A while ago I found the awesomeness that is World of Warcraft macros. These help me out a ridiculous amount when I’m playing my Hunter and can be helpful when playing other classes as well, however I find that the Hunter benefits most from macros on a whole. These are my personal top five. Codes are in red.
To use these, type /m or /macro in chat and then select “New”. Choose a name and an icon for the macro and just copy and past (ctrl-v) the codes into the window.
And for a huge database of macros, visit this WoWUI page.
#1: Hunter’s Mark & Pet Attack
/cast Hunter’s Mark
/petattack
This is my absolutely most used macro, and when playing my Hunter my most used button. This simply casts Hunter’s Mark and sends your pet into attack. Before this macro I was always forgetting to cast Hunter’s Mark. Not anymore and it’s a great little time saver.
#2: The Ultimate Tracking Macro
/castsequence [button:1] reset=3 Track Humanoids, Track Hidden, Track Demons
/castsequence [button:2] reset=3 Track Beasts, Track Elementals, Track Dragonkin
/castsequence [button:3] reset=3 Track Undead, Track Giants
This is an awesome Hunter macro that consolidates 8 buttons into one, saving a lot of space on your UI. It puts all your tracking spells into one button.
When you Left-Click once, you Track Humanoids, twice and you Track Hiden and three times and you Track Demons.
When you Right-Click once, you Track Beasts, twice and you Track Elementals and three times you Track Dragonkin.
When you Middle-Click once, you Track Undead and twice you Track Giants.
I tried to make the highest priority of trackers (for me, anyway) in a descending fashion. For example, Humans, Beasts and Undead and the three I use the most, so those took the first click of the three buttons.
The ‘reset=5′ option means that once you haven’t clicked for five seconds it resets back to the first tracker. You can change it to whatever you’d like.
#3: The Gathering Macro
/cast [button:1] Find Herbs
/cast [button:2] Find Minerals
This macro is only helpful if you have the two gathering professions. It saves one button on your interface but consolidating both the Find Herbs and Find Minerals into one macro. Left-Click to Find Herbs and Right-Click to Find Minerals.
#4: A Hawk, a Cheetah and a Monkey Walk into a Macro (Aspect Macro)
/cast [button:1] Aspect of the Hawk
/cast [button:2] Aspect of the Cheetah
/cast [button:3] Aspect of the Monkey
Again, consolidation is awesome. This puts three of the most important Aspects into one macro. Left-Click for Aspect of the Hawk, Right-Click for Aspect of the Cheetah and Middle-Click for Aspect of the Monkey. Simple and saves more space.
#5: Feed Your Pet
/cast Feed Pet
/use 3 1
This is a cool Auto-Feed button. What this does is takes food from the fourth backpack from the right in the first space and automatically feeds it to you pet. No more searching for food, unless, of course, you run out of food or something that isn’t edible is in that spot, in which case it brings up the feed cursor and you can feed them normally.
You can also modify this by replacing the 3 1 (with spaces) with the corresponding spot. You need to remember that your pack all the way to the right is 0, next is 1, 2, 3 and 4 to the left. The spot is counted from the top left.
Bonus: Save That Priest!!!!
/p Help! The Priest is under attack!
This can be a life saver when you play a Priest (or any healing class). Usually your group can take care of you, but if they don’t notice that you’re getting pummeled, it’s nice to remind them with this macro. Just hit it and it alerts your party that you’re under attack.
You can also make macros out of emotes and other sayings, like the ever popular “/moo” spam.
Macros are a very wonderful thing and I hope you can use these to your advantage!
