Mists of Pandaria Classic Guide to Warlock's Best Macros

Macros can make your life easier by combining certain spells and abilites to be able to be used at once, for example, being able to use your trinket, racial cooldowns and spells all with the press of one button! Or to be more Warlock specific, you can make a macro that will cast Corruption or Havoc on a target without having to target them. There are many types of macros that can help maximize your damage, while also freeing up many actionbar slots and keybinds. On this page, we will list a handful of helpful macros to aid you in your gameplay and to also help you maximize your damage as a Warlock.

Feel free to simly copy paste any of the following macros if you want to use them and check back frequently as I'll be adding more when I find some more helpful ones.

• Mouseover Macro

This macro is one of the most helpful macros in the game for Warlocks. This allows you to cast your spells and DoT's on targets, without needing to target them, but rather simply holding your mouse over the target or their unitframe instead. An example of this in action is you can target the boss, then adds come out and you can very easily just hover your mouse cursor over the extra add and press Corruption without ever having to untarget the boss! This is amazing for Warlocks and I personally have this on every single spell.

• #showtooltip Spell Name
• /cast [@mouseover,help][] Spell Name

• Cooldown Macro

This is another extraordinarily helpful and in my opinion mandatory. This macro will pop ALL of your cooldowns in one single press of the keybind. This is great as it ensures that you get full value out of all your cooldowns at once, since you will almost always be wanting to pop these at the same time, but also freeing up many keybinds and actionbar slots. For example, the one below will pop your big cooldown Dark Soul: Instability, your Orc Racial Blood Fury, your main DPS potion Potion of the Jade Serpent and will use your Synapse Springs (If you're Engineering).

Also note that the number 10 in the macro is your Glove slot. You can put /use 10 and then it will always use your glove, which will have your Synapse Springs on it. If you don't do this then you will have to change the macro to type in the name of your Gloves everytime you get a new pair of Gloves. You can also add trinkets if you have an on use trinket and anything else that you want to put into this macro.

• #showtooltip Blood Fury
• /use Volcanic Potion
• /cast Blood Fury
• /cast Dark Soul: Instability
• /use 10

• Cursor Macro

This macro removes the big green circle that you have to click again when using things like Rain of Fire, Engineering Bombs, Shadowfury, etc. This is just nice to not have to click once again to use the spell or item.

• /cast [@cursor] Rain of Fire

• Spec Swapping Macro

This macro changes spec to your dual spec option whenever you press it. This is nice to just be able to quickly swap your specs with one button, rather than having to open up the talent window on the interface.

• /run local i=GetActiveTalentGroup(); SetActiveTalentGroup(i==1 and 2 or 1)

• Pet Macro 2

This macro will make sure your Demon starts attacking when you do, only used if you forget to send your pet in constantly. Alternatively you can get a Weakaura to yell at you whenever it's not attacking. You don't want this macro'd to ALL of your abilities, but instead just one of your main ones to ensure it is attacking. I don't suggest macro'ing it to all your spells, because in the example of your Summon Imp if he's casting Felbolt and you tell it to attack mid cast, it will stop casting to swap to the new target if you swapped. For that reason, I just use it on a main spell for each spec, but one that isn't used all the time.

• #showtooltip
• /cast Hand of Gul'dan
• /cast Chaos Bolt
• /cast Haunt
• /petattack

• Fire and Brimstone Macro for Destruction Warlocks

This macro is specifically for Destruction Warlocks. This will cast Fire and Brimstone and if pressed again, will cancel it's aura. This is important because normally you would turn this off by pressing your Fire and Brimstone keybind again, but that incurs a GCD If you use the macro, it will turn off without needing the GCD.

• #showtooltip Hellfire
• /cast [nochanneling] Hellfire
• /cancelaura [channeling] Hellfire

• Hellfire Macro for Demonology Warlocks

This macro is specifically for Demonology Warlocks. This will cast Hellfire and if pressed again, will cancel your channeled Hellfire. This is important because normally you would turn this off by pressing your Hellfire keybind again, but that incurs a GCD If you use the macro, it will turn off without needing the GCD.

• #showtooltip Hellfire
• /cast [nochanneling] Hellfire
• /cancelaura [channeling] Hellfire

There are many addons that can help Warlock maximize their DPS or just make your life easier. Below is a list of addons that both increase the quality of your gameplay and the quality of life while playing the game.