Rogue Macro Guide: What I Currently Use

Been doing some Excel/VBA stuff for the sales team at work and it got me fine tuning my WOW macros as well. Speaking of Excel it is just incredible how much this application can do when you are capable of unlocking its full potential. It is often said that a person's technical value in finance is directly tied to how good he is with Excel. I don't know any VBA coding but my sharingan allowed me to copy the rogue DPS spreadsheet and I was able to use a lot of its mechanics for the stuff I do at work and get called a genius for it. A little programming goes a long way when it comes to improving overall efficiency of a team even if I am nowhere near a full power developer.

Anyway as shadowstep. I no longer use /castrandom hemorrhage, ghostly strike as with this build my damage per energy with hemo is just as good as ghostly strike (even if ghostly strike is unnormalized) so there is no point to use ghostly strike unless I am tanking something. In any case here are the macros I currently use:

1) Autocast Premeditation

#show premeditation
/stopattack
/cast Premeditation
/cast Cheap Shot

#show premeditation
/cast Premeditation
/cast Garrote

It is just too much of a hassle for me to use this ability without a macro. I have a version with garrote as well. Too many times I only have one split second to sap someone and CS another, or vanish CS someone while I am being focus fired. I find the premeditation macro to work very well as it doesn't trigger global CD. I have the same macro for garrote as well.

2) Autoattack and use offensive trinket while hemoing, restealth for a CS whenever possible, stealth if you are mounted

#show hemorrhage
/startattack
/use [combat] Bloodlust Brooch
/cast [nostealth] stealth
/cast [combat] Hemorrhage

This is my main button as shadowstep is not exactly a burst build. There is very little incentive for me to save the trinket for bursting. I rather use it as soon as I hemo someone and hopefully get to use it again later in the match. Auto-attacking someone if I don't have enough energy to hemo on a target switch is also a nice bonus.

But that is not all, say I eat a 3 second cyclone with a warlock at 10 yard or so away from me, as soon as I get out of the cyclone I will run toward him and try to resume DPS on him, there is always a chance that for a split second I did get out of combat and this macro will automatically stealth me for a cheapshot.

This macro saves me two very valuable hotkeys (trinket activation and stealth). I also have the premeditation->CS macro bind to the "2" key on stealth bar. So if I do get a restealth I will automatically CS the target. I added /stopattack to the Premed->CS macro to prevent my own autoattacks to get me out of stealth before the CS hits. And yes, thanks to the 2.3 patch, if you are mounted this macro will unmount you as well.

3) Throw/Deadly Throw

#show deadly throw
/cast deadly throw
/cast throw

Very sexy macro that saves a very valuable hotkey and pretty self-explanatory. It will deadly throw if possible, throw if not. You can replace deadly throw with any offensive ability if you actually want to throw when deadly throw is up. Rupture is a very good choice.

4) Shadowstep Sap

#show shadowstep
/cast Shadowstep
/cast Sap

I prefer the macro over manually pressing shadowstep->sap when it comes to sapping someone in the middle of a flare or consecration. It also works better on moving targets. You can add your own variation for CS, garrote, ambush, premeditation etc.

5) Blind Current Target/Focus Target (Thanks Sophitia)

#show blind
/cast [target=focus,harm,exists,modifierhift]blind;
/cast [target=mouseover, harm, exists]blind;
/cast blind

Press key to blind mouseover target (or just current target if you have no mouseover target), shift(can be changed to alt, ctrl, etc)+key to blind focus. Set focus can be binded in default key bindings so no macro is necessary. The same macro can be modified for kick as well.

6) Auto sapping the enemy rogue out of stealth

#show sap
/cleartarget
/targetenemy
/cast sap

With the sharingan against heightened sense (and warlock felhunter), you will often run into situations where you have a split second to sap the enemy rogue before you are sapped. Most variations of this macro rotates between targets, mine will always select the closest target to sap without rotating to a target further away from you wasting precious time. Without manually tabbing this will give you a huge edge if you and the other rogue see each other at same time.

7) Turn off auto-attacks before you vanish (thanks Sophitia)

#show Vanish
/stopattack
/cast vanish

Believe it or not your own autoattacks hit yourself out of vanish as much as other people's. With this macro I saw a noticeable improvement in vanish's reliability.

Use three poisons seamlessly

#show Vengeful Gladiator's Bonecracker
/equipslot 17 Vengeful Gladiator's Bonecracker
/cast shiv

#show Merciless Gladiator's Shanker
/equipslot 17 Merciless Gladiator's Shanker
/cast shiv

Makes 5/5 vile poison truly worth it. Obviously you can use different weapon names. My bonecracker has cripple poison and my shanker has deadly poison. Wound + deadly at same time is very difficult to remove even for druids. I tried many variations of shadowstep but with a good weapon swap macro I find vile poison to be the best overall variation. Whether it be using wound/cripple/wound, wound/cripple/deadly or wound/cripple/mind numbing, it really adds another dimension to your game. And again shadowstep's superb mobility means even if you do get kited during the split second when you weapon swap, it is usually not a big deal. Obviously use your own weapon names.

9) Super Preparation

#show preparation
/cast shadowstep
/cast sprint
/cast [nostealth] Evasion
/cast Preparation

Clean up unused cooldowns before you prep it! This won't break stealth because evasion won't trigger unless you are our of stealth. Beware if you mash this twice you will use up both sets of CDs.

10) Eviscerate/Envenom

#show eviscerate
/cast [modifierhift] Envenom; Eviscerate

You can use alt or ctrl instead of shift if you prefer.  I have eviscerate at 4 and envenom at shift+4.  With 5/5 vile poison envenom does hurt a lot if you play the wound/deadlly/cripple poison game against warrior/druid.