Death Knight Macros

When it comes to macros, we know a lot of people just like yourself have no idea what they do. Without getting all technical on you, these are a way for you to make various commands with icons by using coding. It’s actually quite simple once you understand everything, but in the early go you may run into a few bumps in the road. Our goal today is to help you understand why they are important, and what macros you should use for your Death Knight.

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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2 Comments

Drotara on March 28th, 2009

One of the first things I did when I made my DK is write up a bunch of macros for him. I have some simple ones like:
#showtooltip
/cast Blood Strike
/cast !Rune Strike

#showtooltip Icy Touch
/cast [harm] Blood Fury
/cast Icy Touch
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

Then I set-up one for Ghoul stuff:
#showtooltip
/cast [modifier:shift][target=pet, exists] Death Pact; [help] Raise Ally; Raise Dead

And lots more. Love mah macros. :)