being dominant aswell in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Ingame Communication included. Players in the video: Hotted, Imbad (3100 rated warlock and Arenapwnage Novoz.

I personally bind all my targets and gladius targets, binding targets/gladius targets saves alot of seconds, if you watch druid videos where they clicktargets they’re usually wasting a lot of time

my binds for party are f1, f2, f3, f4, f5

my binds for gladius are shift+A, shift+S, shift+D

Nature’s Swiftness Healing Touch Macro

/cast Nature’s Swiftness
/stopcasting
/cast Healing Touch

Shift Modifier Cyclone (My Cyclone is bound to G, if I hit shift+G it will cyclone my focus target).

#showtooltip Cyclone
/cast [target=focus, modifier:shift] Cyclone; Cyclone

Shift Modifier for Entangling Roots

#showtooltip Entangling Roots
/cast [target=focus, modifier:shift] Entangling Roots; Entangling Roots

This is a macro I don’t recommend for everyone, it toggles between my PvP weapon, and my Heroic LK weapon (which increases my mp5 by about 150, at the cost of  resilience) if you’re caught in a stun or silence without your PvP weapon you may take a lot of damage with the lack of resilience.

#showtooltip 16
/equip Archus, Greatstaff of Antonidas
/equip Wrathful Gladiator’s Blade of Celerity
/equip Wrathful Gladiator’s Compendium

Q – Rupture

E – Alli/Horde trinket or every man for himself

R – Feint

T – Envenom

C – Cold Blood

S – Deadly Throw

F – Sprint

G – Slice and dice

1 – Kidney Shot

2 – Mutilate

3 – Gouge

4 – Kick

5 – Eviscerate

Shift/1 – Throw

Shift/2 – Dismantle

Alt/2 – Focus Dismantle

Shift/3 – Focus gouge

Shift/4 – Focus Kick

Mouse button 4 – Vanish

Mouse button 5 – Blind

Shit/Mouse button 5 – Focus Blind

Shift/E – If I have a use trinket such as battlemaster.

Mouse Wheel Forward – Stealth

Shift/W – Preperation

Shift/C – Shiv

Shift/F – Fan of Knives

Shift/R – Rocket Gloves

Shift/S – Healthstone

Shift/X – Ticks of the Trade Macro

In Stealth Keybinds

1 – Garrote

2- Cheap Shot

3 – Sap Macro

4 – Ambush

R – Normal Sap

F – Sprint

Q – Distract

Mods

Forte Xorcist – keeps track of my Slice and Dice and trinket cool downs.

Gladius – Must have for arena make focusing, targeting, and knowing when someone trinkets and the cool down on there trinket.

Deadly Boss Mods – Timers for shadow sight and when the gates open.

Trick or Treat – Ticks of the Trade mod that whispers you tricks target when your tricks is engaged.

Macros

Focus Blind - /cast [target=focus, exists] Blind; blind;  This macro will blind your focus if you have one and will blind your target if you don’t. Also you can just put Kick or Gouge or any other ability you would like to use in the spots that say blind.

Tricks of the Trade – /cast [target=player name] Tricks of the Trade. This macro will tricks the your partner without you losing your target.

Imsohotteds Interface:

I’m actually trying to play without X-perl so this is my current UI. As you can see i don’t use many Mods/Addons, just the essential ones that really help me in arena, and for esthetics the only addons that i use would be for my bars and my minimap.

Here’s a list of all my addons and the function that they do for me in battles:

Grid: While i currently don’t use this addon for targetting heals for my team members i use it to glance at their HP’s and Debuffs.  This is mainly an Addon to have a better overview in bigger raids (Like AV,AB,WSG,EOTS,SOTA,PVE, etc).

Addon Link: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/grid.aspx

SexyMap: It’s a pretty cool Esthetic addon that you see on my top right that blends out the Addon icons if you’re not hovering ontop of the map… if you hover ontop of it, you can see all the addon icons.

Addon Link: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/sexymap.aspx

Interruptbar/Improoved Interrupt bar: This is for me one of the most important addons that you should have as a caster/healer. You can basically see when your teammates get kicked/cs’ed and you can CC or heal Without any worries of getting interrupted. The only downside of this addon is that it relies on the combat log, and the combat buggs out sometimes…but as soon as you see that the cs didnt register on the interrupt bar, just relog before next game and you should be fine.

Addon Link: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/interruptbar.aspx

Gladius: Everybody that arenaes should deffinately use this addon…it basically shows what’s going on or who is CC’ed/Interrupted.. Combined with Gladiminish ( an addon that i will explain below this one)  is the most powerful tool for you/ your teammates.

Addon Link:  http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/gladius.aspx

Gladiminish: Gladiminish is one of the most important things to have as a Druid of any spec… you can Monitor the Diminishing returns of every partner of your team and helps to get double CC’s quite alot.. every partner of your team should deffinately have this mod so they know who can’t be CC’ed by you at a certain time.

Addon Link : http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/gladiminish.aspx

and last but not least…

Bartender: I mainly use bartender for esthetics aswell, but there are a couple of things that are handy in it…first, you can adjust your keybinds in your bars by just hovering on the ability (you can hover on the shapeshift forms and bind them , freeing up some keybind space in the bars) and you can position them to have everything compact in one place. It’s also pretty nice that you can use the “Fade in” option of bartender to have the bar dissapear when you stop hovering on top of it.

Addon Link : http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/bartender4.aspx

Those were all my addons for arenas, and now i will list my keybinds:

1- Nourish

2- Rejuvenation

3- Regrowth

4- Lifebloom

5- Swiftmend

6-Tranquility

Q- Swiftmend

Shift+Q-Faerie Fire

Control+MB3- Nature’s Grasp

F- Bauble or battlemaster

F3- Innervate

Shift+1- Decurse

C: Cyclone Macro

MB3- Roots

MB4- Moonfire

Shift+Spacebar- Abolish Poison

Ctrl+Spacebar- WarStop/Shadowmeld

U- Arena Water

X-PVP Trinket

º (The button left to 1)- barkskin

F2- Healthstone

Shift+3- Hurricane ( Useful Against Snake Traps/Breaking Rogues Vanish)

Shift+C- Nature’s Swiftness Cyclone

J – Nature’s Siwftness Healing Touch

W – Move Forward

D- Strafe Right

A- Strafe Left

E- Tree Form

* MB- Mouse Button

*——-*

Macros

NS-Healing Touch

#showtooltip nature’s swiftness
/cast nature’s swiftness
/cast Healing touch

NS-Cyclone

/cast Nature’s Swiftness
/cast Cyclone

Mouse Over Cyclone

#showtooltip Cyclone
/cast [target=mouseover,exists,harm]Cyclone;

Cast Innervate on Self without the need of self-targetting

/cast [target=Playername]Innervate

Well i hope this helps and be looking for my new videos Soon!

See ya!

Before I get into the logic behind my UI, let me talk about the mods I use, particularly the first 3 listed, which I consider to be essential for most mages, especially if you’re just getting started. By the way, CC = Crowd Control, meaning polymorph, blind, fear, deep freeze, frost nova.

Gladius Arena Frames: These bad boys are incredible for anybody playing arenas, but for mages, they’re just tops. Gladius gives you everything you need to know about what’s happening to the other team in one little box on your screen. You can instantly see what team you’re playing against when you zone, whether or not those players have used their PVP trinkets (you’ll notice I chose the BIG Icon to show PVP trinkets), but most importantly, you can see all of your CC on these players, and how much time is remaining on that CC. This is critical information for me as the mage, because I can control a player very effectively by simply watching my Gladius frames. I can sheep a healer right as a blind ends, or wait until I see my priest’s fear expiring before I deep freeze. Without this mod, it can be very easy to overlap CC with your partners, or even worse, have a gap between CC and allow a healer to get a heal off when you would have otherwise killed that dude.

Power Auras: This mod makes it really easy to see Fingers of Frost, Brainfreeze, and Missile Barrage procs immediately, which can equate into a quicker Deep Freeze, or not missing that missile barrage proc to explode your kill target. As I mentioned before, you have enough things to do during a match-get this mod to make your life a lot easier.

Interrupt Bar: Some people will use Afflicted here to keep track of counterspells, kicks, and shocks, but I like this mod better because it’s simple and compact. As soon as one of your opponents uses an interrupt on anybody in the match (not just you), an icon will appear with that interrupt’s remaining cooldown time. Keeping track of every available interrupt is critical for timing your frostbolt shatters and polymorphs – this is definitely the addon I don’t think I could do without.

Kunits Unit Frames: Some of you early WoW players might remember Nurfed Unit Frames, which were a huge hit back at level 60. I absolutely loved the layout for debuffs and health bars, but this is purely personal preference. Thanks to Kollektiv, you can play with Nurfed frames to this day. Insert your own favorite unit frames here.

Ecasting Bar: These are personal preference also, but I’ve been using EcB for a long time because they’re simple (notice a trend yet) and customizable. Default Unit Frames and casting bars work just fine in place of #4 and #5.

Snowfall Key Press: This mod allows your spells to cast the split second you press the keys on your keyboard, rather than when you release them. Every little bit helps to increase your reaction time and give you lightning fast counterspells, I’m just mad I didn’t find out about this mod until recently.

As you can plainly see, I have most of my UI clumped up on one part of my screen, instead of spreading out my frames all over my nice spacious screen. I do this because the mage class is the most fast-paced class I’ve ever touched in WoW PVP, and you need to keep your eyes on many, many things at the same time to be successful. For example, this setup makes it very easy to monitor everything going on with both my target (usually the person I’m exploding) and my focus target (usually that person’s healer). I barely have to move my eyeballs and I can see when counterspells have been used, or if one of my opponents has used his PVP trinket. If everything was spread out across my screen, my reaction times would be slowed, and I could miss that critical counterspell on a heal or screw up a long CC chain. You’ll notice my party frames are missing, but they would normally sit on left side of my screen, next to Gladius.

Stacking your target frame and focus frame right next to each other is something I highly recommend as a mage, having tried infinite variations of this in the past. I can’t stand watching videos where focus frames and cast bars are waaaaaaayyy off to the right of the screen, as I know that player’s eyes are just darting back and forth constantly, wasting time and possibly missing other things going on. You’ll also notice that my Gladius frames are directly under my own health bars, instead of my party frames like most people. I do this because I’m much more concerned about the players on the other team, their health bars, trinkets, and cooldowns, than watching my partner’s HP bars. If I was a healer, I’d probably do exactly the opposite, as keeping track of health bars would be more important.

Now let’s get to my keybinds:

1-Frost Nova

2-Fireblast

3- Frostbolt

4-Ice Lance

5-Cone of Cold

6-Mana Shield

Alt 1-Frostfire Bolt

Alt 2-Ice Barrier

Alt 3-Blink

Alt 4-HP Trinket (battlemaster’s x)

Alt 5- Icy Veins

Alt R- Water Elemental Macro ( #showtooltip Summon Water Elemental/cast [nopet] Summon Water Elemental/stopmacro [nopet]/petpassive/click PetActionButton5/petattack)

`-Iceblock Macro (/stopcasting/cancelaura Ice Block/cast Ice Block)

Alt T-Cold Snap

F1-Deep Freeze

F2-Arcane Explosion

F3-Scorch

F4-Mirror Images

F5-Pet Stay

Shift F-Invisibility

K-Evocation ( yep you’re reading that right I actually have “K” bound to something important )

Alt `-PvP Trinket

MouseButton5-Spellsteal

Mousebutton4-Pyrorockets (engineering- 100% incredible for mages, it’s all about the burst)

NumPad0-Mount

Shift V-Wand

V-Arcane Missiles

B-Arcane Blast

F-Assist teammates macro (/assist XXX)

Alt F3- Fireball

Alt F1-Focus Deep Freeze macro (/cast [target=focus] Deep Freeze)

Alt F2- Blizzard

Alt G- Rank 1 Frostbolt

Alt V-Mana Gem

Shift R- Focus Polymorph (/cast [target=focus] Polymorph)

A-Poly Arena 1 (/cast [target=Arena1] Polymorph)

S-Poly Arena 2 (/cast [target=Arena2] Polymorph)

D-Poly Arena 3 (/cast [target=Arena3] Polymorph)

Z- Will of the Forsaken ( or any other racial ability )

X-Frost Ward

Alt X-Fire Ward

G- Decurse

R- Polymorph

T-Counterspell (/stopcasting/cast Counterspell)

***Mousewheel Up- Focus Counterspell (/stopcasting/cast [target=focus] Counterspell)*** <— I highly recommend this keybind for your counterspell, I’ve found it’s the fastest reaction on CS I’ve ever had

Shift +- Mage Armor

Alt + – Ice Armor

- -Bandages

Alt F- Pet Attack

C- Focus (/focus)

I had to fuss with my binds to get them where I wanted them, and I still don’t like some of them. I’d advise changing bad habits early, rather than get used to something dumb for years ( I seriously have my Evocation bound to K and I can’t remember how it happened, but it’s been like 2 years now and there’s nothing I can do about it). You want to avoid putting spells like Iceblock or Cold Snap in a super accessible spot to avoid fat-fingering them at bad times- I can honestly say I’ve never fat fingered cold snap thanks to it’s lonely spot at ALT -T. And of course, you want spells you use a lot (frostbolt, polymorph) to be in VERY accessible spots because you will be using them allll the time ( mine are bound to 3 and R respectively, aka very natural keys for your fingers). Lastly, your 2 most important keybinds are Counterspell and Focus Counterspell, so chose wisely. They need to be in spots that you can strike at a moment’s notice- your counterspell bind is your trigger finger. A good bind for your counterspells means you can hit super fast casts like Fel Domination or hasted Cyclones, and you’ll find that you miss your counterspells less and less because you’re much harder to juke.  

Look for some instructional video coming from me very soon. PM with any questions you have regarding these mage basics, I’ll work on an advanced article next!

In the screen-shot below, you’ll see a general picture of what my setup looks like. (Obviously those numbers aren’t there when I’m playing. They are only there to help identify parts of my UI.)

1. Character Frame.
2. Target Frame.
3. Gladius Frame.
4. Focus Frame.

As you can see, I don’t use many addons at all. As a matter of fact, Gladius is the only addon that I use in Arena. I use a 100% pure UI with a couple scripts that allow me to move my Character and Target frames to where I want them to be. If scripting is not your cup of tea, an addon called “MoveAnything” will do the job for you.

In this section, I will be listing my key-bindings. Please refer to the original screen-shot to see where I place these abilities. They have been placed in certain spots of my bars for good reason. Also, the Tricks of the Trade macro hotkey below you is: “Mousewheel Up”

Below is what that bar would look like while I am stealthed:

Alongside the hotkeys on my main bars. I have a few more hotkeys and macros that I utilize:





The poisons that you see to the right of my 2nd displayed bar are actually macros that allow me to instantly reapply poisons without having to confirm the warning message that pops up every time. I will be going over those later on in this article.


Finally, these macros/keybindings as you can see have been placed all the way to the right of UI where they are somewhat hidden from view. The reason for this is because these are all very low-cooldown finishers or abilities that need little to no monitoring. If you’ve been playing your rogue you should not be having to look at your bars to remind yourself of your key-bindings.


Top to Bottom

Q – Slice and Dice

Shift+Q – Fan of Knives

Mousewheel Down – Feint

Shift+G – Expose Armor

Shift+S – Deadly Throw / Throw

Shift+T – Distract

Shift+C – Focus Gouge

Shift+V – Focus Dismantle
Click – Ground Mount
Click – Flying Mount

Shift+Spacebar – Self Bandage

Shift+5 – Eat Mage Food

Healthstone Display
Alt+E – Arena Frame 3 Blind

Shift+E – Arena Frame 2 Blind

Click – Move Party Frame Script

Click – Move Player Frame Script
Click – Move Target Frame Script


Now we will move onto all the essential macros that I use on a day-to-day basis with explanations on why these macros may prove useful to you.


Imp Vanish Macro
#Showtooltip Vanish
/stopattack
/cast Vanish
/cast [@focus, exists] Sap; Sap

Pressing this will instantly turn your auto-attacks off, as well as put you into Vanish / Stealth state. The last line ensures you don’t pull yourself out of stealth by trying to use another ability too quickly by trying to sap a target.


Shiv + Removes Hand of Protection Macro (Useful when playing with Paladins)
#Showtooltip Shiv
/cancelaura Hand of Protection
/startattack
/cast [nostealth] Shiv


This is a pretty self-explanatory macro. If a paladin on your team uses Hand of Protection to save you, you can press this macro to remove it once you are ready to come back into the fight.


Imp Mutilate Macro
#Showtooltip Mutilate
/startattack
/cast Mutilate


This macro allows you to at least auto-attack your current target if you do not have sufficient energy to land a mutilate. This is useful for switching targets and just for dps’ing random targets in general.


Tricks of the Trade Macro
#Showtooltip Tricks of the Trade
/cast [@Name, exists] Tricks of the Trade; Tricks of the Trade


Another simple macro that casts tricks of the trade onto 1 person consistently throughout the course of your arena match or random battleground. Substitute “Name” with the person you wish to cast Tricks of the Trade upon.


Sap Rogue Macro
#Showtooltip Sap
/cleartarget
/targetenemyplayer
/cast sap


This is the macro to spam when you are trying to find another rogue in the general area. When you do find a rogue that is in stealth while mashing this macro, you will sap them instantly.


Arena Frame 1-3 Blinds Macro
#Showtooltip Blind
/cast [@Arena1, exists] Blind; Blind

#Showtooltip Blind
/cast [@Arena2] Blind

#Showtooltip Blind
/cast [@Arena3] Blind


Most rogues use a focus or mouseover Blind. I however, find that blinding depending on the arena frame positioning is most effective and leaves the least room for error. If you look at the Gladius Frame that is show in my UI screen-shot, you see that the top listed player would be Arena1. The player in the middle would be Arena2. And the player listed at the bottom of the list would be Arena3 respectively. Also, if you are trying to blind someone in a BG. Use the first of the 3 macro I just listed in order to blind your target.


Offhand Weapon-Swap Macro
#Showtooltip [mod] 0 16; 17
/equipslot 17 0 16





Pressing this macro will instantly swap out your offhand, for the offhand that is in the furthest bottom-right equipment slot in your default Backpack. This is useful for PvE as well as PvP scenarios where you need to instantly change poisons on your offhand.


One Click Deadly Poison
#Showtooltip Deadly Poison IX
/use Deadly Poison IX
/use 16
/click StaticPopup1Button1


Pressing this macro will instantly renew or replace your mainhand poison with Deadly Poison IX. There is no warning, no double-clicking.


One Click Wound Poison
#Showtooltip Wound Poison VII
/use Wound Poison VII
/use 17
/click StaticPopup1Button1


Pressing this macro will instantly renew or replace your offhand poison with Wound Poison VII. There is no warning, no double-clicking.


There are a few more “Focus” Macros that I had left out but I felt as though these macros are very to-the-point and do not need to be elaborated upon any further. Anyway, that is all for this article, thank you for taking the time to read and keep your eyes peeled for my upcoming overview of Shadow Dance keybinds and macros. If you have any further questions on any of these mentioned subjects or any questions about rogues in general, feel free to contact me through an in-game tell, e-mail, or forum message.


- Zenasty

Omgbro’s keybindings and macros

Battle Stance

 1- Overpower

2- Mortal strike

3- Rend

4- Heroic strike

5- Execute

6- Cleave

E- Charge

Q- Hamstring

Y- Bloodrage

C- Berserker Rage

Ctrl-V- Retaliation

Defensive Stance

1- Revenge

2- Mortal Strike

3- Rend

4- Heroic Strike

5- Disarm

6- Taunt

E- Intervene

Q- Shield Bash

Y- Bloodrage

C- Berserker Rage

Ctrl-V- Shield Wall

Berserker Stance

1- Pummel

2- Mortal Strike

3- Whirlwind

4- Heroic Strike

5- Execute

6- Cleave

E- Intercept

Q- Hamstring

Y- Bloodrage

C- Berserker Rage

Ctrl-V- Recklessness

Others

F4- Battle Shout

Shift-F4- Commanding Shout

V- Demoralizing Shout

S- Piercing Howl

Ctrl-F- Shield Bash

Ctrl-Q- Sunder Armor

Ctrl-C- Disarm

R- Pvp Trinket

X- Bladestorm

T- Spell Reflection

F- Intimidating Shout

G- Heroic Throw

H- Sweeping Strikes

J- Shattering Throw

Z- Enraged Regeneration

`- 2Hander

Mouse button 2- Intervene

Numpad 3- Cancel Blessing Of protection

Shift-Z- Thunder Clap

Mouse button 1- Shattering Throw

Ctrl-Y- Mount

B- Shield Wall

F1- Battle Stance

F2- Defensive Stance

F3- Berserker Stance

Macros

#showtooltip Spell Reflection

/stopcasting

/cast [stance:1/2,equipped:shields] Spell Reflection; [stance:3] Defensive Stance

/equipslot 16 your 1 handed weapon

/equip your shield

/cast Shield Block

/cancelaura Bladestorm

#showtooltip Intervene

/cast bloodrage

/cast [nostance:2] Defensive Stance; [help] Intervene; [target=Your arena partners name] cast intervene

#showtooltip Intercept

/cast [nomodifier] Intercept

/cast [modifier:alt,target=focus] Intercept

/cancelaura Bladestorm

I also included some macros that are pretty much a must have.

1- Death Grip

2- Chains of Ice

3- Plague Strike

4- Blood Strike

5- Scourge Strike

6- Death coil

T- Gargoyle

G- Empower Rune Weapon

Ctrl+mwheelup- Escape Artist

Ctrl+mwheeldown- AMZ

Mouse4- Mindfreeze+Focus

Mouse5- Strangulate+Focus

Shift 1- Focus Death Grip

Shift 2- Icy Touch S- Pet Attack

Shift 3- Blood Tap

Shift 4- Pestilence

Shift 5- Death Strike

Shift 6- Blood Boil

Shift R- Pet Sac

Shift T- Pet Summon

Y- Huddle

`- Death and Decay

Shift mwheeldown- Trinket

Shift mwheelup- Lichborne-Heal

F1- Icebound Fortitude

F2- Escape Artist

F3- Remove Aura

X- Bone Shield

F- Horn of Winter

Shift F- Anti Magic Shield

Middle Mouse- Gnaw

Macros That I love and couldn’t live without

#showtooltip Gnaw

/petattack

/cast [nomodifier] leap

/cast [nomodifier] gnaw

/cast [modifier:shift,target=focus] leap

/cast [modifier:shift,target=focus] gnaw

/cast blood presence

/cast Frost presence

#showtooltip Mind Freeze

/cast [mod:shift,target=focus] mind freeze ; mind freeze

#showtooltip Strangulate

/cast [mod:shift,target=focus] Strangulate ; Strangulate

#showtooltip Scourge strike

/cast [target=focus] Dark Command

/cast Rune Strike

/cast Scourge Strike

#showtooltip Lichborne

/cast [target=player] Death coil

/cast Lichborne

#showtooltip Summon Gargoyle

/cast Summon Gargoyle

/petstay

/petattack

/cancelaura Lichborne

/cancelaura Hand of protection

#showtooltip Chains of Ice

/cast [target=focus] Chains of Ice

/petattack

/petattack [target=mouseover]

First off, warriors are extremely reliant on efficient keybinds, and this goes the same as well for many melee classes, mainly because it’s important to have easily reachable keys for key abilities when you absolutely need it (I.E. Intimidating Shout, Piercing Howl, etc.). On that note, I would also like to mention that everyone has their own different preference for keybinds, and that there is no “right” keybinds. Each and every player is different, and simply because you use a pro’s keybindings does not mean you will attain the same level of success. However, if you do find my macros useful and helpful, then by all means, I will share it. So let’s get right to it.

Macros: the most important part of warrior play is having the correct spell reflect macro, defensive stance macros, etc. If you miss one split second of going defensive and you’re caught in a full stun without a shield on, you could easily die. Macros do make a difference. Veex wrote a very excellent guide on warrior macros, and I’d like to point out some things that he mentions that will definitely make a difference, whether you’re a low level player or even in the higher tiers.

I won’t dedicate a large portion of this article to just warrior macros since it wouldn’t interest about 90% of the readers, but I do have a few important words for all macro users.  Be careful when using conditional macros.  Learn how the macro system works when creating macros, spells that do not trigger the global cooldown do not need to be linked to other spells in cast sequences or conditional checks.  The reason for this is that all of those kinds of macros add a slight delay to them while the game checks to see if they return true or not.  You’d think they’d be instant but if you test both variations back to back you’ll see a noticeable difference.

Here is an example of a macro you do NOT want to use:

/cast [stance:1/2] Spell Reflection; Battle Stance

For the completely macro impaired, what that does is check to see if you’re in battle or defensive stance, if you are it’ll cast spell reflect, if not then it will put you in battle stance.  The problem is the delay in checking for that stance conditional can mean the difference between reflecting a polymorph or smashing your keyboard while you stare at the spell reflect buff on you as you waddle around in sheep form.

To fix this you would want to use this macro instead:

/cast Spell Reflection
/cast [stance:3] Battle Stance

This will accomplish the same effect but will not add any delay in checking to see what stance you’re in first, since it is going to attempt to cast spell reflect regardless of anything else.  If you’re interested in seeing what other macros I use you can find them here.  They aren’t groundbreakingly original or anything, but fellow warriors may see one or two they didn’t think to use before.  I have also included my key bindings just to give an idea of how they’re laid out and which macros are on which stance bars.  (You’ll also notice I put /startattack in almost everything since it helps tremendously when coming out of stuns, fears and the like.)

In addition to the above tip, players who use different stance bars may want to consider making some macros similar to this one:

/cast Shield Bash
/cast [noequipped:shields] Berserker Stance
/cast Pummel

I have both shield bash and pummel in there, this is because when changing stances sometimes you’ll press the hotkey from the last bar during the transition, even if you’re already considered to be in the new stance.  In this scenario it may allow me to cast pummel slightly faster than I would be able to otherwise.

Mengy’s Macros:

Intervene Macro 1

/cast [@party1] Intervene

MACRO 11 “Battle”

#showtooltip Spell Reflection

/stopcasting

/cast [stance:3] Battle Stance

/equipslot 16 Wrathful Gladiator’s Cleaver

/equipslot 17 Wrathful Gladiator’s Shield Wall

/cast Spell Reflection

/cancelaura Recklessness

MACRO 22 “cancel”

/cancelaura Bladestorm

/cancelaura Hand of protection

MACRO 18 “charge”

/cast [target=focus] charge

MACRO 12 “defensive”

#showtooltip Spell Reflection

/stopcasting

/cast [stance:1/3] Defensive Stance

/equipslot 16 Wrathful Gladiator’s Cleaver

/equipslot 17 Wrathful Gladiator’s Shield Wall

/cast Spell Reflection

/cancelaura Recklessness

MACRO 13 “focus”

/startattack

/cast [target=focus] Shield Bash

/cast [noequipped:shields] Berserker Stance

/cast [target=focus] Pummel

MACRO 8 “focus intercept”

/cast [target=focus] Intercept

MACRO 6 “Hamstring”

/startattack

/cast Hamstring

MACRO 5 “Mortal Strike”

/startattack

/cast Mortal Strike

MACRO 14 “overpower”

/startattack

/cast Overpower

MACRO 10 “pummel”

/startattack

/cast Shield Bash

/cast [noequipped:shields] Berserker Stance

/cast Pummel

MACRO 7 “Rend”

#showtooltip Rend

/startattack

/cast Battle Stance

/cast Rend

MACRO 16 “rend”

/startattack

/cast rend

MACRO 9 “Shattering Throw”

#showtooltip Shattering Throw

/cast Battle Stance

/cast Shattering Throw

MACRO 21 “slam”

/startattack

/cast Shield Slam

MACRO 17 “storm”

#showtooltip bladestorm

/cast sweeping strikes

/cast bladestorm

MACRO 19 “taunt”

#showtooltip Taunt

/cast [stance=3] Defensive Stance

/cast Taunt

MACRO 25 “throw”

/cast heroic throw

/cast Shoot

UI:

Key binds (MM):

E – Forward

D – Backwords

S – Strafe left

F – Strafe right

Space Bar – Jump

Tab – Target Nearest Enemy Player

` – Switch Aspects (Macro: /castsequence !Aspect of the Dragonhawk, !Aspect of the Viper)

Shift ` – Switch Tracking (Macro: /castsequence !Track Humanoids, !Track Hidden)

Control ` – True Shot Aura

1 – PvP trinket

Shift 1 – Racial (IE: stone form)

2 – Chimera Shot

Shift 2 – Rapid Fire

3 – Aimed Shot

4 – Arcane Shot

5 -  Steady Shot

6 – Kill shot

7 – Mount

Q – Wing Clip

Shift Q – Readiness

W – Disengage

R – Scatter Shot

Shift R – Scatter Shot focus

Control R – Scatter Shot mouse over

T – Frost Trap

Shift T – Freezing Arrow

Control T – Freezing Trap

Y – Feign Death

Shift Y – Hunters Mark

Control Y – Hunters Mark focus

A – Serpent Sting

Shift A – Scorpid Sting

Control A – Tranquilizing Shot

G – Pet Poison Spit (If crab: intervene)

Shift G – Pet Poison Spit fcous

Control G – Pet Poison Spit mouse over

H – Flare

Shift H – Volley

Z – Scare Beast

Shift Z – Scare Beast focus

Control Z – Scare Beast mouse over

X – Roar of Recovery (If crab: Pin)

Shift X -  Cower

Control X – Snake Trap

C – Master’s Call on my self

Shift C – Master’s Call on my healer

Control C – Master’s Call on my DPS partner

V – Concussive Shot

Shift V – Mend Pet

B – Roar of Sacrifice on my self

Shift B – Roar of Sacrifice on my healer

Control B – Roar of Sacrifice on my DPS partner

N – Pet Attack

Shift N – Pet Stay

Control N – Pet Follow

Mouse Wheel Down – Viper Sting

Shift Mouse Wheel Down – Viper Sting focus

Control Mouse Wheel Down – Viper Sting mouse over

Mouse Wheel Up – Focus Glaidus Frame 1

Shift Mouse Wheel Up -Focus Glaidus Frame 2

Control Mouse Wheel Up – Focus Glaidus Frame 3

Mouse Button 4 – Deterrence

Shift Mouse Button 4 – Health Stone/Battlemaster’s

Control Mouse Button 4 – Bandage

Mouse Button 5 – Silence Shot

Shift Mouse Button 5 – Silence Shot focus

Control Mouse Button 5 – Silence Shot mouse over

Mouse Wheel Click – Auto Shoot

Shift Mouse Wheel Click – Toggle Enemy Name Plates

Tips on cutting down amount of binds:

Any of the mouse over binds aren’t really need, even I do not use them very often anymore.

You can macro in Track Hidden into Flare and Track humanoids into any of your shots.  Doing this will free up a keybind as well as letting you not worry about changing your Trackings your self.

I like having a bind for my Master’s Call and Roar of Sacrifice for each party member but this does take a lot of binds.  Instead of doing it this way, you can make a macro that will cast the spell on you and if you mouseover your party members frame will cast the spell on them.  Macro:

#showtooltip Roar of Sacrifice
/cast [target=mouseover, help][help]Roar of Sacrifice;
/cast [target=YOURNAME] Roar of Sacrifice

#showtooltip Master’s Call
/cast [target=mouseover, help][help]Master’s Call;
/cast [target=YOURNAME Master’s Call

What’s up Arenapwnage.com it’s Nevershock here. I would just like to give you guys a little bio on how I got my start into arena and world of warcraft itself! I’ve been playing world of warcraft for nearly 5 years now and have always played a shaman from start to finish. I have been playing arena since season 1 and have recently earned my first Gladiator title. Don’t let a 1 season Gladiator fool you however, the reason I do not have multiple Gladiator titles is that I was on a low population server named Gul’dan and there was nobody there to play with haha! I still managed to receive duelist titles several times but in that time I have picked up some very powerful tricks when it comes to playing a resto shaman. Last season however was my first real season of pvp in which I transferred to several different servers.

My ultimate destination was Sargeras on the Shadowburn BG. From that server I rose into one of the highest rated resto shamans in the world. I managed to achieve 2850 as a resto shaman which is nearly unheard of due to lack of extremely powerful comps for resto shamans at the time. I was one of the top contenders for the Relentless Gladiator title in that season and nearly achieved it if it wasn’t for some faulty errors and disconnects. I’m not stationed on KT like most of the Arenapwnage pros. I will be releasing videos and guides on how to play a resto shaman to it’s fullest abilities. Keep a look out on the forums and by all means if you have any questions please post on the shaman forums and I will put as much as I can in posts and or videos that I produce. I look forward to my time here on Arenapwnage.com and I hope to see some good feedback from everyone here on Arenapwnage.com.

 Nevershock

1-      Healing wave

2-      Cleanse Spirit

3-      Riptide

4-      Lesser Healing Wave

5-      Chain Heal

6-      Chain Lightning

Q- Grounding Totem

R- Frost Shock

E- Purge

F- Wind Shear/Shift F Focus Wind shear

C- Earth Shield

V- Water Shield

Shift Q- EarthBind

Shift C- Tremor

Alt 1 Lava Burst

Alt 2 Flame Shock

Alt 3 Heroism/Bloodlust

Alt E- Totem Recall

Alt Q Mana Spring

Alt S- Stoneclaw

CTRL A- PVP trinket

CTRL S- Battlemasters

Shift G – Healthstone

`- Hex /CTRL ` Focus Hex

Middle Mouse Button- Ghostwolf

Side Mouse 1- Natures Swiftness Macro

Side Mouse 2- Vent

Shift 1- Call of the Elements ( 4 totems at once)

Shift R- Fire Nova

Irresama Keybinds (irreplacable’s mage)

1-      Fireball

2-      Icelance

3-      Frostbolt

4-      Fireblast

5-      Arcane Missiles

T- frostfire bolt

E- Frost Nova

Q- scorch

R- arcane blast

F- Sheep/Shift F Focus Sheep

G- Slowfall

C – Ice barrier

Alt X –Iceblock

Alt Z – Mirror Images

Shift X- Rank 1 Frostbolt

Shift C Pyro Rocket

Shift R- Arcane Explosion

Shift 2 Cone of Cold

Shift 3 Deep Freeze

Shift E- Summon Water Elemental / Attack macro

Shift Q – Cold snap

Alt Q- Invis

Alt  S- Spellsteal

Alt D Icy Veins

Alt W- blizzard

Alt E Mana Shield

Alt 1 Frost ward

Alt 2 Fire Ward

Ctrl A PVP trinket

Mousewheel up Decurse Mouseover

` – Counterspell/ Ctrl+` Focus Counterspell

Middle mouse button- Blink

Side Mouse buttons

1)      Pet Nova

2)      Vent

Shift G- frag belt

Alt, – Mount

Alt. – Flying mount

G KEYS ( I have a G15 Keyboard)

DRINK

EVOCATION

SET FOCUS

Mistaclean Keybindings:

Movement

W- forward A-Left strafe S –back D-Right strafe

F1-Battle Stance

1-Charge 2-Mortal Strike 3-Hamstring 4-Overpower 5- Execute 6-Shield Bash 7-Victory Rush 8-Thunderclap(Alt+1) E-Berserker Rage Tilde-Sunder Armor Shift-Z-Retaliation

F2-Defensive Stance

1-Sunder Armor 2-Mortal Strike 3-Disarm 4-Shield Slam 5-Revenge 6-Shield Bash 7-Shield block 8-Thunderclap(Alt+1) E-Berserker Rage Q-Spell Reflect Tilde-Intervene Healer(If 5s Intervene is bound for F5 F6 F7 F8)  Shift-Z-Shield Wall

F3-Berserker Stance (Generally only for pummel, Intercept or Recklessness)

1-Intercept 2-Mortal Strike 3-Hamstring 4-Pummel 5-Execute 6-Whirlwind 7-Victory Rush E-Berserker Rage Tilde-Sunder Armor Shift-Z-Recklessness

All Stance Bindings

Z-Piercing Howl

X-Rend

V-Bloodrage

F-Escape Artist

Shift-3-Demo Shout

Shift-B Challenging Shout

Shift6-Focus Shield bash/pummel

Shift-T-Intimidating Shout 

T-Heroic Strike

Shift-1-Focus Charge/intercept

B-Mouse over Taunt

Shift-F-Mocking Blow

C-Pvp Trinket

Shift Sidemouse button-Shattering Throw

Sidemousebutton-Heroic Throw

Shift-2-Frenzied Regeneration

Shift-R Bladestorm

R-Sweeping Strikes

Shift-4 Battle Shout

Shift-5 Commanding Shout

Alt-2-Bandage Self

Shift-X-CancelAura Bladestorm/Recklessness/Blessing of Protection

Alt-3-Mount G-Shield/2hander macro

When I started playing this game I started as a mage and in Burning Crusade ended switching over to my priest. I began doing arenas at the tail end of season 3 on my warrior and priest and got gladiator on both in season 4. Since Wrath I have been playing my warrior mainly. I have gotten gladiator in season 6 and relentless gladiator season 7. I currently reside on Kel’Thuzad alliance and have been here since the beginning of burning crusade.

 I have played many classes and eventually got around to slowly leveling many alts to 80, including: Warrior, Priest, Warlock, Druid, Shaman, and paladin. I have taken time gearing each of them out for arenas and playing them up until fairly high ratings. Currently I am playing my warrior in warlock, warrior, and druid 3s and sitting at 2530 rating as of week 2 s8.

Since playing wrath I have been keeping up with pve as I find it very useful for my class in arenas. I am fairly known for abusing pve gear as much as I possibly can and using as little resilience as possible needed to survive. I have picked up many tricks and tips along the way since playing the warrior class which I intend sharing with all of you.

Mistaclean

I have a lot of experience with arena and feel I could help players achieve much higher ratings. I’ve been gladiator every season since s3 (s3,s4,s5,s6,s7).

I’ve played the paladin class my entire wow career and have picked up some very neat tricks. I’m always getting people that come onto my server to discuss strats or ask for tips. So once I heard about your site, I thought to myself, “Oh, well this couldn’t be more perfect!”