Rogue macros

Blind (Focus)

Rogue

#showtooltip Blind
/focus [mod:shift]
/stopmacro [mod:shift]
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Blind

Blinds your focus without touching your current target. Holding Shift instead sets your target as the new focus, so setup and use share one key.

Builder with Auto Attack

Rogue

#showtooltip Sinister Strike
/startattack
/cast Sinister Strike

Guarantees your auto-attacks are running whenever you press your builder. Rogues lose a surprising amount of damage to auto attack quietly switching off after a stun.

Burst Window

Rogue

#showtooltip Adrenaline Rush
/cast Adrenaline Rush
/use 13

Fires your damage cooldown alongside your first trinket. Swap Adrenaline Rush for Shadow Blades or Deathmark depending on the specialisation you are playing.

Cheap Shot (Focus)

Rogue

#showtooltip Cheap Shot
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Cheap Shot

Opens on your focus target from stealth without giving up whatever you had selected.

Cloak of Shadows (Instant)

Rogue

#showtooltip Cloak of Shadows
/stopcasting
/cast Cloak of Shadows

Cancels your queued ability and wipes magical effects off you straight away. Cloak is a response to a debuff that has already landed, so speed is the whole value.

Distract (Cursor)

Rogue

#showtooltip Distract
/cast [@cursor] Distract

Turns enemies at your cursor away from you. Distract is entirely about placement, so removing the reticle step makes it far more usable while stealthed.

Feint (Instant)

Rogue

#showtooltip Feint
/stopcasting
/cast Feint

Drops your current ability and takes the damage reduction now. Feint is pressed in reaction to an area attack that is already on its way in.

Grappling Hook (Cursor)

Rogue

#showtooltip Grappling Hook
/cast [@cursor] Grappling Hook

Fires the hook at your cursor with no confirmation click. Outlaw uses this as a movement ability constantly and the second click is pure friction.

Kick (Focus Interrupt)

Rogue

#showtooltip Kick
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Kick

Interrupts your focus target if you have one, otherwise your current target. Rogues are usually the assigned kicker, which makes this the most-used macro in the class.

Kick (Mouseover Interrupt)

Rogue

#showtooltip Kick
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Kick

Kicks whatever your cursor is over. In dungeons where the caster changes every pull, hovering is faster than keeping a focus up to date.

Kidney Shot (Focus)

Rogue

#showtooltip Kidney Shot
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Kidney Shot

Spends your combo points stunning your focus target. Usually pointed at a healer while you keep building points on someone else.

Pick Pocket and Sap

Rogue

#showtooltip Sap
/cast Pick Pocket
/stopcasting
/cast Sap

Pockets your target and then saps them in the same press, so you get the loot without the pickpocket pulling aggro. Works on anything humanoid worth robbing.

Sap (Focus)

Rogue

#showtooltip Sap
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Sap

Saps your focus target while you keep your damage target selected. Sapping the wrong mob is one of the fastest ways to wipe a group, and this makes it much harder to do.

Shadowstep (Mouseover)

Rogue

#showtooltip Shadowstep
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Shadowstep

Teleports you behind whatever you are hovering. Being able to pick your landing spot without swapping targets is what makes Shadowstep a mobility tool rather than just an opener.

Shroud of Concealment (Instant)

Rogue

#showtooltip Shroud of Concealment
/stopcasting
/cast Shroud of Concealment

Cancels anything queued and drops the group stealth immediately. Shroud is used to skip packs on a timer, so hesitation is expensive.

Spammable Stealth

Rogue

#showtooltip Stealth
/cast [nostealth] Stealth

Only casts Stealth when you are not already stealthed, so hammering the key cannot accidentally drop you out of it. The classic first macro for any Rogue.

Stealth and Cheap Shot

Rogue

#showtooltip
/cast [stealth] Cheap Shot; Stealth

Opens with Cheap Shot while stealthed and stealths when you are not. One key covers approach and opener, which is one less decision during a restealth.

Stealth or Shadowmeld

Rogue

#showtooltip
/cast [nostealth] Stealth
/cast [nocombat,nostealth] Shadowmeld

Stealths if you can, and falls through to Shadowmeld when Stealth is on cooldown and you are out of combat. Night Elf Rogues get a second re-stealth out of this.

Stealth or Vanish

Rogue

#showtooltip
/cast [combat] Vanish; [nostealth] Stealth

Vanishes when you are in combat and stealths when you are not. Both abilities answer the same question — "I need to not be here" — so they belong on one key.

Tricks of the Trade (Focus Tank)

Rogue

#showtooltip Tricks of the Trade
/cast [@focus,help,nodead][@party1,help,nodead] Tricks of the Trade

Hands your threat to your focus target, falling back to the first party member. Set the tank as focus at the start of a run and you can stop thinking about it.