is the default action. You can write that default explicitly with [nomod]:

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift] Spell A; [mod:ctrl] Spell B; Spell C

[nomod] means that Shift, Ctrl and Alt must not be held.

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift] Spell A; [nomod] Spell B

This works as follows: 1. Alt casts Hand of Sacrifice on yourself. 2. Shift casts it on your focus. 3. A valid friendly mouseover receives it. 4. Otherwise, the spell uses normal targeting. Another common healing pattern is:

#showtooltip Hand of Sacrifice
/cast [mod:alt,@player][mod:shift,@focus][@mouseover,help,nodead][] Hand of Sacrifice

Alt always heals yourself. - Otherwise, it heals your mouseover. - If there is no mouseover, it heals your friendly target. - If neither exists, it heals you.

#showtooltip Holy Light
/cast [mod:alt,@player][@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Holy Light

Normal press activates Divine Shield. - Shift + press removes Divine Shield. This is safer than a macro that always activates or cancels the aura, especially for players who repeatedly press their keybinds. The same idea can be used with Divine Sacrifice:

#showtooltip Divine Shield
/cast Divine Shield
/cancelaura [mod:shift] Divine Shield

Normal press activates Divine Sacrifice. Alt allows controlled cancellation of its aura. The exact Divine Sacrifice and Divine Guardian interaction should be tested on the server where the macro will be used.

#showtooltip Divine Sacrifice
/cast Divine Sacrifice
/cancelaura [mod:alt] Divine Sacrifice

Normal press: Seal of Vengeance. - Shift: Seal of Command. A Horde Paladin would replace Seal of Vengeance with Seal of Corruption. Another example:

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift] Seal of Command; Seal of Vengeance

Normal press: Fire Ward. - Shift: Frost Ward. This is useful because both abilities serve a similar purpose and are unlikely to be needed simultaneously.

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift] Frost Ward; Fire Ward

If Shift+1 is already assigned to another action-bar slot, the existing Shift+1 keybind may take priority instead of the macro receiving the modifier. Check the keybind menu and remove conflicting bindings. Alt may also conflict with the game’s self-cast setting. If Alt is configured as the automatic self-cast modifier, decide whether to keep that behavior or use Shift/Ctrl in your macros instead.

/cast [mod:shift] Hand of Freedom; Hand of Salvation

If Spell A activates the global cooldown, Spell B normally cannot fire from the same press. Items and abilities outside the global cooldown can sometimes be combined:

/cast Spell A
/cast Spell B

This may activate engineering gloves and Avenging Wrath together because the glove enchant does not use the normal spell global cooldown.

/use 10
/cast Avenging Wrath

This prioritizes your mouseover and otherwise uses your selected target. Clear it with:

/focus [@mouseover,exists,nodead][@target,exists,nodead]

An ability can then be sent to the focus:

/clearfocus

This interrupts the focus without changing your current target.

#showtooltip Wind Shear
/stopcasting
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead] Wind Shear

If the focus dies, disappears or was never set, nothing happens. A safer version falls back to the current target:

/cast [@focus,harm,nodead] Counterspell

The empty [] means “use normal casting behavior.” This gives the following priority: 1. Valid hostile focus. 2. Current target. For friendly abilities:

#showtooltip Counterspell
/stopcasting
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead,exists][] Counterspell

The priority is: 1. Friendly mouseover. 2. Friendly focus. 3. Yourself.

#showtooltip Innervate
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][@focus,help,nodead][@player] Innervate

If your cursor is over a Grid2 unit frame, the spell is cast on that player. In this setup, a dedicated focus macro may be unnecessary for frequently changing friendly targets.

/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][] Cleanse

The player can apply the spell through an enemy nameplate without changing targets. If the nameplates are clear and reliable, mouseover interrupts or multidot macros may feel better than focus macros.

/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Living Bomb