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Holy Priest WeakAuras, Macros & Addons - The War Within Pre-Patch
By AutomaticJak
Last Updated:
2024/07/23
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WeakAuras, 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 Holy Priest macros for , explain how to make your own macros, and cover some of the best Holy Priest addons for both hardcore raiders and general players alike. Whether you're looking for specialized Holy Priest 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 Holy Priest community.
WeakAuras2 is an extremely flexible WoW addon, with near limitless creative potential and control, capable of modifying or replacing nearly any part of the user interface.
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WeakAuras
WeakAuras2 is an extremely flexible addon, with near limitless creative potential and control, capable of replicating or replacing nearly any part of the user interface. While designed as a simple way to create alerts to remind you of buffs, debuff, or encounter mechanics, it has become an integral part of World of Warcraft user interface customization, allowing players to replace their traditional action bars, create and share complex raid information, track other players spell casts, and much, much more. In this section, we've highlighted some of the best WeakAuras for Holy Priest, although there are so many different options available that we
highly
recommend visiting
wago.io
to find one that best suits your needs.
WeakAuras Links
Remember that no Weakauras are ever mandatory to play with, but they can help condense a lot of information into a small, easy-to-track package. These are some sample sets that cover the Enhancement basics which are plug and play, or can be used for some inspiration when setting up your own set:
Name & Link
Example
Description
Luxthos’ Class Package
A tight, compact tool to display all your relevant information with plenty of options to customize to your own specifications!. Luxthos also creates similar packages for all other classes, so this is recommended for beginners and experienced players who play many different characters.
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.
These can be created in the Macros window by simply copy and pasting the coded code into the creator. These will perform specific actions above the regular button presses that can alleviate some targeting issues or ability problems by automating part of the ability:
Mouseover, Cursor and Player Macros
Although it's not necessary, using mouseover macros for all of your heals is preferred if you are not using click-casting. The macro for each ability looks the same except for the name of the ability.
#showtooltip
/cast
These can be adjusted as needed for each ability. Most spells in Holy's toolkit do not need much more than a mouseover like the one above to be able to use.
Some exceptions are an @player macro to cast specific abilities on yourself every single time.
#showtooltip Angelic Feather
/cast Angelic Feather
/stopspelltarget
Finally, there also are @cursor macros which will cause certain reticle based abilities like
Mass Dispel
to instantly cast wherever your mouse is hovering instead of hitting your keybind for
Mass Dispel
then hitting left click over the location to cast it.
#showtooltip
/cast Mass Dispel
Addon Recommendations
Addons assist in presenting and highlighting specific information for the player. These are often preference based so I will detail which addons that I use and some of the common alternatives. If you would like to view which addons that I personally use and see what my UI looks like, you can find that
here
import my profiles for these addons (if available)
HERE!
BossMods
: BossMods are addons that show you a timer of upcoming boss abilities and make noises if you stand in fire. You can choose between
Deadly Boss Mods
and
BigWigs
. I would recommend BigWigs.
Damage meter
: Details is the preferred damage/healing meter addon.
OmniCD
: is a must-have addon for Mythic+ players. This addon allows you to track all relevant cooldowns for your allies.
Raid Frame Addons
: Many healers use a wide-variety of raid frame replacement addons to optimize their healing. By far my favorite is the addon Cell which also offers click-casting features.
OPie
is an extremely convenient addon that allows you to set keybinds to open up a wheel-based UI where you can select predetermined items of abilities that aren't frequently used enough to justify an individual keybind. For example, I have wheels for my Consumables, Raid Markers and Profession windows!
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.
OmniCD
- A specialized addon to track your group members' cooldowns.
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
Method Raid Tools
- Modular addon containing raid coordination tools for raid leaders and officers.
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 Holy Priest addons for you.
About the Author
This guide is written and maintained by
Jak
, Healer for
Incarnate
on US-Tichondrius, Author of the
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