Mage Arcane Macros

Ready-to-paste macros for Arcane Mage: the burst key derived from the current top parses, plus the macros this spec actually uses. Spell names follow the language you pick on this site, so they match your game client.

This Arcane Mage page opens with a burst key drawn from three top WarcraftLogs openers. On a raid boss and on a Mythic+ single target the key has the same shape: open with Arcane Surge and fold in Touch of the Magi, which at least two of the three openers pressed. The Mythic+ AoE key opens with Arcane Orb and adds no off-GCD cooldown. In both the raid and AoE samples Bloodlust appeared early, but it is intentionally kept out of the key because lust is called by the group, not timed by one player. Each scene appends trinket /use lines. The spec macros cover burst and safety. The Arcane Surge macro also fires the racials Ancestral Call, Berserking and Blood Fury plus both trinket slots. Blink starts with /stopcasting so it goes off mid-cast, Ice Block cancels itself when pressed again, and two one-line macros cancel Ice Block or Alter Time on their own. Remove Curse checks your mouseover first and falls back to your target. Copy a macro, set this site to your client language so the names match your spellbook, and paste it in game.

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Burst key

Burst key — from the top parses above Macro commands →

#showtooltip Arcane Surge
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Touch of the Magi
/cast Arcane Surge

A macro can fire only one global-cooldown ability per press — that is the game's limit, not ours. So a burst key is exactly: on-use trinkets + the off-GCD cooldowns top players press in their opener + one opener spell. Nothing else fits.

Bloodlust / Time Warp is called by the raid leader, so it is deliberately left out.

Off-GCD cooldowns pressed within the first 8 casts by at least 2 of the 3 sampled players, defensives and movement removed. Ends with the first on-GCD opener so everything fires in one press.

Slot 13 / 14: the data cannot tell which slot the on-use trinket sits in, so both are listed; the passive one just prints cannot use.

Burst key — from the top parses above Macro commands →

#showtooltip Arcane Orb
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Arcane Orb

Bloodlust / Time Warp is called by the raid leader, so it is deliberately left out.

Off-GCD cooldowns pressed within the first 8 casts by at least 1 of the 3 sampled players, defensives and movement removed. Ends with the first on-GCD opener so everything fires in one press.

Slot 13 / 14: the data cannot tell which slot the on-use trinket sits in, so both are listed; the passive one just prints cannot use.

Burst key — from the top parses above Macro commands →

#showtooltip Arcane Surge
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Touch of the Magi
/cast Arcane Surge

Off-GCD cooldowns pressed within the first 8 casts by at least 2 of the 3 sampled players, defensives and movement removed. Ends with the first on-GCD opener so everything fires in one press.

Slot 13 / 14: the data cannot tell which slot the on-use trinket sits in, so both are listed; the passive one just prints cannot use.

Spec macros · 12.1

Spell names below are shown in this site's language — . Your game client must use the same language, or the macro will say unknown spell.

Arcane Surge + trinkets + racial

#showtooltip Arcane Surge
/cast Ancestral Call
/cast Berserking
/cast Blood Fury
/cast Arcane Surge
/use 13
/use 14

One-press burst; racials you do not have are ignored

Blink with stopcasting

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast Blink

Cancels the current cast and Blinks; not needed with Shimmer

Ice Block on / off

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cancelaura Ice Block
/cast Ice Block

First press blocks, second press cancels; careful if you spam keys

Cancel Ice Block

/cancelaura Ice Block

Separate key to leave the block early

Cancel Alter Time

/cancelaura Alter Time

Ends Alter Time without teleporting back

Remove Curse (mouseover)

#showtooltip
/cast [target=mouseover,exists] Remove Curse; Remove Curse

Decurses the mouseover unit, otherwise your target

Collected from public Patch 12.1 guides and checked for this patch. Spell names follow the language you selected on this site and must match your game client. If a macro does not work on your client, report it with the button on the card.