Leveling Help

[Totemall]

Hello again I am looking for help. I am leveling a mage priest combo right now my mage is the master and priest is the slave. What are some macros I can use on the priest for dmg. I have my frost bolt and smite linked but what is a good thing to use to use my shadow dmg? I have seen the Spriest macro post but wasnt sure if it would work for me sicne I am still low levels. Would it be better for me to have my priest as the master or what should I do.

[Enndo]

I would run the priest as leader(driver) so you can heal, cast dots, and spam your frostbolt/smite macro.

[Jubber]

I agree with Enndoh. It's alot easier to micro manage your dots if your driving the priest. The mage can just follow and be a dps spam bot.

[Totemall]

Ok thanks y'all thought that would be smart but wasnt sure if I was missing something on the macros

[jono]

as boring as it sounds, when leveling its best to just spam your primary nuke in most cases. When you start instancing etc. and worrying about max dps then macros come into play.

[Dwarven]

Here's the macros I use on my priests (I'm not exactly sure what level you are, so...)

1-10

/assist master
/cast smite
Even with two, I find SW: P isn't worth putting up on each mob, so I just chain cast smite.

10-20

/assist master
/castrandom mind blast, mind blast, mind blast, mind blast, !shoot
A castrandom with smite and MB takes way too much mana, I've found. What this will do is give you an MB, and then wand until MB comes off CD... most of the time. If you hit !shoot when you're already trying to wand, it'll reset the timer on the wand (eg., spamming a macro that just says /cast !shoot won't do anything, you'll just stand there holding your wand, unless you happen to lag in your spamming of the button).

20-30

/assist master
/castrandom [nochanneling] mind blast, mind blast, mind flay
You'll need water, but not nearly as much as if you were using smite (and if you've a mage, that's no problem).

30-50

/assist master
/castsequence reset=target [nochanneling] vampiric embrace, nil
/castrandom [nochanneling] mind blast, mind blast, mind flay
(I think the [nochanneling] comes after the reset=target. If that doesn't work, try switching them). I still find that things die too quickly for SW: P, but if you want it, you can add it into the castsequence before the nil, as in the 50+ macro.

50+

/assist master
/castsequence reset=target [nochanneling] vampiric embrace, shadow word: pain, nil
/castsequence [nochanneling] vampiric touch, mind blast, mind flay, mind flay

I respec'd my priest before I could really try out mind sear or shadow word: death, so I'm not sure how one would add that to a macro, but by the time you get to that point, you should have some idea of how stuff works :) If you find stuff's dying too fast, remove the line with VE/SW: P.

And of course, if you're switching your priest to be the master, you can just remove the /assist master line.