Useful macros for mages General Macros . Buffs . # showtooltip Shield one button . # showtooltip Cast and Remove Ice Block . Press to cast ice block , hold shift to cast and remove it ( good for PvP and PvE for when you need to remove debuffs ) One - Click Teleport . There are many " one - click teleport " macros out there , but they often only feature some of a mage ' s possible destinations . This one can travel to all seven destinations ( adjust for faction or destination preference ) : One - Click Portal . Same as above , but with Portal spells instead of Teleport spells . AoE Grinding ( Non - Frost ) . # showtooltip Blizzard Buffs , rations , eat / drink . # showtooltip Croissant This macro is good for start - up as it allows initial buffs , and the conjuring of food and water ; or it will consume both food and water with a single click . If you left - click on it , or click on it with a keyboard hotkey , it goes through a sequence which will give the intellect buff , and molten armor - feel free to change that to which ever armor you prefer - followed by conjure water and food . By putting the buffs first , when they run out and you are not out of food , you can simply left click on it twice to renew your buffs . I used to have gem conjuration in the sequence as well , but since they no longer vanish and throw an error if you try to conjure one when you still have one , I thought they did not belong here anymore . < BR > < BR > If you right click on it , you will sit , eat , and drink , in one click . By setting " # showtooltip " to the food - change it to which ever food you conjure - you will see a big red ? when you first log on , to remind you that you need to run it , and , once you have run it , you will see the number of foods you have in stock . At the lower levels you tend to summon 2 more waters than foods , but if you always eat and drink together , it is unlikely that you will run out of water before you run out of food , and excess waters can easily be thrown away ; or they will vanish on their own when you log out . Buffs , rations , eat / drink ( grinder ) . # showtooltip Conjured Glacier Water Same as above but with more finite control . Left - click to cast your buffs in sequence ( dampen / amplify magic , intellect , armor ) . Shift - click to conjure your water and food . Right - click to eat / drink . If you ' re like me you ' ll run out of water / food long before your buffs run out . Dampen / Amplify Magic are placed first in the buff list to account for the 10 minute duration ; left - click once to refresh just this or multiple times to refresh them all . Seahorse , ground , fly , dismount , slowfall . / cast [ mod : alt ] Traveler ' s Tundra Mammoth ; [ mod : ctrl ] Dark Phoenix ; Abyssal Seahorse This is a very useful 1 button mounting macro to all map areas ( on 4 . 2 ) , mounting with vendor / repair mount and it also casts slow fall if you are flying above ground level so you don ' t get falling damage . Important note ! If you are targetting any other friendly player , slow fall will be cast to that player instead of yourself and you will take falling damage ! ! ! Remember , always be stocked up on Light Feathers or get the Glyph Glyph of Slow Fall , or you might end up falling to your death . This macro works fine on any other class also . Only Slow Fall option is not working and you can delete last row to avoid error frame text on screen . Polymorph . Setting Focus . / clearfocus This macro sets your focus to the targeted friendly player or sets focus on the alive , non - friendly target that you intend to sheep . The macro also removes any current raid marker from your target and sets a moon raid marker on it . The macro also informs others of which target you intend to Polymorph by means of an emote . Instant Polymorph to focus . # showtooltip Polymorph Use this macro together with the " Setting Focus " macro ( or if you already have an enemy in focus ) to make this macro work . When you are not in combat , this macro simply casts Polymorph on your ( hostile ) focus . During combat you can tell from your focus if the enemy is still polymorphed , so when the timer is running out ( or someone broke the CC ) you can simply press your keybind in order to stop casting your current spell , cast Presence of Mind to make Polymorph instant and then cast it , all with just one press of a button . If Presence of Mind is on cooldown , the regular Polymorph will be cast on your focus . The main advantage of this macro is that you keep your current target that you were DPS : ing and you can continue to deal damage immediately after Polymorph is refreshed . If you don ' t have a focus however , or if your focus is friendly , Polymorph won ' t be cast . In that case you may want to use the below " Instant Polymorph to target " macro instead . Instant Polymorph to target . # showtooltip Polymorph Basically this works like the " Instant Polymorph to focus " macro in that it activates Presence of Mind before casting Polymorph to make it instant only when you are already in combat . The difference here is that you don ' t set a focus first . When you are in combat , you have to target the enemy that you are going to Polymorph before using this macro , then you have to switch target back to the one that you were DPS : ing . Simple Announce Polymorph . / cast Polymorph Really simple macro , this one simply casts polymorph and announces it with an emote . Random Polymorph . Casts a random polymorph spell if the target is Neutral or Hostile , else cancels the macro . If the target is polymorphed , announces through emote . Arcane Macros . Burst Damage . This is a great PvE DPS combo . Standard Rotation . This will cast Arcane Blast 4 times to build up debuffs , then cast Arcane Barrage . When Missle Barage Procs hold shift to cast Arcane Missles after the fourth Arcane Blast High Damage Blizzard . Arcane spec : Frost Spec : Decurse . This is particularly good if you keybind your mousewheel to it . Powered up Arcane Blasts . This Macro is really useful for when you start a boss fight . It is best used after you cast Arcane Blast 4 times and have the debuff stacked on you 4 times . Additionally you could also change the macro to cast Arcane Blast 4 times , then proc Mana Gem , Arcane power and cast another Arcane Blast . Fire Macros . Living Bomb , Fireball . / castsequence reset = 12 / target / combat Living Bomb , Fireball , Fireball , Fireball , Fireball Pyroblast or Fireball . Casts Pyroblast if you ' re not in combat ( as an opener ) , Fireball otherwise : A slight improvement on the above macro , for button mashers . Functions exactly the same way , except that if you are button mashing it won ' t attempt to cast pyroblast again in that small space before you enter combat after casting : Another one , defaulting to Pyroblast out of combat , and fireball in combat , but letting you hold alt to switch : Flamestrike . Casts Flamestrike , next click casts Flamestrike , resets after 6 seconds . ( rank levels of spells has been removed by Blizzard , on one of the latest patches ) Frost Macros . Frostbolt , pet attack . You can replace frostbolt with any other spell you use alot and it makes the water elemental attack faster . Frostbolt , pet attack ( safe auto - target ) . This Frostbolt ( Ice Lance / Frostfire Bolt ) macro will : With a target : Without a target : Frostbolt , pet attack ( anti - ninja ) . As above , you can replace Frostbolt with any spell you want . The purpose of this macro is when spamming the above macro , if a non - pulled group of mobs is within the fairly large casting range of your pet when combat ends , your pet will start casting on them and ninja pull them , this macro will prevent that . The downside is you will have to target mobs manually . AoE Grinding . May not be the choice for higher levels , but for AoE leveling grinding as frost its good . Pet Control . For pet control , here are a couple simple macros to ensure ' mentals don ' t break anything . ( To make sure your pet is still doing DPS , use the Frostbolt / Ice Lance / Frostfire Bolt Macros posted above . ) This first macro will : / petattack [ harm ] can be replaced with Freeze if you want just one button for your pet Freeze Macro ( if you want it separate ) The exclamation point allows you to spam the macro . Frost Nova Cone of Cold Alternative Macro : PVP Mage Macros . Air Combat . # showtooltip This macro is useful for getting easy kills on classes without a Slow Fall . Simply fly up to the enemy player , use this macro , and Slow Fall before you hit the ground . You can put this on your bar in place of regular Frost Nova . Conjuring , Food and drink . Eating and drinking . there are some general macros for food an water management on the Useful macros site All In 1 Food Macro . # showtooltip All in 1 Food Macro ( Food + Water ) . # showtooltip OLD MACROS BELOW . The macros below this line have not been validated to work in 3 . 1 . Use at your own risk . Combat . Living Bomb . For those who have their UI set up to see their focus target and the target ' s debuffs , this helps you see when living bomb will go off so you can plan a recast . Anti - chain - fear . For those of you Blood Elves like me out there that can only counter chain fear three times , allowing the fourth one to hit you and the next lock to have full fear power over your toon , This is to help . Left - click to ice block , or shift - click to drop block if you ' re in it , cast CS , and if ice block is off CD , block . Thus , you can click it out of the first fear then shift click to get right back into it the second they start casting fear again . this gives you 8 seconds of time before they can fear again . . . and if specced right , 4 before they can do anything else , either . Spam - able Frostbolt w / pet attack . disables the annoying error sound and clears ui errors from the screen while also telling any existing water elemental to attack your current target . Also switches to the next target when your target dies ( less downtime ) Frost Nova / Cold Snap . This will cast frost nova on first press . If frost nova is still in cool down it will cast cold snap on second press , and it will cast frost nova on third press . The stop casting is in case you want to use it to interrupt another spell ( ie they run in close while casting frost bolt ) . Quick Counterspell . Casts Counterspell immediately , cancelling any spellcast in progress . This helps ensure that you will stop your opponent ' s cast in time . Silence . Casts much like the above except I added Arcane Torrent if counterspell is on cooldown , just in case you need to interrupt another spell cast ( for all you BE mages out there like me ) . If you select the " ? " icon then it will show the image of which spell you ' re going to use . I tried to play around with it so that if you felt the need you could shift click it to use arcane torrent ( silence more than 1 enemy ) but I couldn ' t figure out how to do it , if someone wants to add in to the macro to allow this , please go ahead . This will let you cast - with shift and any button or button 2 , Arcane Torrent , otherwise the normal sequence of counterspell followed by Arcane Torrent Quick Ice Barrier . Similar to Quick Counterspell , casts Ice Barrier immediately , cancelling any spellcast in progress , allowing you to absorb damage now instead of later . Trinket , then Cast . Pops two trinkets ( whatever is in the 13th and 14th inventory slots ) and finishes with a damage spell . This boosts DPS by reducing the number of keystrokes or clicks necessary for this common cast sequence . Each action has the potential to fail ( when the trinkets are on cooldown or you lose line of sight on your opponent ) and produce an error message and sound . Suppressing these errors makes the macro more pleasant to spam . Below is the version with the error suppression . To disable the annoying error sound you get when your trinkets are on cooldown you can use the following macro ( credit to Syrloin on Steamwheedle Cartel ) : The I Win Button . aka PoM Pyro , the largest burst of damage a mage can deliver . Requires an arcane / fire spec . Cast the following sequence instantly and with a single button press : The POM - FROST win button . This is the arcane / frost version of the previous macro : = = = Experimental Hybrid Mage Win Button This is an interesting macro , from the experimental Hybrid Mage Build : Note : It will nuke the player , and after that you can use Frostbolt / Firebolt . Anti Grounding Totem Ice Lance . # showtooltip Ice Lance NOTE : Grounding Totem Makes the exact same effect . Cast on mouseover or target . This macro will attempt to cast Counterspell on your mouseover target . If your mouse is not targeting someone , it will cast Counterspell on your current target instead . Does nothing if the target is friendly . It is also excellent for use with Ice Lance , as well as non - Mage abilities including Earth Shock , Blind , Warlock curses , Feral Charge etc . Polymorph . Announce Sheep . " Dude ! Quit breaking my sheep ! " You ' ve said it before , and you ' ll say it again . Might as well make it a macro . And since you ' re already writing a macro , might as well make the announcement * before * they can break your sheep . This macro will first cast Polymorph , then ( if your target was sheepable ) announce ( in party chat ) the name of the mob you ' re sheeping . If you have no target , if your target is dead or if your target is friendly , you will not successfully sheep nor will you announce the attempt . Sheep Focus . Using focus to keep an eye on your sheep can make you more reliable cc while also maximizing your DPS during the sheep ' s lifespan . The following macro gives you a single button that automatically manages your sheep as a focus until it dies or until you manually replace it with your current target . When you click , if you ' re not already watching a sheep , your current target is put in focus and Polymorphed . Any subsequent clicks will resheep your focus , leaving you free to target something else for damage . Once your sheep is killed , click again to set your current target as focus and sheep it . If you need to sheep a different target before your current sheep is down , target the new sheep , hold shift and click to make the change . Note that using this macro will interrupt any cast in progress and immediately focus and Polymorph . Full Polymorph / Focus Macro . This polymorph macro will do the following : This allows one button to do the whole sheeping process without the need for a separate / clearfocus button ( though an additional macro that does a / script SetRaidTarget ( " focus " , 0 ) and then a / clearfocus would be useful to let the group know the sheep is free game now might be useful ) As of 2 . 1 , you can also use % f to insert your focus name in chat just like % t inserts your target . Thus , to alert your party that you are sheeping ( or re - sheeping ) your focus and not your target , try this instead of the last line above : Target Tracking . This polymorph macro will do the following : Track target with instant CC . This polymorph macro will do the following : Polymorph , focus mouseover . This is a modified version of the focus - following macros above , that will reset your focus to your mouseover target . This means you can switch polymorph focus without changing your current target . Random . / castrandom [ harm ] Polymorph ( Rank 4 ) , Polymorph ( Pig ) , Polymorph ( Turtle ) Conjuring , Food and drink . Conjure / consume food , water , gem . Left click to conjure , right click to consume . Click normally to conjure / drink water , shift - click to conjure / eat food , and control - click to conjure / consume mana gem ( replace names of items with whatever the name of what you are currently conjuring is ) If you use the ? Icon with this macro , the icon will automatically change based on what buttons you are holding . Conjure / consume food , water , gem # 2 . A right click will cycle through conjuring food , water , and a mana gem , resetting the cycle after 8 seconds . A right click with shift held will conjure a mana gem , regardless of castsequence position . Left clicking will drink with no modifiers , eat with control , and use the mana gem with shift . Note that this is MUCH more useful with the question mark icon . Conjure Mana Gems . Patch 3 . 0 . 2 changed all mana gems to be unique 1 , so you cannot have all rank gems . If you like to have one button per gem for conjuring and casting you can use this macro for each of your gems . Rightclicking it conjures the gem . Any other way of activating the macro ( button press or leftclick or something ) uses the gem . Of crouse your replace the gem name with the gem you wanted to use . Downside is that if you use the questionmark icon for the macro , it only shows the gem icon if you have it in your inventory . The gem icon turns into a red questionmark when you log in or zone while not having the gem on you . Hope this gets fixed soon . Alternatively , you can select a fixed macro icon that resembles the gem . Merely replacing " # show Mana Citrine " with " # show Conjure Mana Citrine " works as well , however with Mana Emerald it won ' t show the charges . Conjure / use mana gem . This macro will conjure a mana gem if you do not already have one , or use one if you do : Replace " Mana Ruby " with whatever your highest level of mana gem is . The " nocombat " conditional ensures that you do not use the gem then immediately try to conjure another one while you are in a hot situation . In patch 3 . 0 . 2 Blizzard change all the Conjured Mana Gems ( Citrine , Ruby , Emerald , etc . ) casting names to read just Conjure Mana Gem . The above will conjure the highest Mana Gem you have ( In a 70 ' s case it would be the Mana Emerald ) by left clicking then will use the Mana Emerald by simply right clicking ( Just change Mana Emerald to read whichever Mana Gem you use ) . Refresh Mana Emerald . Throws out your current Mana Emerald , recreates a new one with three charges . Saves you from finding your current Emerald in your bags and throwing it out manually if you ' ve used a charge or two and want a new one . ( As of patch 3 . 0 . 2 this is done automatically . If your Mana Emerald has less than three charges , casting will make it have three charges . If it has three charges it will not cast . ) Other utility . Teleport Stormwind , Ironforge . This macro is designed to teleport you to Stormwind or Ironforge , and also displays how many runes you have left . Right click = Ironforge Ctrl + Right Click = Stormwind . Enjoy ! All teleports , portals on 3 buttons . These macros will take 3 slots only , and will include every available portals and teleports . modifier + left click , will teleport and modifier + right click will create a portal . ( except stonard , one macro includes stonard teleport ONLY , and other one includes stonard portal ONLY ) This macro will be Silvermoon City teleport / portal if no modifier key used , will change to Thunder Bluff if " alt " key is pressed , and will change to Stonard if " shift " key is pressed . Remember ; Left click teleports , right click creates portal ( except stonard ) This macro will be Orgrimmar teleport / portal if no modifier key used , will change to Undercity if " alt " key is pressed , and will change to Stonard if " shift " key is pressed . Remember ; Left click teleports , right click creates portal ( except stonard ) This macro will be Shattrat City teleport / portal if no modifier key used , will change to Dalaran if " alt " key is pressed , and will change to Stonard if " shift " key is pressed . Remember ; Left click teleports , right click creates portal . Mount and keep going . This macro is designed to let you keep running through stuff you don ' t want to fight without taking damage ( and thus not being Daze d ) . It will always mount you , but if you are targeting something dangerous , it will put up Mana Shield first . Buffing . By clicking the left mousebutton you buff yourself , by clicking the right mousebutton you buff your current target ( the default way ) . You can also change the spell ( ' Arcane Intellect ' used in the example ) to whatever you like ( i . e . ' Remove Curse ' ) . Alternately you can use this macro for the similar effect . This will cast AI on self on right click , your target on left click , and your target ' s party if you are in a group ( party / raid ) and are holding the ctrl key on left click ( mainly useful for not wasting your arcane powder unnecessarily ) You can also use this one . Casts AI on left click , AB on right click . Also respects alt selfcast , and shows the amount of arcane powder left on the macro icon . Just select the Arcane Brilliance icon from the macro interface . Better slow fall . It simply makes you slowfall but it dismounts you first . If you lack the manual dexterity to dismount and then slowfall when you accidentally drop down a cliff , this macro will help you lots . Also , this thing shows the number of light feathers you have left on the macro icon . Note : you will need to press this button twice to dismount and slowfall ! Failure to do so in combination with un ' goro or flying mounts can have bad consequences . Note that as of Patch 2 . 1 , abilities that previously could not be cast while mounted ( such as Slow Fall ) will now automatically dismount your player . Better Slow Fall Patch 3 . 0 . 8 . Removes the need to target yourself if you are not targeting someone else that is friendly . I . E . Make sure that you aren ' t targeting any friendlies when you are falling so it will cast it on yourself Portal / Teleport on one button . Leftclick teleports you , rightclick summons a portal . The macro shows the amount of teleport stones you have left . Select a custom icon for this one . All the city icons are in the default list . Of course , you adjust the city name to suit your needs . As of patch 2 . 1 not only will buttons display the number of reagents available for spells but macros that select different spells will change in real time to show which will be cast . The following macro will teleport you if you are alone and will open a portal if you are in a party or raid , unless you override it by holding down a modifier key ( shift / ctrl / alt ) . Use the red question mark icon to see which spell will be cast when you use the macro . Portal / teleport , announce raid / party . Leftclick teleports you , rightclick summons a portal , middle button click announces to raid or party that you ' re creating a portal . Very similar to the macro above . All teleports , hearthstone . Uses one button to cast any teleport ; choose by your combination of mod keys . Right - click uses Hearthstone . All teleports , portals , hearthstone . Uses one button to cast teleport , portal and hearthstone ; choose by your combination of mod keys . Middle - click uses Hearthstone . All portals ( flavor text ) . Uses one button to cast portals to all cities . Easily edited into a separate button for Teleporting . All 3 armors on one button . Left click for Molten Armor , right click for Frost Armor , and alt - click for Mage Armor . Very handy for conserving hotbar space and the like . You can edit the first line to have it display whichever armor ' s tooltip you prefer , simply change the name of the spell . This macro is similar , but buffs Molten Armor with left click , Ice Armor with right click , and Mage Armor with middle mouse click ( scroll wheel button ) . This is an alternative version that just uses modifier keys instead of different mouse buttons . Also removing the spell name from the showtooltip allows it to show the armor that will be cast before pressing the button . Grouping and raiding . Easy Remove Curse Macro . This macro makes it so you can easily remove curses from party members by continually clicking the macro button . The first click will target you , the second will target the closest party member to you . This continues to all party members within range . For party : For raid : Hover - Target Decurse . This macro comes from the Discord Mods forum and is extremely useful for raiding , allowing you to decurse a member of your party / raid without having target them . Just hover your mouse over the person ' s frame in the raid window and hit the key that binds this macro . When using a raid window tuned to show who is in need of decursing ( CT Raid comes to mind ) this is makes for extremely fast decursing without having to change targets . Arcane Spec Macros . With the advent of the arcane spec becoming viable ( ABx3 - > AM - > scorch / fireblast rotation ) with 2 part Tirisfal Regalia pieces , not casting while channeling arcane missiles needs to be linked to the vast majority of your spells . This is due to arcane blast being a 7 second " buff / debuff " therefore only having . 5 seconds of latency & downtime between the last two spells of the rotation and again casting arcane blast . This macro will make it so if you hit the arcane missiles key while casting arcane missiles , nothing happens , but if you are not casting them then you will begin to cast them . This macro allows you to spam a non - channeled spellkey while channeling arcane missiles and not interrupt the channel ( trinket included to show you can also add them in ) You should also do this to your scorch and / or fireblast spells in order to spam them , as casting AM and scorch / fireblast only gives you . 5 seconds to again cast arcane blast before you lose the " buff / debuff " Elemental / Pet . Some of these ideas are taken from Pet management macros for Warlocks . Having to manually control your 45s pet ( or even 1 minute with talents ) as a mage is counter productive , he ' s only around for 45s you should try and maximise his efforts as much as possible . Frostbolt + Attack . This instructs your pet to stay where he is and start casting his Frostbolt while you cast your Frostbolt . You could also cater this macro to any other spells you like . Petfollow + Frostnova . In my experience when I ' m frost nova ' ing an area I tend to want to run away from things attacking me there and since a retadin can 3 - shot a water elemental it ' s a good idea to get him out of there too . This combines frost nova w / petfollow to give you a way to make your elemental to follow you . Frost Nova and Pet Frost Nova . Very simple macro that makes you cast Pet Frost Nova if normal Frost Nova is on cooldown and hides error messages , incase one of those in on cooldown . Petfollow , Frostnova , Freeze . # showtooltip Frost Nova Aggressive + Ice Block . Another good idea is to just let your pet unload on whoever when you iceblock , if you do this though , you may want make a macro or add a / petdefensive in another spell of yours to switch him back . Summon + Buff + Attack . The following is intended to work for 11 + / 0 + / 41 + mages . It should summon an elemental on a left click , buff the pet with Focus Magic ( hence the 11 + / ) on right click and have the pet attack your target by left clicking a second time . Obviously , if you are in the group with a more appropriate recipient of Focus Magic or haven ' t spec ' d for that spell , then remove or ignore that section . Summon pet , buff , and keep target . # showtooltip Summon Water Elemental The above macro is designed to be used when already in , or going to be in combat shortly . After summoned , your pet will attack your current target if previously engaged . Upon cast , if no pet is present , you will summon your water elemental . Once summoned , the next two times the macro is activated , you will Buff your pet with Arcane Intellect followed by Focus Magic . A Nice + 60 Int will allow the Pet to have a slightly higher Crit chance to which you will benefit from due to Focus Magic : ) Summon , freeze , attack , follow , stay . This macro summons your elemental and on next press , allows you to cast freeze . If you have a hostile target , your elemental will start attacking it . To use the elemental ' s second freeze , simply wait for the cooldown to elapse and press the same button again . If you want your elemental to attack a different target but don ' t want to cast freeze yet , simply right click the screen when the aoe circle appears and you can recast it when you are ready ( it doesn ' t affect your current spell ) . This is very handy if you want to spam a button to summon , attack and nova something quickly . Alt and shift will set pet to follow or stay . Shatter Combo . On the first press of this macro , one of your available trinkets will be popped , Icy Veins will be cast and your Water Elemental will be summoned . The second press of this macro will bring up your pets targeting reticle for its Freeze ability and your pet will begin to attack your current target . In addition , this macro will hide any resulting error messages and temporarily disable any error sounds from playing . The key is on the second press of this macro . The idea is to simultaneously or as quickly as you can click near your target to cast Freeze and cast your own Frostbolt at the same time immediately followed by an Ice Lance . The end result is a shatter combo where your target will be frozen and hit by both your pets Waterbolt , your own Frostbolt and Ice Lance relatively at the same time , all of which will land a critical strike .