Got some logetech software where u can make macro… is it okay to use for blizzard? 
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Macros cannot use tools not normally accessible to players.
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Macros can only trigger one global cooldown. When the global cooldown is triggered, it cancels the remainder of the macro.
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Macros cannot be programmed to make decisions for the player, like “heal the target with least HP”.
As long as it’s not doing any of these things it should be ok but common sense should prevail. If it sounds or looks dodgy, best not to use it.
i know but is called macro at the software… its where u press multiply keys and u bind it to a key and its spam thos keys… dos it make sence?
Anything that automates actions (for example pressing 1 key that does more than 1 thing) is against the TOS.
A lot of gaming products come with macros and similar functions, I wouldn’t risk using them.
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okay my thoughts where when it comes from companys like logitech and not some russian underground 
Indeed. Binding your rotation to 1 button press is a good way to get banned.
Now there’s nothing against an in-game macro that fires 5 abilities in sequence, as long as you have to press the button at each step.
Doesn’t matter who makes it, it’s still automating the input so that one click does multiple things 
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A lot of companies make a lot of things, I doubt that when they made a feature that looks good to potential buyers, that they asked every gaming company out there whether it’s likely to cause a ban. Just don’t use that sort of thing inside of WoW (Or indeed any other Blizzard product).
I use my mouse software (Steelseries) to map simple binds for the 12 buttons to one of my action bars. Nothing wrong with that, but it would be stretching the “legality” to use more of the macro editing/recording functionality, e.g. to program in a pause for the GCD and then add more key presses to the sequence for the same mouse button.
The driver/software based macro functions from hardware manufacturers are not meant to be used in MMO games, as they all are capable, or more designed to do things that are against ToS of multiplayer games.
I honestly haven’t figured out one use case of those macro functions for any single- or multiplayer player game I play where it makes any sense using it or not breaking ToS rules 
Yes I know which is what I said. If you’re automating commands it will be breaking the TOS and you will be banned.
However if you are using a mouse that has multiple buttons on the side that you can map keys to, for example if I was to keybind key1 on my Ui that maps my Obliterate skill and map it to the button “1” on my mouse that’s perfectly ok because you are still pressing the buttons, just on your mouse not on your keyboard.
What you are not allowed to do is map several button presses to one macro and just smash the hell out of that one button. Blizzard will detect it as automation and ban your account.
There was once a website that published an entire macro that contained every specs rotation, but people who used it soon regretted it. It CAN be done. But it will not end well for you.
I’d be careful of even that. The only multiple ability macros I use are things like casting an on use trinket at the same time as a cooldown, for example my hunter right now is using
#showtooltip trueshot
/cast trueshot
/use concoction: kiss of death
But again, if I was to map my entire rotation to a macro that took up an entire macro space, that’s a no no.
It may also explain why so many abilities a while ago were put on the GCD, to prevent such large macroes that just skipped the line between being bannable and not.
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Hardware bound drivers and its soft is legal.
Some emulation macros like ‘ahk’ is not.
I have mouse/kb macros in every game i play for last 15+ years. Never had any problem except some cheap korean (like bdo) games block inputs they consider illegal
Theres was/is reason to do complex macros for rotations tho, as it just make your rotation worse.except few funny cases.
Or any competitive mmo game for that matter
Honestly, castsequence is in the game. Trinket+CD macros are in the game.
Blizzard won’t take action against anything you do with their own macro system.
Mostly I use friendly/enemy macros so I can have a damaging or heal that is target dependant, and I’m not really sure if any spec has such a reliable 1-2-3 rotation that it could be macro’d effectively…? It’s all procs and pressing what lights up. Maybe healer ramps but idk.
That said, I kind of think in-game macros have no place existing, because basics like cast-on-mouseover were so beneficial that not setting them up was a big disadvantage. Players shouldn’t be able to write macros or install addons for a competitive advantage, but prior to baking in mouseover casting very recently, it absolutely was that.
But again; Blizzard make the macro system. They won’t take action against anything done with it, because it’s all legit.
I have a Razer Naga and use the software to rebind keys, that is legal
If you program a button to have re-clicks or “turbo” futures it’s legal.
if you mean in-game macros they can target focus or specific names, you can also use castfrequency where same button uses a specific spell/ability as… charge>taunt>rend before it resets to charge or resets after a set period of time…
macros can also circumvent extra clicks where you first have to click ability then ground or target to trigger… @mouseover / @coursor this is also legal.
macros can be very powerful and there is little they can’t do.
What is illegal is having software that plays the game for you, as in bots.
As I understand it, the macro rule is to stop people automating actions that normally have to be done manually by the player outside of the game, i.e. stringing together actions that should be split up by the existence of cooldowns. The GCD exists precisely to stop macroing rotations, so obv. recording a macro to bypass the GCD is bannable.
Is this true? I use a macro with my MM hunter which casts Salvo and Volley on mouse point, basically 3 things with just one button press and I got this one from Icy Veins. I might get banned for using it?
I remember this from MoP days where hunters had the ability to macro their entire rotation to one button. You even had a macro addon for this but you had to press the key multiple times to fire off each sequence. Not sure when it was , but if I recall correctly, around about the WoD expansion macros were exponentially changed in game and the inputs shortened to avoid this type of game play.
I would rather only do three abilities ie. trinkets, pot and one ability.
There’s nothing wrong with putting multiple abilities in the same macro which may be fired at once (one ability which isn’t on the GCD + one who is, or a trinket+ability).
It should just not do multiple abilities which are ON GCD at once, but that’s not supported nor possible via the regular in-game macros.
As long as it’s something like:
#showtooltip Volley
/cast Salvo
/cast [@cursor] Volley
Then you’re good. Salvo is off-GCD, so it’s perfectly fine to place before Volley. And…it’s allowed and even officially supported by Blizzard.
So…what about my macro for redirect on my hunter? It targets my focustarget, if not present the tankrole in the group, or both not present my pet. Is that illegal too then?
Anything that can be done with in game macros (meaning without 3rd party software) is fine with ToS.
If they have a problem with an addon or a in game function, they are gonna ban that function/addon. So no need to worry about that.
Only 3rd party applications and some shady addons might cause issues (meaning any addon from curseforge with millions of downloads are fine).
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