Knowing Your Enemies (Fire Casting Macro)
Throughout the game you will come across certain enemies that are immune to many of your Warlock spells. When you see this, it is always good to have a few Warlock Macros that can combat the situation. A prime example is when you are taking on the undead. Obviously if you’re in trouble the Howl of Terror isn’t going to work. However, if you had a Fire Casting macro you probably wouldn’t be in that situation. Here is a good example below.

#showtooltip
/castsequence [mod:alt] Corruption; reset=10/target/combat Immolate, Incinerate, Reign of Fire

During this time you will probably need to pop a mana potion of some sort, unless you either take some from your minion. Then again, if your health is ripe you may just want to do a Life Tap or two to get enough back for another run. Speaking of Life Tap, have you ever thought about making a macro that uses different ranks for this ability?

Taking Advantage of Ranks (Life Tap Macro)
Since the Warlocks use a ton of mana, it’s important to have this in the Warlock Macros repertoire. Why? Well, the reason is simple. There are times when your health is low and your minion is out of mana to steal. Even all your potions are gone, which can put you in a real predicament. The Life Tap macro will allow you to choose if you want the higher level used or maybe a smaller rank. You can see this example below.

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:alt] Life Tap (Rank 1)
/cast [no modifier] Life Tap

Faster Farming or Grinding
If you are looking for a way to save some time farming goods or grinding for mats, then these Warlock macros will come in handy. It’s simple, everyone around level 10 and up can use it, and you can adjust it to fit your specific needs. However, we suggest making one that coincides with the location you are farming. You can find the example below.

#showtooltip
/petattack
/cast [mod:alt] Corruption
/cast [no combat] Curse of Agony
/cast [no combat] Immolate
/cast sequence reset=target/combat Drain Life, Drain Soul, Life Tap,

More Available

There are plenty more available in the Warlock Macros bucket, you just need to know what you use most. A great one that we didn’t cover is setting a Buff sequence for playing other players or when you’re in a party. It’s nice to be able to push one button and make it all happen, as opposed to hitting 5 or 6. We hope this helps you build your character for battle a little better. Once you start using them we know it will.

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1. Death Knight Macros
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Why Use Macros

Well, during your normal realm quests macros can be used for food, water, or anything else in your bag. However, if you plan on playing in the PvP world, heading to Battlegrounds, or even taking a shot at the Arenas and Tournaments, these could make all the difference. Keep in mind these are the essential areas where having that extra ability in your macro is essential. There are 36 slots in all so make sure you take advantage of them all.

Why They are Important for Death Knights

One of the biggest things DKs continue to gain throughout the game is Trinkets. Since you can’t keep all of them in your bags or trinket slots (2), having them all on macros can be helpful. This will come in handy when you don’t want to read over each one and see which works best for your current situation. Especially if you need something like the Insignia of the Scourge and it’s not equipped at the moment.

If you’re still confused let us try it another way. Since your macros can work for positions in your bag, you can make an icon for a Trinket in one of your slots. Since you have to click on some of them (Insignia of the Scourge) you will be able to access it quicker. Basically this means you won’t have to open your character stats during battle. Instead you can simply click the Death Knight macro icon you created and make it work.

Open Slots for the Action Bar

If you are someone who uses all the action amenities (every location including two right bars), you will soon realize it takes forever to fill them up as a Death Knight. While this may be true, you probably have several macros you want to place there that can be both fun and important to your game play. We recommend putting party and raid chat macros on the right hand side.

The Best Death Knight Macros

If we had to choose three of the best macros for Death Knights they would be:

Runner Stopper
#showtooltip Death Grip
/castsequence reset=25 Death Grip, Chains of Ice

This macro helps you contain an enemy if another spell is on cool down.

All-In-One Spell Interrupt
#showtooltip Strangulate
/cast Strangulate
/cast Mind Freeze

This one stops the casting of one spell if you didn’t realize it’s on cool down and switches to a different one.

Frost Death Coil + Lichborne
#showtooltip Death Coil
/cast [button:2] Lichborne
/cast [button:2, target=player] Death Coil; Death Coil

With a left-click, this macro casts Death Coil on your current target and with a right-click it casts Lichborne and then Death Coil on yourself.

What’s Your Favorite

Even though we can throw out a little information to you, there will come a time when someone like yourself will find something better. The whole idea here is to spend some time playing around with your Death Knight macros and see what works best. Then again, you might just want to have a few entertaining ones to give others something to talk about (Ghoul Explosion, which can make your pet explode). In the end it all depends on you.

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