Welcome to Skill Capped’s Overview of the Most Useful Macros for Shadow Priest in Dragonflight 10.2.6
To make it easier to navigate, we’ve divided the guide into the corresponding sections, covering everything from race and talents to gear and macros. These will give you a good idea about what to expect from Shadow Priest, its strengths and weaknesses, and how to get your character ready to conquer the arena. In this section, we will cover the most useful macros for Shadow Priest in Dragonflight.
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Focus Macros
Some of the most important macros in PvP are focus cast macros. Essentially, they allow you to cast abilities on other units without having to manually change your target. This makes your gameplay a lot more fluid and reactive. For this reason, you should have such macros for important spells like Silence and Psychic Horror. On top of that, you might want to have an easy way to apply your DoTs to your focus as well, allowing you to be more efficient when building pressure. For that purpose, you could make such macros for Shadow Word: Pain and Vampiric Touch. And since Priests have access to offensive dispel, you could also find a lot of uses for focus Dispel Magic to quickly remove important buffs from your focus target.
#showtooltip /stopcasting /cast [@focus] Dispel Magic
#showtooltip /stopcasting /cast [@focus] Silence
#showtooltip /stopcasting /cast [@focus] Psychic Horror
Arena Macros
Arena macros do essentially the same thing. The downside of making arena macros is the number of binds you will have to allocate. Not to mention, they are a lot more difficult to get used to. Essentially, you will have 3 binds for each ability. You could start by using focus macros for most of your abilities and arena macros for some of the most important CC, and expand the more you get used to it.
#showtooltip /stopcasting /cast [@arena1] Psychic Horror
#showtooltip /stopcasting /cast [@arena2] Psychic Horror
#showtooltip /stopcasting /cast [@arena3] Psychic Horror
Party Macros
As a Priest, you have a lot of utility, so you need to have an efficient way of interacting with your teammates. You could either use player names (make sure you don’t forget to edit the macro when you change teammates), or by using party macros, which are easier to maintain. In this case, party1 is always at the top of your group, party2 is the second member right below, regardless of your own position on your frames. It is great for arena in general, and even better for Solo Shuffle. You should have these for some of the most important utility like Leap of Faith, Power Infusion, Power Word: Shield and Void Shift. You could even throw in Flash Heal if you have a lot of spare binds. Macroing Vampiric Embrace with Power Infusion can be a good option as this can help you stay offensive while you are using your damaging cooldowns.
#showtooltip /stopcasting /cast [@party1] Void Shift
#showtooltip /stopcasting /cast [@party2] Power Infusion /cast Vampiric Embrace
#showtooltip /stopcasting /cast [@PLAYERNAME] Power Word: Shield
Other Macros
You will want to get a macro for an easy way to cancel Dispersion. We recommend putting into one of your active abilities like Mind Flay, Mind Blast or Mind Spike to save a spot on the bars.
#showtooltip /cast Mind Blast /cancelaura Dispersion
Lastly, we have two quality of life optional macros. The first one is @player for Angelic Feather, and the second one is @cursor for Mass Dispel. These remove the need to click twice and instead cast the spell immediately. With the @player condition, the spell is cast at your feet right away, whereas @cursor will cast the spell at the location of your mouse. This saves you a bit of time in hectic games and could be very convenient in general.
#showtooltip /stopcasting /cast [@player] Angelic Feather
#showtooltip /stopcasting /cast [@cursor] Mass Dispel