Comments on: WoW Rogue Macros

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:35:04 +0000

Interesting. I was testing that yesterday and it worked fine for me.
Haven’t a clue as to the problem.

By: Kruma

Kruma — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:27:42 +0000

Sorry guy but this macro doesn’t work in patch 4.3:

/cast Premeditation
/cast Cheap Shot

I don’t know why but after you use it the Cheap Shot doesn’t cast until the cooldown of Premeditation finishes.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:59:09 +0000

Yeah, a lot is out of date… Sorry about that.

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:37:16 +0000

I should also mention this site is really really really out of date. Or at least this thread is. The real pain about macros is nearly every patch screws them up one way or another. If you become to macro dependent you will fail right after a new patch. The change that got me was the /castrandom = /castsequence change a few patches back. It nerfed a bunch of my macros. Just saying play the most effective game you can but realize the macros can break easily.

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:29:38 +0000

@ Tyler,
Presumably you are levelling as a combat rogue. This post sort of assumes that since it is the easiest levelling for PVE at leat until level 60.
1> Use the slowest main hand weapon you can find. Use the fasted OH dagger you can find.
2> Cheap shot is a great open from stealth and gouge is a great open from non-stealth.
3> After getting a combo point of two hit your slice and dice. Try to make sure that slice and dice is never down while you’re in combat. A lot of dps for a rogue comes from the white damage.
4> make a macro for sinister strike
/startattack
/cast sinister strike.

This turns on your auto attack on the target and keeps it on. It will turn it back on after gouge. You’re using the SS anyway so it might as well benefit you to the max.
My open from stealth is cheap shot-slce and dice-SS to 5 points then rupture if target is over 1/2 health. I’ll eviscerate if under half health or envenom depending on how many stacks of deadly poison I have.
Non stealth is similar but I open with gouge, then Slice and dice etc. I know a theres a lot of tempation to use fancy macros to switch to main hand dagger in stealth so you can backstab. That relies on positioning too much, and its too easy to forget to switch back. If your combat use instant poison on the MH and Deadly on the OH. Remember Sinister strike does MH average damage which is why slower is better (higher average burst).
Last bit- spend lots of time in stealth pickpocketing everything you can at your level. It seems basic but it really will get you used to the ranges for combat and its just plain fun to do.

By: PVE Rogues

PVE Rogues — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:35:12 +0000

Thanks for the handy macros

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:43:39 +0000

Hey,

I have another site, GotWarcraft, with some good info. It’s not up to 3.3 yet, but little (important) has changed for Rogues since 3.2. There’s also some macros, PvP stuff, and number crunching there.

Leveling page: http://gotwarcraft.com/guides/leveling/class/rogue.php
Combat page: http://gotwarcraft.com/guides/classguides/combatrogue.php

I always liked to use “Cheap Shot” to open since I could just sneak up (from the front) and strike. The others require you to be behind the target.

When fighting mobs that might run I generally open with “Garrote,” since they will run and die.

So one routine is Cheap shot > sinister strike till 4 or 5 combo points > Eviscerate.

Another is Garrote > SS > Rupture (mob runs and dies.)

“Sinister Strike” is your CP builder, so the routine is always Opener > SS > finisher (assuming the mob lives long enough to get to the finishing strike.

“Blind” is good if fighting more than one mob. Blind #1, kill #2, back to #1.

Does that answer your questions?

Greg

By: Tyler Kubach

Tyler Kubach — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:30:27 +0000

Im a rogue level 42 and looking for some rotations to do. This is my first toon so im fairly new at this if you could give me some good rotation and macros the way I should put them in that would be great Night elf rogue spec is combat daggers

Thanks for your time
Tyler Kubach