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WoW 4.3: Commonly Used Macros for Mage

We have been preparing this article about the commonly used macros of mage for a long time, and we hope these macros will help you mages to play WoW more convenient and interesting than before.

We have to mention that you might confront some numbers in macros, so we'd like to explain the numbers' corresponding parts first of all, check them out below.

1	Head	4	Shirt	7	Legs	10	Hands	13	Trinket 1	16	Mainhand
2	Neck	5	Chest	8	Feet	11	Finger 1	14	Trinket 2	17	Offhand
3	Shoulders	6	Waist	9	Wrist	12	Finger 2	15	Cloak	18	Ranged

 

Frost

Deep Freeze+Cold Snap Macro

　　#showtooltips Cold Snap

　　/use Icy Veins

　　/use [@focus,exists,harm]Deep Freeze

　　/use Ice Barrier

　　/use Cold Snap

　　Explanation: If Deep Freeze is available, and the focus is taken as the target to freeze, then Deep Freeze the focus, and use Cold Snap. If you can't Deep Freeze the focus, use Ice Barrier, followed by using Cold Snap. If the Ice Veins is available, then use Icy Veins, and Cold Snap.

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Ice Lance Macro

　　/use [mod:alt]Frostfire Bolt;[mod:shift,@arena3][@mouseover,exists,harm][]Ice Lance

　　Explanation: Cast Ice Lance to targets in sequence of your mouse's point. It will cast Frostfire Bolt when you press Alt, and cast Ice Lance to the third target in the arena frame when you press Shift.

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Frostbolt Macro

　　/cancelAura Ice Block

　　/cancelAura Invisibility

　　/dismount

　　/targetlasttarget [noharm]

　　/targetenemyplayer [noharm]

　　/petdefensive

　　/use Waterbolt

　　/use [mod:shift]Scorch;[mod:alt]Arcane Blast;Frostbolt

　　Explanation: Remove your invisibility/mounting condition right away, and try to get a target if you don't have an enemy target, then cast Frostbolt, meanwhile, the pet start to attack. If counterspell, then press Shift to cast Scorch, or press Alt to cast Frostbolt.

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Armor Macro

　　/castsequence Mage Armor,Frost Armor

　　Explanation: Cast Mage Armor, followed by Frost Armor, then it will cast them in sequence.

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Water Elemental/Freeze Macro

　　/use [nopet,nomounted]Summon Water Elemental

　　/use [harm,pet]Frostbolt

　　/petattack [harm]

　　/use [nomod,pet]!Freeze

　　/dismount

　　Explanation: Remove the mounting condition. If you got the Water Elemental, then cast Frostbolt and Freeze. Otherwise, summon Water Elemental.

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Arcane

Change your target Macro

　　/tar

　　/use Arcane Blast

　　/focus

　　/targetlasttarget

　　/targetenemy [noharm]

　　Explanation: Cast Arcane Blast to the target that need to be killed right away, and set it as focus so that you can observe its HP. Target remain unchanged.

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　　/tar [@focus]

　　/targetlasttarget

　　/focus

　　/targetlasttarget

　　/use Arcane Blast

　　Explanation: If you got two targets, set one of them as focus, and attack the other one. Use this macro when you need to change your current target.

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Fire

Blink Macro

　　#showtooltips Blink

　　/stopcasting

　　/use Totem of Spirits

　　/use [mod:shift]6;[nomod]Blink

　　Explanation: When you are fighting with a Frost Mage, you are hit by Ring of Frost while you are cast Frostbolt, then you can use this macro, interrupting your Frostbolt(you can't interrupt your casting by moving when you are freezed) and blink, lefting a Totem of Spirits at the original place, that means you confuse the enemy successfully.

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Counterspell Macro

　　/stopcasting

　　/cancelAura Ice Block

　　/use [nomod,@mouseover,exists,harm][]Counterspell

　　/targetlasttarget [mod]

　　/use Polymorph

　　/targetlasttarget [mod]

　　/sw 2

　　/script Stopwatch_Play();

　　Explanation: Use this macro to remove the Ice Block effect, and cast Counterspell to the targets in sequence of your mouse's point and cast Polymorph to the target. Now, if you change you target, you will hear a warning tone -- "plink" after two seconds, then the combination key + the macro are used to cast Polymorph to the former target. If you don't like Polymorph, keep the first three lines and the last two lines and delete the other lines.

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Spellsteal/Remove Curse Combination Macro

　　/stopcasting

　　/use [mod:alt,@player][nomod,@mouseover,help][nomod,@target,help]Remove Curse; [mod:shift,@focus][nomod,@mouseover,harm][]Spellsteal

　　Explanation: Cast Remove Curse to your teammate and Remove Curse to enemy in sequence of your mouse's point. Press the Alt combination key to cast Remove Curse to your self.

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Turn your focus to be a sheep/Set focus/Choose an enemy player

　　/cleartarget [dead][noharm]

　　/tar [@mouseover,exists,harm]

　　/targetenemyplayer [dead][noharm][noexists]

　　/clearfocus [@focus, dead]

　　/focus [@focus, noexists]

　　/focus [mod]

　　/use [@focus]Polymorph

　　Explanation: If the target of focus died, then clear the target/focus. If you got the focus, then cast Polymorph to the focus. Otherwise, it will try to choose a target that pointed by your mouse. If you still haven't a target, then it will choose a nearest enemy player, if you don't have focus, then set the player as focus and cast Polymorph to him. Under any condition, the combination + macro will set the current target as focus and cast Polymorph to it.

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Ice Block Macro

　　/stopcasting

　　/use !Ice Block

　　Explanation: Use this macro to interrupt your current casting and cast Ice Block to yourself, and you can't get rid of the Invisibility condition no matter which ability you use except use the Counterspell Macro we just mentioned..

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Invisibility Macro

　　/stopcasting

　　/cast !Invisibility

　　Explanation: Use this macro to interrupt your current casting and cast Invisibility to yourself, and you can't get rid of the Invisibility condition no matter which ability you use except use the Counterspell Macro we just mentioned..

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Polymorph/Pet follow Macro

　　#showtooltip Polymorph(Rabbit)

　　/targetenemyplayer [noharm][dead]

　　/use [mod:alt,harm]Icy Veins

　　/petpassive

　　/petfollow

　　/use Polymorph(Rabbit)

　　Explanation: Use this macro to adjust your pet to passive condition, means it will stop attacking and follow you, meanwhile, cast Rabbit to the current target. Besides, you can press the Alt combination key to cast Icy Veins.

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Explosion Macro

　　/use [harm]13

　　/use [harm]14

　　/use [harm]Time Warp

　　/use [harm]Icy Veins

　　/use [harm]Demon Soul

　　/use Frostbolt

　　/use [spec:1]Drain Life

　　/use [spec:2]Haunt

　　Explanation: Use Trinket and some explosion abilities. If you wanna delete some abilities, the Haunt and the Frostbolt are commonly used. If the Haunt belongs to main talent, then it will cast Drain Life, if it belongs to vice talent, then it will cast Demon Soul.

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Make Mana Cake/Consume Macro

　　/sit

　　/use [mod:alt]Conjured Mana Cake

　　//use [mod:alt]Festival Dumplings

　　/use [mod:shift]Conjure Refreshment

　　Explanation: Use directly -- Sit down. Combine Alt key -- Eat Mana Cake. Combine Shift key -- Make Mana Cake. Replace the // in the third line by /, then combine Alt key -- Eat Festival Dumplings, quicken the restoration of Mana.

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Mounts Macro

　　/script SetCVar("cameraDistanceMax", 50)

　　/use [flyable]

　　/use [swimming]Abyssal Seahorse

　　/use

　　/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

　　Explanation: Set you maximum camera distance as 50 yard. Get on your underwater mount when you are underwater, or get on your ground mount when you are in unflyable zones.

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Invisibility Macro

　　/equip [mod]

　　/equip [mod]

　　/use !Invisibility

　　Explanation: Invisibility doesn't means you can survive, you should replace your weapon when you're going to die, reducing your loss as possible as you can.

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Send Chat Message When Casting Polymorph：

　　/s I'm Casting Polymorph to the target

　　/script F=F or CreateFrame("frame")F:RegisterEvent("UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED")F:SetScript("OnEvent",function()if arg1=="player"and arg2=="Polymorph"then SendChatMessage("I've turn to be a sheep.")F:SetScript("OnEvent",nil)end;end)

　　/use Polymorph

　　Explanation: Send chat message both when you begin to cast Polymorph to a target and your spellcast succeeded.

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Buff+Focus Macro:

　　/use [mod:shift]Focus Magic

　　/castsequence [nomod]reset=2 Arcane Intellect,Mage Armor

　　/run if IsShiftKeyDown() then SendChatMessage("You've got my !","whisper",nil,UnitName("target")) end

　　Explanation: Press this macro twice within 2s, casting Arcane Intellect, Mage Armor in sequence -- . Press again after 2s, then cast Arcane Intellect once again. If press Shift + macro, then cast Focus Magic to your teammate and give him a prompt.

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AOE ability Macro

　　/use !Blizzard

　　Explanation: Press this macro one time, emerging the circle of choose your attack target, press again, the circle will never disappear. You can replace the ability according to your will.

 

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