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Druids, like warriors, can make use of the [stance] conditional. See Making a macro: Conditionals for more information.
Miscellaneous Macros
Casting with mouse over
/cast [target=mouseover, exists][] <name of spell>
example, you are trying to cast rejuvination on a nontargeted player your macro would look like this,
/cast [target=mouseover, exists][] Rejuvenation
you can then bind this macro to a hotkey and mouseover your target and press your hotkey and you will cast your highest rank rejuvination.
Cast innervate on yourself without changing target
/cast [target=player] Innervate
Note that the `target=player' bit is not an instruction to change the target to yourself. Rather, it specifies the spell-target for the spell to follow (here the innervate), which is totally different from your `current' target. Viz, your `current' target won't be changed when this macro is used. If a target-change was to take place and you were to damage another target on accident you would lose any combo-points you had stacked.
Buffing
This will cast Thorns and then MOTW on your target.
/castsequence reset=target Thorns, Mark of the Wild
A play on this macro for feral druids self-buff is:
#show Omen of Clarity /castsequence [target=player] reset=20/combat Omen of Clarity, Mark of the Wild, Thorns
Moonfire/Rejuvination
This macro allows you to cast moonfire on a harmable target and rejuvination on a healable one.
/cast [help] Rejuvenation; [harm] Moonfire
Wrath/Regrowth
This macro allows you to cast wrath on a harmable target and regrowth on a healable one.
/cast [help] Regrowth; [harm] Wrath
Gathering and Tracking Macros
The Druid has one tracking ability that can be selected: this can, however, put a dint in your gathering prospects, and only be cast in cat form.
/castsequence [nocombat, stance:3] reset=combat track humanoids, find herbs, find minerals /castsequence [nocombat, nostance:3] find minerals, find herbs
The stance:3 checks can remove the track humanoid when not in cat form (stance 3) The reset=combat changes it so that after a combat, it automatically goes back to track humanoids first, no matter what was previously cast (so you can see if any others are around)
Feral/Caster Dual-use Macros
Faerie Fire in caster or moonkin, or Feral Faerie Fire in bear/cat:
/cast [stance:1/3] Faerie Fire (Feral)(); [stance:5][nostance] Faerie Fire()
Cyclone or use trinket in feral form (replace trinket name):
/use [stance] Ogre Mauler's Badge /stopmacro [stance] /cast [nostance] Cyclone /party casting CYCLONE on >>> %T <<<<
Healing Macros
Hover Healing
Just hover your mouse over the target to heal them (this works with the party or raid names on the left):
#show Healing Touch /cast [target=mouseover] Healing Touch;
- Healing Touch can be replaced by any other healing or remove poison spell. If you have no target, you will heal yourself.
Nature's Swiftness + Healing Touch - without global cooldown
Omit [target=player] to heal your target instantly instead of yourself. Use Healing Touch(Rank 10) and lower for lower ranks of the spell. You can use this macro while you are moving, but if you are, you must click this macro twice to perform the heal.
/cast Nature's Swiftness /stopcasting /cast [target=player] Healing Touch(Rank 11)
In order to make this button an "emergency heal" button, place another /stopcasting at the beginning:
/stopcasting /cast Nature's Swiftness /stopcasting /cast [target=player] Healing Touch(Rank 11)
Whatever spell you might be casting at the time you hit this button will be cancelled and your emergency heal will be an instant one. Please note that you cannot use these macros in Tree Form, since you cannot cast Healing Touch, in case of the emergency button, replace Healing Touch with Regrowth. Another option might be to let the macro check whether you are in Tree Form or not.
Another version of this macro could be:
/cast Nature's Swiftness /stopcasting /castsequence reset=25/combat/target [modifier:alt,target=player] Healing Touch(Rank 11), Rejuvenation; [help] Healing Touch(Rank 11), Rejuvenation;
What this version of the macro will do, is that if you double-click it while pressing the `alt' key it will cast the instant-heal on yourself. Clicking for a third time will cast rejuvenation as well. The macro works with self-cast regardless of what your current target is and without introducing a target-change ofcourse. You may change the `alt' bit to `ctrl' or `shift' if that suits you better. If you double-click this macro without pressing `alt' and if your current target is friendly it will cast the instant-heal on your current target. Clicking on it for a third time will cast rejuvenation as well.
Rejuvenation + Lifebloom on Yourself
Use this macro if you don't have Nature's Swiftness either to quickly (and cheaply) heal yourself on the run or between fights.
#showtooltip Rejuvenation /castsequence reset=12 [target=player] Rejuvenation, Lifebloom
Regrowth + Rejuvenation
/castsequence Regrowth, Rejuvenation
Lifebloom and Rejuvenation
#tooltip Lifebloom /cancelaura Cat Form /cancelaura Dire Bear Form /cancelaura Moonkin Form /cancelaura travel form /castsequence [target=target] reset=7 Lifebloom, Rejuvenation, Lifebloom
This macro keeps the instant-cast heal-over-time spells on you.press:- 1: comes out of form 2: lifbloom1 3: rejuvination 4: lifbloom2 (castsequence reset) 5: lifbloom3. If you wait 7 seconds the macro resets (after the lifbloom heal)so u can do it again. This macro is especially suitable when running, as it can be cast while moving.
Change [target=target] to [target=player] for self casts. Works well if you key bind it to Alt+1/2/3 and time setting if you want to just reapply a lot.
Since Patch 2.1 also the following version is possible:
#tooltip Lifebloom /cancelform /castsequence [target=target] reset=7 Lifebloom, Rejuvenation, Lifebloom
If you are a healer with Tree of Life, you could add [nostance:5] behind the /cancelform so you dont leave Tree of Life when casting the hots
Rejuvenation and Swiftmend on target or self
#show Swiftmend /castsequence [exists,help] reset=12/target Rejuvenation, Swiftmend /stopmacro [exists,help] /castsequence [target=player] reset=12 Rejuvenation, Swiftmend
This macro will reset upon a new target and works by casting rejuvenation and then swiftmend the second time you hit the button.
Lifebloom on Focustarget
This macro is useful for quickly reacting to raid damage on fights like Aran where the kill target randomly selects and damages members of a party. Just hit this macro each time you see the target of your focus change:
#show Lifebloom /cast [target=focustarget, noharm] Lifebloom
Feral Macros
Equips healing weapon/idol when out of form and dps/tank weapon/idol when switching back into form
#showtooltip Dire Bear Form /equip [stance:1/3] Epoch-Mender /equip [stance:1/3] Idol of the Emerald Queen /cancelform /cast [nostance] Dire Bear Form /equip [nostance] Earthwarden /equip [nostance] Idol of Brutality
(To use this for cat form, just replace Dire Bear Form with Cat Form.) This macro will cancelform and equip your healing weapon/idol so you can heal yourself then when you go back into feral form, equip your dps or tanking weapon and idol. You can use one for cat and one for bear, they are compatable with each other. Very useful since you usually pop out of form to heal yourself.
Mangle (Bear) if you have enough rage and its cooldown is up, else Maul, turning on autoattack
/cast Mangle (bear)() /cast maul /startattack
Another version adding a +use trinket at the beginning
/use <item name> /stopcasting /cast Mangle (bear)() /cast maul /startattack
Taunt and start autoattack if it is off
/cast Growl /startattack
Use this if you find yourself Growling and not autoattacking, losing the mob after the taunt wears off. Especially useful if you have enabled the option to turn autoattack off when you change targets.
Mangle (Cat) then start autoattack
/cast Mangle (Cat) /startattack
Variation to use a +use item first
/use <item name> /stopcasting /cast Mangle (Cat) /startattack
Ravage with Tiger's Fury
One button push for ravage.
/cast Tiger's Fury /stopcasting /cast Ravage
This either Shreds or casts Tiger's Fury and Ravage. As opposed to the macro above this requires two button presses.
/cast [nostealth] Shred /castsequence [stealth] reset=6 Tiger's Fury, Ravage /stopmacro [stealth] /startattack
Pounce/Shred, Claw, Rake, Rip Finally
While in cat form you will need to be prowling for this to work correctly. (Druids no longer need to be behind the target while prowling.) You may also want to substitute Ferocious Bite for Rip when fighting lower level Mobs, and Mangle for Claw if you have that ability.
Note that this macro does not take advantage of faster combo point generation from Primal Fury, and will also not account for misses, dodges or parries.
/castsequence reset=25/combat/target [Stealth] pounce; shred, claw, claw, rake, rip, claw, claw
Cat Opener(Pounce, Ravage)/"Normal" move (Claw, Rake, Mangle, Shred)
Combine as you like, very neat since Blizzard gave cat form a "new" stealth bar.
/cast [stance:3,stealth] pounce or ravage; /cast [stance:3] Claw, Rake, Mangle or Shred;
An alternative to the above is to have the "front" moves and "behind" moves together. That way the button you have to hit is depending on position (eases up memory load). First one will cast Pounce if stealthed otherwise Claw/Mangle. Second will cast Ravage if stealthed else Shred. Note the startattack with nostealth modifier wich will fire if you don't have enough energy for the attack (good when switching between mobs). Also note that there are no stance modifiers, you can add that if needed, other way is to put these macros on the "cat" bar.
Front macro:
/cast [stealth] Pounce; Claw /startattack [nostealth]
And if you have mangle (note that you need to specify rank on mangle).
/cast [stealth] Pounce; Mangle (Cat)(Rank 3) /startattack [nostealth]
Behind macro:
/cast [stealth] Ravage; Shred /startattack [nostealth]
Bear Form/Spamable Attack
/cast Maul /castrandom Mangle (Bear)(<Spell Rank here>), Faerie Fire (Feral)()
....or, also useful...
/cast Maul /castrandom Mangle (Bear)(<Spell Rank here>), Mangle (Bear)(<Spell Rank here>), Lacerate, Faerie Fire (Feral)
Note that using Mangle with macros is currently bugged; you must specify the spell rank to use it. Why use it twice? Mangle has a six second cooldown and should always be used when available. Lacerate, once it stacks to five, should only be used occassionally to keep the DOT up. Use this macro carefully; in a non-boss fight you won't be generating enough rage to get all these attacks off. Also, many mobs (Elementals, for example) are immune to bleed effects and so you'll be wasting a lot of rage on an effect the mob is immune to so be careful blindly tanking with this. Some people remove Faerie Fire and press it manually to ensure that the button does some damage with every press.
EDIT:Since the fix on Lacerate, most of the aggro caused is upfront, instead of over time. This means Lacerate works against bleed-immune targets. It should also be applied as much as possible for the additional hate it generates.
For Night Elves
Use shadowmeld if not in a stance or in moonkin form, use prowl if in cat form
/cast [nostance][stance:5] Shadowmeld; [stance:3] Prowl
Alternatively,
#showtooltip [nostance] Shadowmeld; [stance:3] Prowl; [stance:1] Growl; [stance:2] Aquatic Form; [stance:4] Travel Form; [stance:5] Flight Form /cast [nostance] Shadowmeld; [stance:3] Prowl; [stance:1] Growl /cancelform [stance:4/2/5]
This macro is the same as the above, except that it also growls while in bear form, switches out of whatever travel form you are in, which is likely the most common action taken while in travel form, traveling aside, and changes tooltips to boot. Note: the stance numbers for the flight form may be wrong if the druid is not feral spec'd.
BearPot
#show Super Healing Potion /castSequence [stance:1] reset=3 Dire Bear Form, Lifebloom /use Master Healthstone /use Super Healing Potion /cast [nostance] Dire Bear Form
When spammed, this macro will shift out of bear form, use a master healthstone (if you have one. If not, it just skips that) then a super healing potion then shift back into bear, generally fast enough to avoid being hit except against very fast-hitting or multiple enemies, and without showing more than the bear going 'poof'. The lines 'use super healing potion' and 'use master healthstone' can be reversed to use them in that order instead, or changed to different items for testing. "Lesser Healing Potion", etc. The first line has it show the icon for the super healing potions along with the number in inventory.
Nuking Macros
Root, DOT, Debuff
/castsequence Entangling Roots, Moonfire, Faerie Fire, Starfire
Moonfire seems to have a slight chance to break Entangling Roots, so the reverse order of these two is recommended, but due to casting time of Entangling Roots it requires some distance to target unless you use talents for uninterruptable Roots.
An alternative that I (DrakeLord) like is:
/castsequence Starfire, Moonfire, Entangling Roots, Insect Swarm, Faerie Fire
Obviously take out Insect Swarm if you don't have it.
Caster Form/Moonfire
Drops out of whatever form you are in and then casts moonfire from the same button. Very useful for taking out runners.
/cancelform [stance] /dismount /cast [stance:5]Tree of Life;[nostance]Moonfire;
- Note that Tree of Life should use cast instead cancelaura due to problems with the stacking auras.
Balance Druid Opener
This is a very useful macro for balance druids to deal some nice damage when beginning a fight outdoors. This macro will only work if the druid has learned Insect Swarm in their balance talent tree
/castsequence reset=target Entangling Roots, Insect Swarm, Faerie Fire, Moonfire, Starfire
Or when indoors (This works the best if the druid has a 100% chance to not be interrupted with Starfire since the enemy cannot be rooted in one place)
/castsequence reset=target Insect Swarm, Faerie Fire, Moonfire, Starfire
You might want to use Starfire as first spell due to its longer cast time. Also, Insect Swarm and Faerie Fire can be cast while running away from the mob.
Keep Rooted/sleeped
This is a great crowd control ability either in pve or pvp against rogues and warriors. First you root the enemy that you want to save for later, then whenever it's time to re-tangle, just press the key again without changing targets. Also, right-clicking on the macro will change to another target if necessary.
/clearfocus [button:2] /clearfocus [target=focus,dead] /clearfocus [target=focus,noexists] /focus [target=focus,noexists] /cast [target=focus] Entangling Roots
Or this can be used with hibernate (just don't use both at the same time cause of the clearfocus).
/clearfocus [button:2] /clearfocus [target=focus,dead] /clearfocus [target=focus,noexists] /focus [target=focus,noexists] /cast [target=focus] hibernate
You could even put a party note on like " %t is sleeping D.N.D " by adding
/stopmacro [noexist] /p %t is Sleeping D.N.D
Shapeshifting Macros
One step stance switching
This shifts you into the desired form. If you are already in another form, it shifts back to caster instead, enabling a second press to shift you into the form. If you are already in the form, it shifts you back to caster. This works like some addons that were broken with the 2.0 API changes and haven't been updated.
For example, from caster form a press for Dire Bear would shift you to it. From Cat form it would shift you to caster on the first press and Dire Bear on the second. From Dire Bear it would shift you to caster.
/cancelform [noflying] /cast [nostance] <Desired form name>
Here is another way to create a SINGLE macro for your shapeshift forms
This macro will take you from humanoid form to cat form with a click or to travel form with a shift click or dire bear form with a control click and click it again to bring you back to humanoid form and without the annoying "you are in a shapeshift form" errors cluttering up your screen, so feel free to mash it a couple times till you're in the form you want!
You can also bind this macro to a key ( I use the "F" key) and push "F" for cat or hold shift and hit "F" for travel form or control "F" for dire bear form and just hit "F" again to bring you back to humanoid form (caster form).
Note: if you are in a "animal" form you have to push the macro twice as the first push will cancel the current form and bring you back to caster form and the second push will take you to the new "animal" form. you can also include flying form into this macro if you want with the [modifier:alt] flying form, but its hard for me to hit alt "F" with one hand without really taking my hand off the keyboard, easier just to key bind the flying form to "V" or "G".
#show <whatever spell icon you want> /cancelform [stance,noflying] /cast [nomodifier] Cat Form; [modifier:shift] Travel Form; [modifier:ctrl] Dire Bear Form
Cat Form, Then Prowl
This allows the caster to switch from any form to cat form and then prowl which leads into the next macro
#show Prowl /cancelform [noflying,nostance:3] /dismount [mounted,noflying] /cast [nostance] Cat Form; [stance:3,nostealth] Prowl
A variation on the above is as follows, this macro will switch you into cat form if you're not already in it, a second push on the same button will put you into prowl, and a third push will take you out of it again, as long as the cooldown is up, pushing the button will continue to alternately stealth and unstealth you with each click.
/cast [nostance] Cat Form; [stance:3] Prowl
A reduced error spam version:
#show Prowl /stopmacro [stealth] /dismount [mounted,noflying] /stopmacro [mounted][flying] /cancelform [nostance:3] /cast [nostance] Cat Form; [stance:3,nostealth,nocombat] Prowl
All-Terrain Travel Form
#showtooltip [indoors] Fishing /cancelform /dismount /cast [swimming,nostance] Aquatic Form; [noswimming,nostance,nocombat,outdoors] Travel Form; [flyable,nostance,nocombat] Flight Form
Here is my variation, which chooses the best form, and also equips the 
[Charm of Swift Flight] if you go into flight form. You can hold shift if you don't want to equip the flight charm, like in a BG, so that you can use your other trinket immediately after you change back.
#showtooltip /cancelaura /cast [outdoors, nocombat, flyable] Flight Form /cast [swimming] Aquatic Form /cast Travel Form /equip [nomodifier:shift, outdoors, nocombat, flyable, noswimming] Charm of Swift Flight
To get the other trinket equipped, use this macro for "caster form" (it also activates any kind of tracking you like, just replace "find minerals" :)
/cancelaura /cast Find Minerals /equip <TRINKET>
Feral Form
This will put you into Cat Form if out of combat and into Bear if you're in combat. Also push the same button to go into stealth if in Cat Form and will pull aggro if in Bear Form. Might want to put in Feral Charge instead of growl. Can also go straight into Bear form when out of combat by right clicking on the macro.
/cast [button:2] Bear Form; [nostance, combat] Bear Form; [nostance] Cat Form; [stance:1] Growl; [stance:3] Prowl
Multi-purpose Ability
A nice way to have a special ability within arm's reach all the time is this macro. A good way to use it is by asigning the key to the left of the "1" to your BottomRight Action Button 1 and put the icon of the macro there.
/cast [nostance, nocombat, equipped:Fishing Pole] Fishing; [nostance, nocombat] Flight Form; [nostance, combat] Cyclone; [stance:1] Demoralizing Roar; [stance:2] Aquatic Form; [stance:3] Dash; [stance:4] Travel Form; [stance:5] Flight Form;
In caster form it will cast Fishing or Flight Form when not in combat, Cyclone when in combat, Demoralizing Roar when in bear form, cancel Aquatic Form when swimming, Dash when in cat, cancel Travel form when in leopard and cancel Flight Form when flying. Ofcourse you can edit the macro so it will cast the spells you prefer.
External links
The Druid forums at the Blizzard official web site have an excellent thread (continued here and here) full of macros for many more situations. Feel free to browse and bump for a sticky.