Mage

Mage -Streaming live when online

http://www.twitch.tv/macromanx/old

Hi and welcome to the mage section..
Go here to check out my armory.
Here you will see the gear i have...just auction house and quest gear at the moment.
Also the Talents i have chosen and the Glyphs etc i am using.
We have moved from kilrogg to silvermoon eu.

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/silvermoon/Macromiss/advanced

Macromiss Frost mage is at level 10,and this is the first macro to use in bindpad.

Level 1 to 10

The main spells that are in use from 1- 10 are frostfire bolt,fireblast,frost nova and blink,you also have counterspell and receive the water elemental at level 10

The macro i used to level was this..

/startattack
/castsequence reset=target frostfire bolt,frostfire bolt,frostfire bolt,frostfire bolt
/cast fire blast

Macros

[1]  In bindpad make a macro in your charcters name specific page..top left click the +

add this macro

/cast blink

Bind this to key Q

As this key is right near the movement keys,its close at hand to press for an easy blink out the way of harm.


[2]  In bindpad make a macro in your charcters name specific page..top left click the + next to the above macro

add this macro- offensive macro we will call this Transcatt macro

/startattack
/castsequence reset=target frostfire bolt,frostfire bolt,frostfire bolt,frostfire bolt
/cast fire blast

Bind this key to the MIDDLE MOUSE BUTTON

This basic macro will serve from 1-10 and a bit beyond until we get new spells.May seem a little strange to get used to but after a while you'll see the benefits as you have no need to go from mouse to keyboard and back to press a key and can mouse move while using the middle mouse button.
(Frost mages mainly have to stand still to cast,but i do have a macro for movement later on)

 Now to get to level 15 do a mixture of pvp and questing and grinding.
questing wise..get quests from goldshire,follow the quest trail and you should do most of the quests in westfall.inbetween be queued for pvp .you'll have 2 choices..arathi basin and warsong gulch.
This way your gaining a little honor too to help with gearing up later.
If you have any heirlooms use them,as you'll come across players using them and they hit hard,do not get put down if your struggling in the bgs..just take it as part of the process..you'll win some ,lose some.

Once you get frostbolt spell change the above offensive spell to this..This binds to the middle mouse button.
offensive macro / Transcatt macro.

Bind this key to the MIDDLE MOUSE BUTTON

/startattack
/petattack
/castsequence reset=3 0,1,frostbolt
/castsequence reset=3 0,1,2,fire blast
/castsequence reset=3 0,1,2,frostfire bolt

This is a priority macro.it will try to cast any spells that are off cooldown..
Use this in pvp and to get to level 15.

Level 15+

Once you ding level 15 you open up the first tier of talents on the talent tree i chose PRESENCE OF MIND
Add this to the  above macro.
offensive macro / Transcatt macro.

Bind this key to the MIDDLE MOUSE BUTTON

/startattack
/petattack
/castsequence reset=3 0,1,frostbolt
/castsequence reset=3 0,1,2,fire blast
/castsequence reset=3 0,1,2,3,frostfire bolt
/cast presence of mind

Also now you will have access to 3 dungeons queue for these and queue again for pvp.

Level 22+

 

At level 22 we now get ice lance spell and add this into the main macro.
You will find now ice lance will fire off,sometimes at the same time as frostbolt..
Adding in castrandom which will try to fire off the first spell if its not on cooldown,will fire the next spell,
just gives us overkill to ensure these spells are firing off,likewise adding in the /cast ice lance just covers us,
and as this is bindpad we have no 255 character limit so its safe to add extra stuff/spells.
This is the new macro binded to the middle mouse button.
offensive macro / Transcatt macro.

Bind this key to the MIDDLE MOUSE BUTTON

/startattack
/petattack
/castsequence reset=3 0,1,2,frostbolt
/castsequence reset=3 0,1,fire blast,ice lance
/castsequence reset=3 0,1,2,3,frostfire bolt
/castrandom ice lance,fire blast
/cast ice lance
/cast presence of mind 

Now we have ice lance we also have a means of doing a little damage on the move..
make a new macro in bindpad and bind it to the F key.

Bind this key to the F key

/cast ice lance


*OPTIONAL*

Here to we have a second option for this key,when pvping and rogues or any stealthed enemy are about
you may choose to use this macro on your F key.
It will still favor ice lance but also does arcane explosion  randomly.
Also this will cast your pets Freeze spell.you will see the big green circle,just press mouse button to place,
you can also keep pressing this F key macro while the green circle is up..

 Bind this key to the F key
 
/castrandom ice lance,arcane explosion,ice lance
/cast ice lance
/cast [pet] Freeze
/cast ice lance

So far

At this point lets summarize what we have so far so we are clear..
On the middle mouse button you will have the main offensive macro / Transcatt macro.
On key Q we have the macro to blink
On key F we now have ice lance to enable us kiting and casting on the move.
These are the main keys we will use.

Other situational keys have i binded in the normal way to keys are..
key G has polymorph now has a macro.

#show Polymorph
/petpassive
/clearfocus [modifier:lshift]
/focus [@focus,noexists]
/cast [@mouseover,exists,harm,nodead][] Polymorph


key C has counterspell
key T has the everyman for him self or your remove stun trinket.

At Level 24 we get Fingers of frost passive spell


This when it procs  will cause ice lance or frost orb( we do not have yet) to do 25% increased damage

At this point too we open up the GLYPHS to use..
My first major glyph i chose is Glyph of ice lance
This will fire off icelance at a second target at 50% damage.
continue to queue for dungeons and pvp bgs to gain honor..

Level 27

Level 27 we get ice block as a new spell,you can do this within bindpad or i tend to use bartender addon,
i bind ice block to Key V.
Ice block will get you out of sticky situations,turn you into a block of ice for 10 secs,the enemy may then move onto another player to attack or may just wait you out.

Level 28

Level 28 we get Cone of cold,which will damage the enemy in front of you and slow them down,you can
put this on a separate keybind,but i also make a new macro in bindpad.

 Bind this key to the R key

/castsequence reset=target cone of cold,frost nova

 What this does is cone of cold the enemy so they take some damage,slows them too,and if pressed again
it will cast frost nova to freeze them in place.Just handy to have the 2 spells on the same key if you wish to use them that way.

Level 29

 We get Remove curse which is a minor spell,but will remove all curses from a friendly tartget,just bind this,or place on your normal bars.

Level 30

At level 30 we can choose our next Talent i chose Flameglow which Protects you with fiery energy, absorbing ($SPFI * 15 / 100) damage from each attack against you (up to a maximum of 30% of the attack).
The other main option would be Ice Barrier,but personally i like that Flameglow is a Passive spell,and means
i do not have to worry about pressing yet another key all the time.. 

Level 32

We get slow fall at this level,which is useful for stopping falling damage on your self or a friendly target you
cast it on.bind to a normal key.

Level 34

Level 34 we get Molten armor,which increases your critical strike by 5%,we will put this into a macro further down the line.But until we reach Level 54 and get Frost armor this is the main armor we will use.bind to a normal key.

Level 36

Level 36 we get Icey veins which Accelerates your spellcasting, granting 20% spell haste and reducing the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting by 100%.  Lasts 20 sec.
We want this in our Main macro so open up Bindpad and affthis to the Transcatt/offensive macro. 

This is the new macro binded to the middle mouse button.
offensive macro / Transcatt macro.

Bind this key to the MIDDLE MOUSE BUTTON

/startattack
/petattack
/petasisst
/cast icy veins
/castsequence reset=3 0,1,frostbolt
/castsequence reset=3 0,1,fire blast,ice lance
/castsequence reset=3 0,1,2,frostfire bolt
/castrandom frostbolt,ice lance,fire blast
/cast ice lance
/cast presence of mind

This will do some nice burst at the beginning,and we will proabably use this macro up to level 49,when
we will get mirror images.

Continue to queue for bgs/battlegrounds to get honor and queue for Dungeons for gear and gold.

Level 38

At level 38 we get Conjure refreshment which Conjures mana food providing the Mage and his allies with something to eat.I tend to bind this to side bar key and and then bind the food it produces to say the F keys along the top the keyboard,say F12.

Level 40

At level 40 we get Evocation which we Gain 15% of your total mana over 6 sec.And it also gives us a buff
which  Gain 15% of total mana and 15% of total health every 2 sec.

Level 44

We get flamestrike at level 44 which Calls down a pillar of fire, burning all enemies within the area for 427 to 522 (+ 51.8% of SpellPower) Fire damage and an additional 496 (+ 54% of SpellPower) Fire damage over 8 sec.and also gives us a buff which does 124 (+ 13.5% of SpellPower) Fire damage every 2 seconds.
This a nice area of effect spell to use on multiple mobs..i just bind this to any key you prefer or click to use.

Level 47

This Conjures a Mana Gem that can be used to instantly restore  mana, and holds up to 3 charges.
At this level mana dosent seem to be much of a problem,future mana using spells may require this more or for emergencies when mana is low.

Level 49

At level 49 we get mirror image which Creates 3 copies of the caster nearby, which cast spells and attack the Mage's enemies.  Lasts 30 sec.

You can choose to add this to our offensive/transcatt macro or use it whenever you want to.

This is the new macro binded to the middle mouse button.
offensive macro / Transcatt macro.

Bind this key to the MIDDLE MOUSE BUTTON


/petattack
/petassist
/startattack
/cast icy veins
/castsequence reset=3 0,1,frostbolt
/castsequence reset=3 0,1,2,fire blast
/castsequence reset=3 0,1,2,frostfire bolt
/castsequence reset=3 0,1,mirror image
/castsequence reset=3 0,1,ice lance
/cast Mirror Image
/cast ice lance
/cast presence of mind
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

Note:This is still in experimental stage and may change...but it works fine at the moment

At Level 50 you also open up another Glyph option and i have chosen .

Glyph cone of cold which Increases the damage done by Cone of Cold by 200%.

The onlt other change i made at this level is to the F key macro which does ice lance and also place your pets freeze spell.


 Bind this key to the F key

/castsequence reset=target/8 ice lance,Ice Lance,ice lance,ice lance,ice lance
/cast ice lance
/cast [pet] Freeze
/cast ice lance
/cast fire blast

Level 50

At level 50 we get wizardry which is a passive spell that increases intellect by 5%
 

Level 52

We now get Blizzard which makes Ice shards pelt the target area doing [336 ( + 36.7% of SpellPower) * 8] Frost damage over 8 sec and slowing enemies by 50%.This also applies a buff thats does
336 [+ 36.7% of SpellPower] Frost damage every 1 sec.

Now to make things easier we create another bindpad macro so that we can do the Flamestrike spell AND Blizzard spell under the same macro..I have bind mine to key F4.

Bind this key to the F4 key

#showtooltip
/castsequence Flamestrike, Blizzard

 This will cast Flamestrike and then Blizzard to follow..to cast again just repress the bind key.

Level 54

At Level 54 we get Frost Armor which Increases your spell haste by 7%.

If an enemy strikes the caster, their movement is slowed by 30% for 5 sec.I changed to this now instead of molten armor.Bind to a normal key.

Level 56

Now we get invisibility,which is useful for both pvp and pve situations.
Turns the caster invisible over 3 sec, reducing threat each second. While invisible, you are untargetable by enemies. Lasts 20 sec.You can Glyph this,and that adds you being able to move 40% faster while invisible.
I bind this to the H key.

Level 58

We get Arcane Brilliance which Infuses the target with brilliance, increasing their spell power by 10% and their critical strike chance by 5% for 1 hour.

If target is in your party or raid, all party and raid members will be affected.Bind this a normal key

Level 62-Level 64-Level 66

I have combined these levels all into one because they now become part of the NEW transcatt/offensive macro..

Level 62
We get Frozen Orb which Launches a Frozen Orb forward from the Mage's position, releasing Frostbolts that deal 594 to 763 (+ 51.1% of SpellPower) Frost damage to all nearby enemy targets for 10 sec. Grants the Mage 1 charge of Fingers of Frost when it first reaches a target.

Targets damaged by the Frost Orb are slowed by 30% for 2 sec.

 *OPTIONAL*

Level 64
We get Spellsteal which Steals a beneficial magic effect from the target. This effect lasts a maximum of 2 min.

Level 66
At this level we get Deep Freeze which Stuns the target for 5 sec. Only usable on Frozen targets.

Adding thes 3 spells to the new macro it now looks like this...

This is the new macro binded to the middle mouse button.
offensive macro / Transcatt macro.

Bind this key to the MIDDLE MOUSE BUTTON


/targetenemy [noharm][dead]
/petattack
/castsequence [combat] reset=0.3 0,0,0,0,0,Icy Veins
/castsequence [combat] reset=0.3 0,mirror image
/castsequence [combat] reset=0.3 0,ice barrier
/castsequence reset=5 Frostbolt,Frostbolt,Ice Lance
/castsequence ice barrier,spellsteal,frozen orb,deep freeze
/cast [combat] deep freeze
/cast [combat] Presence of Mind
/use [combat] 13
/use [combat]14
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()


Now this macro is beginning to get larger and here is what it does ( will have a video soon hopefully of it in action).

The pet will start to attack your target,Icy veins will fire off giving increased spell casting burst at the beginning,presence of mind will also fire of,though will be more important down the line when we get brain freeze for free frostfire bolt casts.Mirror image will begin,summoning 3 extra versions of your self,your ice barrier should apply itself and reapply when it drops off.Frozen orb will fire off when its not on cooldown.
Deep Freeze should apply to any frozen enemy/mob.Ice lance will Fire off when we get the fingers of frost proc.If  you have trinkets in there slots they will fire off too.And the macro will continue to cast frostbolt as the main attacking spell.
One spell i have not mentioned yet is Spell steal,and the reason i would say it is Optional is it works great,any mob that you have targeted and there is a beneficial spell you can steal and use,it will steal.
This is not too bad on pve mobs as they tend to only have a low amount of spells to steal,and using this spell costs alot of mana..
Using this macro in PVP on the otherhand i would take Spell Steal out of the macro,as you can find your self low on mana,as this attempts to steal the enemy players buffs and spells,which are alot more than on pve mobs.. 

This is a video of the above macro being used on the test dummies( i have crap gear so the numbers are not thrilling),but it just shows the macro in action :)

To Summarize So Far

Armory Link

Armory

Talents

Presence of Mind     
Ice Barrier  ( originally we took flame glow,now changed)  
Ring of Frost
Greater Invisibility

Glyphs

Glyph of ice lance
Glyph of icey veins (originally we took cone of cold,now changed)

Main Macros

This is the new macro binded to the middle mouse button.
offensive macro / Transcatt macro.

Bind this key to the MIDDLE MOUSE BUTTON


/targetenemy [noharm][dead]
/petattack
/castsequence [combat] reset=0.3 0,0,0,0,0,Icy Veins
/castsequence [combat] reset=0.3 0,mirror image
/castsequence [combat] reset=0.3 0,ice barrier
/castsequence reset=5 Frostbolt,Frostbolt,Ice Lance
/castsequence ice barrier,spellsteal,frozen orb,deep freeze
/cast [combat] deep freeze
/cast [combat] Presence of Mind
/use [combat] 13
/use [combat]14
/run UIErrorsFrame:Clear()


 Bind this key to the F key

 /castsequence reset=target/8 ice lance,Ice Lance,ice lance,ice lance,ice lance
/cast ice lance
/cast [pet] Freeze
/cast ice lance
/cast fire blast
/cast ice barrier


Bind this key to the Q key

/cast blink


Bind this key to the R key

/castsequence reset=target cone of cold,frost nova


Bind this key to the G key

#show Polymorph
/petpassive
/clearfocus [modifier:lshift]
/focus [@focus,noexists]
/cast [@mouseover,exists,harm,nodead][] Polymorph


Bind this key to the F4 key

#showtooltip
/castsequence Flamestrike, Blizzard


 Bind this key to the Y key
 
/petpassive
/petfollow

Stops pet attacking and follows you,useful if you polymorph a target etc.
 



level 70 improved counterspell-passive
level 72 conjure refreshment table
level 74 nether attunement-passsive
level 75  mage bomb
level 77 brain freeze-passive
level 80 mage armor
level 80 mastery frostburn-passive
level 82 burning soul-passive
level 84 time warp
level 87 alter time