I use a lot of macros, not everyone will agree with all of them but I find macro's give me at least 10% more effiency in over all time and 15% more effectiveness in arena. Most of the macro's I've written replace 2 or more buttons with a single action, something like cower should be tied to shifting in cat form, etc. Simple I know and most people in this guild will already know how to make their own macro's to accomplish what is below. So I guess this is for the few members who don't experiment with macro's.
Some of these are copied, (so I apologize if you've seen them before) and some I threw together. I'll prefix what I use them for on each one.
Druid: Cat, stealth,pounce, all on one button. (this saves me 2 icons on my action bar, reducing 3 to 1)
/cast [nostance:3] Cat Form(Shapeshift)
/cast [nocombat,stance:3,nostealth]Prowl
/cast [stealth]Pounce
Druid: Heal and use trinkets for big recovery. (The OMG, HEAL button on my action bar) Usually I hit this then either regrowth or, healing touch.
/cast Nature's Swiftness
/use 13
/use 14
Druid: Bear charge Arena. If you have points in Furor you can do this instantly. It charges and stuns the target with three clicks. The reset= target is for charging more than once before bash is finished cooling down. When you change targets the macro resets to charge.
/cast [nostance:1] Dire Bear Form(Shapeshift)
/castsequence reset=target Feral Charge, Bash
Druid: Threat Reduction: Incase you're moonkin or feral dps, this macro will help you reduce threat on 1 target, as resto it doesn't work as well since targeting the boss or mob will be difficult in the middle of all the action. If you're already in cat form this will cower, so you can replace your cower button with this macro.
/cast [nostance:3] Cat Form(Shapeshift)
/cast Cower(Rank 5)
Druid: Cyclone focus, or, set focus and cyclone. This was hugely helpful in arenas when I first started playing, now I use proximo but once in a while I still use this macro for CC. It's also good in raids when you have to sheep, seduce, hunter pet tank, banish... etc. Any CC will work, just substitute your spell in for cyclone. (most of the code was borrowed from another source, you probably have seen this macro in another form)
#showtooltip Cyclone
/clearfocus [modifier:shift]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]; [target=focus,dead]
/clearfocus [target=focus,help]
/cast [target=focus,exists,harm] Cyclone; Cyclone
Druid: Kill totem. Another PVP macro, seems to work selecively, I don't know if the targeting is correct, I'll take any volunteer shaman to help work the bugs out with a few duels.
/tar windfury totem
/tar grounding totem
/tar manatide totem
/tar earthbind totem
/cast Moonfire(Rank 1)
Fishing: Buffing your pole. Adding a buff to a weapon or fishing pole, pretty much the same thing, you use two items and then it's done. One click will take care of it, instead of finding the item in your bags, and then finding the pole... etc..
/use Aquadynamic Fish Attractor
/use Seth's Graphite Fishing Pole
Misc: Sell All Greys in your bag. This one I found on some forum. I know there are mods that automatically handle grey items but I have this instead. I have no idea how it works LOL, I just know it does... The only danger with this macro, IF you click it and you're not at a vendor, it will equip any grey items in your bags, so be careful to click this only at a vendor.
/script for bag = 0,4,1 do for slot = 1, GetContainerNumSlots(bag), 1 do local name = GetContainerItemLink(bag,slot); if name and string.find(name,"ff9d9d9d") then DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("- Selling "..name); UseContainerItem(bag,slot) end; end;end;
END
Jewelcrafting: Prospect your ore in one click. Again my goal is to reduce the downtime and increase the playtime, The macro above saves me several minutes at a vendor and this macro does the same when prospecting ore. Single click, and it's prospected, regardless of what ore you have. This macro will not skip to the next bundle of ore in your bags, so if the first bundle is a group of 3 ore, and the next is 20, please swap the ore around so the smallest group is at the bottom of your bags.
/cast prospecting
/use adamantite ore
/use fel iron ore
/use mithril ore