WoW Macros and Keybindings – FAQ

Just as many other MMO games, World of Warcraft allows players to create their own macros and customize their keybinding the way they want. Using optimized WoW macros and keybindings, you can play any character much more comfortably, with better results.

If you have no idea what macros and keybindings are, I will help you make a better idea about this aspect of World of Warcraft in the following paragraphs.

What Are WoW Macros?

A macro is a script that you can create yourself by using the Macros options in the game menu. To write one, first you have to select an icon, and then give it a name.

The next step is to write the abilities and the actions that you want to combine in that macro. Once the macro is complete, just drag it into one of your quickbars.

What Are WoW Macros Good For?

The purpose of using a macro is to simplify the gameplay of your character. In a WoW macro, you can combine various abilities to use them all at once, or use them alternatively just by pressing that macro multiple times.

A macro will not only that will simplify the gameplay of your character, it will also, allow you to save space in your quickbars.

Of course, there are advanced, multi-purpose macros, and there are the ones that most players use, easy to write and work with.

What Are WoW Keybindings?

Your WoW keybinding is the map of your abilities and actions corresponding to certain keys of your keyboard. Each key invokes one command to your character, using a certain ability that you slotted there.

Most players start up with the standard WoW keybinding when they roll a new character, and modify it as they level up, adding new abilities as they learn them from their class trainer.

What’s The Purpose of WoW Keybindings?

To be able to play your character at maximum using every ability at the right time, you must optimize your keybinding properly. Just adding abilities on your quick bar won’t cut it.

A well-made WoW keybinding has to have at least a few macros and must contain as many abilities as possible, keeping the most important ones in the optimal reach of your fingers. If you manage to create a keybinding this way you will have a superior gameplay in arena or in any raid instance.

Do We Really Need to Use Macros and Keybindings?

To be able to play World of Warcraft like an elite WoW player, unlock the maximum effectiveness of your character and be competitive in PvP and PvE, a WoW keybinding containing the right macros is vital. Without it, you’ll never pass the average status.

There are thousands of WoW macros and keybindings that you can use to play a character. However, using the wrong macros and totally inaccessible keybindings won’t help at all. In fact it will set you back.

It is imperative to use the best WoW macros and keybindings and this is the actual purpose of this website: to inform you about the best macros and the most optimized keybindings for World of Warcraft.

A Handy WoW Macro For Engineers

Although is an expensive profession to level up, engineering is one of the professions that will bring you a lot of fun especially in PvP. There are plenty of bombs, rockets and gizmos to use if you’re an engineer. Anyway, I’m writing this post not exactly to tell you a special WoW macro for any engineer, but to let you know what product of engineering to use in your WoW macros to increase your effectiveness.

Once you reach 425 in engineering, you will get a very neat gloves enchantment – Synapse Springs. This gloves enchantment will provide you a 10 sec. buff that will increase your main attribute (Strength, Agility or Intellect) by 480, with a 1 minute cooldown.

Therefore, you will have a nice damage or healing boost for 10 seconds, and this cooldown should be combined in any damage or healing boost WoW macro that you’re currently using with your class.

For example, with my rogue I have this macro:

/cast Vendetta
/cast Combat Readiness
/use 10

It sucks though that to the whole duration of the 480 Agility, Strength or Intellect buff, you can’t use a similar trinket. Also, if you used the trinket and the buff from your trinket lasts 20 sec., you can’t use the gloves for that duration.

That’s why, for my warrior, I have a WoW macro combining Inner Rage, Sweeping Strikes and the gloves, and a WoW macro that combines Deadly Calm, Blood Fury and my trinket. This way, I have two extra-sweet damage burst macros. Anyway, regardless of the class you play, I hope you will use this nice engineering buff in the right WoW macro.