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0:00This is a collection of some incredibly
0:01useful mage macros you can use to be a
0:04more effective mage in World of Warcraft
0:06Forever. We're going to start with cast
0:08on cursor macros, move into our
0:09offensive spells, then close it out with
0:11some oneb button quality of life stuff.
0:14This is a supplementary video to my
0:15ultimate mage guide for beginners. So,
0:17if you're looking to get started strong
0:19on mage in the leveling journey, highly
0:21recommend checking out that video as
0:22well. I will have that linked for you in
0:23the description. All right, let's start
0:25off with the power of cast on cursor. So
0:28these are really good especially for
0:29mage because we have a lot of AOE
0:31spells. So basically what this does is
0:34if I look at something like my normal
0:36blizzard and I pull this out onto my
0:38bars and I go to click it here. When I
0:40hit this bind, it's going to bring up
0:42this green circle. I then have to
0:44position this green circle and then
0:45leftclick again in order to do the cast.
0:48Right? So it's actually two keystrokes.
0:50I have to hit the keybind and then I
0:52have to position it and left click in
0:54order for it to happen. We can reduce
0:55the time to cast it in half by taking
0:58away that whole second part with a cast
1:01on cursor macro. So we can do something
1:03like this for rank one blizzard and we
1:06can have a similar one for our max rank
1:08blizzard. I recommend having both of
1:10these bound depending on how you're
1:12trying to use Blizzard specifically. We
1:14can see I have my rank one here on
1:16controlr. Now, if I hit that bind
1:18wherever my cursor is, it's going to
1:20instantly cast Blizzard without pulling
1:22up that green circle and h and me having
1:24to left click. It's going to make your
1:26blizzard just come out way faster. It's
1:28going to make casting AoE spells feel
1:30much much better because you're just
1:32going to be able to instantly throw them
1:35out wherever your cursor is. And it's
1:37going to come out much faster than
1:38having to move that green circle and
1:40leftclick it. And then we can do the
1:42same exact thing for flame strike,
1:43right? where if I click on flame strike,
1:45it brings up the green circle and I have
1:47to click it in order to actually cast
1:48it. With this flame strike macro at
1:50cursor, I can just press the bind and
1:52it's just going to start to cast it
1:54wherever my cursor is at. Just like
1:56that. Now, you can also do this with any
1:59kind of throwable as well, guys, which
2:01is really cool. So, for mage, like I
2:04think it's perfect for scroll of
2:05cryoblast, but like let's say you were
2:07doing engineering and PvPing, you know,
2:10this could be iron grenade. Um, it could
2:12basically be any throwable that has a
2:16kind of green targeting reticle where
2:18you have to leftclick it in order to use
2:20it, right? So, and specifically for the
2:22iron grenade, you might want to add
2:24actually stop casting into here. Um,
2:26this is going to make it so if you press
2:27it a second time, it's going to cancel
2:31the cast. Like, you know how grenades
2:32have that kind of windup cast? This is
2:34going to make it so if you start to
2:36throw it and it's not looking good, you
2:38can press the button again to stop
2:40throwing the grenade instead of it
2:42continuing to go through. So if we look
2:44at that with our scroll of cryoblast,
2:45which is on the same cool down as
2:47grenade, our nice little AoE thing. If
2:49we are just using the scroll of
2:50cryoblast normally, like if we drag it
2:52onto our bar and click it, we have to do
2:54the same thing where we move this target
2:56reticle in order to cast it. With our
2:59macro here, I can just click it once and
3:02it's just going to huck it instantly,
3:03right? And you can decide whether you
3:05want to include the stop casting here
3:07with the cryobblast scroll or not. It's
3:09especially useful for grenades. I don't
3:11think it's as useful with the cryoblast
3:13scroll, but if you wanted to have the
3:15control to be able to stop the cast, you
3:16could leave that in there as well.
3:18Before we dive into our offensive
3:20spells, there's two cancel aura macros
3:22that are incredibly incredibly important
3:24for mage. You can try to put these in
3:26the same button. In my opinion, they
3:28kind of feel like trash in the same
3:30button because especially if you have
3:32any amount of latency. It's really easy
3:35to accidentally cancel the cast when
3:37you're just trying to do it and not
3:39cancel it. So, I very much prefer having
3:41these in separate buttons. And the mana
3:43shield one actually just doesn't work at
3:45all in forever on the same button cuz it
3:47just pulls off the shield right when you
3:49cast it. But basically, for our ice
3:51block and for our mana shield, we need a
3:53way to cancel that instantly. So it's a
3:56very very simple macro. You see cancel a
3:58ice block and I have mine on like an alt
4:01modifier but I actually have that
4:03existing as a keybind. So we can see I
4:05have ice block on X here. I have on alt
4:08X this cancel our ice block. So if I
4:10want to cast ice block but I want to
4:12instant get out of it. Let's say I'm
4:13like in a situation where I just need to
4:15like immune a big spell coming at me and
4:17then instantly be back in the action. I
4:19can just
4:21literally instantly block and unblock
4:24without having to worry about going up
4:26here and right-clicking this buff and
4:28that taking a bunch of time. It's the
4:30quickest way to be able to just insta
4:33out of your block. And if you have it on
4:35on a separate button like this, you have
4:36full control where you can smash your
4:38ice block and not worry about it ever
4:41auto cancelling when you don't want it
4:42to, right? And then as soon as you want
4:44it to cancel, you can just press this
4:46other cancel our ice block and get out
4:48of it. That same exact idea uh applies
4:51to mana shield. And mana shield, guys,
4:54you should not use it unless you are in
4:56an extremely dire situation where you're
4:59ready to sacrifice the rest of your
5:01mana. It's an extremely mana inensive
5:04ability to use. So, there's really like
5:07not very many situations to be honest
5:10where you're going to want to be using
5:12your mana shield like a ton. Um, it's
5:14very good for like situationally saving
5:16yourself where you don't have any health
5:19to give, but you have some mana to give.
5:21But there's a lot of situations where
5:23you use it to save yourself and you
5:25continue to get pelted and going oo is
5:28actually the thing that's going to kill
5:30you cuz you're no longer going to able
5:31to blink, going to be able to frost
5:33nova. So, you don't ever want to go
5:35fully oo with it either. So, the way we
5:37can use it is we can cast it. You can
5:40see I have mine on shift two. For alt 2,
5:42I have this cancel our mana shield. So,
5:45we can cast it and then very quickly
5:47whenever we need to, we can just drop it
5:49off and let stuff start hitting our
5:51health bar instead of our mana bar. Once
5:53you get used to this, especially for
5:54situations like PvP, you're going to
5:56find your mana shield is much more worth
5:58using cuz you don't have to give the
6:01entire value of mana of the mana shield.
6:03You can use it to soak something very
6:05specific and then you can instantly drop
6:07it off and you know keep your mana up
6:10and be using your health bar again. You
6:12could do the same exact cancel arrow
6:14with slowfall if you want. That one's
6:16not quite as important. Uh unless you're
6:18like really using it a lot in PvP. Uh a
6:21lot of times you can just rightclick the
6:22buff up here to get the slow fall off.
6:24But you could do the same exact thing
6:26for slowfall. You just do slow fall like
6:28this. Right. Before we dive into the
6:31offensive spell macros, I want to set
6:32you guys up to really understand this
6:34autotarget function. These two lines of
6:36all of these macros are completely
6:38optional. Whether you like this function
6:40or not, you can simply leave them in or
6:42delete them based on your preference.
6:44I'm going to explain kind of the pros
6:45and cons of both. I was testing this
6:47quite a bit in the beta, and the real
6:49advantage of using the autotarget is
6:52it's a single keystroke. So, just like
6:54the idea with our cast on cursor macro
6:57where you can reduce two keystrokes to
6:59one and thus perform the action quicker,
7:02that same exact idea applies to this
7:04autotargeting where instead of having to
7:06always tab target and then use a spell,
7:08which is two keystrokes. In a lot of
7:10situations, we can just straight up use
7:12the spell and in one fell swoop, it's
7:14going to acquire the very first target
7:16in front of us and cast our spell in one
7:19keystroke. If you already have a target
7:21acquired, these two lines of the macro
7:23are going to do absolutely nothing. The
7:25only time these come into effect is when
7:28you don't have a target, you're
7:29targeting something that's dead or
7:31you're targeting yourself. Someone could
7:32make the argument that it's going to be
7:34easier to break crowd control if you are
7:36autotargeting. That's only going to be
7:38the case if you're kind of spamming
7:39these buttons for no reason. And I would
7:41argue that if you're spamming your
7:42buttons, you're going to be breaking the
7:44crowd control anyways. The buttons are
7:46not going to press themselves. So, the
7:48only time you're going to autotarget
7:50something that's crowdcontrolled is if
7:52you press the button when you don't have
7:54a target and the crowdcontrolled mob is
7:56the first thing closest to you. So, to
7:58avoid this in a situation where you have
8:00to maintain crowd control on a target,
8:02simply tab target and these two lines of
8:04the macro are going to do absolutely
8:06nothing. And the reason I've been
8:08messing with this a lot is because
8:09Blizzard built in both the autotarget
8:12functionality as well as the start
8:13attack functionality to most melee
8:16abilities in the game. So if you like
8:18the way that feels on melee abilities
8:20and you want to replicate it with your
8:21spells, that's basically what this is
8:23going to do for all of our different
8:25offensive spells. I encourage you to
8:27mess around with it, see if you like it.
8:29If you don't, simply delete those two
8:30lines and you're all good. The other
8:32thing we have in here that's going to be
8:33included in most of our spells is this
8:35start attack. So, by default, if you go
8:38to cast a spell on something, it's just
8:40going to cast the spell, but it's not
8:42going to begin your melee attack
8:44animation. So, if it gets up on you,
8:47you're just going to be standing here
8:48not doing anything. And our melee attack
8:51swing, guys, does not interfere at all
8:53with our spell casting. You can always
8:55have your melee swing activated like
8:57this where if something gets in range,
8:58you'll swing and you can just do all
9:01your casting like you normally would,
9:03and it's not going to interfere. The
9:04only way they interact is when you cast
9:06a spell, your swing timer is going to
9:08reset. So, there's literally no reason
9:11like not to be melee swinging at stuff
9:14with any character. Even if it's just a
9:17tiny bit of damage, every little bit
9:18adds up. And there's no reason not to.
9:20Like, one damage is more than zero
9:22damage, guys. Because of that, along
9:24with our autotarget, we're going to be
9:26including start attack in pretty much
9:28every one of our offensive spell macros.
9:30That way you don't ever have to worry
9:32about actually pressing an attack button
9:34yourself or right clicking. This is just
9:36always going to be on. So you'll see if
9:38I cast the fireball here without right
9:40clicking or anything, I'm just
9:41attacking, right? So now in any
9:43situation where it closes the gap on me,
9:45regardless of what I'm doing, my
9:47character is just going to get in a few
9:49random melee attacks here and there
9:51without me having to think about it at
9:52all. Now we get to the actual cast part
9:54of the macro. Basically, what this is
9:56going to do is if we have something
9:58targeted or if we autotarget with
10:00nothing selected, it's going to cast our
10:03max rank fireball. The other reason this
10:05is good is every time you get a new rank
10:06of fireball, you never have to worry
10:08about dragging it on your bars cuz this
10:10is always going to cast max rank. So, it
10:12also just makes things easier as you're
10:14leveling up by making sure you're always
10:16casting your max rank spells. So, if we
10:18just autotarget, it's casting max rank
10:20fireball, right? If we have this same
10:22target selected, it's just going to cast
10:24max rank fireball just like normal.
10:26However, what we can do is we also have
10:28a mouse over included in this. So, if we
10:30want to, let's say, cast a fireball on
10:32this guy while we still keep this guy
10:34targeted, we can now do that. See how I
10:36have the bassilis targeted, but I'm
10:38casting fireballs over on this hyena.
10:40This is called a mouseover macro. So, it
10:42basically lets you do the spell whatever
10:44you're mousing over instead of your
10:47actual target. So, it just is going to
10:50give you more control with your fireball
10:52where you're going to be able to shoot
10:53fireball at multiple things without
10:56changing target if you don't want to.
10:57And if you don't want to utilize that
10:58function, you just don't hover anything
11:00and it's just going to be a completely
11:02normal max rank fireball, right? And
11:05you'll see I have something in here
11:06where if you want to, especially for
11:08different PvP situations, you can make
11:11this mouseover uh rank one. So, we can
11:13see my mouseover is actually rank one
11:15fireball. And so this lets you not only,
11:18you know, mouse over a different target
11:20and cast it, it'll actually let you cast
11:22rank one at your current target by
11:24hovering your current target. So see,
11:26we're ripping out a rank one fireball
11:28here instead of max rank. That's cuz I
11:30hovered my current target. So depending
11:32on the situation and how you're trying
11:34to use this, you can basically decide if
11:37you want to mouse over cast max rank
11:39fireballs at different targets or if you
11:41want to include the rank one in the
11:43mouse over and have it cast rank one
11:45fireball. Completely up to you.
11:47Completely depends on how you're using
11:49fireball. But just know that the rank
11:51one option does exist. All you have to
11:54do is do parentheses
11:57rank one. Boom. Right here before the
12:00little semicolon. Now, that's going to
12:02have some very niche cases with
12:04Fireball. It's going to be much, much
12:05better with something like Frostbolt.
12:07Quick update here. In the very last
12:09patch, right before launch day when I'm
12:11making this video, they actually removed
12:13Frost Blast from the game and added the
12:15proc functionality back into rank one
12:18spells. So, we're going to be casting
12:19rank one frostbolt, not only for the
12:21slow, but also for the procs just like
12:24it always has been. And in general, rank
12:27one frostbolt or frost blast are
12:30incredibly useful just for slowing
12:31something at range. It's a 1 second
12:33cast, it's a one and a half second, so
12:35still really good if you're not talented
12:36into it. But if you're talented into
12:38improbolt, it's a literal 1 second cast
12:41for by default a 9-second can get up to
12:44a 12 second slow and it's a 40% slow can
12:48be talented up to 50% with perafrost. So
12:51it's just an incredibly strong way to
12:53keep stuff at range and kite. And you
12:55can see because that was frost blast, it
12:58has a chance to proc our fingers, right?
13:00So, keeping all that in mind, let's look
13:02at our frostbolt macro, which you can
13:04see very much mirrors the fireball macro
13:06almost exactly. We're just changing
13:08everything to frostbolt. So, we have the
13:10autotarget functionality here. We have
13:12the start attack functionality here. And
13:15then we have base frostbolt casting, but
13:18we have this optional mouse over here,
13:20which we can use to cast rank one.
13:22Again, this is going to be really useful
13:24in PvP with the rank one uh mouseover
13:27especially. But just as an example,
13:28let's say I need both of these bass for
13:30a quest without having either of them
13:31targeted. I can cast frostbolt. It's
13:33going to max rank on the one nearest to
13:35me. Then I can mouse over this one and I
13:37can cast it again and it's going to rank
13:39one just tag that one and get it running
13:41toward me slowed. And I can just blow
13:44this one up while that one's just slowly
13:46making it its way over here. And you
13:48know, we get two quest tags instead of
13:50one. And again, if you have this one
13:51targeted and you don't mouse over, it's
13:53going to do a max rank frostbolt, right?
13:55But I can mouse over it and cast my
13:57frostbolt and it's going to rank one. So
13:59I can very quickly max rank or rank one
14:02depending on if I'm hovering it or not.
14:04And that's just going to make your life
14:05so much easier on mage being able to
14:08very quickly alter the functionality
14:11like that without having to use a
14:13separate keybind. Next, let's take a
14:15look at arcane missiles. You're going to
14:17see at the beginning here, very similar
14:19thing. We have the autotarget
14:20functionality. We have the start attack
14:22functionality. But this part is
14:24different. So instead of doing a
14:25mouseover macro for our missiles, what's
14:27much more important than that is never
14:30cancelceing the channel or recasting it
14:33over itself. So if I have something
14:35targeted and then I cast and I go to
14:37cast again, see how it's going to
14:39restart my channel as soon as my global
14:41cooldown is up. So you can't ever spam
14:43this. And the reason that sucks is
14:45because there's a lot of times when
14:47you're like nearing the end of your
14:49arcane missiles cast, like right here,
14:51where you want to cast it again, but you
14:53want to cast it without skipping the end
14:55of the channel cuz you don't want to
14:56short yourself any missiles, right? So,
14:59what we can do instead is use this no
15:01channeling macro. All this does is it
15:04means if we're casting arcane missiles,
15:07we cannot cast arcane missiles. And so
15:09that is going to let you chain cast
15:12missiles together much more reliably,
15:15especially if you're getting push back,
15:16if you're getting attacked, without ever
15:18missing a beat. You're never going to
15:20miss another missile again because you
15:23can just smash it and it's never going
15:25to recast itself until you're done. And
15:27especially if you have any amount of
15:28latency, this is the least downtime
15:30you're ever going to be able to get
15:32between channels. And you see if you
15:33have push back, it's going to instantly
15:35at the end of your push back start a new
15:37channel without you having to like time
15:39it perfectly based on when these random
15:42auto attacks are coming through with the
15:43push back. Right? So this one in my
15:45opinion makes channeling missiles
15:47together, especially if you're playing
15:49like Arcane and you're getting or really
15:51any spec now now that uh that missile
15:54barrage has moved up here. Literally any
15:57spec can use missiles. So this is going
15:59to be good for basically every version
16:01of mage. Um, highly recommend this no
16:03channeling macro. Okay, now let's take a
16:05look at Arcane Explosion. This one's
16:07really cool, actually. So, basically all
16:09this does is it's going to first
16:11dismount us. So, a lot of the times it's
16:14important to be able to dismount quickly
16:16to take an action. So, in PvE, like if
16:18you're trying to tag a quest mob in PvP,
16:21if you like hear a rogue stealth or
16:24something like that, it's very useful to
16:26be able to instantly dismount. Now, if
16:28we Arcane Explosion, it's going to
16:30instantly take us off our mount in
16:32Arcane Explosion with one button. So,
16:34anytime you ride up on something and you
16:37need a quick pop, you're going to be
16:38able to instantly do it. And then what
16:41this does is basically if we're outside
16:44of combat, meaning we're using our
16:46Arcane Explosion to like get a rogue out
16:48of stealth or to tag something where we
16:51don't really need the damage, we want
16:52the mana cost to be as low as possible
16:54for that, right? So, especially when
16:56we're level 60, the rank one version of
16:59Arcane Explosion is going to take like a
17:01tiny tiny chunk of our mana. So, anytime
17:04we're out of combat, it's always going
17:06to be the minimal amount of mana just to
17:08get the tag or to knock the rogue or
17:10druid out of stealth, right? But as soon
17:12as we get into combat, it's going to
17:14automatically switch to the max rank
17:16one. You can see it's taking way more
17:18mana now and it's doing the damage of my
17:20max rank explosion. And that's just this
17:23little toggle here. means if in combat
17:25cast regular arcane explosion at max
17:27rank otherwise which is out of combat
17:30cast arcane explosion at rank one. Our
17:33next macro is fire blast and this has a
17:35couple things from our other macros
17:37combined. So it has the quick dismount
17:39where now if we're on our mount anything
17:41we have targeted we can just very
17:43quickly press fire blast and it's going
17:45to dismount us and instantly hit them.
17:47It has the autotarget functionality that
17:49we've seen out of a lot of our other
17:51spells. It has the start attack built
17:53in, so we make sure we always have our
17:55melee attack engaged because it doesn't
17:57interfere with our casting at all. It's
17:58just free DPS even though it's a tiny
18:00bit. And then we have the mouseover
18:01macro. So if we have something targeted
18:03and we press fire blast, it's going to
18:06just do max rank fire blast just like
18:08normal, right? If I mouse over that same
18:11target, it's going to do rank one fire
18:12blast. And I can use that same mouseover
18:15functionality on something that's not my
18:18target. So, I could rank one fire blast
18:20this guy while still having this target
18:22selected. If you're like not PvPing and
18:25you want to be able to hit uh off
18:27targets with your fire blast without
18:29deselecting target, you can just very
18:31quickly take out this rank one like
18:33this. And now you're going to have the
18:34same exact functionality where you can
18:36have this targeted and you can fire
18:37blast this guy except it's going to be
18:40at max rank instead of rank one. Right?
18:42So depending on the situation and how
18:43you're trying to use this, you can
18:45basically decide um if you want to
18:47include rank one here or not, we can
18:51take this same exact format and do it
18:53with all of our talented abilities, too.
18:55Basically, anything that's a range
18:57spellcast that you want to do this with,
18:59you can add it in. So, Arcane Blast
19:01would look just like this. And if we had
19:03the talent picked up, it would show the
19:06icon here like normal. If we wanted to
19:08do it with Arcane Wrath, it would look
19:10like this. Same exact thing. Autotarget,
19:12start attack, cast on my target unless I
19:15mouse over something. Iceland, same
19:16exact thing. And then finally, pyro
19:18blast would be very similar thing. Just
19:20like this, same exact thing. Autotarget,
19:23start attack, cast on my target unless I
19:25mouse over. Boom. So, that covers our
19:27offensive spells. Now, we're going to
19:29get into a couple really clutch utility
19:31things, and these are focused around our
19:34core utility skills, things like blink,
19:36counter spell, etc. Let's start with the
19:38blink macro. So, this is very simple
19:41macro. We're going to stop our current
19:43spell cast. If we're in an ice block,
19:45we're going to cancel it and we're going
19:47to instantly blink. What this lets you
19:49do is if you have regular blink on, if I
19:52start casting a spell
19:55and I want to blink during that,
19:58I I literally can't. It won't let me,
20:00right? I have to move like I just did to
20:02actually cancel the cast if I want to be
20:05able to get get the blink off. In most
20:07situations, if you're pressing blink,
20:09you need to blink right now. And so, you
20:11want to blink regardless of whatever
20:13you're doing. That's what this stop
20:15casting macro does. So, if I do my macro
20:18blink, if I line up the fireball, but
20:20then I decide I need to get out of here
20:22without pressing anything, without
20:24pressing escape, without doing anything
20:26else, one click, I can instantly stop
20:29that cast and get the hell out of there.
20:31So, you're no longer ever going to be
20:32stuck not being able to blink. Just keep
20:36in mind with this in place, if you like
20:38accidentally press blink or something
20:40midcast when you don't mean to, it is
20:41going to cancel that cast. Next, if we
20:44are in our ice block without any other
20:46input, without using the cancel our ice
20:48block macro we already talked about, we
20:50just include that with our blink. Now I
20:52can just instantly
20:55blink and it actually is two keystrokes
20:58for the cancel ice block. So the first
21:00one is going to cancel the ice block,
21:02the second one's going to blink. So if
21:04you want to get out of an ice block
21:05super quick, you want to mash it. So you
21:08do both these things like back to back
21:10instantly. Our default counter spell
21:12works just like blink where if we are in
21:14a cast already, we're not going to be
21:16able to counter spell while we're
21:18casting, right? So using the macro
21:20version, this line will instantly stop
21:22our casting so that we can turn and
21:25counter spell on a dime without having
21:27to worry about whether we're midcast or
21:29not. So we need to do this guy can very
21:32quickly do it, right? And you saw right
21:33there, you can even counter spell
21:35without having to switch targets. See
21:37how we have the scorpion targeted still?
21:39That's this part of the of the counter
21:41spell macro, just like we've been doing
21:43with all of our other macros. Finally,
21:45we have polymorph. And this one is set
21:47up identical to counter spell. So, the
21:49same exact way counter spell works like
21:51we just talked about where it's going to
21:53autotarget if we don't have a target the
21:56closest thing to us. If we're casting
21:58something else, it's going to cancel
22:00that cast so we can go into our poly.
22:02And if we don't mouse over anything,
22:03it's going to cast on our selected
22:05target. And we can also mouse over
22:08something else with our selected target
22:10still selected and do the mouseover
22:12version as well. Last macro in the
22:15utility belt is going to be our deurse
22:17macro. And this basically lets you cast
22:20deurse multiple different ways with a
22:21single button. So if I have a target
22:24selected and I cast it, it's going to
22:26decrease that target, right? I can also
22:28have that target selected and hover a
22:30different target and it's going to decse
22:32my hover target. So, if I don't have
22:34something hovered, it's going to go on
22:35my target. If I have something mouse
22:36over, it's going to go on my mouse over
22:38target. Right? And then finally, if I
22:40have no target, it's going to do it on
22:42myself. Or if I have myself targeted,
22:44right? So, with something targeted, it's
22:46going to go on them. Mouse over, you can
22:48do it on anyone regardless of your
22:50target. And then with nothing targeted,
22:52it's going to go on you. And this is
22:54just going to make your life decing way,
22:56way easier. the same concept we've been
22:58looking at with the autotargeting along
23:00with the mouseover functionality. I
23:02built a wand macro that does a very
23:04similar thing and I actually made a full
23:06guide not only on how to set up that
23:08macro, but also how to set up your swing
23:10timers and how to wand kite effectively.
23:12So rather than re-explain all of that
23:14here, I'm just going to link that video
23:15for you in the description if you want
23:17to check it out and add that wand macro
23:19into these mage macros. All right, let's
23:22get into some useful quality of life
23:24macros. These are mainly stuff you're
23:26going to be casting outside of combat,
23:28buffs, summons, consumables, etc. So,
23:31you can see I have these on my big bar
23:33that's down here to the left, not bound
23:35to anything, whereas all these other
23:37buttons I have bound to keybinds. Quick
23:39extra note here, guys. You can actually
23:41bind these if you want. You just have to
23:43make sure that the button that you bind
23:45it to does not have anything bound to
23:47its modifier. So, for example, if you
23:49were going to bind one of these to T,
23:51you just need to make sure that you
23:52don't have anything bound to shift T,
23:54control T, or Alt T, and then it'll
23:56work. So, first one is a onebutton buff.
23:58So, basically, if I leftclick this, it's
24:00going to apply my ice armor. If I hold
24:03shift, it's going to now modify it. So,
24:05if I shift leftclick it, it's going to
24:07do my Arcane Intellect. If I control
24:08leftclick it, it's going to do my
24:10dampen. And if I alt leftclick it, it's
24:11going to do my amplify magic. So,
24:13basically the four kind of main buffs
24:16you can cast on yourself, they're going
24:18to be all right here in one button. And
24:20then you can see here, guys, I actually
24:22have this modded with button two to also
24:25cast mage armor when we get it unlocked
24:26at level 34. So, the same way you
24:29leftclick it to apply ice armor, you're
24:31going to be able to rightclick it and
24:32apply mage armor. So, you're even going
24:34to be able to switch between your armors
24:36with a left and a right click. And then
24:38you're going to be able to mod it to do
24:39your int with shift, mod it to do your
24:41dampen with control, and mod it to do
24:43your amplify with alt. Right? We have a
24:46very similar thing for our food and
24:47water right here, guys. All this is
24:48going to do is if I left click it, it's
24:50going to summon my water. If I right
24:52click it, it's going to summon my food.
24:54So just a really easy way in one button
24:57to be able to do as much water as you
25:00want if you're left clicking, as much
25:02food as you want if you're right
25:04clicking, right? And then to complement
25:06this, we have a chug macro that we
25:08actually have bound to whatever we want
25:10our drink button to be. So you can make
25:13this macro right here. And it's going to
25:15you have to change these to whatever
25:17your active rank. You don't have to
25:19change the ranks here because this is
25:20always going to do your max rank conjure
25:22food and conjure water cuz those names
25:24don't change. But the name of the actual
25:26water and food when you summon it does
25:28change. So, in your actual macro where
25:30you're using these things, not summoning
25:32them, you want to change the names here.
25:35So, conjured spring water for our water,
25:38conjured rye for our food. I like to
25:40have the water on the tool tip to show
25:42me how much water I have because that's
25:43generally more important for mage. And
25:45all this button does, guys, is have you
25:47drink your water and eat your food at
25:49the same exact time with a single
25:50keystroke. anytime you sit down to drink
25:53now, it's just gonna auto be eating and
25:56you you'll no longer have to worry about
25:58your health gen. You're always going to
25:59be gening health when you sit down to
26:00drink, right? Really nice quality of
26:02life just to give you less buttons and
26:04always make sure you have the maximum
26:05health regen coming through. Right? If
26:07you're undead, you actually can add
26:09cannibalize in here like this. And um
26:13you used to be able to in classic, you
26:15could cannibalize, eat, and drink all at
26:17the same time. So, if you're undead and
26:20you want to give this a try, next we
26:22have our summon mana gem button. And
26:24this is a similar idea to our buff
26:26button. This is going to let us
26:28instantly summon every rank of our
26:30manageem. And if you didn't know this
26:32guys, as you get you can only have one
26:33manageem in your inventory at a time of
26:36each type, but you're actually going to
26:38get four different types of gems. You're
26:40going to start with an agot, but then
26:41you're going to move up to a jade and
26:43then a citroen and then a ruby. And so
26:45with this button, it's going to make it
26:47so by default, if you left click, it's
26:49going to summon your lowest rank one,
26:50your AGOT. But if you hold shift and
26:52press it, it's going to summon your
26:55Jade. If you have hold control and press
26:57it, it's going to sh summon your
26:58Citroen. And if you hold alt and press
27:00it, it's going to summon your ruby. And
27:02these are going to show as the tool tips
27:04once you actually get those things
27:06unlocked as spells, right? Just like our
27:08drink one, we have a complimentary one
27:10to actually use our mana gems. We have
27:12our summon button big up here unbound
27:14that we can click and then to actually
27:16use our gems, we have them all bound on
27:18the same button over here. And this is a
27:21very similar idea where we just want to
27:23use our max rank gem first. Like
27:25whichever rank is highest. Let's say we
27:27have all four of these in our inventory.
27:29If I press this button, it's going to
27:30first try to use my ruby. If I don't
27:32have a ruby, it's going to try to use my
27:34citroen. If I don't have a citroen, it's
27:35going to try to use the jade. And if I
27:36don't have any three of those, it's
27:38going to use the lowest rank one, my
27:40agot. Okay, next we have our consumables
27:43button. Basically, our mage buffs
27:44button. So, you can change these things
27:46to whatever you want in here, guys. Um,
27:49but these are kind of the things that
27:51like I'm using very often, applying very
27:54often uh as mage buffs at this level.
27:56But you're going to want to adjust these
27:58like the actual names as you continue to
28:00level up. But basically, what this is
28:02going to do is we're going to be able to
28:04use button one to auto apply our oil. So
28:09you can see just like our buffs button,
28:11we're going to be able to hold a
28:12modifier, shift, control or alt to
28:15change what we're clicking here. But
28:17then also we have this section at the
28:19bottom. You don't need this second part
28:21unless we ever have access to an
28:22offhand. This is just going to make it
28:23work with an offhand too if you
28:25rightclick. But basically this part
28:27makes us auto apply the wizard oil. If I
28:29want to put the wizard oil on by
28:31default, I have to come over here. I
28:33have to find in my bag. I have to right
28:34click it. I have to come over here,
28:35leftclick it on the thing I want, and
28:37then it's going to go on. But instead of
28:39doing all that, I can literally just
28:41press this button, and it's just going
28:43to put it on automatically. Right?
28:46So, left click, I have applying the oil.
28:49Shift, left click, I have putting on
28:51imbue spark scroll onto my sword. And
28:54again, you're going to want to change
28:54this if you're like using a staff and
28:56you're wanting to use striking or the
28:58fire spell power or any of the other
28:59scrolls. If I hold control and left
29:01click, it's going to do my scroll of
29:02frog familiar to give me the extra six
29:04int. And if I hold alt and left click,
29:07it's going to use one of my minor arcane
29:08elixirs to give me my spell buff. So,
29:10it's like a a really nice way to just
29:12make sure you kind of have like your top
29:14four consumes, including your oil, which
29:16you can just auto apply without having
29:18to find it and click it uh very easily
29:20here in one button. All right, guys.
29:22Finally, we have our teleport and portal
29:25spells. So, this is what the alliance
29:27one is going to look like for teleport.
29:28And I have that right here. Basically,
29:30what this does is if I leftclick it,
29:32we're going to Stormwind. If I shift
29:33leftclick and we had it unlocked, we
29:35would be going to Iron Forge. And if I
29:37control leftcllicked and had learned
29:39that from that portal trainer, we would
29:41be going to Darnaces. We have the same
29:43exact setup for Horde here. You just
29:44have to change the names of the cities.
29:46So, we have Ormar by default click,
29:49Thunder Bluff with a modifier click, and
29:52Unders City with a control click. Right?
29:54So, that's for ourselves for teleport.
29:56And then we can do that same exact thing
29:59for portals. So here's the portal ally
30:01macro where once you get your portals
30:03unlocked, it's going to do the same
30:05exact thing. Left clicking opens a
30:06portal to Stormwind. Shift left clicking
30:08opens a portal to Iron Forge. Control
30:10left clicking opens a portal to
30:12Darnacis. And then here's what the Horde
30:13one is going to look like. Identical to
30:16that, right, just with the the Horde
30:17cities. So, these are just really nice
30:20uh buttons that you're going to be able
30:22to use to very quickly get your portals
30:24out all in one button without having
30:26them all have to be separate vines on
30:28your hot bars or having to go, you know,
30:30all the way into your spell book each
30:32time to find what you're looking for.
30:34Final couple miscellaneous macros here.
30:36I think especially late game, it's
30:38always really good to have basically
30:40what's called a go button. And you're
30:42going to want to modify this based on
30:43what spec you're playing and uh you
30:46know, like what trinkets you're using.
30:47But this is essentially going to rip all
30:49of your juice at once. So this one, just
30:51as an example, would cast presence of
30:54mind. So our next spell is instant cast.
30:56Would cast arcane power. So we have the
30:5830% spell power increase. If we were
31:00fire, it would cast combustion instead
31:02of these two. So you could honestly just
31:04like leave it like this if you wanted it
31:05to work for both. Then we're going to
31:06drink a minor spell blasting potion,
31:09which are these little uh like 30-second
31:12extra spell damage buffs on top of your
31:14normal elixir and stuff. And then this
31:16uses both of our trinket slots. So let's
31:18say we have two DPS trinkets here ready
31:20to rip. This is going to do all of that
31:23instantly. And if you want to uh line
31:26that up with a specific spell, you can
31:28just add that spell in. So like for
31:31instance a palm macro, we can do all
31:33that stuff and then cast something at
31:36the end. So let's say as a as one we
31:38were all familiar with a palm pyro
31:41blast. Let me rip palm arcane power.
31:43Drink a potion. use my trinkets and
31:45instant cast pyro blast all at the same
31:48time. And now we're going to be able to
31:49do that with Arcane Wrath as well. And
31:51this spell is hitting extremely hard in
31:54the testing I've been doing. So, this is
31:55going to be really fun. But this is a
31:57Palm Wrath and it's the same exact idea.
32:00We're ripping. And you can add lines in
32:02here, too, right? If there's anything
32:03else you want to cast or use, just do
32:05slcast use. Type the name of the thing
32:08and it's going to work. And every
32:10equipment slot has a different number um
32:12associated with it. If you want to use,
32:15you know, something like your helmet or
32:16gloves or something else with an onuse
32:18effect, you're going to be able to add
32:19that in here, too. Last one here, guys.
32:22Maybe the most important one.
32:24>> I am low on mana. I need more mana. My
32:27mana is low.
32:30>> Yeah, you're going to need this one a
32:32lot.
32:32>> I need more mana
32:34>> for the glory of Sephris.
32:36>> That's what we got for mage macros, my
32:38friends. I hope you found that useful.
32:39If you haven't seen it yet, I made a
32:41full beginner's guide for mage, walking
32:43you through how to play this class
32:44extremely well, starting from level one.
32:46That'll be linked in this video right
32:48above me, so you can check that out next
32:50if you're looking to blast on mage. I
32:51hope you have some beautiful adventures
32:53in Azeroth and I'll catch you in the
32:54next

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