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Rogue Macro Guide
June 20, 2008 by Zuggy
If you’re looking for useful macros as a rogue then you’ve come to the right place. Below you’ll find a list of best and most effective macros for World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade. Many are designed for PvP and arena, though they can be used just as effectively in PvE or raiding environments.
If you’re looking for focus macros head over here, rogue focus macros.
Start attack with primary attack
/startattack
/cast Sinister Strike
*replace “Sinister Strike” with your current spec’d attack: hemorrhage / backstab / mutilate
Add a trinket to a macro
/startattack
/use Bloodlust Brooch
/cast Sinister Strike
*replace “Bloodlust Brooch” with the name of your trinket you want to use
Add riposte to a macro
/startattack
/castrandom sinister strike, riposte
Add ghostly strike to a macro
/startattack
/castrandom sinister strike, ghostly strike
you may also achieve this action via this macro
/startattack
/castsequence reset=20 Ghostly Strike, Sinister Strike, Sinister Strike, Sinister Strike, Sinister Strike, Sinister Strike, Sinister Strike, Sinister Strike, Sinister Strike
Blind target via mouseover
/cast [target=mouseover] Blind
Blind target via mouseover, else blind primary target
/cast [target=mouseover,exists,harm,nodead][harm,nodead] Blind
One button Coldblood then Eviscerate
/cast cold blood
/stopcasting
/cast eviscerate
Cast premed and cheap shot at the same time
/cast Premeditation
/stopcasting
/cast Cheap Shot
Spam sap to get openers
/cleartarget
/targetenemy
/cast sap
*great against other rogues to win the opener
Auto Pick Pocket then cheap shot
/cast Pick Pocket
/stopcasting
/cast Cheap Shot
*you’ll need to turn on auto loot in the interface options for this to work properly
One button ranged attacks
/cast deadly throw
/cast throw
Start attack, spam main attack, use trinket when out of combat, stealth when out of combat
#show Sinister Strike
/startattack
/use [combat] Bloodlust Brooch
/cast [nostealth] Stealth
/cast [combat] Sinister Strike
*change “Sinister Strike” with what ever your current main attack is and also change “Bloodlust Brooch” to your current trinket
Trinket, then blade flury, then Adrenaline rush
/startattack
/use Bloodlust Brooch
/castrandom Blade Flurry, Adrenaline Rush
*change “Bloodlust Brooch” to your current trinket
Stop attack before vanish
/stopattack
/cast Vanish
*helps reduce the chance that you’ll knock yourself out of stealth after vanishing
Use 3 Poisons
#show Vengeful Gladiator’s Bonecracker
/equipslot 17 Vengeful Gladiator’s Bonecracker
/cast shiv
#show Merciless Gladiator’s Shanker
/equipslot 17 Merciless Gladiator’s Shanker
/cast shiv
*change the weapon names to your current 3 weapons you are using, then simply setup the poisons you want. Main Hand, Off Hand 1, and Off Hand 2
Many of these are macros I’ve created myself and others are the suggestions and creations of other players.
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Hello there mate, i was wondering a thing about that weapon swaping macro, what do you want me to write exactly and how / how many macros, i use Merciless sword in MH and Merciless mace in OH, for the swap im using merciless shiv in OH
You’re basically creating 2 macros. This isn’t really a weapon swap macro in the traditional sense, but a swap macro that allows you to use 2 different off hand poisons ( so long as you have 2 different off hands).
Your first macro should read like this…
/equip Merciless Gladiator’s Bonecracker
/cast shiv
the second macro should read like this…
/equip Merciless Gladiator’s Shiv
/cast shiv
Now, for this to work you’ll want to have one poison, probably crippling on your bonecracker, and another poison…say mind numbing on your shiv.
This will allow you to always have wound on the MH, and use other situational poisons when necessary.
Sorry to disturb guys, but could any of you tell me if it’s possible to make a macro with shadow step, premeditate and embush, cause i must be the last stupid man on this earth and i can’t find the way to write it..
Thanks a lot
/castsequence Shadowstep, Premeditation, Ambush
that should work for your purpose.
hey zuggy i was wondering if there was a way to set a hot key to switch through the combat pages and if so what do you recommend?
/swapactionbar 1 2
this will swap between these 2 pages, if you are on page number 1 it will swap it page 2, if you are on 2 it will swap to 1. If you are on anything other than the pages specificed it will swap to the first of the two pages listed.
Simply create a macro for all the pages you’d like.
You can also use this version of the macro.
/changeactionbar 1
For example, maybe you want to bring up all your frost spells every time you sheep as a mage (stupid example, but never the less)
/cast Polymorph
/changeactionbar 2
Casts poly, then changes the bar.
Hope one of these two work for you.
hey zuggy thanks for the advice, it work out great. now i have another question about using bladefist trinket along with sinister strike but stop the annoying noise that plays because the trinket isn’t ready ! any suggestion, i know there is a mod but i was hoping there was another way.
Here you go
/use Bladefist Breath
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/cast Sinister Strike
hey zug me again, sorry to tell you that didnt fix the noise coming across! Any other idea deals of fixing the problem would be great, maybe a way to tell not to active until it has cooldown
Sorry, I misunderstood what you were saying. I believe what you’re looking for is the error speech.
Options–>Sound & Video–> then under play back, de-select “Error Speech.
As far as disabling the little clicky sound it makes I’m not sure, I’ll ask around to some of my guys and see if they have any idea.
no that isn’t it and i don’t no if there is away to make it go away but it is a swooshing sound that my trinket makes when it isn’t ready. so when you do find something any advice would be great. thanks for the reminder about error speech, i had forgotten all about it.
unfortunately I don’t know of any way to turn off that clicky sound you get when you press trinket and it’s not up, I’ll look around a bit…but I’m not sure you could do it without mod intervention.
hey zug know any why to use eviscerate and envenom on same macro but only have the envenom activate if there is deadly poison applied and eviscerate when
it isn’t
/cast Envenom
/stopcasting
/cast Eviscerate
ecko the macro you’re looking for requires a complex variable, I’m not sure if we can help you with exactly that, but you can make a modifier button like shift, alt or control so that you’ll do envenom instead of eviscerate
you don’t need a variable, since envenom won’t do anything by default and it should skip directly to evis.
But like Scythe said you could do something like this…
/cast [modifier:shift] Envenom; Eviscerate
ok thanks guys i’ll try it out cause the
/cast Envenom
/stopcasting
/cast Eviscerate
didn’t work so i try it the other way
keep in mind the other macro I listed there is a modifier macro, requiring the shift + click to active envenom.
Is there no way of having a macro that just equips another offhand, casts shiv. and then back to original offhand again (with only 1 push)
would like an answer at jamenfrede(at)hotmail.com since i dont read this blog that much
No, Nepharion. You cannot have a button macro that swaps and shivs due to the fact that swapping weapons activates your GCD, which in turn is the reason you must click the macro more than once.
I could help make you a macro that completes this function in a couple of clicks, but I’m not going to send a personalized macro via email for someone who doesn’t “read this blog that much”.
Zug and Co,
Love your site guys - I have no idea how I haven’t come across this sooner.
I’ve been a long time PvEer, who is so in love with trying to get a set of S3 swords that I’m going to try to push 2s with a disc priest (also equally PvP noobish) from 1500-1800.
I’ll be putting to the idiot-test everything you guys have written - if I can get 1800, then decent PvPers should be able to get a drake using this info.
Glad you found us! Make sure you check out my priest / rogue 2v2 guide, should give you a good place to start your arena experience!
Actually, it was your priest-rogue 2’s guide that I found first ;).
I like the fact that you show an alternative build (namely, Combat) - I’m far more used to playing it. It’s a refreshing difference to the “ShStep or Bust” mentality I normally see flying around.
Cheers chaps :)
Zug,
I have been trying to get teh following to work, and either AR or BF will activate, but not both. I even flipped BF and AR, still a no go.
/startattack
/use Abacus of Violent Odds
/castrandom Blade Flurry, Adrenaline Rush
In my experience I had
/castrandom Blade Flurry, Adrenaline Rush before
/use *Insert Offensive Trinket here*
If that doesn’t work, I wouldn’t find the /startattack part necessary as you can take care of that in a simple right-click.
..well, i’m not exactly sure what to tell you here. I just tested the following macro (sorry I’m not currently combat).
/startattack
/use 13
/castrandom Sinister Strike, Hemorrhage
and it worked perfectly, just double check your spelling, generally that’s what most errors are centered around.
i just want to say zuggaming helped me a lot to understand the rogue class, thank you guys now my rogue experience and skilled have improved a lot
just imagine that i learned about macros and mouseover here ;D
Thanks, Zatyr! Glad to help.
Make sure you check out the rogue focus macros too…trust me, if you can really get comfortable with them you’ll wonder how you ever got by without them.
hey any chance u can have 2 weapon switches in the same macro, for eg.
equiping a offhand then re equipping the offhand i have just replaced.
thanks
not without requiring multiple clicks, Zet.
yea thats how i want it. when i have a dagger equipped the macro equipps the mace, when i have mace equipped it equips the dagger.
binded in 1 macro, is that possible zug?
I’ve tested a few different things out and I don’t really think there’s anyway you can do what you want without getting some sort of addon involved. I would suggest just creating 2 macros, one for your mace / dagger combo and one for your dagger / mace combo.