The Egotistical Priest
An irreverent and opinionated discussion of the many classes
in the World of Warcraft gaming universe.
A Rival Macro
by A Rival Village
While we appreciate all the ‘3 things you love about your class’, there were not nearly enough ninjas involved. In fact, ninjas were only mentioned three times. Maybe four.
Also, there was no gold.
We know we said you had a choice, but come on. It was really about the gold.
We are a forgiving village, though, with a long and illustrious history of no one ever hearing about us. Can’t last forever, so we’re going to try this thing where we talk about the priest class and you listen to us and do what we tell you.
Miss Space Goat does it all the time, so it can’t be too hard.
FIRST. A macro. Everyone loves macros, and it makes you look really smart when you tell other people how to do a macro. Macros are good for two things: accomplishing more than one thing at a time, and spamming battlegrounds chat. YES THAT IS US. WE DID THAT. And we put you on ignore when you complained. You should have taken RH first like we told you!!
Ahem.
Here is a priesty macro. It will serve you well, so use it judiciously.
/mock
/cast Shadow Word: Pain
/cast Shoot
Pick an icon like a melty skull. The one with the green goo and the eyeballs looking up like “Oh no, ninjas!” It may be from a warlock spell. Doesn’t matter.
This infinitely useful macro will allow you to lay down the pain, and humiliation, on that oppressor who threatens your cloth-wearing hide. It will place that DoT of Pain on them, AND will immediately set you to auto-shooting your wand at the target. No clicking the button twice, no waiting for a cooldown. Click it once and go get a drink. When you come back, one of you will be dead! It is time AND mana efficient, as you are only using one spell, a fire-and-forget spell, and then wanding them to death (yours or theirs).
Think of it like that hunter macro where you put the mark over the target, and send your pet out at the same time. It’s just like that, except your wand is shooting lots of pet…things.
There. Now you are smarter. WE DID YOU A SERVICE, TODAY.
Now give us – er, tell us your favorite macro. Or 1 Million Gold. And we’ll think about relinquishing your precious egotistical priest.
July 10th, 2008
I would have to go with
/tar demon
If you must know, this one is for Illhoof in Kara and Im pretty certain everyone being sacrificed will appreciate you having it
July 10th, 2008
Either my shackle macro or
/cast Beserking
/use Icon of the Silver Crescent
/cast Mind Blast
July 10th, 2008
/e steals %t’s kidney.
July 10th, 2008
Or well…I guess
#showtooltip Flash Heal
/stopcasting
/cast [target=mouseover,exists,help] [exists,help] [target=targettarget,exists,help] Flash Heal
is good too.
Kidney stealing is better though. Much better.
July 10th, 2008
I like my sap’n’steal macro:
/cast Sap
/cast Pick Pocket
It helps to have autoloot on for that one…
This Rival Village seems to be sneaky and cunning…this may require drastic measures…and a new macro….
/tar A Rival Village of Ninjas
/cast Summon Pirate Army
/y YOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
July 10th, 2008
#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=8 Windfury Totem, Grace of Air Totem
Mmmmm totem twisting…
I also have /chicken macro’d… that’s another favorite.
July 10th, 2008
/tar Rival
/cast Nature’s Swiftness
/cast Cyclone
Gimme Ego back!
July 10th, 2008
/say To me, my Pretty Pony!
/cast Summon Charger
July 10th, 2008
@ Siobhann
Can’t. Pirates will eat us.
July 10th, 2008
My favorite macro is the following, because it looks like someone got the punctuation backwards:
/cast !Shoot
July 10th, 2008
I have 3 macros total for my priest. For some reason, I never use macros.
/cast Spirit Volley
/cast Spirit Lance
/cast Spirit Chains
lol. I kid you not. If you’ve been there, then you noes why!
oh use this sometimes when I feel lazy
/target xmob
/cast Shackle Undead
my mage uses:
#showtooltip [target=focus,harm] [] Polymorph(rank 1: Turtle)
/stopcasting
/clearfocus [modifier:shift][target=focus,dead][target=focus,noexists]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/cast [target=focus] Polymorph(rank 1: Turtle)
July 10th, 2008
/target Sunrath
/follow
/get a soda
July 10th, 2008
@ Siobhann
The Rival Village is right, we totally will. We will be staging a swashbuckling rescue attempt later, if you want in on that.
July 11th, 2008
/cast inner focus
/cast devouring plague
Free cast dev plague… alot cheaper then 1k mana and it heals you through spirit bolts
July 11th, 2008
My babies:
/cast [harm,nodead] Chain Lightning; Chain Heal
/cast [harm,nodead] Lightning Bolt; Healing Wave
Behold, the intuitiveness!
July 11th, 2008
/tar rabbit
/y FEAR ME!
/cast Fear
/cackle
July 11th, 2008
i like the classic:
#showtooltip
/cast [target:player] (insert random buff/heal here)
July 11th, 2008
@Hildi:
You don’t have the pet bar replace action bar 1 on that?
July 11th, 2008
@Esoth - well, way back before they fixed it so that it would actually work with the assorted toolbar addons people use, you *needed* to make macros. So, basically I never really changed to use the action bar swap. TBH, I’m so used to my using my macros for that, when the ghosts pop I just automatically go into kill mode and I never really noticed if the bar pops up lol. Since the guild refuses to go into BT anymore until KJ is dedded, I doubt the macro’s or the toolbar swap will get much use
July 12th, 2008
My fave macro:
/cast [harm][target=targettarget,harm] Shadowfiend
You mean I don’t need to deselect the tank in order to use shadowfiend on a boss? Excellent!
July 14th, 2008
Similar to Hildi’s Polymorph, I found this macro within a wonderful “How To Macro” post and can’t believe I ever shackled the old way of tabbing to the target then Shackle. I can stay focused on my healing duties and smack the Shackle button occasionally to keep the mob right where I left it.
/clearfocus [modifier:shift]
/clearfocus [exists,dead]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]
/cast [target=focus] Shackle Undead
The link to the entire How To is:
http://priestlyendeavors.wordpress.com/category/tools-addons-macros-and-others/writing-a-macro-series/
If you ever wanted to learn how to write macros. That is the place to start.
The sad news is priestlyendeavors is leaving WOW - QQ
July 17th, 2008
I’m late to the party (as usual), but I must say, Zaviji’s macro just became my favorite!
Oh, I did recently add this to most of my healy spells, though:
/cast [target=mouseover, help][help][target=targettarget, help][target=player] Greater Heal (or whatever)
This is especially useful for me with Grid.
And welcome back, Vonya!
November 26th, 2008
@ Kestrel: If you’re late, I missed the whole thing.
Here’s one I use for all my priestly buffs.
#showtooltip
/target (your name here, or “self” i guess)
/castsequence reset=5 Inner Fire, Power Word: Fortitude, Divine Spirit, Shadow Protection
/targetlasttarget
This lets me spam one button to buff up, and when IF runs out (because it lasts 10 minutes and the others last 30, or I get hit 52 times in under 10 minutes) I can just hit the button once and grab me some armor and spellpowers. Also, targetlasttarget lets me throw up more IF if it runs out during a fight.
_Misa
December 14th, 2008
It’s really odd. as frustrating as it can be sometimes, I always go back to rolling priests, undead usually, but I never really got around to using macros. Seemed like quartz took me off of my game. Anyone have any good dps macros?