The Lords of Nordrassil

Cryolysis is an excellent addon for mages, what with all those handy utility spells they have taking up button space. As featured on CriticalQQ’s addons page detailing mage addons, Cryolysis provides a nice condensed interface for accessing magey spells, with left click / right click functionality for variations on spells e.g portal / teleport, conjure / eat etc. Advanced functions allow for auto-stocking of reagents at the vendor.

Wisewoman has been test driving it for the last week or so and it has now been officially approved as a fine piece of gnomish engineering.

While you’re there, CriticalQQ’s Raiding as a Mage guide is well worth a read, with links to more detailed articles for raiding as frost and fire and on how not to pull aggro.

A guide to mage macros was posted on our forum courtesy of guildee BobTheWorm. It looks pretty handy to me, so I’ve taken the liberty of reprinting here. There’s also a Mage Macro section at WoW-Wiki that is worth checking out. Enjoy:

#showtooltip Counterspell
/stopcasting
/cast Counterspell

Kind of obvious what it does, but for those who have never used macros before, it will stop whatever spell you’re currently casting and cast counterspell. Very useful for pvp.

#showtooltip Pyroblast
/cast Presence of Mind
/stopcasting
/cast Arcane Power
/stopcasting
/use Vengeance of the Illidari
/stopcasting
/cast Pyroblast

Hehe, the IWIN macro While standing still pressing the macro button once will do everything and cast your pyroblast (virtually instantly). If you are moving you will need to press the button twice to cast your pyroblast.

An alternative is to replace the “/use Vengeance of the Illidari” line with “/use 13″ or “/use 14″. Can include either/both of these lines here depending on which trinket slot you want to activate.

#showtooltip Polymorph
/cast [modifier:shift, target=focus] Polymorph; Polymorph
/focus [nomodifier:alt]

It was very hard to get a nice precise macro to do exactly what I wanted here, but I believe I finally found it, and it works well! Quite simply it will sheep whoever you cast it on. And if you want to resheep the same mob press whatever the modifier is when you cast it. ie. in this case hold shift while you press the button. This also works if you have it on a hot-key. The modifier can be changed to “ctrl” or “alt” if prefered. This means that you won’t have to retarget the sheeped mob to resheep him making life that little bit easier.

#showtooltip Slow Fall
/dismount [mounted]
/cast Slow Fall

Not entirely sure if this is already built into the game now after the last patch, but it is quite useful. This macro allows you to feather (and hence slow-fall) even when mounted… It has saved my life a couple of times! And as a little trick, if you run jump off a big cliff on your mount and use this, you’ll float along at the same speed as when mounted. So in Arathi Basin you can run and jump off the Lumber Camp hill and land at the Blacksmith flag for a nice aerial assult!