Stumbled upon this macro a week or so ago. This is very nice if you run a lot of groups
and find yourself not wanting to open chests with auto loot on but do like to auto loot
your pick pocket window.


/script SetAutoLootDefault(1)
/cast Pick Pocket
/in 1 /script SetAutoLootDefault(0)


The /in 1 section of the macro adds a pause telling it to wait 1 second before turning
auto loot off. With out this you turn auto loot off before you can finish looting the
pick pocket loot window.

This is another find off the wowwiki.com useful macros page.

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This week I wanted to bring you two macros that I have been considering adding to my arsenal. Simple macros but very effective. My goal is usually to keep macros as simple as possible or as my dad always said... remember K.I.S.S. -- Keep. It. Simple. Stupid. The more complex macros may be enticing at first. A single button you can press to defeat your enemies but upon closer inspection they have to many points of failure. The fewer points of failure the better. The first macro is a simple macro to put you into stealth. This macro however is mashable. You can spam it in a panic til your hearts content. It will only stealth you and once stealth will not take you back out of stealth. Use the stance filter here to check to make sure your not already in stealth.

/cast [stance:0] Stealth

The other macro I am looking at adding to my hotbar works in stealth. Use it to cast premeditation before your cheapshot. This is important for me as my ADD self never remembers to hit premed before I attack a target.

/cast Premeditation
/cast Cheap shot

This should make a much more effective use of your premeditation skill if
you often forget to fire it before jumping an enemy in a battleground or arena. 

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A couple of weeks ago I got the bright Idea that I needed to start consolidating the buttons on my n52. Sure I have multiple states available but what's the point of having all those buttons available to press if your not using them. In an effort to focus my attention on the buttons that matter most in Arena and allow for some other buttons to get space on my bars like /focus macros I started looking for ways to take similar buttons and make them one. The first such macro that I found that has really helped was a Deadly Throw / Throw macro.

/cast Deadly Throw
/cast [equipped:Thrown] Throw; Shoot

This macro was taken from WoWWiki. Using one button it will Deadly throw if you have the combo points and if you do not it will Throw or Shoot if for some stat related reason your equipped with a bow, gun or crossbow. Simple yet effective. 2 buttons becomes 1.

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Focus is a feature that has been implemented for quite some time. When I got back to wow though I still had not worked with it much and didn't think much of it. It Arena or any other type of coordinated PVP (and even PVE) its amazing. I am going to try and break this down for the Rogues that have not tried this. Focus sets a secondary sticky target. You can change your primary target all you want but your focus target will be the same until you decide to change it. Even after it has died. To set a focus target just target something and type /focus If you have a unit frame for focus target you should see something appear. If you have everything in pitbull unit frames enabled you probably saw half a dozen bars appear. Just in case you ever wanted to know... Your focus target's target' target's target's target's is always Kevin Bacon. Now that you have your focus set you can start writing focus into your macros. This is where I was orginally turned off to focus. I couldn't imagine a situation where I would want my blind button to only blind my focus and adding additional buttons did not appeal to me.

/cast [target=focus,exists,harm,nodead][harm,nodead] Blind

This macro will cast Blind on the focus target if it has been set to an enemy that is not already dead or it will simply blind your target if it is an enemy that is not dead.

/castsequence [target=focus,exists,harm,nodead] Sap, Blind

I beleive this macro will allow you to Sap and then Blind your focus. The only problem is that you wont be able to blind unless the sap was successful. So probably not something I would use. But you can see the benefit... one button that you press whenever its your turn to cc the focus target. Combine that with a warlock's cc abilities also set in a focus macro like that and you have a very nasty ability to keep one target cc'd while you dump your dps on your primary target. /castsequence [target=focus,exists,harm,nodead] ShadowStep, Kick If you have extra space on your keyboard or have a Nostromo you could set this macro up to Shadowstep to your focus and kick them. The only macro I have tested on this page in live is the first one. The last two are theory that should work based on macro syntax. Macros adapted from WoW Wiki. http://www.wowwiki.com/Useful_macros/Rogue

Labels: focus, macro, notebook, pvp