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Rogue Arena Macro Suggestions
June 21, 2008 by Zuggy
This post is in response to a question I received from a fellow rogue. I hope the contents of the answers I provide will assist other players who have similar questions.
Rogue Arena Macro Question…
I was just wondering what macros you find particularly useful in arenas as a rogue. I am by no means an expert in the arena setting, but I would like to be better. My wife is a holy priest, and I’d like to get better in the 2v2 setting with her, and you seem to be pretty up on what to do with a rogue+disc/holy priest.I recently found a few posts in other places that gave me a direction for useful macros such as macroing stealth with sinister strike or hemo (depending on my current build) so that I stealth automatically if I get out of combat as I catch up with my target for another opener. I tried to macro vanish -> sap together last night, but it doesn’t seem to want to work so I thought I’d ask you what macros you find particularly good and use yourself.
Rogue Arena Macro Answers…
I’m a big fan of focus macros, if you aren’t already using a focus frame you should definitely start. It really makes it much easier to land kicks, blind, and gouges in the heat of battle.
Here’s a few of the focus macros I’m currently using. (on a side note, in order to setup a focus frame you need to have the hotkey bound in the keybindings options, it’s called “focus target”, you then may also want to get a unit frame mod with a focus frame addon to help manage the targets).
/cast [target=focus] blind
/cast [target=focus] gouge
/cast [target=focus] kick
/cast [target=focus] shadowstep
Here’s the mashable start attack macro I use.
/startattack
/cast Hemorrhage(Rank 4)
just replace hemo with what ever your current main attack is
Here’s a macro I use for shadowstep
/cast Premeditation
/stopcasting
/cast Cheap Shot
Check out my full guide here, rogue macro guide













This tries to target your nearest enemy and Sap them if you have no target selected. If you have a target already selected it shouldn’t drop your current target. This is also great for getting a Sap off an opposing stealthed enemy you are looking for.
#showtooltip Sap
/console targetNearestDistance 10.000000
/targetenemy [noharm][dead]
/console targetNearestDistance 41.000000
/cast [harm,nodead] Sap