A few macros for smoother Sub gameplay

Classes Rogue
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Hello everyone,

I made a few macros to make sub rogue a lot easier to execute and save keybinds and wanted to share with all of you so you can benefit from it and have a better gaming experience.

General idea : Merge abilities to save unecessary key press and binds.

  • Backstab and Shadowstrike on the same key since you never want to backstab when shadowstrike is available. Auto activates Symbols of Death and Cold Blood before Shadowstrike when dance is active, since you never want to use symbols outside of dance. It is better to include it on your backstab macro than your dance since in pvp you usually want to use cheap shot or sap after dance and using symbol after is more energy efficient than using it upfront.

#showtooltip [stance] shadowstrike; backstab
/cast [nocombat] !stealth
/cast [stance:2] symbols of death
/cast [stance:2] cold blood
/cast [stance] ambush; sinister strike
/stopattack [nocombat]

Note : Due to Blizzard removing stance 3 to differenciate Shadow Dance from other improved stealth (vanish and shadowy duel), we have to protect symbols and cold blood from being used outside of dance by using some action bar changes.
All of this wouldve been unecessary had blizzard kept stance 3 in the game but we end up with a similar result, it is just a little more complicated than it has to be. Thank you blizzard

  • The idea is to have your backstab macro in your main action bar (actionbar 1) and to have an exact copy of this action bar in actionbar 2, with the only difference being your backstab macro in action bar 2 won’t include symbols and cold blood.

#showtooltip [stance] shadowstrike; backstab
/cast [nocombat] !stealth
/cast [stance] ambush; sinister strike
/stopattack [nocombat]

  • Then you need to macro your vanish and shadowy duel to access action bar 2 after pressing the key

#showtooltip
/stopattack
/cast vanish
/changeactionbar 2

#showtooltip
/cast Shadowy Duel
/changeactionbar 2

  • and to go back into your normal action bar 1 when using dance you simply use

#showtooltip
/cast shadow dance
/changeactionbar 1

so that whenever you press dance your macro, ambush automatically activates symbols and cold blood, and it is protected when you vanish or shadowy duel.

You can now entirely remove shadowstrike, symbols and cold blood from your bars and you saved 3 keybinds, while making your burst a lot easier to execute.

Have fun!

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In PvP you will sometimes want to use Symbols to get energy back so you can Duel without having to wait 2s to get the 50 energy back.

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Very true but also quite situationnal. You’d need to be both energy starved, have symbols ready and requier an emergency duel, i guess it can be useful in specific situations but as a whole i think you can perform just fine like this.

I find myself mostly energy starved when spamming cheapshots, which i tend to do less and less because of orcs and relentless

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If you use these macros, you’ll be using cold blood into shields instead of waiting for them to be destroyed first, although I suspect I may also use macros like these again just to make life easier.

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if you’re playing gloomblade, this isn’t true because of bop.

this isn’t really true either, though outside of niche uses like what shadenox says i think it’s mostly just to do more damage whenever you’re trying to kill somebody and dance isn’t up. i do have symbols macro’d to dance though, but also a separate bind for it just in case.

cold blood can be spell reflected by warriors and warlocks, immuned by cloak of shadows. also since it ignores damage reduction it can be used to kill through things like dispersion if you use it later sometimes.

also you don’t necessarily want to use cold blood just because it’s available, may want to save it for next go.

i guess using macros like these is fine the majority of the time, but sometimes it’ll bite you a bit.

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