Priest Macro Guide
July 4, 2008 by Zuggy · Leave a Comment
These days playing a priest is rough…in PvE you have to compete with shaman’s spamming chain heal on the raid, paladin’s spamming holy light on the tank, and in PvP you’re constantly running and getting beat down but double melee gib teams. Needless to say, it’s a rough life for priests. However, a few well placed macros can change all of that and give you an immediate edge on your opponents.
If you’re looking for focus specific macros, check out this guide…Priest Focus Macro Guide
Useful Macros for Priest
- Raid Healing Priest Macros
- Power Word: Shield Macro
- Dispel macros
- Mouse Over Healing Macros
- Rebuffing Macro
- Trinket + Inner Fire + Devouring Plague Macro
- Trinket + Healing Macro
- Silence / Arcane Torrent Macro
- The DoT Bomb
- Smart Shadowfiend
- PvP Buff Sequence
- Mouse Over Pain Suppression / Guarding Spirit
- Shadow Word: Pain Everyone
- Spam Mass Dispel and Keep Your Target
- Shield Yourself
- Shadow Form Healing
- Summon Pet and Auto Attack
Holy / Discipline 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.
/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.
/target (name of your teammate)
/cast Dispel Magic
Generic quick target defensive dispel on your teammate.
/assist (name of your teammate)
/cast Dispel Magic
Generic quick target offensive dispel, great for assisting your DPS classes to clear shields, buffs, etc.
Note: The above dispel macros were pulled from the more complete guide here, discipline priest arena strategy.
/cast [target=mouseover] Flash Heal
/cast [target=mouseover] Greater Heal
/cast [target=mouseover] Renew
/cast [target=mouseover] Circle of Healing
Now, this method of healing may or may not work for you. For my shaman I found it ideal to manage raid healing, by using these macros in combination with a raid unit frame mod called grid (to the left is a screenshot of grid). This basically allowed me to mouse over any frame within the grid unit frame and fire on chain heals on my shaman. You could achieve the same result using the clique mod, but I prefer the macros
/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
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Greater Heal
For reference purposes 13 is top trinket, 14 is bottom trinket. These type of macros are a staple for every class and spec. Now, the trinket may determine weather or not you use this macro. Some trinkets shouldn’t be used until a given point (IE…spirit based regen trinkets shouldn’t be used the moment the fight begins). Conversely you could create a +healing trinket and circle of healing for raid spamming, since you’ll want it up as often as it can be used.
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.
/cast Inner Fire
/stopcasting
/cast Devouring Plague or Star Shards (if you have it either)
/stopcasting
/cast Shadow Word Pain
#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.
#showtooltip
/castsequence [target=player] reset=Target Shadow Protection, Power Word: Fortitude, Inner Fire, Divine Spirit
Easy rebuff macro for Battlegrounds/Arena
Mouse Over Pain Suppression / Guardian Spirit
/cast [target=mouseover,nodead,help,spec:1] Pain Suppression; [target=player,spec:1] Pain Suppression; [target=mouseover,nodead,help,spec:2] Guardian Spirit; [target=player,spec:2] Guardian Spirit
Mouseover Pain Suppression if your primary spec is Discipline and mouseover Guardian Spirit if your secondary spec is Holy.
Shadow Priest Macros
/console targetNearestDistance 800
/targetenemy
/cast Shadow Word: Pain
/console targetNearestDistance 50
Casts Shadow Word: Pain on all enemies in range, one by one.
Spam Mass Dispel And Keep Your Target
#showtooltip Mass Dispel
/cast !Mass Dispel
Use mass dispel without worrying about dropping your current target. This is for those of you who want to spam mass dispel without losing that “green targeting circle” it helps for those quick dispels
/cast [target=player] Power Word: Shield
You can also set the option in your interface to cast spells on yourself when no target is present, but if that’s not for you this is a great alternative.
/castsequence Flash Heal, Shadowform
Cast a heal then immediately pop back into shadowform.
/cast [nopet] Shadowfiend
/petattack
Summons your pet and immediately sends him out to begin attacking.
