Death Knight Macro Guide
Macros for any class are going to be important, but for death knights they are absolutely vital. This death knight macro guide will help you implement key combination macros into your death knight’s arsenal. These macros will help you consolidate keybindings and quicken your overall rotation and hotkey speed.
Looking for focus macros? Head over to our death knight focus macro guide.
Useful Macros for Death Knights
- Death Grip / Chains of Ice
- Frost Defensive Panic
- Ranged Ghoul Stun
- Blood DPS Rotation
- Unholy DPS Rotation
- Pull Target and Taunt
- One Button Pet Sacrifice
- Mouse Over Strangulate
- Mouse Over Strangulate / Mind Freeze
- Heal Pet Without Losing Target
- Death Pact Pet Without Losing Target
- Disease Sequence Rotation
- Rune Strike (several variations)
Death Grip / Chains of Ice Snare Macro
/startattack
/cast Death Grip
/cast Chains of Ice
Will cast death grip first, if death grip is on cooldown will cast chains of ice instead.
/cast Lichborne
/cast Unbreakable Armor
/cast Icebound Fortitude
Combo defensive macro for frost spec.
/castsequence Leap, Gnaw
Your ghoul will leap then stun, requires 2 clicks.
/startattack
/castsequence reset=6 Plague Strike, Icy Touch, Heart Strike, Heart Strike, Death Strike, Death Coil
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
DPS rotation for blood spec.
/startattack
/castsequence reset=6/combat/shift Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Scourge Strike, Blood Strike, Blood Strike, Death Coil, Scourge Strike, Death Coil, Scourge Strike, Scourge Strike, Death Coil
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
Complete unholy DPS rotation macro.
/cast Death Grip
/cast Dark Command
Combo macro to death grip target close and taunt.
/cast [target=pet,exists] Death Pact
Sacrifice your minion in one click to heal yourself.
/cast [target=mouseover] Strangulate
This macro will cast Strangulate on the mob/player your mouse is hovering over, without changing your current target.
Mouse Over Strangulate / Mind Freeze Combo
#showtooltip
/cast [target=mouseover, exists] Strangulate; Strangulate
/cast [target=mouseover, exists] Mind Freeze; Mind Freeze
This is macro will cast Strangulate on your current moused over target, if you have no moused over target, it will cast on your currents selected target; if Strangulate is on cooldown it will perform the same exact function using Mind Freeze provided you have the necessary Runic Power.
Heal Your Pet Without Losing Target
/cast [target=pet] Death Coil
Automatically heal your pet with death coil without targeting it.
Cast Death Pact Without Losing Target
/cast [target=pet,exists] Death Pact
Cast Death’s Pact on your ghoul, without losing your current target.
#Showtooltip
/castsequence reset=combat/target/6 Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Pestilence
/startattack [harm]
This macro casts your diseases in sequence, then casts Pestilence to spread it. It will resort back to Icy Touch whenever you change targets or enter or leave combat.
/startattack
#show Blood Strike
/cast Rune Strike
/cast Blood Strike
Rune strike followed by Blood Strike.
/startattack
#show Heart Strike
/cast Rune Strike
/cast Heart Strike
Rune strike followed by Heart Strike.
/startattack
#show Scourge Strike
/cast Rune Strike
/cast Scourge Strike
Rune strike followed by Scourge Strike.
/startattack
#show Icy Touch
/cast Rune Strike
/cast Icy Touch
Rune strike followed by icy touch.
/startattack
#show Plague Strike
/cast Rune Strike
/cast Plague Strike
Rune strike followed by Death Strike.
/startattack
#show Death Strike
/cast Rune Strike
/cast Death Strike
- Death Knight Abilities and Spells
- Rogue Macro Guide
- Death Knight Blue Post Updates
- Warrior Macro Guide
- WotLK Death Knight Changes – Build 9038
/startattack
/castsequence reset=6/combat/shift Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Scourge Strike, Blood Strike, Blood Strike, Death Coil, Scourge Strike, Death Coil, Scourge Strike, Scourge Strike, Death Coil
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
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/castsequence reset=6 Plague Strike, Icy Touch, Heart Strike, Heart Strike, Death Strike, Death Coil
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
macro… thanks again Zuggy!
Vyna (eventually changing name to AnteyeLife)
Just tried out that macro i posted above… awesome!! i love it…
Could you maybe make a panic button for Blood spec? (like with vampiric blood and stuff)?? or is it as easy as substituting the spells?
Thanks again man, love ur stuff!
/cast Death Grip
/cast Dark Command
i dont get it, dg acts as a taunt anyway, why would i want to burn my dark command??
also, one button sacrifice isnt working for me, has anyone else had a problem with it??
one final question, i have runestrike macro’d to all my damage abilities, only difference is im casting the runestrike after the move, is there any benefit to casting rs first? or is that just how you happened to do it.
/cast Lichborne
/cast Unbreakable Armor
/cast Icebound Fortitude
if your a dwarf don’t forget to stick in stoneskin for that extra bit of mitigation
I have a Macro that i think will increase DPS output for the blood spec rotation in raids especialy if you have the glyph to enhance the damage your Plague Strike does by 20% if a disease already exists on a target, namely Frost Fever from Icy Touch.This is for the 51/13/7 build that takes advantage of diseases and Death Runes to do high DPS output through Obliterate. It can be started on the run to a target as soon as Icy Touch is in range. THX /startattack
/castsequence reset=6 Icy touch, Plague strike, Heart Strike, Heart Strike, Obliterate, Death Coil
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
using these macros i have doubled my dps.
THNX FOR MARCOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
None of these Rune Strike macros works since it now shares the GCD.
@Alex – Thanks for letting me know. I’ll go about getting these updated asap.
Yeah no worries man. However i dont think the rotation for blood or unholy works anymore. Due to the fact that blood is tanking now , and unholy is more prio based rather then a real rotation. They’ve atm only a starter then it’s prio :-)
hrm…it appears this guide needs even more work than I realized. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.