Palla tanking macros

When I first started running heroics, it was all getting a bit much for me... too much multitasking.... tanking as a warrior with my other tank had been better for single tanking due to Skarlot's excellent macro... can't find it at the moment, but I'll dig it up later.

I decided therefore to try and develop my own palla tanking 1 button macros to help ease the brain drain and improve my overall performance. Previously i'd been mouseclicking on the palla, lead char, and dpsing and healing with the shammies using an N52 and macros, whilst steering with the mouse where necessary.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, they aren't 100% foolproof but I now use the following 4 macros for my palla tank 1 button mouse click spams, and so far for me they've worked great, much less aggro from the shammies, and much less wipes in heroics:

N.B. I tend to start each pull with an avenger's shield, then spam the appropriate macro as the mobs arrive at me... The exception being with the group macro, where I will do avenger's followed by an early consecration before they arrive.

1) Start Macro:

MACRO 16777220 "START" INV_Misc_QuestionMark
#showtooltip
/startattack
/castsequence reset=target Holy Shield, Seal of Righteousness, Consecration, Judgement, Seal of Righteousness, Hammer of Justice, Holy Shield, Consecration, Judgement
END

This one is what I use in general for mixed groups, the stun is in there to minimise dmg to the tank.

2) Large Groups

MACRO 16777221 "LARGE" INV_Misc_QuestionMark
#showtooltip
/startattack
/castsequence reset=target Consecration, Holy Shield, Seal of Righteousness, Judgement, Consecration, Seal of Righteousness, Holy Shield, Consecration(Rank 4), Judgement
END

I use this one for large groups such as the Bogstrucks (sp) in Slave Pens... hit it once just after the inital pull and before the mobs get to you so the consecration cooldown is ready for when they do arrive.

3) Boss

MACRO 16777219 "BOSS" INV_Misc_QuestionMark
#showtooltip
/startattack
/castsequence reset=target Devotion Aura, Holy Shield, Seal of the Crusader, Avenging Wrath, Consecration, Judgement, Seal of Righteousness
END

I found that at times, after a wipe I forgot to rebuff Devo Aura. so this makes sure I do. This pops Avenging wrath at about the right time, and I tend to pop heroism on my shammies at around the same time. I attack as a tank with this until the consecration, then start the dps from the shammies. Since using it I've not really lost aggro, so I like it. Switch to the general attack macro after the seal pops.

4) General Attack

MACRO 16777218 "ATTACK" INV_Misc_QuestionMark
#showtooltip
/startattack
/castsequence reset=target Holy Shield, Seal of Righteousness, Consecration(Rank 4), Judgement, Seal of Righteousness, Holy Shield, Consecration(Rank 4), Judgement
END

The one I use most often, commonly for groups of 2 or 3. And the one I also switch too after using either the START macro or the BOSS macro. Has all the main skills, and the cooldowns are ok, maybe a couple of seconds wasted here and there, but it tends to keep up holy shield ok. This is the spamalot one. Heals from my resto shammy mean that even using this I virtually never run out of mana.


Give them a try and send me your feedback, I'd be glad to see what improvements others could suggest, but they've certainly helped me.