General macros

The following macros can be used for all classes, and only serve a purpose out of combat. It is not required to have these on any keybindings. You might want to put them on an actionbar for less used stuff, e.g. bar 5.

Consume conjured food and water

/use [nocombat] (name of conjured food)
/use [nocombat] (name of conjured water)

Focus

This macro will use the group leader’s target and assign focus to it.

/assist party1
/focus

In order to clear the focus, the following macro is required, too.

/clearfocus [targetfocus, dead]

Mounting

The following macro will mount a character using either a land mount or a flight mount, depending on the zone a character is in. If the zone allows flying mounts, the macro will always use the flying mount, otherwise the land mount.

If you are currently mounted, you will be dismounted.

#showtooltip 
/cast [outdoors,nomounted,flyable] (name of flying mount)
/cast [outdoors,nomounted] (name of land mount)
/dismount [mounted]

Spell casting

The following macro can be used to assist the group leader, and assist him in order to attack his target.

#showtooltip
/target [targetparty1,nodead]
/assist
/cast [exists,harm,nodead] (spell name)

Class specific macros

The following macros will only work for specific classes, and some might need a counterpart on another character.

Mage macros

Conjure / Consume food and water

/use [nocombat] (name of conjured food)
/use [nocombat] (name of conjured water)
/use [combat] (name of conjured mana gem)
/cast [mod:ctrl] Conjure Food
/cast [mod:alt] Conjure Water
/cast [mod:shift] (name of Conjure Mana Gem)

Polymorph focus

This macro will sheep the current focus.

#showtooltip Polymorph
/cast [targetfocus] Polymorph

Portal creation

This macro allows an Alliance mage to cast any portal to the Alliance towns with just one key. It uses modifiers in order to select the actual portal to be used.

#showtooltip
/cast Portal: Exodar
/cast [mod:lshift] Portal: Ironforge
/cast [mod:lalt] Portal: Stormwind
/cast [mod:lctrl] Portal: Darnassus
/cast [mod:ralt] Portal: Shattrath

Teleport

This macro allows an Alliance mage to teleport to the Alliance towns with just one key. It uses modifiers in order to select the actual teleport to be used.

#showtooltip
/cast Teleport: Exodar
/cast [mod:lshift] Teleport: Ironforge
/cast [mod:lalt] Teleport: Stormwind
/cast [mod:lctrl] Teleport: Darnassus
/cast [mod:ralt] Teleport: Shattrath

Paladin macros

Divine Intervention

This macro will cycle through a list of characters which are alive and friendly, and will cast Divine Intervention on the first target that fulfills these two conditions, in order to save a class with a resurrection spell.

#showtooltip Divine Intervention
/cast [targetBrista,help,nodead][targetPriswa,help,nodead] Divine Intervention

Righteous Defense

One little secret that while in a regular group (not raid) the [raid] returns true for your group members but NOT for you. This way you will never try to cast Blessing of Protection on yourself. If the mob targets you, the macro will do nothing.

The castsequence effectively gives you a “backup” taunt. If your first one gets resisted or you need to re-taunt before the cooldown is up it will use Blessing of Protection.

#showtooltip Righteous Defense
/castsequence [targettargettarget,help,raid] reset15 Righteous Defense,Blessing of Protection

Priest macros

Multi-purpose healing / debuffing

/cast [modifier:lctrl, targetparty1, exists,party,nodead] Renew; [modifier:lshift, targetparty1, exists,party,nodead] Flash Heal; [modifier:rctrl, targetparty1, exists,party,nodead] Resurrection; [targetparty1, exists,party,nodead] Heal

Shackle focus

This macro will shackle the current focus.

/cast [targetfocus] Shackle Undead

Shaman macros

Totems

Repeatedly executing this macro will stomp the listed totems one by one. If you wait longer than 7 seconds, the macro will reset and start from zero with the first totem listed.

/castsequence [nomod] reset7 Healing Stream Totem,Strength of Earth Totem,Windfury Totem,Searing Totem

It has been an interesting day with the team progressing slowly from the starting area into Bloodhoof Village. Roughly six hours it took from level 1 to level 10 with the team. Usually you can get from 1 to 10 in ~ 2 hours.

Why does this take so much time? Well, do you remember your first days in the starting areas? Remember, the starting areas mostly consist of kill quests where you need to kill x types of mobs, or pick-up x parts of mobs that usually not drop on every kill. Killing quests not really is an issue. Five shamans throwing a lightning bolt or an earth shock will usually put an end to every mobs’ existence with just one shot. I even tried mobs four or five levels higher than my little family, and it worked out well.

Pick-up quests though… hurt a lot. Grab a big backpack and additional bags, and bring drinks, food, and time. It seems that the drop rates for quest items in groups are only 2/3 of 1/2 of the usual rates. Where it takes one kill when playing solo, it takes four or more in a group for everyone to get the quest item. After a few trials where I was slowly getting sick by the window and character switching for each quest item, I decided to switch loot over to free-for-all mode.

This improved things a lot. At first, the random window switching for looting disappeared, I now could loot for each character step by step, toon by toon. That improved things a lot, less time wasted. After a while I noticed, this also helped with experience gain. Due to the higher amount of mob kills, I was back into the standard experience frame for the quests I did, and did not lag behind by a level or two. So now my quests are not red but all yellow which I think gives just the right amount of experience to level.

I logged off around half past nine in the evening, when the wife demanded my attention, with my experience being half on the road to level 11, and parked Ivida, Ivide, Ividi, Ivido, and Ividu in the Bloodhoof Village inn. Since I’ll take a little break to focus on a few other tasks now, they should get two or three days rested bonus.

Only slightly related… it did not last very long, until my team was discovered. Once I reach level 6 and entered the plains of Mulgore people noticed the five Tauren running around and one shooting things. It did not take long until the General chat was hit by messages like

[1. General:] WTF … how many Ivid… are there?

[1. General:] F*ckin’ multicheaters!

Of course, followed by the usual reactions towards multi-boxing, half being amazed, the other half decided to page a game master.

Have you ever noticed how many different eye colours and face variants there are for Tauren characters? Then add fur colour, horn style and colour and you will end up with lots of different styles where tiny details might make the one little thing to delete your character and start from scratch.

Thus my confession comes with easy heart: yes, I have tried out four different team styles until I finally decided on how the Stompers should look like. Once of the main aspects to consider was the role-play aspect. Playing on a RP realm should very likely lead you to create characters conforming to the RP policies, and thus I sat at home and realized:

Hey, I will be a multi-boxing role-player!

Does this sound weird to you? It did not to me. But let’s see a picture instead of all the reading.

Aren’t they a bunch of shiny Tauren?