WoW Forever Mage macros: 16 for interrupts, sheep and Blink

These WoW Forever Mage macros each fix something a Mage runs into every day: the interrupt that waits for your own Frostbolt to finish, the sheep that loses your target, an escape stuck behind a cast, water and food on two buttons. There are 16, each found in at least two Forever macro guides or built from two of them, with every spell name, level and cooldown checked in the WoW Forever client. Every macro stays under the game's 255-letter limit in each language of this page. Find your problem in the headings, paste the macro, and it is on your bar in a minute.

What Forever changes for a Mage's macros:

• Ice Lance, a Frost talent from level 20, is instant, deals much more damage to a frozen target and comes back every 8 seconds; the Frost talent Fingers of Frost can make your next spells treat the target as frozen.
• Arcane Blast, an Arcane talent from level 20, grows stronger and costlier each time you cast it in a row; Frostfire Bolt comes from the trainer at level 40, and Teleport: Dalaran at level 50.
• The Fire talent Heating Up turns critical strikes with Fireball, Frostfire Bolt, Fire Blast and Scorch into a shorter Pyroblast, and Remove Lesser Curse also removes a Bane.
• Counterspell, Presence of Mind, Arcane Power, Combustion and Cold Snap sit outside the global cooldown in Forever's client: each one goes out on the same press as the spell after it.

How to make a macro in WoW Forever

1. Type /macro in the chat box, or open the game menu and choose Macros.
2. Pick the second tab, which holds this character's own macros, click New, type a name and choose the question mark icon. With #showtooltip on the first line, the button shows the spell the macro is about to use, with its cooldown.
3. Paste the lines into the box, close the window and drag the macro onto an action bar.

How to read them:

• [@mouseover,harm,nodead][]: the living enemy under your cursor, or your target when the cursor is on nothing. With help, the living ally under your cursor; [@player] is you.
• [@cursor]: the spot under your cursor, for a spell that lands on the ground, with no circle to place.
• [mod:shift], [mod:ctrl]: the spell after it goes out while you hold Shift or Ctrl. The first condition that is true wins; the name after the last ; is the default.
• /stopcasting: ends the spell you are casting, so the next line goes out at once.
• Your game's language. The commands (/cast, /startattack…) are English in every language of the game, but a spell's name must be written exactly as your client writes it. Each language of this page gives the names of its own client.

For every Mage

Counterspell now, even mid-cast (level 24)

The enemy finishes its spell while your own Frostbolt is still casting.

#showtooltip Counterspell
/stopcasting
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][] Counterspell

The key stops your cast and counters the enemy under your cursor, or your target when the cursor is on nothing: that school of magic is locked for 10 seconds. Counterspell sits outside the global cooldown and comes back every 30 seconds. To counter a caster you marked as your focus instead:

#showtooltip Counterspell
/stopcasting
/cast [@focus,harm,nodead][] Counterspell

Polymorph the enemy under your cursor (level 8)

The add you need out of the fight is never the enemy you are fighting.

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

The key turns the enemy under your cursor, or your target, into a sheep in a 1.5-second cast, without changing your target. It works on beasts, humanoids and critters, any damage wakes them, and only one target at a time. To sheep the enemy you marked as your focus:

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

Blink now, even mid-cast (level 20)

Your escape waits for the spell you are casting to finish.

#showtooltip Blink
/stopcasting
/cast Blink

The key stops your cast and blinks you 20 yards forward, out of stuns and roots. Blink comes back every 15 seconds.

Remove Lesser Curse on the ally under your cursor (level 18)

A cursed group member means clicking their frame in the middle of a fight.

#showtooltip Remove Lesser Curse
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Remove Lesser Curse

The key removes a curse from the ally under your cursor, then your friendly target, then you. In Forever it also removes a Bane.

Arcane Intellect on the ally under your cursor (level 1)

Buffing a group means clicking each player, then the spell, every hour.

#showtooltip Arcane Intellect
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Arcane Intellect

The key buffs the ally under your cursor, then your friendly target, then you, for an hour. From level 56, Arcane Brilliance buffs the whole party and raid at once.

Water, Shift for food (level 6)

Water and food sit on two buttons you press after every rest.

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift] Conjure Food; Conjure Water

The key conjures water; with Shift, food. Each takes a 3-second cast, and conjured items vanish if you stay logged out more than 15 minutes.

Three armors on one key (level 34)

Ice Armor, Mage Armor and Frost Armor each have their own button, and only one stays on you.

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift] Mage Armor; [mod:ctrl] Frost Armor; Ice Armor

The key puts up Ice Armor; with Shift, Mage Armor, which keeps half of your mana regeneration going while you cast; with Ctrl, Frost Armor, the one you have before level 30. Only one armor stays on you, for 30 minutes.

Blizzard at your cursor, Shift for Flamestrike (level 20)

Blizzard shows a circle to place, and the pull is over by the time you click.

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift,@cursor] Flamestrike; [@cursor] Blizzard

The key drops Blizzard where your cursor points, with no circle to place; with Shift, Flamestrike, a 3-second cast. Point your cursor before you press.

Teleport, Shift for a portal (level 40)

Your own teleport and the portal your group asks for sit on two keys.

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift] Portal: Stormwind; Teleport: Stormwind

The key teleports you to Stormwind; with Shift, it opens a portal there for your group, every minute. Write the city you use in place of Stormwind; on the Horde side, Orgrimmar:

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift] Portal: Orgrimmar; Teleport: Orgrimmar

Teleport: Dalaran comes at level 50 in Forever.

Slow Fall on yourself (level 12)

With a friend targeted, Slow Fall goes on them while you are the one falling.

#showtooltip Slow Fall
/cast [@player] Slow Fall

The key slows your own fall for 30 seconds, whatever you have targeted.

#showtooltip Pyroblast
/cast Presence of Mind
/cast Pyroblast

#showtooltip Arcane Power
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Arcane Power

#showtooltip Combustion
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Combustion

#showtooltip Ice Block
/cancelaura Ice Block
/cast Ice Block

#showtooltip Frost Nova
/cast Cold Snap
/cast Frost Nova

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift] Ice Lance; Frostbolt