Priest Macro Heaven!

[cbraccia]

So after searching far and wide these forums could use a solid post on some class macros. Here I have takent he macros I use for my priest and the macros priests in my guild use and compiled it into a easy structure for you to cop and paste. Enjoy!

Raid Healing Priest Macros
/stopcasting
/cast Greater Heal

/stopcasting
/cast Renew

/stopcasting
/cast Flash Heal

/stopcasting
/cast Circle of Healing

I think of all the macros, this is probably the most simplistic and effective. It drives me crazy watching healer’s jump or move in order to cancel a heal. This is incredibly inefficient as you lose large amounts of overall healing time throughout the fight. Getting used to a system of stopcasting macros will allow you to turret up and let the heals fly, maximizing your available time to cast heals.

Power Word Shield Macro
/cast [target=player] Power Word: Shield

Pretty simple, just cast a PWS on your self without ever having to drop target. Nice in the heat of an arena match or a raid encounter.

Dispel Macros
/target (name of your teammate)
/cast Dispel Magic

Quick target defensive dispel on your teammate.

/assist (name of your teammate)
/cast Dispel Magic

Quick target offensive dispel, great for assisting your DPS classes to clear shields, buffs, etc.


Mouse Over Healing Macros
/cast [target=mouseover] Flash Heal

/cast [target=mouseover] Greater Heal

/cast [target=mouseover] Renew

/cast [target=mouseover] Circle of Healing

This method of healing may or may not work for you. For my priest I found it ideal to manage raid healing, by using these macros in combination with a raid unit frame mod called grid. This basically allowed me to mouse over any frame within the grid unit frame and fire away with heals. You could achieve the same result using the clique mod, but I prefer the macros

Rebuffing Macro
/castsequence Inner Fire, Power Word: Fortitude, Shadow Protection

Requires multiple clicks, but will allow you to put all your buffing spells onto one bar. You can simply add any additional buffs you have based on race / talent spec (divine spirit for example) at the end of the macro, each requiring an additional click.

Trinket + Inner Fire + Devouring Plague Macro
#showtooltip Devouring Plague
/use NameofYourDamageTrinket
/cast Inner Focus
/stopcasting
/cast Devouring Plague

Nice macro that further consolidates clicks and action bar use

Trinket + Healing Macro
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Greater Heal



Silence / Arcane Torrent Macro
/castsequence reset=45 Silence, Arcane Torrent

A good friend of mine used this a ton when I played with him season 3. Once again, it won’t make or break you, but it’s certainly a nice way to free up some action bar space.

The DoT Bomb
/cast Inner Fire
/stopcasting
/cast Devouring Plague / Star Shards (if you have it either)
/stopcasting
/cast Shadow Word Pain

Smart Shadowfiend
#showtooltip Shadowfiend
/cast [harm,nodead][target=targettarget,harm,nodead] Shadowfiend

This macro will send your shadowfiend to attack your target if it’s hostile. If you do not have a hostile target currently targeted then it will send it after your target’s target if it is hostile.



Credit for this goes also to members of my guild, Elven, Raym, and Beo!

Going to go back through tonight to edit and add some more, Enjoy!

[Apoc]

Not bad. However, as a disc priest, I tend to use Clique with Grid. (Much better, as I can keep my macros open for more important things.)

Here's my generalized macro for grinding/spot healing when I'm in shadow spec;

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:ctrl,target=player] [target=mouseover,help,nodead,exists] [help,nodead] Renew
/cast [harm,nodead] Shadow Word: Pain; Renew

Will cast Renew on ourselves if ctrl is pressed, otherwise, it checks the mouseover target to see if we can actually renew them. If no mouseover/ctrl, then we check the current target. If it's hostile, we cast SW:P, otherwise, we cast renew. Pretty, neat as you never need to lose your current target with this macro.

Just change the spells to say; Flash Heal and Mind Blast, and you have a secondary 'nuke' macro.