There is nothing like the old timers, you can no longer have a macro do your job for you.

The closest you can get is making a cast sequence macro such as:
#showtooltip
/castsequence Icy Touch, Obliterate, Obliterate, Blood Strike, Frost Strike
(for frost, don't include this note in the macro)

You would simply have to spam this macro. It is, however, recommended that you use your own judgement and cast each ability individually because a miss will not be accounted for and the macro will simply skip over it.

Would it not be more effective to simply cast Dancing Rune Weapon on yourself?

#showtooltip Dancing Rune Weapon
/cast [target=player] Hysteria
/cast <Racial ability>
/cast [target=player] Dancing Rune Weapon

I would never put more than that into a macro, I prefer to use the trinket and potion myself. Casting the Dancing Rune Weapon would put the weapon right beside you without the clumsiness of clearing and reacquiring your target, unless I'm missing something about the mechanics of the ability.


For my own purposes, I use simple macros and try to stay away from the more complicated ones. Some of these include:

#showtooltip Summon Gargoyle
/cast Blood Fury
/cast Summon Gargoyle

#showtooltip Howling Blast
/cancelaura Freezing Fog
/cast Howling Blast

#showtooltip Hysteria
/cast [target=<Fury Warrior name>] Hysteria

The more complicated macros tend to cause functionality that is useful in the majority of cases, but can be debilitating under less common circumstances resulting in a messed up rotation or mis-targetted spell. This includes things like macroing Rune String to every skill or macroing Blood Tap to BA/UA/VB.

Was anyone else having trouble on the PTR with MagicRunes and multiple dk's?

On the latest push whenever any dk refreshed diseases then magic runes would update mine. Xperl debuffs was also not differentiating between debuffs.

It seems to be more a problem with how debuffs are recognized as "yours" than anything else. Is anyone else having this problem on the ptr?

Anyone knows how to make a macro that allows me to chaincast Heart Strike?
I normally use 'F' for Heart Strike; but I want a macro that cast 2 Heart Strikes in a row(GCD included ofcourse)

Just press F twice ?

You can not macro more than one GCD ability in a macro, unless its a castsequence or castrandom. It's the first rule of macro's.

Every macro you see in this thread consist of 1 GCD ability (Heart strike, Summon Gargoyle, DRW), and a couple of non-GCD abilities (Blood Tap, Racial) or items (Potions, Trinkets).

Or the macro is made of a castsequence, that performs a number of GCD attacks in a certain order, like the raise dead->deathpact macro a few replies back.

However what you want is just casting 2x HS in a row if i get your point. Why don't you just press the button twice ?
I don't even see a benefit in wanting to chain 2 HS, you'd totally lose control over your runes.

Rune control is what makes the difference between a good and a bad DK player. Thats the exact reason why no sane DK should make a /castsequence for his rotation, you'd totally lose the ability to adjust your rotation on the fly.

You do know that if another DK casts pestilence on a mob with your diseases, it spreads YOUR diseases right? Maybe thats what the addon is getting?

Is it possible to have the cooldown shown with following macro? I couln't manage to find anything unfortunately.

That macro should show the cooldown for Death Grip, did you want something else?

Make sure you use '?' icon for any '#showtooltip' macro.

With #showtooltip you do not need the "?" icon. The tooltip will still be what it should (whether its specified or part of a /castsequence)

instead of [mod:alt/shift/ctrl] you put [button:#]. Replace # with 1 for left click, 2 for right, and 3 for middle. Some mouses have a 4 and 5, but that depends on you.

I use the macro Slant gave on page 1 of this thread. It makes it so if your pet is out and alive, it summons it. If it is already alive, it will Death Pact it, and if you hold alt, it will cast Raise Ally.


Now for my own little macro. I made it for the same reason I made my "ghoul heal" macro. Sometimes I want to cast something on my ghoul, but don't want to target him.

It casts Corpse Explosion normally or if I hold alt it casts it on my ghoul.

My ghoul heal macro was mainly thought of when I used the glyph to reduce Death Coils cost when used to heal. I still use it, just not as much as I used to.

I am looking for a macro where i can keep ghoul frenzy up all the time and keep strking with plague strike. In older ptr GF had a cd it was easy to use castsquence but not now. Any idea how to do?

I would use powaauras and make something like this...



Notice the target frame, the green circle rune* is for PS and blue is for IT debuff. Didn't bother putting timer on it since I don't need to keep track of it much since my rotation would refresh them b4 they run out. Also for the Runic Power in the center, I make it to pop up 1(30%), 2(60%),3(90%) of current RP have so I know tat I can cast how many DC at end for my RP dump.