Druid macros

Cancel Form and Dismount

Druid

/cancelform
/dismount

Drops whatever form you are in and dismounts you. One key that always returns you to caster form no matter what state you were in.

Cast a Spell from Any Form

Druid

#showtooltip Healing Touch
/cancelform
/cast Healing Touch

Drops your form and casts the spell in one press, so you can Healing Touch out of Cat Form without a separate step. Replace the spell name with whatever you are binding.

Challenging Roar into Invulnerability

Druid

#showtooltip
/cast [form:1] Challenging Roar
/cancelform [form:1]
/use Limited Invulnerability Potion

Taunts everything nearby, drops Bear Form, and drinks a Limited Invulnerability Potion. Potions cannot be used in form, which is why the cancel is part of the sequence.

Clean Aquatic Form

Druid

#showtooltip Aquatic Form
/dismount
/cancelform
/stopcasting
/cast Aquatic Form

Dismounts, drops your current form and shifts to Aquatic. Handy for the moment you hit deep water while travelling.

Clean Cat Form

Druid

#showtooltip Cat Form
/dismount
/cancelform
/stand
/stopcasting
/cast Cat Form

Dismounts, cancels any form, stands you up and stops your cast before shifting to Cat. Handles every state you might be sitting in.

Clean Dire Bear Form

Druid

#showtooltip Dire Bear Form
/dismount
/cancelform
/stand
/cancelaura Blessing of Salvation
/stopcasting
/cast Dire Bear Form

Dismounts, cancels your form, stands you up, drops Blessing of Salvation and stops your cast before shifting. Removing Salvation matters because a tank does not want reduced threat.

Enrage Toggle

Druid

#showtooltip Enrage
/cancelaura Enrage
/cast [form:1] Enrage

Casts Enrage in Bear Form the first time you press it and cancels it the second time. Enrage increases damage taken, so being able to drop it the moment you have the rage you needed is worth a key.

Faerie Fire in Any Form

Druid

#showtooltip
/cast [form:1] Faerie Fire (Feral); [form:3] Faerie Fire (Feral); Faerie Fire

Casts the Feral version while you are in Bear or Cat Form and the caster version otherwise, so the same key works whatever you are shifted into.

Growl (Mouseover)

Druid

#showtooltip Growl
/cast [@mouseover,harm,form:1][harm,form:1] Growl

Taunts whatever your cursor is over while you are in Bear Form, falling back to your target. Pulling a loose add off a healer without dropping your main target is the whole job.

Innervate with Whisper

Druid

#showtooltip Innervate
/cancelform
/cast Innervate
/w %t Innervate is on you - burn your mana now

Cancels your form, whispers the target so they know to start casting, and casts Innervate. Telling the healer it landed is most of the value, since Innervate is wasted if they are drinking.

Instant Dash

Druid

#showtooltip Dash
/cancelform [noform:3]
/cast [noform:3] Cat Form
/cast Dash

Gets you into Cat Form and sprints in one press. Useful for escaping or closing distance without thinking about which form you were in.

Instant Prowl

Druid

#showtooltip Prowl
/cancelform [noform:3]
/cast [noform:3] Cat Form
/cast !Prowl

Shifts you into Cat Form if you are not already there and immediately prowls. Prowl is off the global cooldown, so both happen in the same press.

Maul with Auto Attack

Druid

#showtooltip Maul
/startattack
/cast Maul

Queues Maul onto your next swing and makes sure the swing is actually happening. The single most important threat macro a vanilla Bear can make.

Mouseover Healing with Downranking

Druid

#showtooltip Regrowth
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][@player] Regrowth(Rank 5)

Heals whoever your cursor is over, defaulting to yourself, at a specific rank. Vanilla healing is all about mana efficiency, so casting Rank 5 Regrowth instead of max rank is often the correct play.

One-Button Travel Form

Druid

#showtooltip
/cancelform [swimming,noform:2][outdoors,noform:2/4]
/cast [swimming] Aquatic Form; [outdoors] Travel Form; Cat Form

Picks the right movement form for where you are standing — Aquatic Form in water, Travel Form outdoors, Cat Form anywhere else. One key covers every situation you would otherwise need three buttons for.

Power Shifting

Druid

#showtooltip
/cancelform [noform:3]
/cast Cat Form
/startattack [form:3,harm,nodead]

Cancels your current form and drops straight back into Cat Form, then restarts your attack. With the Furor talent and a Wolfshead Helm this refunds Energy, which is the backbone of vanilla Feral damage.

Powershift with a Consumable

Druid

#showtooltip
/cancelform
/use Demonic Rune
/cast Cat Form

Shifts out of form, drinks a Demonic Rune, and shifts straight back into Cat Form. You cannot use consumables while shapeshifted, so this is the only way to drink mid-fight without losing several seconds.

Powershift with a Consumable (Any Form)

Druid

#showtooltip Free Action Potion
/changeactionbar [form:1]2;[form:3]3;[form:4]4;
/cancelform
/use Free Action Potion
/use [bar:2]Dire Bear Form;[bar:3]Cat Form;[bar:4]Travel Form
/changeactionbar 1

Remembers which form you were in by switching action bars, uses your consumable, then shifts back to the same form. The bar number is only being used as a variable to store your starting form.

Prowl Toggle

Druid

#showtooltip Prowl
/dismount
/stopcasting
/cancelform [noform:3]
/cast [noform:3] Cat Form
/cast [nostealth] Prowl
/cancelaura [stealth] Prowl

Drops any non-cat form, shifts to Cat, and prowls — then cancels Prowl if you press it again while stealthed. One key handles entering and leaving stealth.

Rake or Pounce

Druid

#showtooltip
/cast [stealth] Pounce; Rake

Opens with Pounce from stealth and uses Rake when you are not stealthed. Both cost the same slot in your rotation but are never available at the same time.

Ravage or Shred

Druid

#showtooltip
/cast [stealth] Ravage; Shred

Casts Ravage while stealthed and Shred otherwise. Both require you to be behind the target, so pairing them on one key matches how you actually play the ability.

Shred into Ferocious Bite

Druid

#showtooltip Shred
/castsequence reset=target Shred, Shred, Shred, Ferocious Bite

Shreds three times then finishes with Ferocious Bite, resetting when you change target. A blunt instrument, but a workable one-button rotation while you are learning the class.

Simple Powershift

Druid

#showtooltip
/cast !Cat Form

The minimal version of the powershift. The exclamation mark stops the macro from shifting you out when you cannot afford the mana or are still inside a global cooldown, which is what makes it safe to spam.

Swipe with Auto Attack

Druid

#showtooltip Swipe
/startattack
/cast Swipe

Starts your melee swing and casts Swipe. Auto-attack does not start on its own in Classic, which quietly costs Bear tanks a lot of threat.

Swipe with Target Swap

Druid

#showtooltip Swipe
/cast [@mouseover,harm,form:1][harm,form:1] Swipe
/startattack [@mouseover,harm][]

Swipes at your mouseover target and starts auto-attacking it, so you build threat on the add you just noticed without a separate targeting step.