Arcane Mage DPS Macros and Addons — 12.0.5

Listed below is a collection of useful Macros for Mage, and Arcane Mage specifically, with some of them being usable on all three specs, while others are only useful if you're playing Arcane Mage.

This will cast Arcane Surge and activate any Trinkets or Racial effects that provide damage.

Bear in mind when using any of the stopcasting macros that they will not interrupt the Global Cooldown. If you are still on GCD your cast will be canceled but the next ability will not go off until you are off GCD.

Pressing Blink will now cancel your current spellcast and causes you to immediately Blink. Note that this should not be used with Shimmer as it will unnecessarily cancel your current cast, nor should it be used if you are casting something that you can wait to finish casting before needing to Blink

Cancels your current cast and immediately puts you in Ice Block. Pressing Ice Block again will cancel the effect. Not recommended if you spam your buttons.

If you are a button spammer, you can put this on a separate keybind as your Ice Block, allowing you to cancel your Ice Block early if you so desire.

You can use the above macro to cancel Alter Time if you do not want to be teleported back to the location/health where you were when you initially cast Alter Time.

This will remove curses on whatever unit you are mousing over. You can replace Remove Curse for any other spells you might want to do on mouseover, like Spellsteal. If you have no mouseover target, it will cast it on your current target, or yourself if you have neither a mouseover or selected target.

ElvUI is a complete replacement of the default User Interface. It comes with almost everything you need to perform properly: action bars, unit frames, cooldown timers, proc displays, etc.

Method Raid Tools is a useful addon that allows you to track the cooldowns of other raid members, as well as providing you with a wealth of other useful raid information.

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