Priest macros

Mouse-over heal or buff

17 sources

You cast on the friend under your cursor, else your friendly target, else yourself, without dropping an enemy target; the same shape suits Renew, Power Word: Shield, Abolish Disease, Fear Ward, Power Word: Fortitude and Power Infusion.

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/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Flash Heal

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/cast [mod:alt,@player][@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Power Word: Shield

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/cast [@player] Power Word: Shield

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/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@targettarget,help,nodead][@player] Flash Heal

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/cast [mod:shift,@mouseover,help,nodead][mod:shift] Prayer of Fortitude; [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Power Word: Fortitude

Binding Heal, Prayer of Mending, Divine Grace and Contingency Plan are new in Forever and fit this shape, though Divine Grace can't be cast on yourself. Prayer of Healing heals the target and their party in Forever, so it fits too. You can't cast healing spells in Shadowform, so heals from this key fail in the form.

Mouse-over Dispel Magic

10 sources

You dispel the unit under your cursor, else your target, else yourself: harmful magic comes off a friend and a buff comes off an enemy.

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/cast [@mouseover,exists,nodead][exists,nodead][@player] Dispel Magic

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/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Dispel Magic

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/cast [@player] Dispel Magic

Heal or damage by target

8 sources

You cast Renew on a friend and Shadow Word: Pain on an enemy, checking the unit under your cursor before your target; Flash Heal with Smite, or Heal with Mind Blast, work the same way.

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/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead] Renew; [@mouseover,harm,nodead] Shadow Word: Pain; [help,nodead] Renew; [harm,nodead] Shadow Word: Pain; [@player] Renew

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/cast [harm,nodead] Smite; Flash Heal

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/cast [mod:shift,@mouseover,help,nodead][mod:shift,help,nodead][mod:shift,@player] Renew; [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Shadow Word: Pain

You can't cast healing spells in Shadowform, so the Renew half fails in the form. Penance, new in Forever, heals a friend or hurts an enemy on its own (see Penance on friend or foe).

Mind Flay without clipping

Shadow · 7 sources

You start Mind Flay only when you're not already channeling it, so mashing the key doesn't cut the channel short.

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/cast [nochanneling:Mind Flay] Mind Flay

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Lower-rank heal

6 sources

You cast a fixed low rank of a heal on the friend under your cursor, your friendly target or yourself, to save mana on small hits; Heal, Flash Heal, Lesser Heal and Renew are the usual picks.

#showtooltip Greater Heal(Rank 1)
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Greater Heal(Rank 1)

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/cast [mod:shift,@mouseover,help,nodead][mod:shift,help,nodead][mod:shift,@player] Flash Heal(Rank 4); [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Flash Heal

Most healing ranks heal less in Forever than in Classic Era before bonus healing (ForeverChanges), so read the tooltip before you pick one. The top ranks are Lesser Heal 3, Heal 4, Greater Heal 5, Flash Heal 7 and Renew 10.

Not confirmed in the Forever beta yet: pinning a rank, like Frostbolt(Rank 1).

Wand without toggling off

6 sources

You start the wand, and a second press leaves it firing instead of stopping it.

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/cast !Shoot

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/targetenemy [noharm][dead]
/cast !Shoot

Not confirmed in the Forever beta yet: whether pressing !Shoot again keeps the wand firing and the targeting commands.

Stop casting and heal

5 sources

You cancel the cast you're in, such as a slow heal that will overheal, and start Flash Heal on the friend under your cursor, your target or yourself.

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/stopcasting
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Flash Heal

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Divine Grace, new in Forever, suits this key: an instant heal for a friend below 50% health that also clears Weakened Soul. It comes at level 10, has a 10-minute cooldown, and can't be cast on yourself.

Leave Shadowform and heal

Shadow · 5 sources

You drop Shadowform and start Flash Heal on the same press, for when a shadow priest has to heal.

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/stopcasting
/cancelaura Shadowform
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Flash Heal

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In Forever, Shadowform stops healing spells, where in Classic it stopped all Holy spells. Shadowform comes at level 40.

Not confirmed in the Forever beta yet: /cancelaura and /cancelform and which spells work in Shadowform.

Buff yourself in order

5 sources

You cast one buff per press on yourself, in order, without dropping your target; add Divine Spirit or Fear Ward if you have them.

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/castsequence [@player] reset=10 Inner Fire, Power Word: Fortitude, Shadow Protection

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Touch of Weakness and Shadowguard can go in the sequence too if your priest has them; in Classic they were racial spells.

Silence mid-cast

Shadow · 4 sources

You stop your own cast and Silence the enemy under your cursor, or your target.

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/stopcasting
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Silence

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/stopcasting
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Silence

Silence is a Shadow talent at level 30 with a 45-second cooldown, and no longer needs Improved Psychic Scream (ForeverChanges).

Not confirmed in the Forever beta yet: /focus.

Mouse-over damage spell

4 sources

You cast on the enemy under your cursor, or your target if there's none, without switching targets; it suits Shadow Word: Pain, Shadow Word: Death, Mana Burn and Mind Control.

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/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Shadow Word: Pain

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/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Mana Burn

Shadow Word: Death (level 32) and Chastise (level 20) are new in Forever and fit this shape. Chastise only works on Humanoids.

Not confirmed in the Forever beta yet: /focus.

Inner Focus, then Greater Heal

Discipline · 4 sources

You fire Inner Focus and a big heal on the same press, so the heal costs no mana and is likelier to crit; Prayer of Healing works too.

#showtooltip Greater Heal
/cast Inner Focus
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Greater Heal

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#showtooltip Devouring Plague
/cast Inner Focus
/cast Devouring Plague

Inner Focus is a Discipline talent at level 20. It doesn't start the global cooldown and has a 3-minute cooldown, so it and the heal go out on one press. Devouring Plague isn't limited to Undead priests in Forever (ForeverChanges).

Shackle on focus

3 sources

You shackle your focus, making your target the focus first if you have none, so you can reshackle without switching targets; Shift picks a new focus, and Mind Control works the same way.

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/clearfocus [mod:shift][@focus,dead]
/focus [@focus,noexists]
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead] Shackle Undead

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Not confirmed in the Forever beta yet: /focus.

Trinkets with a heal

3 sources

You use both trinkets and start a heal on the same press.

#showtooltip Greater Heal
/use 13
/use 14
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Greater Heal

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Not confirmed in the Forever beta yet: a trinket and a spell on one press.

Shadow Word: Pain, then wand

3 sources

You put Shadow Word: Pain on your target and start the wand on the next press; a new target starts the sequence over.

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/castsequence reset=target Shadow Word: Pain, !Shoot

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/castsequence reset=target Power Word: Shield, Shadow Word: Pain, !Shoot

Not confirmed in the Forever beta yet: a cast sequence starting over on a new target and whether pressing !Shoot again keeps the wand firing.

Psychic Scream, then Fade

3 sources

You stop casting and fear the enemies around you; press again once Psychic Scream is on cooldown and the same key casts Fade.

#showtooltip Psychic Scream
/stopcasting
/cast Psychic Scream
/cast Fade

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/stopcasting
/cast [mod:shift] Fade; Psychic Scream

Both spells start the global cooldown, so one press never casts both.

Not confirmed in the Forever beta yet: Fade after Psychic Scream on one press.

Shadowform without toggling off

Shadow · 3 sources

You stop casting and go into Shadowform, and pressing it again while you're in the form does nothing instead of dropping it.

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/stopcasting
/cast !Shadowform

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Shadowform is a Shadow talent at level 40 and works as a toggle, so a plain /cast Shadowform while you're in the form takes you out of it.

Not confirmed in the Forever beta yet: which spells work in Shadowform.

Smite, Shift for Holy Fire

2 sources

You cast Smite normally and Holy Fire with Shift held, which saves a key while you level.

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/cast [mod:shift] Holy Fire; Smite

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Dispel a mind-controlled ally

2 sources

You target the nearest enemy player, which includes a mind-controlled member of your group, and dispel them; it's for fights where the boss mind-controls people.

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/targetenemyplayer
/cast [harm] Dispel Magic

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Resurrect and tell the group

2 sources

You start Resurrection out of combat and tell your party whom you're raising, but only when your target is a dead friend.

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/stopmacro [combat]
/cast Resurrection
/stopmacro [nohelp][nodead]
/p Resurrecting %t.

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Shield, then Renew

2 sources

You shield the friend under your cursor, your target or yourself, then Renew them on the next press; if Weakened Soul stops the shield, the sequence waits until it resets.

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/castsequence [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] reset=10 Power Word: Shield, Renew

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Power Infusion by name

Discipline · 2 sources

You target one caster by name, cast Power Infusion on them, go back to your last target and whisper them; put their name where it says Name.

#showtooltip Power Infusion
/targetexact Name
/cast Power Infusion
/targetlasttarget
/w Name Power Infusion on you.

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Power Infusion doesn't start the global cooldown, so you can press it between casts. It's a Discipline talent at level 40 with a 3-minute cooldown.

Not confirmed in the Forever beta yet: the targeting commands.

Penance on friend or foe

Discipline · 1 source

You cast Penance on the unit under your cursor, else your target, else yourself; it heals a friend and damages an enemy, so one key covers both.

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/cast [@mouseover,exists,nodead][exists,nodead][@player] Penance

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Penance is new in Forever. It comes at level 30, has a 12-second cooldown, and heals a friend or hurts an enemy, so the macro checks exists instead of help or harm.