Priest Macro Heaven!

[cbraccia]

So after searching far and wide these forums could use a solid post on some class macros. Here I have takent he macros I use for my priest and the macros priests in my guild use and compiled it into a easy structure for you to cop and paste. Enjoy!

Raid Healing Priest Macros
/stopcasting
/cast Greater Heal

/stopcasting
/cast Renew

/stopcasting
/cast Flash Heal

/stopcasting
/cast Circle of Healing

I think of all the macros, this is probably the most simplistic and effective. It drives me crazy watching healer’s jump or move in order to cancel a heal. This is incredibly inefficient as you lose large amounts of overall healing time throughout the fight. Getting used to a system of stopcasting macros will allow you to turret up and let the heals fly, maximizing your available time to cast heals.

Power Word Shield Macro
/cast [target=player] Power Word: Shield

Pretty simple, just cast a PWS on your self without ever having to drop target. Nice in the heat of an arena match or a raid encounter.

Dispel Macros
/target (name of your teammate)
/cast Dispel Magic

Quick target defensive dispel on your teammate.

/assist (name of your teammate)
/cast Dispel Magic

Quick target offensive dispel, great for assisting your DPS classes to clear shields, buffs, etc.


Mouse Over Healing Macros
/cast [target=mouseover] Flash Heal

/cast [target=mouseover] Greater Heal

/cast [target=mouseover] Renew

/cast [target=mouseover] Circle of Healing

This method of healing may or may not work for you. For my priest I found it ideal to manage raid healing, by using these macros in combination with a raid unit frame mod called grid. This basically allowed me to mouse over any frame within the grid unit frame and fire away with heals. You could achieve the same result using the clique mod, but I prefer the macros

Rebuffing Macro
/castsequence Inner Fire, Power Word: Fortitude, Shadow Protection

Requires multiple clicks, but will allow you to put all your buffing spells onto one bar. You can simply add any additional buffs you have based on race / talent spec (divine spirit for example) at the end of the macro, each requiring an additional click.

Trinket + Inner Fire + Devouring Plague Macro
#showtooltip Devouring Plague
/use NameofYourDamageTrinket
/cast Inner Focus
/stopcasting
/cast Devouring Plague

Nice macro that further consolidates clicks and action bar use

Trinket + Healing Macro
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Greater Heal



Silence / Arcane Torrent Macro
/castsequence reset=45 Silence, Arcane Torrent

A good friend of mine used this a ton when I played with him season 3. Once again, it won’t make or break you, but it’s certainly a nice way to free up some action bar space.

The DoT Bomb
/cast Inner Fire
/stopcasting
/cast Devouring Plague / Star Shards (if you have it either)
/stopcasting
/cast Shadow Word Pain

Smart Shadowfiend
#showtooltip Shadowfiend
/cast [harm,nodead][target=targettarget,harm,nodead] Shadowfiend

This macro will send your shadowfiend to attack your target if it’s hostile. If you do not have a hostile target currently targeted then it will send it after your target’s target if it is hostile.



Credit for this goes also to members of my guild, Elven, Raym, and Beo!

[!iMacroMage!]

While this is quite a nice guide, I do believe it belongs in the UI/Macros forum. (It'd probably stay near the top of the list longer there, too.)

[chriswt]

Would add a /cast Shadowcrawl macro to the Shadowfiend to make it teleport to the target and also increase its damage by 60% (can't remember, have to check).

Trinket + Inner FOCUS macro was named wrongly.

But other than that not a bad guide!

[freakyflow]

Not bad, the inner focus ones aren't really useful as its most likely you have it up already.

There is a better shadowfiend macro that will assist your teammates target and also dispel it and cast fear ward on it.

Also the mass dispel macro you forgot and is super useful so the circle stays if you click anything.

Theres also some useful power infusion macros + sheild and rez or smite.