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Mage macros

Mages command the arcane arts, using their deep understanding of the elemental forces to unleash powerful spells and control the battlefield.

23 macros

Blizzard (Cursor)
Mage
```
#showtooltip Blizzard
/cast [@cursor] Blizzard
```
Drops your channelled area damage at the cursor with no confirmation click. On multi-target pulls this is pressed on cooldown, so the saved click adds up fast.
Break Ice Block and Counterspell
Mage
```
#showtooltip Counterspell
/cancelaura Ice Block
/cast Counterspell
```
Drops Ice Block and kicks in the same press. Sitting in a block while the enemy healer casts freely is a common way to lose an arena.
Conjure and Eat
Mage
```
#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift] Conjure Refreshment Table
/cast [nomod] Conjure Refreshment
/use [nomod] Conjured Mana Bun
```
Conjures your food when you are out and eats it when you have some. Holding Shift instead lays down a refreshment table for the group.
Conjure and Use Mana Gem
Mage
```
#showtooltip
/cast [button:2] Conjure Mana Gem
/stopmacro [button:2]
/use Mana Gem
```
Right-click to conjure a fresh Mana Gem, left-click to use the one you are carrying. Arcane Mages go through these constantly and this keeps both actions on a single slot.
Counterspell (Focus)
Mage
```
#showtooltip Counterspell
/stopcasting
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Counterspell
```
Stops your cast and kicks your focus target, falling back to your current target. Counterspell has a long cooldown for an interrupt, so aiming it deliberately matters.
Flamestrike (Cursor)
Mage
```
#showtooltip Flamestrike
/cast [@cursor] Flamestrike
```
Casts Flamestrike where your mouse is pointing. Fire Mages cast this off a Hot Streak proc that can expire, so removing the reticle step genuinely prevents wasted procs.
Focus Cast Template
Mage
```
#showtooltip Frostbolt
/cast [mod:shift,@mouseover][@focus,harm,nodead][] Frostbolt
```
A template for any spell you want aimed at a focus target — replace both instances of the spell name. Holding Shift redirects it to your mouseover instead.
Frost Nova with Auto-Follow
Mage
```
#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift] Blink; Frost Nova
```
Roots everything around you and immediately starts your escape. Nova is nearly always followed by moving away, so pairing it with Blink on a modifier keeps both on one key.
Ice Lance (Mouseover)
Mage
```
#showtooltip Ice Lance
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Ice Lance
```
Lances whatever you are hovering, otherwise your target. Useful for finishing off a low-health add or cleaving a shatter without giving up your primary target.
Instant Blink
Mage
```
#showtooltip Blink
/stopcasting
/cast Blink
```
Interrupts whatever you are casting and blinks immediately. Waiting for a Pyroblast to finish before you dodge is not a trade you want to make.
One-Button Barrier
Mage
```
#showtooltip
/cast [known:Blazing Barrier] Blazing Barrier; [known:Prismatic Barrier] Prismatic Barrier; Ice Barrier
```
Casts whichever barrier your specialisation actually has — Blazing for Fire, Prismatic for Arcane, Ice for Frost. The known check means the same macro works on all three without editing.
One-Button Portals (Alliance)
Mage
```
/cast [mod:shift] Portal: Exodar; [mod:alt] Portal: Stormwind; [mod:ctrl] Portal: Darnassus; Portal: Ironforge
```
Portal: Ironforge on a normal press, with Shift, Alt and Ctrl covering Exodar, Stormwind and Darnassus. Four portal buttons collapsed into one slot.
One-Button Portals (Horde)
Mage
```
/cast [mod:shift] Portal: Silvermoon; [mod:alt] Portal: Undercity; [mod:ctrl] Portal: Thunder Bluff; Portal: Orgrimmar
```
The Horde counterpart — Orgrimmar by default, with Silvermoon, Undercity and Thunder Bluff on Shift, Alt and Ctrl.
One-Button Teleports (Alliance)
Mage
```
/cast [mod:shift] Teleport: Exodar; [mod:alt] Teleport: Stormwind; [mod:ctrl] Teleport: Darnassus; Teleport: Ironforge
```
The same layout as the portal macro but for your own teleports, so the muscle memory carries across between moving yourself and moving the group.

/cast [mod:shift] Teleport: Silvermoon; [mod:alt] Teleport: Undercity; [mod:ctrl] Teleport: Thunder Bluff; Teleport: Orgrimmar

Horde teleports on one key, mirroring the Horde portal macro so both behave identically.

Polymorph (Focus)
Mage
```
#showtooltip Polymorph
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Polymorph
```
Sheeps your focus target without touching your current target. Polymorph breaks on damage, so casting it on something you are not attacking is the entire point of the spell.
Remove Curse (Mouseover)
Mage
```
#showtooltip Remove Curse
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help][@player] Remove Curse
```
Decurses whoever you are hovering, then your target, then yourself. Curses land on random raid members, so a mouseover dispel is far quicker than hunting through frames.
Ring of Frost (Cursor)
Mage
```
#showtooltip Ring of Frost
/cast [@cursor] !Ring of Frost
```
Places Ring of Frost at your cursor and the exclamation mark keeps a second press from cancelling it. Ring takes time to form, so putting it where enemies will be rather than where they are is the skill.
Set Focus and Polymorph
Mage
```
#showtooltip Polymorph
/focus [mod:shift]
/stopmacro [mod:shift]
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Polymorph
```
Holding Shift sets your current target as focus; pressing it normally sheeps that focus. One key handles both halves of the crowd control job, which matters when a pull goes wrong.
Shattrath Portal and Teleport
Mage
```
/cast [mod:shift] Teleport: Shattrath; Portal: Shattrath
```
Opens a portal to Shattrath normally, or teleports yourself there while Shift is held.
Spammable Ice Block
Mage
```
#showtooltip Ice Block
/stopcasting
/cast !Ice Block
```
Cancels your current cast and blocks, and the exclamation mark stops a second press from dropping the block again. Panicking and mashing the key is exactly when you cannot afford it to toggle off.
Spellsteal (Mouseover)
Mage
```
#showtooltip Spellsteal
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Spellsteal
```
Steals a buff from whatever your cursor is over. The buff worth taking is rarely on your current target, which makes a mouseover bind the difference between using Spellsteal and forgetting it exists.
Water Elemental / Freeze
Mage
```
#showtooltip
/cast [nopet] Summon Water Elemental; [@cursor] Freeze
```
Summons your elemental when you have no pet, and casts Freeze at your cursor when you do. Frost Mages need both buttons but almost never at the same moment.

Other WoW classes

Every class shares the same macro syntax, so a good idea usually ports across.