Useful and fun Shaman MacrosFollow

Tauren Shaman escape, sort of, macro:

/stopcasting
/castsequence reset=120 [target=player] War Stomp, Lesser Healing Wave

RAGE macro:

/cast Shamanistic Rage
/use Hourglass of the Unravellor or <name of trinket>

{Check the spelling of the trinket, or better yet with the macro screen open shift+click on it and add it to the macro.)

Stormstrike macro:

#showtooltip Stormstrike
/dismount [mounted]
/cast [target=target,harm] Stormstrike
/startattack

Bloodlust Macro:

#showtooltip Bloodlust
/e injects everyone with "The Barry Bonds" cocktail.
/cast Bloodlust
/y You won't LIKE ME when I'm ANGRY!1!!one!1uno

HA HA.

Note that since 2.3 you don't need to use /stopcasting between several instant-cast actions like activating a trinket.

Not in terms of syntax rules. I'm not too fond of mixing help and harm actions within one single macro myself, but that's a matter of habit and personal taste.

In particular, my template for any heals is
#showtooltip
/cast [target=mouseover, help][help][target=player] Healing Wave

This will allow hover-casting heals OR heal your current target OR yourself and is suited for resto playstyle.

For elemental and enhancement, you would ideally expand the conditionals like this:

/cast [target=mouseover, help][help][target=targettarget, help][target=player] Healing Wave

That way you can toss an emergency heal on whatever your DPS target is currently hitting without deselecting it.

Thanks for bump, didn't want to myself, but way I see it macros can really help a ton to make your playing even stronger and your spells that much more affective once you are 70 and have no more spells to strengthen yourself, its like making your already existing spells stronger.

anyhow, are there any other macros anyone else has found useful for themselves, i am always interested in trying new macros, or using others to make my own new macros to fit my play style and learn more on how macros work.

Since the topic also sais fun macros I'll post one as well. Not sure how it works for shamans in ghost wolf form, but for druids in cat form it makes us look like someone jammed a stick up our ***. In flight form it makes a loop :)

And the macro (not so much a macro as just a single command :P)
/mountspecial

Basicly when you use HW you want it to be as instant as possible so its used exactly when you need it, let me further explain the macro and break it down so you understand each part of it:

1. #showtooltip Nature's Swiftness

This is just so that when you place your cursor over the icon it will show Nature's swiftness and its propper cooldown, otherwise it will just say whatever you make the title of the macro to be, it is no necesary but I feel it looks neater and makes macro's easier to keep track of.

2. /target focus

The second part to this macro allows your to instantly target a player you expect to use this on, generaly a tank in 5 man instances or raids, or yourself in pvp. To activate this portion of the macro you decide before you group or pvp who this macro will be used to save, target that character, and then you will type /focus.
There are benefits and there are some downfalls to this kind of a macro, it means when you hit this button regardless of who you where targeting you will instantly target the focused target and instantly cast your desired spells (in this example it would be Nature's swiftness and Healing Wave).
But keep this in mind that you can not NS and Healing wave a different target with this kind of macro so you may wish to have another version of this macro without the focus target if you do not feel comfortable with just having this to be used for one target.

3. /cast Nature's Swiftness

This will cast Nature's Swiftness Instantly

4. /stop casting

This Helps make sure the spells are linked properly


5. /cast Healing Wave

This is the final peice of the puzzle using lines 3, 4, and this one 5 are all thats needed for a NS+HW macro and could be used for a tipical point and shoot of a quick HW at anyone version of this macro, I don't bother but I can see it being useful, but I will admit to being a lazy healer and allowing dps to die if they are out of range of Chain Heal, and needing it for myself is never an issue since I don't get hit as resto unless it is an AoE.

Whats nice about this again is you can always change your focus target, if for instance you are doing kara and you are on your way to moroes where mages are expected to AoE, I may target the mage before these pulls type /focus and now i can use this macro for them. Later on in kara before Curator the elementals with mana shields like to go after healers, so before these pulls I may go ahead and make myself the new focus target.

I hope that helps you better, you can easily copy and paste the macro here it is without the gaps:

#showtooltip Nature's Swiftness
/target focus
/cast Nature's Swiftness
/stop casting
/cast Healing Wave

if you just want the NS without focus just coppy the last 3 lines and there you go.

Hope that helps, I have not slept yet so if i rambled a bit I apologies ^^

LoL I need to try that one out best macro here lol

Nice thing about being a Shaman, though, you don't even have to switch targets if the sparks come after you. I more or less just spam Chain Heal the 2-3 melee we have chasing the sparks around, and if they ever come after me, the Chain Heal jumps to me as well. Can't say I've ever had an issue with them beyond that.

I'm requesting that this be stickied or added into the FAQ, this was extremely helpful to me, and will be to others. for J.

This is getting a bit off topic but I wanted to let you know why the elemental target healers, ITS THERE FREAKIN MANA SHIELD. Pallies can't really tank them there threat is dmg and there for doesnt cause threat, druids have the same problem most of there abilities do dmg for threat. Warriors have an easier job at tanking these guys spamming sunders on him as much as possible since sunder has nothing to do with damage its a debuff to lower enemy armor with major threat.

So pretty much as long as he has Mana shield (if he doesn;t he is probably dead) he gains 0 threat from the dps, the tanks gain some if any threat but generally not much since if the ability has to do dmg to gain the threat it just doesn't go into affect, but healers gain plenty of threat.

You could probably take advantage of this and have a Holy Pally tank it which is still a healer so may be rough, but then again if him and the other healers expect a pally healer to tank it, it should not be so bad. Using whatever spell pallies have to gain 90% more threat with holy spells then spam heal himself, taunt if needed, and a bubble if crap happens.

I never have too much trouble on worms they die fast, generaly just aoe them down with my groups.

That would be the best bet for self-preservation, I would think. I don't know, I've only never really had a problem on those pulls. My raid typically just blitzes them down very quickly with all healers/DPS'ers going balls-to-the-wall. There's no point in being conservative with mana if you die; if you live you can always drink afterwards.

I dont, I use my highest rank chain heal and my highest rank lesser healing wave. My lesser heal ticks for 3k uncrit, and my chain heal crits for 5000 sometimes but usually 4,500ish. I don't have a problem with mana.