Arcane Mage DPS Macros and Addons — 12.0.5
On this page, you will find a number of useful macros and addons to make your life easier when playing your Arcane Mage in World of Warcraft — 12.0.5.
If you were looking for Mists of Pandaria Classic content, please refer to our MoP Mage addons and macros.
Recommended Macros
Listed below is a collection of useful Macros for Mage, and Arcane Mage specifically, with some of them being usable on all three specs, while others are only useful if you're playing Arcane Mage.
Specific Macros for Arcane Mages
1-Button Arcane Surge
1-Button Arcane Surge
This will cast
Arcane Surge and activate any Trinkets or Racial
effects that provide damage.
Generic Macros for Mages
Bear in mind when using any of the stopcasting macros that they will not interrupt the Global Cooldown. If you are still on GCD your cast will be canceled but the next ability will not go off until you are off GCD.
Stopcast Blink
Instant Blink
Pressing
Blink will now cancel your current spellcast and
causes you to immediately Blink. Note that this should not be used with
Shimmer as it will unnecessarily cancel your current cast, nor should
it be used if you are casting something that you can wait to finish casting
before needing to Blink
1-Button Block
1-Button Ice Block
Cancels your current cast and immediately puts you in
Ice Block.
Pressing Ice Block again will cancel the effect. Not recommended if you spam your
buttons.
Block Cancel
Cancel Aura Ice Block
If you are a button spammer, you can put this on a separate keybind as your
Ice Block, allowing you to cancel your Ice Block early if you so
desire.
Alter Time Cancel
Cancel Aura Alter Time
You can use the above macro to cancel
Alter Time if you do not want to
be teleported back to the location/health where you were when you initially cast
Alter Time.
Mouseover Decurse
Mouseover Remove Curse
This will remove curses on whatever unit you are mousing over. You can replace
Remove Curse for any other spells you might want to do on mouseover,
like
Spellsteal. If you have no mouseover target, it will cast it
on your current target, or yourself if you have neither a mouseover or selected
target.
Addons
ElvUI
ElvUI is a complete replacement of the default User Interface. It comes with almost everything you need to perform properly: action bars, unit frames, cooldown timers, proc displays, etc.
Method Raid Tools
Method Raid Tools is a useful addon that allows you to track the cooldowns of other raid members, as well as providing you with a wealth of other useful raid information.
Changelog
- 20 Apr. 2026: Updated for Patch 12.0.5.
- 16 Mar. 2026: Updated Arcane Surge Macro to have all relevant racials/trinket slots by default.
- 09 Mar. 2026: Fixed mouseover macro for remove curse.
- 26 Feb. 2026: Updated for Midnight 12.0.1.
- 10 Feb. 2026: Updated for Midnight Pre-Patch.
- 30 Nov. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.7.
- 05 Oct. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.5.
- 04 Aug. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.
- 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 21 Apr. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.0.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.7.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.6, removed link to a no longer relevant pack and added new macro for Arcane Barrage + TOTM.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 28 Apr. 2023: Added a generic weakaura pack containing all neccesary WeakAuras for all specs.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight launch.
- 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Dutchmagoz. Dutchmagoz has been playing Mage since 2009 and writing guides and theorycrafting since 2012, with many top 20-100 world kills and rank 1 parses under his belt. He is the owner of the official Mage Discord server Altered Time, where he is involved in Mage Theorycrafting and everything else Mage. You can reach out to him directly for questions or feedback about the guide there.
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