The Light and How to Swing It: Paladin macros
by Elizabeth Wachowski 
Aug 28th 2007 at 9:40PM
So recently, I decided to respec ret and give the most-vilified spec in WoW a swing while I leveled. I used the popular Seal/Judge Crusader, Seal of Command, Judge Command, Crusader Strike combo. But I kept forgetting to instantly re-seal Command after Judging, and as a result, I was pretty slow to kill things. I decided it was time to make a macro.
Now, I've used macros before on my rogue (usually involving pickpocketing when cheapshotting), but I had yet to make any for my pally. So I did a Google search and lo and behold, there were a ton of good paladin macro sites! These will be old hat for any experienced macroers, but for noobs like me, I figured a list would come in handy.
Macros for all!
- Bubble-hearthing:
/castsequence reset=3600 Divine Shield, Hearthstone. - Crusader Aura with Flying Mount: This will cast Crusader Aura and mount you if you're unmounted, and cast Retribution Aura and unmount you if you're mounted. Replace the name of the mount and the aura as needed. (Note: This doesn't work with the pally ground mount, since it shares a global cooldown with the auras.)
/cast [nocombat, nomounted] Crusader Aura; [mounted] Retribution Aura;
/stopcasting
/cast [nocombat, nomounted] Blue Windrider;
/dismount - Smart Consecration: This macro casts Rank 1 Consecration when you're out of combat and need to find a rogue, and your max rank of Consecration when you're in-combat.
/cast [nocombat] Consecration(Rank 1); Consecration
Damage/Seal macros:
- Easy Judge: A simple macro that judges your current seal and then recasts a seal of your choice.
/cast Judgment
/stopcasting
/cast Seal of Command - Advanced Seal and Judge: Like the above, except you don't have to wait for a seal to be active first. Replace Seal of Command with whatever you feel like using.
/castsequence reset=30 Seal of Command, [harm] Judgement - Quick Judge: This works well for if you want to dart in and judge Wisdom or Light before stepping back to heal.
#showtooltip
/castsequence [harm] reset=target/shift Seal of Light, Judgement - Crusader/Damage Seal: Okay, for this one you've got to press the shift key first to seal and judge Crusader, then you click it again to automatically seal Command if you have a two-hander and Righteousness if you have a one-hander.
/castsequence [modifier:shift] reset=30,target/combat Seal of the Crusader, Judgement;[equipped:Shields] reset=30 Seal of Righteousness, Judgement;[equipped:Two-Handed Swords/Two-Handed Maces/Two-Handed Axes/Polearms] reset=30 Seal of Command, Judgement - Ret Spam Macro for Long Fights: This is a spam macro for retadins, which means you just hit it over and over and over again if you find pressing three different buttons intellectually taxing. I'm honestly not sure how well this one works, so test it out!
/castsequence reset=target Crusader Strike,Seal of Command,Judgement,Seal of Command,Judgement,Seal of Command,Crusader Strike,Judgement,Seal of Command,Judgement,Seal of Command,Crusader Strike,Judgement,Seal of Command,Judgement,Seal of Command
Healing/Blessing macros:
- Blessing: You can press shift to do a Greater Blessing or just click the button for a single-target Blessing.
/cast [modifier:shift] Greater Blessing of Might; Blessing of Might - Divine Light: Make sure your next heal is a crit! Replace Holy Light with Flash of Light or Holy Shock if you want.
/cast [combat] Divine Favor
/stopcasting
/cast [help] Holy Light; [target=targettarget] Holy Light - Bubble Heal: You too can be annoying in battlegrounds!
/castsequence reset=300 Divine Shield, [target=player] Holy Light - Rez Macro: Announces who you're rezzing, so that you don't cross-rez with shamans or someone,
/cast Redemption
/stopmacro [nodead]
/script local C; if(GetNumRaidMembers()>0) then C = "RAID" elseif(GetNumPartyMembers()>0) then C = "PARTY" else C = "SAY" end SendChatMessage("Resurrecting %t.", C)
Tanking macros:
- Righteous Defense Cheese: This basically turns your Righteous Defense into a taunt by casting it on the target of your target (meaning you can have the boss targeted.)
/cast [help] Righteous Defense; [target=targettarget] Righteous Defense - Blessing of Protection Cheese: Another cheesy taunt-kinda thing which BoPs your target's target (hopefully shifting aggro to you.)
/cast [help,target=target] Blessing of Protection; [target=targettarget,help] Blessing of Protection
I haven't checked out all of these macros myself. Instead, I got them from a number of fine macro sites, including World of Raids, WoWWiki, and the pally forums. Do these macros work for you? What macros do you find necessary to your life as a pally?
Filed under: Paladin, Tricks, (Paladin) The Light and How to Swing It, Rogue
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
dekulink Aug 28th 2007 10:08PM
Here's an imporovement to Smart Consecration that casts your highest rank unles you Ctrl click it.
#showtooltip
/cast [modifier:ctrl] Consecration(Rank 1); Consecration
I can never get the Bubblehearth macro to work though... oh well.
Baluki Aug 28th 2007 10:14PM
I'm just getting into tanking on my belfadin, and just yesterday I set up that same Righteous Defense macro. But using Blessing of Protection as an aggro-control tool hadn't even occurred to me. I'll have to try that out.
One questions though...which one works better? Are there perhaps situations where one is better than the other? I'm just thinking that if something I was tanking is hitting a party member, there's a good chance that shielding that person would just cause the mob to go to the next person on the threat list, which may not be me (the tank). Wouldn't it be better to be sure and use RD?
Krick Aug 29th 2007 1:58AM
someone just posted this one to my forums...
"the idiot-proof macro for Righteous Defense. I say idiot-proof because if you're targeting an enemy that isn't targeting you, it works like taunt, if it is already targeting you and you press it by mistake it won't activate its cooldown and if you press it when targeting an ally it will work like normal."
/cast [help] Righteous Defense; [target=targettarget] Righteous Defense
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Krick
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kcgb Aug 28th 2007 11:03PM
@2
Some bosses will resist your Righteous Defense, I guess for those bosses Blessing of Protection would be a better choice. The only problem is that you have to make sure to quickly build up threat so that the mob won't go running straight back to the blessed target when the blessing runs out.
Also this wouldn't work on mobs who are casting spells on your target for obvious reasons.
trankillity Aug 29th 2007 12:16AM
A lot of these macros are rather unoptimized as many of them can be cast at the same time due to the lack of global cooldown on a few things. An example would be bubble-hearthing. Items and Spells share different global cooldowns, so you can start hearthing as SOON as you hit DS like so..
/stopcasting
/cast Divine Shield
/stopcasting
/use Hearthstone
or if you're a Holy Pally you can seal/judge in the same button press most of the time (because Judgement isn't on GCD) by simply going
/cast Seal of Light/Wisdom
/stopcasting
/cast Judgement
The above macro is bad for Ret though because it doesn't reseal, just seal/judge.
One of my favourite macros for healing when running the Quartz cast bar showing lag is as follows.
#showtooltip Holy Light
/stopcasting
/cast Divine Favor
/stopcasting
/cast [target=mouseover] Holy Light
This will cast a guaranteed crit, max rank Holy Light on whoever your mouse is over. The stopcasting at the start is in order to make use of the Quartz lag meter so that you can get the quickest chain-casts off as possible. This methodology can also be applied to Flash of Light (which works especially well with Quartz because of the GCD timer display.
jaxson_bateman Aug 29th 2007 12:45AM
Here is my super seal/judgement macro that I use for all my different seals.
#show Seal of X
/cast [button:1] Seal of X
/cast [button:2] Judgement
/stopcasting [button:2]
/cast [button:2] Seal of X
What this does is on a left click you will just cast the seal as normal. On a right click you will judge whatever seal you currently have active, then cast the seal you would have cast with a left click immediately after.
An example of using this is a judgement of light/seal of justice combo that works on some Kara trash. I cast seal of light by left clicking the SoL macro. I target the enemy and right click the SoJ macro when in range. Judgement (of Light) is cast, then Seal of Justice is cast.
Zach Aug 29th 2007 1:17AM
One thing to note is that casting a Seal doesn't activate the GCD for Judgement, so it's actually pretty useful to create seal macros that are bound with Judgement. For example:
/cast Seal of Righteousness
/stopcasting
/cast Judgement
This macro creates what amounts to an instant direct damage spell as long as you are within range (substitute the appropriate Seal where it aplies). Also, Hammer of Justice doesn't activate the GCD on Judgement, either, so for Retadins, who almost always have Seal of Command up, it's useful to make this macro:
/cast Hammer of Justice
/stopcasting
/cast Judgement
This stuns your opponent and unleashes Seal of Command at virtually the same time, again making it an instant direct damage spell that stuns.
crazyterran Aug 29th 2007 2:06AM
for raids, i just make all of my Heals mouseover..
/cast [target=mouseover] Holy Light
for example. use it for Cleanse and Flash of Light to.
Raid windows + Mouseover = Win
Carlin Aug 29th 2007 4:08AM
> So recently, I decided to respec ret and give the most-vilified spec in WoW a swing while I leveled.
I am very sorry, however I have difficulty taking anything you say seriously, since you clearly do not even understand that Retribution is the best/fastest spec for leveling a Paladin.
RogueJedi86 Aug 29th 2007 4:39AM
Filed under Rogue?
Zach Aug 29th 2007 5:06AM
@9 - I don't think Elizabeth was wrong when she called Ret "the most-vilified spec in WoW". Whether it's the fastest/best way to level isn't the issue. Besides, you obviously haven't tried AoE leveling, which uses the Prot spec. That, arguably, is the fastest way to level.
Dongyrn Aug 29th 2007 5:08AM
@9
And yet I find it difficult to lend any credence to your condescending remark, as I've found Prot to be much faster for levelling. AoE for teh win. Can a Ret take on 8-12 mobs its own level?
Dongyrn Aug 29th 2007 5:08AM
Heh, beat me to it Zach.
Carlin Aug 29th 2007 5:42AM
@11&12;
Ret is only vilified at 70, as at the level-cap it is a pointless spec.
It takes Paladins a considerable amount of time (longer than any other class) to kill anything while leveling, and specing Prot, ie. lowering the damage output, only makes that take longer.
The fastest way to level is to follow a predesigned quest circuit (such as Jame's guide) and at no time in such guides is a Paladin required to "take on 8-12 mobs its own level".
Medros Aug 29th 2007 6:50AM
Here's a Paladin macro to improve on the mounting one you have.
/cast [nocombat, nomounted] Crusader Aura; [mounted] Sanctity Aura;
/stopcasting
/cast [flyable] Swift Blue Gryphon;
/cast [nomounted,noflyable] Summon Charger;
/dismount
It basically summons the area appropriate mount, flying for outlands and land for azeroth, and does the aura swap based on whether you are mounted or dismounted. I hope you enjoy your new Ret spec, I am really liking mine at 70!
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Killah Aug 29th 2007 6:55AM
Well, wouldn't this rez macro work just as good:
/cast Redemption
/raid Ressing %t.
Dongyrn Aug 29th 2007 7:44AM
@14
Have you tried speccing Prot (especially at a higher level), and do you really know how to play as Prot? In the time one Ret Pally takes down 4 targets, one at a time, I've finished up maybe twice that number at the same time. I'm not going to get into the specifics of HS and the various other mechanisms to reflect damage back at the attacker, but I have played Ret, and noticed a dramatic changed when switched to Prot.
Yes, Ret will burn down a single enemy faster. I don't like single enemies as a Prot Pally. I go aggro a bunch of mobs and let them beat on me.
Now, go back into James guide. Count the number of times there is a specified "grind session".
But enough hijacking of a thread on macros. let me close by saying I don't look down on Ret Pallys any more than Holy Pallys. I personally think all three builds have their use. But for levelling, a Prot spec increases the survivability and downtime. (Sure, even a Mage will burn a target in half the time of a Ret Pally, but while that Mage is recovering mana you're already onto the next target...)
Dongyrn Aug 29th 2007 7:46AM
Er, change that to "increases the survivability and decreases the downtime". My fingers flew too fast.
iapetes Aug 29th 2007 8:40AM
BEST MACRO EVER RIGHT HERE:
/cast [target=target,harm] Judgement; [target=target,help] Blessing of Sacrifice(Rank 1);
basically, it turns your rank 1 BoSac and your judgement spell into the same button, sacrifice when you target an ally, judgement when you target an enemy. if you're an arena paladin like me, you know how important that blessing of sacrifice is.
heres another one i love, especially good for ret pallies but really, helpful for anyone.
/cast [modifier:alt,target=player] Holy Light; [target=target,help] Holy Light; [target=targettarget,help] Holy Light; [target=player] Holy Light
that will cast holy light on your target of target if you have an enemy targeted. if you have an ally targeted, it heals them in the normal fashion.
Krick Aug 29th 2007 11:43AM
@14 All of the leveling guides suck because, at least for Horde, they spend way too much time in Tarren Mill and Stranglethorn Vale which will get you repeatedly ganked on a PvP server, bringing your XP/hr way, way down. When I started leveling my Blood Elf Paladin (Jewelcrafter, of course), I made a conscious decision to completely avoid those two areas. In fact, once I hit level 20, I quested exclusively in Kalimdor, with only the occasional trip across the ocean to Eastern Kingdoms when a Kalimdor quest chain required it or when it was a simple delivery quest.
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Krick
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