PvE Enhancement Shaman Addons & Macros

Addons and macros are going to streamline your gameplay so you can focus on the important bits like mechanics and getting your rotation down. Below is going to be a list of recommended addons and an entry point for using macros.

Addons

Make sure when downloading these addons that you get the correct version for Mists of Pandaria Classic. Many of these addons will have a retail, and multiple classic expansions as options.

Essential Addons

• BigWigs / DeadlyBossMods — These both accomplish the same thing, just with different aesthetics and UI’s. Personally, I prefer BigWigs, but they’re both fantastic addons with a long history of growing with the game. This addon is essential in that it will provide you timers for all encounters, warnings for mechanics, and a variety of tools to make PvE encounters easy to understand.
• Details — The premier DPS meter. There was a time where there were several meters competing, and that time has passed as Details has made all the others obsolete. This will also provide a threat meter, heal meter, and various other important statistics and information to really dig in and figure out exactly how a fight went wonderfully right or horribly wrong.
• WeakAuras — This is essentially a framework to plug just about any UI element you can imagine into (or if you’re feeling techy, making your own). Basically a requirement for anyone seriously tackling the more difficult endgame content in whatever flavor of WoW you enjoy most.
• Leatrix Plus / Leatrix Maps — These two work in tandem and provide a ton of quality-of-life options all in one package. The usability upgrade Leatrix provides is so enormous I’d consider this addon essential at this point.
• Plater Nameplates — The most customizable and robust nameplate addon. It gives you a ton more information over the default nameplates, while remaining unintrusive and slick looking by default. The amount of customization available is staggering, though, so you can either import someone else’s profile or tweak it to your heart’s absolute content.
• Questie — This addon makes the leveling experience an absolute breeze. Never get lost and always know the next step to take.

Recommended Addons

• MinimapButtonButton — This condenses the icons that surround your minimap from other addons you have installed into one button. Get rid of all the clutter and save yourself the grief of not being able to mouse over your dungeon queue because the DBM icon has decided to move itself!
• TomTom — Any guides that provide coordinates can be plugged into this and it’ll give you a handy arrow pointing you straight to where you need to go.
• Auctionator — Super easy to use auction house addon that adds a ton of QoL.
• Grid2 / Plexus — Both of these accomplish the same thing in giving you a revamped raidframe with added customizations. Grid2 is more robust and offers more tools and more granular fine tuning of what information your frames offer you. Plexus is a lot easier to setup and use, while still being a large improvement over the default raidframes.

Macros

Macros are tools that can offer something as simple as making overlapping cooldowns one button press, to more complicated options of making abilities cast on mouseover or change based on target.

Mouseover Macro

You can use this as a template to make other abilities mouseover as well if you’d like. This is a solid option to have on your bars as it’ll make your interrupt cast on whatever enemy mob your mouse is over:

#showtooltip
/stopcast
/cast [@mouseover, harm, nodead] Wind Shear

Utility Macros

This macro will automatically cast your Windwalk Totem at your feet:

#showtooltip
/cast [@player] Windwalk Totem

Another one which will cast your Earthbind Totem at whatever you have targeted:

#showtooltip
/cast [@target] Earthbind Totem

Throughput Macros

There is an extremely important macro I’d recommend so that you don’t hurt your own DPS by accident. This macro will check to make sure that you do not have an active Primal Fire Elemental before putting down your Searing Totem (Duplicate and replace with Magma Totem to cover AoE situations):

#showtooltip
/cast [nopet:Primal Fire Elemental] Searing Totem

Guarantee that you won’t forget to overlap multiple buffs/cooldowns as many times these abilities are off the GCD and can be cast simultaneously:

/use 13
/cast Elemental Mastery
/cast Ascendance

The above essentially just rolls a bunch of cooldowns into one button. You can increase or decrease the amount in the macro at will, just keep in mind that if you include more than one ability on the GCD it will require multiple presses to activate the second ability in the order that’s on the GCD. For “/use 13” this makes your top trinket slot be activate if you have an active trinket. For the bottom slot it’d be “/use 14”.