WoW tanky stuff

[lederhosen]

Mostly in case I accidentally delete these, but may be useful to somebody.

#1: Mouseover taunt (or AoE taunt with alt)

#showtooltip
/cast [modifier:alt] Challenging Roar; [target=mouseover, harm] Growl

#2: Mouseover Faerie Fire, or charge with alt. I keep these on the same button because they're my standard pulling combination.

#showtooltip
/cast [stance:1,modifier:alt] Feral Charge - Bear; [stance:3,modifier:alt] Feral Charge - Cat; [stance:1/3,target=mouseover] Faerie Fire (Feral)()

#3: My usual tanking attack rotation:

#showtooltip
/cast [modifier:alt] Bash; Maul
/castsequence reset=4 Mangle (Bear), Lacerate, Demoralizing Roar, Swipe (Bear), Lacerate, Mangle (Bear), Swipe (Bear), Lacerate, Swipe (Bear), Lacerate, Mangle (Bear), Swipe (Bear), Lacerate, Swipe (Bear)

This spams Maul every time I hit it (since it's not on the GCD) and works through the rest of that sequence. As long as I have a reasonable supply of rage, it keeps my Lacerate stacks up, uses Mangle soon after it comes off cooldown, and pads the rest out with Swipe for damage (and to build some AoE threat too).

I used to micro-manage these attacks, but I spent too much time watching cooldowns and not enough paying attention to what was going on (also, I always forgot Demoralizing Roar). Occasionally I lose a bit of damage, but situational awareness makes up for it. With alt, it's my interrupt.

#4: AoE tanking 'rotation':

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/cast [modifier:alt] Challenging Roar;
/cast Maul;
/cast Swipe (Bear)();

Spam Maul and Swipe, with my AoE taunt on alt. Useful for swarms of whelps, etc etc. In some fights I'll mix this up with button 3, letting me balance AoE vs main-target threat.

#5: Berserk macro: spam Mangle and Maul, for when I have Berserk up.

#showtooltip;
/startattack
/cast [modifier:alt] Berserk
/cast Mangle (Bear)
/cast Maul

#6: Berserk (saves hitting alt when I need it in a hurry, far enough away from my regular rotation that I don't hit it by accident)

#7: Powershifting. Pops me out of my current form and straight back into it. This breaks snares and has no cooldown, and in bear has a 60% chance of giving me 10 rage, useful when I'm about to start a fight.

/cast [stance:1] !Dire Bear Form
/cast [stance:2] !Aquatic Form
/cast [stance:3] !Cat Form
/cast [stance:4] !Travel Form

#8: Defensive cooldowns. Activates Barkskin and my trinkets; if I use it again within 4 seconds, it activates my regeneration.

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/castsequence reset=4 Barkskin, Frenzied Regeneration;
/use 13
/use 14

#9: My panic button. (Note that this only works because these abilities aren't on GCD, so I can use them simultaneously - although I probably should make this a castsequence.)

#showtooltip
/cast Barkskin
/cast Survival Instincts;
/cast Lifeblood
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Frenzied Regeneration;
/use Fel Healthstone;

#10, 11: Potions.

#12: Enrage.

Other macros I keep around:

Self-explanatory:

/say I would be delighted to give you a battle resurrection, but unfortunately I am presently tanking a boss, and changing out of bear form long enough to cast would get the entire party killed. Please leave your message at the tone.

Smart resurrection:

#showtooltip
/stopmacro [nohelp,nodead]
/run c="Attempting to res %t"if UnitInRaid("player")then SendChatMessage(c, "RAID")elseif GetNumPartyMembers()>0 then SendChatMessage(c, "PARTY")end
/cast [combat] Rebirth ; Revive

Random pet:

/run CallCompanion("CRITTER", random(GetNumCompanions("CRITTER")))

Target marking:

/script MyRaidTarget =1
/script SetRaidTarget("mouseover",MyRaidTarget)

Comments

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

I just turn attack on and chain-cast Summer's Viridity. :D