The Best Rogue Macros for Leveling & PvP | WoW Forever — Transcript

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1. 0:00If you're brand new to macros, I've
2. 0:01already made a complete beginner guide
3. 0:03that explains how to create them and
4. 0:04what all these commands mean. I'll link
5. 0:06that below. Today, we're jumping
6. 0:08straight into the rogue macros I
7. 0:09actually use.
8. 0:11For each macro, I'll tell you why I use
9. 0:13it and then [music] demonstrate it.
10. 0:15I'll have all the macros written out in
11. 0:16the description, so feel free to copy
12. 0:18and paste.
13. 0:19Let's get into it. The first macro I'll
14. 0:21cover is an all-in-one poison
15. 0:23application button.
16. 0:25Typically, when you apply poisons, you
17. 0:27have to open your bag, select the
18. 0:29poison, open up your gear menu, and
19. 0:31apply the poison.
20. 0:33This does all of that with a single
21. 0:35click.
22. 0:36If you look at the macro [music] text,
23. 0:39we have a shift mod for crippling,
24. 0:41control mod for deadly, an alt mod for
25. 0:45mind-numbing, and then instant poison,
26. 0:48which is most often used, does not have
27. 0:51a mod. Once the macro is created,
28. 0:53to apply instant poison to your main
29. 0:55hand, you'll just left click the button.
30. 1:01To apply it to your off-hand, you'll
31. 1:02right click the button.
32. 1:06And then, to show you the mods,
33. 1:09let's say we want to do crippling on
34. 1:10both.
35. 1:12We will shift
36. 1:13left click for main hand,
37. 1:16and shift right click for off-hand.
38. 1:21That's how it works.
39. 1:22Next, we'll discuss my mouseover macros.
40. 1:25Mouseover macros just allow you to put
41. 1:27your cursor over an enemy that you're
42. 1:29not currently tab targeted to and cast
43. 1:31that spell.
44. 1:32I like to use this for blind,
45. 1:35gouge, kick,
46. 1:38and sap.
47. 1:39The macro is set up so if you're not
48. 1:41mouse over an enemy, it'll cast the
49. 1:43ability on the target that you're
50. 1:45currently on.
51. 1:47I'll show you an example using blind.
52. 1:49We'll fight these two mobs. I'm going to
53. 1:51stay targeted to the one on the right,
54. 1:54and I'm going to blind the other one on
55. 1:56the left.
56. 2:04>> And mouse over blind.
57. 2:07And I'm still on this guy.
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61. 2:14This next macro allows you to distract
62. 2:16on your cursor
63. 2:18rather than hitting distract,
64. 2:21moving the target, and then clicking
65. 2:22again.
66. 2:24The normal distract pulls out the screen
67. 2:27target, and then you click.
68. 2:29And the macro here, if you see my
69. 2:32cursor, I'll point where I want to
70. 2:33distract, and then hit the button.
71. 2:37Now we'll hit a few of the weapon swap
72. 2:38macros that I use, especially while
73. 2:40leveling.
74. 2:41You may have two really good swords
75. 2:43while you're leveling, and then all of a
76. 2:44sudden you get a dagger from a dungeon
77. 2:46drop or a quest giver.
78. 2:50Instead of wasting the dagger or getting
79. 2:52rid of the sword,
80. 2:54just make a weapon swap macro, and then
81. 2:56you can utilize both.
82. 2:57When I get a really good dagger,
83. 3:00even if I'm not using it in my entire
84. 3:01rotation, I'll at least use it for some
85. 3:03ambush openers or maybe some backstabs
86. 3:07here and there.
87. 3:08I prefer to macro my dagger swap into my
88. 3:10stealth, but you could also put it into
89. 3:12the ambush or backstab ability itself.
90. 3:16You may wonder, well, how do I get my
91. 3:17sword back if I want to use that when
92. 3:19I'm out of stealth?
93. 3:21You would just macro
94. 3:23the sword swap
95. 3:24into your sinister strike or hemo,
96. 3:26depending on the spec that you're
97. 3:27running, since that's your main use
98. 3:30ability. I'm sub right now and have it
99. 3:32macroed into hemo. It would look like
100. 3:34this.
101. 3:36To show you how this works, I pulled up
102. 3:37my gear tab so you can see the weapon
103. 3:40that I have equipped.
104. 3:43Right now my sword is equipped.
105. 3:45When I hit stealth,
106. 3:47it swaps the dagger.
107. 3:50I open with an ambush,
108. 3:52and then when I hemo,
109. 3:54it swaps back to sword.
110. 3:57I have a bad habit of spamming my
111. 3:58stealth button
112. 4:00to get to stealth as quickly as I
113. 4:02Sometimes that results in pressing it
114. 4:04one too many times and I'm caught out of
115. 4:06stealth.
116. 4:08This macro prevents that.
117. 4:10This is what it looks like.
118. 4:11The exclamation point in stealth
119. 4:14makes it to where this only works if
120. 4:17you're out of stealth.
121. 4:19So, if you're in stealth and you press
122. 4:21stealth one more time, it won't pull you
123. 4:23out of it.
124. 4:24If you use this as your stealth button,
125. 4:26the only way to get out of stealth is to
126. 4:28open up on someone or use an ability
127. 4:31that takes you out of stealth.
128. 4:33Not a huge fan of that, so I added this
129. 4:36cancel aura command
130. 4:39into the macro.
131. 4:42The way it works is when I cast my
132. 4:45stealth button, I go into stealth and if
133. 4:47I need to get out of stealth,
134. 4:49I press shift and my stealth button and
135. 4:51it takes me out. To demonstrate this, I
136. 4:53just pulled my stealth button up next to
137. 4:55my character so you can see me spamming
138. 4:57it.
139. 4:59Right now, I'm out of stealth.
140. 5:02Now, I'm in stealth
141. 5:04and no matter how much I spam this, it
142. 5:06doesn't pull me out.
143. 5:09When I click shift and stealth, it does
144. 5:11pull me out.
145. 5:14Before I end the video, I wanted to
146. 5:16cover
147. 5:17three other macros quickly.
148. 5:20I'll put them on the screen here so you
149. 5:21can see them.
150. 5:24Starting at the top is just a quality of
151. 5:25life thing.
152. 5:27I'll typically put my ambush and
153. 5:29backstab in the same key
154. 5:32since one of them is only used in
155. 5:34stealth and the other one is out of
156. 5:35stealth.
157. 5:36It just simplifies your bars a bit.
158. 5:38Especially helpful for newer players.
159. 5:41I know if you've played rogue before,
160. 5:43you're stealthing around and maybe you
161. 5:45hear an enemy stealth rogue walk past
162. 5:48you.
163. 5:50Maybe they highlighted for a split
164. 5:51second, but you couldn't tab or click on
165. 5:53them fast enough to sap them.
166. 5:55This one here helps with that. Say
167. 5:58you're in stealth, a rogue walks by.
168. 6:01Now, you're spamming the rogue sap. A
169. 6:02lot of times this will help you get the
170. 6:04jump on other rogues. Then last one
171. 6:06here, which I have not yet tested
172. 6:09in WoW forever.
173. 6:10It did work in classic, but was a little
174. 6:12finicky. You can bind your pickpocket to
175. 6:15your openers.
176. 6:17And since pickpocket is instant and off
177. 6:21the global cooldown,
178. 6:23theoretically, you would pickpocket and
179. 6:25open at the same time.
180. 6:28All right, that's going to wrap it up
181. 6:29for this one. I'll leave all the macros
182. 6:31down in the description if you want to
183. 6:33try them out.
184. 6:34If you found the video helpful, feel
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186. 6:37Thanks for watching, and I'll see you
187. 6:39next time.