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Elemental Shaman Macros & Addons - Shadowlands 9.2
By HawkCorrigan
Last updated
2022/02/22 at 2:15 AM
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Macros and Addons provide many quality-of-life improvements in WoW, allowing players to improve how information is displayed in-game or automate decision-making to optimize performance.
In this guide, we will go over useful Elemental Shaman macros for , explain how to make your own macros, and cover some of the best Elemental Shaman addons for both hardcore raiders and general players alike. Whether you're looking for specialized Elemental Shaman macros to help you gain a competitive edge, or creating a custom user interface to expand your view of the game world, this page will help get you started with some of the most popular choices within the Elemental Shaman community.
Overview
NEW
NEW Patch 9.2 Changes
Best Covenant
NEW Tier Set Bonus
Gear
Talent Builds
Legendaries
Conduits
Kyrian
Necrolord
Night Fae
Venthyr
Pre-Patch
Starter Guide
Rotation, Priority, and Abilities
Advanced Concepts
Stats
Consumables
Macros & Addons
WeakAuras
Common Terms
NEW Castle Nathria Tips
NEW Sepulcher Tips
Mythic+
Common Questions
Mage Tower
Twisting Corridors
NEW Simulations
About the Author
I'm HawkCorrigan or Hawk for short.
I play Elemental Shaman on a semi-hardcore level on Draenor, primarily focusing on PvE content.
Usually you can find me lurking around the Earthshrine Discord as one of the Elemental MVPs, answering various question,
or you find me hanging around WoWAnalyzer and Simulationcraft where I maintain the respective Elemental Shaman modules.
I am also one of the active maintainers for
Storm, Earth and Lava
.
If you want to get in touch, contact me on Discord as HawkCorrigan#1811.
Macros
Macros are simple, in-game tools which allow you to sequence spells together, create custom names and icons, cast different abilities depending on whether the target is friendly or hostile, define targeting conditions, and much, much more. While the amount of options can be complex, making them is easy, so in this section we'll go over how to set them up yourself.
To open the in-game Macro interface, type "/macro" or "/m".
Choose between the General and Character-specific macro tabs. Then click the "New" button on the macro window.
Choose a Name and an Icon so you can easily recognize your macro, then click "Okay."
Select your new macro and use the text editor below to tell it what to do. If copying ours below, you can simply copy/paste the text in.
Click the "Save" button, and drag your macro icon onto your bars, which will allow it to be used just like any other spell from your spellbook.
To close the window, click "Exit", or just press Escape.
For more information on creating macros, including full lists of conditionals, modifiers, and other command customizations you can use, check out our full
Macros guide
.
Fix Fire Elemental pulling the boss early!
If you're targeting the boss when pre-casting your Fire Elemental they will pull early. This macro fixes that without interrupting your opener!
/target Yournamehere
/cast Fire Elemental
/targetlasttarget
Primal Storm/Fire Elemental Spells
This macro will cast either
Meteor
or
Eye of the Storm
for you depending on your talents! Make sure for your Storm Elemental that you press the button only once for
Call Lightning
and then once for
Eye of the Storm
or it will interrupt the cast and lose out on a lot of potential damage!
#showtooltip
/cast Call Lightning
/cast Eye of the Storm
/cast Meteor
Alternative Tier 6 Talent Macro
This swaps between
Icefury
and
Primal Elementalist
's cooldowns depending on the selected talent. The tooltip for those cooldowns will only show when the respective pet is summoned
#showtooltip
/use Icefury;Eye of the Storm;Meteor;Harden Skin
Cooldowns with usable trinkets
Works with Ascendance
/cast Ascendance
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Lava Burst
Bloodlust
/
Heroism
/stopmacro
/cast Bloodlust
/yell <Insert witty one liner here>
Ghostwolf & Mount One Button Macro
#showtooltip
#showtooltip
/stopmacro
/run C_MountJournal.SummonByID(0)
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/cast Ghost Wolf
Allows the new Favorite Mount button &
Ghost Wolf
to be used in one macro.
Earthquake - One Button Cast At Cursor
#showtooltip Earthquake
/cast earthquake
Uses the new @cursor command to cast reticule based spells with a single button press, rather than press + click.
Focus Target
Works with any spell.
Hex
is just an example here.
/clearfocus
/focus
/cast Hex
Tier 2 Talents Macro
Swaps between
Echoing Shock
&
Elemental Blast
depending on the selected talent.
#showtooltip
/use Echoing Shock;Elemental Blast
Tier 5 Talents Macro
Swaps between
Ancestral Guidance
&
Wind Rush Totem
depending on the selected talent
#showtooltip
/use Ancestral Guidance;Wind Rush Totem
Tier 7 Talents Macro
Swaps between
Stormkeeper
&
Ascendance
depending on the selected talent.
#showtooltip
/use Stormkeeper;Ascendance
Elemental Shields Macro
Casts
Earth Shield
on yourself if you have it talented. Casts
Lightning Shield
if you don't.
#showtooltip
/use Earth Shield;Lightning Shield
Dispel Macro
Swaps between
Cleanse Spirit
&
Purge
depending on whether the target is friendly or an enemy
#showtooltip
/use Purge;Cleanse Spirit;Purge;Cleanse Spirit
How to Make a Macro
To open up the Macro menu, type "/macro" or "/m".
Choose between the "General" and Character-specific macro tabs. Then click on the "New" button on the macro window.
Choose a Name and an Icon so you can easily recognize your macro, then click on "Okay."
Select your macro's icon from the list at the top of the macro window, and then click in the text area below. Type or copy/paste your macro into the text area.
When you are finished, click the "Save" button, and to close the window, click "Exit".
Addons
Addons are powerful tools that can be used to both customize your gameplay experience, ranging from graphical overlays, replacement action bars, and unit/raid frames, to performance enhancements such as rotation helping spell reminders, buff/debuff tracking, popup reminders, and boss warnings. Here are some of the highly recommended and commonly used Elemental Shaman addons, which are certainly not required to play, but can go a long way toward increasing the information available to you in combat or simply make for a more pleasant viewing experience.
Unlike Macros, managing Addons is done outside of the game, but our
How to Install and Maintain Addons Guide
will take you step-by-step through the process.
Event Horizon
Displays abilities on a common time scale.
Hekili
Rotation helper for both Elemental and Enhancement.
Exorsus Raid Tools
Management for a myriad of spells, boss abilities/statistics, notes, and much more for your raid. A strong addon for any raider!
More Recommendations
User Interface
ElvUI
- Very popular all-in-one UI overhaul.
Bartender4
- Highly customizable action bars which can be moved and organized however you like.
Chatter
- Replacement chatbox addon, with custom themes, fonts, and functions.
Deja Character Stats
- Adds more stats to the character panel, with customizable filters.
Elkano's Buff Bars
- Replaces the standard buff/debuff icons with ordered lists, including names and bar graph-style durations.
Mapster
- World map enhancement which adds coordinates, icons, and more.
Move Anything
- Allows any part of the default UI to be moved around.
OPie
- A specialized radial menu style actionbar, very useful for condensing less frequently used spells that don't always need to be on your main bars.
Sexy Map
- Makes your minimap sexy!
Shadowed Unit Frames
- Customizable player, target, and raid unit frames.
ThreatPlates
- Customize nameplates styles and add various information including buffs, debuffs and casting indicators
World Quest List
- Attaches a sortable list of active world quest lists, filtered by zone, to the edge of your map.
Combat and informational
BigWigs Bossmods
- A lightweight, open source raid encounter addon.
Deadly Boss Mods
- A more robust encounter addon for dungeons, raids, PvP, and more.
Details
- A highly customizable damage and healing meter
Exorsus Raid Tools
- Modular addon containing raid coordination tools for raid leaders and officers.
Omen
- Threat meter
Pawn
- Helps you find gear upgrades when combined with a string from SimulationCraft
SimulationCraft
- Simplifies simming your character by generating an in-game script to paste into SimCraft or Raidbots
WeakAuras2
- A very powerful addon that can display a massive variety of information including procs, casting indicators and raid boss warnings.
Of course, these recommendations are not the only useful addons out there; there are hundreds to choose from, of every type imaginable. If you're looking for something a little different, search through
Curseforge
or
WoWInterface
to find the right Elemental Shaman addons for you.
Our Elemental Shaman guides are always updated with the latest information from in-game experience, simulations, and logs; make sure to check our changelog to this page, by clicking on
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