Arcane Mage DPS Macros and Addons - The War Within (11.0.2) (2024)

Last updated on Aug 21, 2024 at 18:20by Dutchmagoz58 comments

ElvUI is a complete replacement for the default User Interface. It is a verypopular UI addon for all levels of play, including the highest levels of play.It is very user-friendly and takesvery little time to set up and master. It also comes already furnished withalmost everything you need; unit frames, raid frames, minimap, buffs anddebuffs, and much more. You can easily unlock and drag all the components aroundso your UI will look exactly the way you want it to. ElvUI is clean, easy touse, and a great starting point for your UI.

Weak Auras is the most important AddOn for players seeking to master theirclass and take their gameplay to new heights. If you aspire to do any Mythicraiding, this is the most powerful tool in your kit. Weak Auras allow you todisplay helpful visual cues anywhere on your screen, which enables you to playbetter. Most players use it to track their trinket procs, highlight on-screendisplays of their most important cooldowns, or track the timers of bossmechanics. It is highly customizable and makes keeping track of your procs andcooldowns effortless. The drawback of Weak Auras is that it has a bit of alearning curve and is not the most user-friendly. Weak Auras allow you to importother players' data directly into their UI, however, and most players choose tosimply import other people's Weak Auras rather than make their own. Weak Aurascan be used to create just about anything you can imagine, as it is a LUAscripting tool (essentially an AddOn that creates other AddOns, in-game). Thisis by far the most essential AddOn for players looking to step into Mythicraiding.

Nowadays, WeakAuras are used by every raiding guild at practically all levelsof play, and generally every patch there a new popular WeakAura packs forthe new raid tier, with warnings and information for every boss fight. The sameapplies to Mythic+, where there are packs for every single dungeon.

BigWigs and Deadly Boss Mods are both very popular boss mods. (DBM) out ofthe box is very flashy with a lot of sounds compared to Big Wigs,which for some people might be a pro, whereas for others a con. Both tendto have a lot of updates throughout a patch, and which one you use usuallycomes down to personal preference, but having at least one of them is criticalin a raiding environment. Generally, guilds will ask everyone to use the sameboss mod, so depending on the guild you might have to use a specific one.

Plater is the Weakauras of nameplates. Plater is extremely customizable,and is the go-to nameplates addons for high-end play, especially in Mythic+,which often has a lot of enemies on your screen all with multiple variousimportant things to track. If you want to push high Mythic+ keys, plateris a key addon to use.

Details is the go-to damage meter used by practically all players. It isvery customizable, and can do a lot of things, including creating Weakaurasbased on events that happened in details, which can be useful if you wantto make your own Weakauras. However, even if you do not need any of theseadvanced functionalities, it is a very reliable DPS meter.

These AddOns are popular community addons that you might want to install,especially when considering group play.

This is a key addon for high Mythic+ pushing. It allows you to plan dungeonsahead of time within the addon, see all the enemies in a dungeon, their abilities,health, and much more.

This is a key addon for high-end raiding. It comes with a couple of keyfeatures, but one of the most important ones, and used by many guilds,is the ability to create notes that go up on the screen. These notes can containall kinds of assignments, or information that is useful to have quickly available.Additionally, in high-end guilds, these notes are often also used in combinationwith Weakauras to create assignments that show up mid-combat for individual players.

Alongside the notes feature, the addon also has all kinds of other useful tools,like automatically marking certain enemies or players, cooldown tracking, andmuch more. If you are looking to step up your raiding game, this is a goodaddon to have, and most high end guilds will require you to have it.

Bear in mind when using any of the stopcasting macros that they will notinterrupt the Global Cooldown. If you are still on GCD your cast will becanceled but the next ability will not go off until you are off GCD.

• #showtooltip
• /stopcasting
• /cast Blink

Pressing Blink will now cancel your current spellcast andcauses you to immediately Blink. Note that this should not be used with Shimmer as it will unnecessarily cancel your current cast.

• #showtooltip
• /stopcasting
• /cancelaura Ice Block
• /cast Ice Block

Cancels your current cast and immediately puts you in Ice Block.Pressing Ice Block again will cancel the effect. Not recommended if you spam yourbuttons.

• /cancelaura Ice Block

If you are a button spammer, you can put this on a separate keybind as your Ice Block, allowing you to cancel your Ice Block early if you sodesire.

• /cancelaura Alter Time

You can use the above macro to cancel Alter Time if you do not want tobe teleported back to the location/health where you were when you initially castAlter Time.

• #showtooltip
• /use [@cursor]Remove Curse

This will remove curses on whatever unit you are mousing over.

• /castsequence reset=5 Arcane Barrage, Touch of the Magi

This macro will cast Arcane Barrage on the first press,followed by Touch of the Magi on the second press. This macro is especiallyuseful if you are close to your target and are trying to throw out an Arcane Barrageand apply Touch of the Magi before the Arcane Barrage lands, as this can be veryquick when close to the target.