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3.1 Frost Macros

Sacrifice/Raise Dead

#showtooltip
/cast [target=target, noharm] Death Pact; [target=focus, exists] Death Pact; Raise Dead
/targetexact Risen Ghoul
/focus [help]
/targetlastenemy

• When Raise Dead is cast it focuses your pet to let you have better track of it (might have to press it twice because the ghoul summon animation is slow). If you have focus on pet it will cast Death pact on it instead. Unless you have a friendly target it will try to sacrifice that target instead. (Incase you wanna sacrifice any other friendly undead target)
• Valid: 3.1

Ghoul Utility

Ghoul Leap & Stun

#showtooltip
/cast [target=target,exists,harm] Leap
/cast [target=target,harm] Gnaw
/stopmacro [target=target,harm]
/cast [target=target,exists,noharm] Leap
/stopmacro [target=target,exists,noharm]
/cast [target=player] Leap
/petfollow

If you have a enemy target this will make your pet leap to the enemy target and use gnaw.
If you have a friendly target this will make your pet leap to the friendly target.
If you have no target this will make your pet leap back to you and put your pet on follow.
This can be useful when your pet is about to die and you want it to leap back to your healer. It can also be used if you want your pet to leap back to you and follow. Or it can be used to leap to the enemy target and stun it for another interrupt.

OLD MACROS BELOW

The macros below this line have not been validated to work in 3.1. Use at your own risk.

Crowd Control

Runner Stopper

#showtooltip Death Grip
/cast Death Grip
/cast Chains of Ice

Casts Death Grip. If Death Grip is on cooldown, Chains of Ice will be cast instead. This allows you to either pull, or stop an enemy from running away with the use of one button.

One of these spells is off the GCD, so this macro now pops them both at the same time. I use this instead:

/castsequence reset=25 Death Grip, Chains of Ice

It seems to work well.

Stunning the Target

#showtooltip Death Grip
/cast Death Grip
/cast Gnaw

This may be used if you have specced into [Master of Ghouls], allowing for direct control of your ghoul. The target will be pulled to you, then stunned by your ghoul.

All-In-One Spell Interrupt

#showtooltip Strangulate
/cast Strangulate
/cast Mind Freeze

Casts Strangulate. If Strangulate is on cooldown, Mind Freeze is cast instead. This allows for you to interrupt a spell cast with the use of one button.

#showtooltip Strangulate
/cast Strangulate
/cast Mind Freeze
/cast Arcane Torrent

If you are a Blood Elf Death Knight, you can add [Arcane Torrent] to the macro for three interrupts in one button. Remember that Arcane Torrent is an AOE and not a single target. *Arcane torrent has been removed from the GCD so this macro can use two interrupts at once.

Death Coil

Ghoul Death Coil on Alt

#showtooltip 
/cast [nomod] Death Coil; [mod:alt,target=pet] Death Coil

Casts a standard Death Coil with no modifier pressed down. With alt held down, uses Death Coil on your pet rather than your target for healing instead of damage.

Frost Death Knight Death Coil

#showtooltip Death Coil
/cast [button:2, target=player] Death Coil; Death Coil

Casts a standard Death Coil on left click. Pop [Lichborne] and right click to heal yourself.

Or you can make it one button if you don't often use Death Coil as an offensive spell.

#showtooltip Death Coil
/cast Lichborne
/cast [target=player] Death Coil

Shows Death Coil when you mouseover it, and gives you a free heal every 3 minutes.

#showtooltip Death Coil
/cast Lichborne
/cast [target=player] Death Coil
/cast Rune Tap

If you are specced into [Rune Tap] as well, this can be done for extra healing.

#showtooltip Death Coil
/cast Vampiric Blood
/cast Lichborne
/cast [target=player] Death Coil
/cast Rune Tap

You can also add [Vampiric Blood] for even more healing if you are deep enough in the Blood tree.

Frost Death Coil + Lichborne

#showtooltip Death Coil
/cast [button:2] Lichborne
/cast [button:2, target=player] Death Coil; Death Coil

This macro will cast Death Coil on your current target with a left mouse click, or cast Lichborne and then Death Coil on yourself with a right click. If Lichborne is active, it will cast Death Coil repeatedly with each right click.

The following can be added to the end of the macro to cast Death Coil on your pet with a middle click:

; [Button:3, target=pet] Death Coil

Tanking

Frozen Will

#showtooltip Lichborne
/cast Lichborne
/cast Unbreakable Armor
/cast Icebound Fortitude

Specific for Frost tanking. Since none of these abilities are on the global cooldown, binding them on the same key makes for a really effective "oh crap" button. Pressing it with all cooldowns fresh will pop all three abilities (get the Icebound Fortitude and Unbreakable Armor Glyphs for best results) at the same time, granting you with approximately 85% damage reduction.

As a dwarf, you can add stone form to your macro, which increases your armor by 10%.

#showtooltip Lichborne
/cast Lichborne
/cast Unbreakable Armor
/cast Icebound Fortitude
/cast Stoneform

One Button Taunt

/castsequence reset=35 Death Grip, Dark Command

One button for taunting. Starts with the standard Death Knight pulling ability; [Death Grip]. Afterwards, if during the fight a mob needs taunting, it will cast [Dark Command]. For Unholy spec, change the reset time to 25 if 2 points are spent in [Unholy Command].

Improved One Button Taunt

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=35 Death Grip, Dark Command, Dark Command, Dark Command, Dark Command, Dark Command

In the previous macro, you can cast [Death Grip] and then [Dark Command], and then the macro goes back to Death Grip. This becomes a problem if you need to taunt again before the initial 35 seconds is up. In the improved macro, Death Grip is cast whenever it is available, and Dark Command can be cast every 8 seconds until Death Grip is available again.

As with the previous macro, change the reset time to 25 if 2 points are spent in [Unholy Command].

Blood Tanking

#showtooltip
/castsequence [mod] Death and Decay; reset=combat Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Pestilence, Death Strike, Heart Strike
/cast [nomod] Rune Strike

A lot of people bash tanking as a blood spec, but this macro works well for the purpose.
It's a spamable macro that casts Death and Decay when a modifier key is held.
It starts with casting a ranged [Icy Touch] for a pulling alternative for [Death Grip] and Death Coil.
It follows with [Plague Strike] to add the other disease.
[Pestilence] is added in for a little help with AoE threat generation, even though its use for this purpose is undocumented.
[Death Strike] and [Heart Strike] follow in that order, utilizing a larger overlap in which [Blade Barrier] is active.
[Rune Strike] is added with a nomod condition to avoid conflicts with targeting for Death and Decay.

PvP

OH SHI- button for frost spec

#showtooltip Hungering Cold
/cast Lichborne
/cast Unbreakable Armor
/cast Icebound Fortitude
/cast Hungering Cold

[/cast Every Man for Himself] (if you're a human, escape artist works too.)

This is a macro for frost Death Knights who find themselves surrounded by too many enemies. It is mostly for PvP, but it can be used in PvE if you pull too many mobs. Hungering Cold does require some RP before using, but it shouldn't really be a problem.

Ghoul Utility

Ghoul Master

#showtooltip Raise Dead
/cast [nopet] Raise Dead
/clearfocus [target=focus,dead]
/focus
/clearfocus [target=focus,noharm]
/petattack [target=focus,exists]
/petfollow [target=focus,noexists]
/cast [target=pet,exists]death coil

I use this macro to control my Ghoul. I am not sure how well this macro will work tho if you do not have Ghoul Mastery Talent in the Unholy Tree. Either way it is very similar to the macro I use for my Hunter Pets as in it will call your ghoul if you do not have one out yet, send it to attack and set the target as your focus, clear the focus when it is dead and bring your ghoul back, as well as heal your ghoul with Death Coil. --Mordikaiin (US-Ghostlands) (talk) 15:20, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Ghoul Ranged Stun

#showtooltip Leap
/cast Leap
/cast Gnaw

This lets you stun a target in range of your ghoul's leap instantly. Useful for interrupting spells when Death Grip and Strangulate are on cooldown.

Ghoul Explosion

#showtooltip
/target [modifier:alt] pet
/cast [modifier:alt] Corpse Explosion
/targetlasttarget 
/cast [nomodifier] Corpse explosion

It might seems strange, but your pet targeted with Corpse Explosion spell actually casts Explode (similar to your ability as a ghoul) that hits for about 4k damage. While such a sacrifice might seem unnecessary, remember that with Night of the Dead you can create a new pet almost instantly.

#showtooltip
/cast [button:2,target=pet] Corpse Explosion; [target=player] Corpse Explosion

This is a slightly shorter version of the above which I use personally. On left click, it casts normal Corpse Explosion, and on right click will explode your pet. User:Semantic/Sig 06:47, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Healing

Blood Bath

#showtooltip
/cast Vampiric Blood
/cast Rune Tap

This is for Blood Spec. Death Knights. If you have 2 blood/death runes up, one click will allow a nice little heal. Each spell is on a 1 min cooldown. Takes your normal Rune Tap healing aspect and adds 50% to it. Great with Improved Rune Tap. This macro it mostly an "OH SHI-" button, but good nonetheless.

Improved Blood Bath

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:alt] Vampiric Blood
/cast Rune Tap

This macro works like the one above with a slight difference. Click it to use Rune Tap (for a smaller heal), or hold Alt and click it to use Vampiric Blood and Rune tap simultaneously (for a bigger heal).

OH SH- Healing

#showtooltip Lichborne
/cast Icebound Fortitude
/cast Vampiric Blood
/cast Rune Tap
/cast Lichborne
/cast [target=player] Death Coil

This is for Blood Spec. Death Knights with points in Frost up to Lichborne. Make sure all your cooldowns are finished and you are below 50% health, or else it's a waste. Great with Improved Rune Tap. This could be a nice surprise to anyone who maybe fighting you in PvP as well (maybe even add a /cackle to let them know who's boss). You can then cast Death Coil on yourself by setting up a macro right beside this one with just:

#showtooltip
/cast [target=player] Death Coil

DPS

Spammable Blood Macro

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=6 Plague Strike, Icy Touch, Heart Strike, Heart Strike, Death Strike, Death Coil
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

This is for Blood Spec Spammable macro. As long as you don't use any Runic Power before going through the macro once, its 100% spammable (i.e. Horn of Winter). You can put Obliterate in for Death Strike if you want.

Improved Spammable Blood Macro

#showtooltip
/castsequence [nomod] reset=6/combat/shift/target Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Blood Strike, Heart Strike,  Death Strike,  Death Coil;[mod:ctrl]  Death Coil

I added the Mod key to cast DC for when Sudden Doom procs. Will reset when changing targets.

I-WIN-Button Macro

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=target Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Heart Strike, Heart Strike, Obliterate, Death Coil

This is a good macro for builds (4x/13/x), so you can benefit from [Annihilation] and make nice damage while pushing only one button.

Spammable Unholy Macro

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=6/combat/shift Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Scourge Strike, Blood Strike, Blood Strike, Death Coil, Scourge Strike, Death Coil, Scourge Strike, Scourge Strike, Death Coil

Unholy Spec spam macro. Worry free as long as you don't use any runic power beforehand. This is for Raiding/Dungeons as well to get maximum DPS!

Spammable Unholy Macro AoE variant

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=6/combat/shift Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Scourge Strike, Pestilence, Blood Boil, Death Coil, Scourge Strike, Death Coil, Scourge Strike, Scourge Strike, Death Coil

Unholy Spec spam macro. semi-AoE Variant

Rune Strike Spam

#showtooltip
/cast Blood Strike
/cast !Rune Strike

Whenever Rune strike would be available, it would cast Blood strike and then Rune strike instead of normal white swing. If RS is not available or you have not enough runic power it will just simply cast BS. The '!' before RS prevent the macro from toggling off the RS once it has been activated, if you are spamming the button.

One Button Rune Strike Rotation

/console Sound_EnableSFX 0
/castsequence reset=nocombat/alt Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Obliterate, Heart Strike, Heart Strike, Death Coil
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Rune Strike
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/console Sound_EnableSFX 1

Similar to the spammable macros, you can modify it to suit your build. What this does is goes through the sequence but also uses Rune Strike whenever it is up and any trinkets you have equipped. It also clears errors from displaying on the screen or getting sound notifications on errors. The only catch is that if you do not have enough Rune Power to cast the Death Coil at the end, you might have to hold down alt to restart the sequence. This isn't so much a problem with Blood builds but if you are seeing this, remove the Death Coil from the sequence. Also if you do not have annihilation, move the Obliterate to the end or replace it with Death Strike.

Frost Rotation/"Spam"

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=10/target Icy Touch, Plague Strike, Blood Strike, Howling Blast, Blood Strike

This rotation can be used almost from the get-go, however there is a caveat on it; it's not 100% spammable, although it's not far from it. Frost Strike I personally use as a Runic Power -dump on my build, it'll also buy a second or two for the cooldowns to run their course to start spamming again.

Misc Fun Macros

Death Grip with Sound

#showtooltip
/cast Death Grip
/stopmacro [noexists][help]
/script local c="Death Grip";if GetSpellCooldown(c)==0 then PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\HeadlessHorseman\\Horseman_Beckon_01.wav") end;

Whenever you cast Death Grip on a hostile player or npc, it will be accompanied by a nice little, familiar voice. If death grip is on cooldown, it will not play the sound, so no need to worry about it being annoying if you're trying to spam it

You can also combine this macro with the Ghoul stun above by adding Gnaw in just after Death Grip like so:

#showtooltip
/cast Death Grip
/cast Gnaw
/stopmacro [noexists][help]
/script local c="Death Grip";if GetSpellCooldown(c)==0 then PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\HeadlessHorseman\\Horseman_Beckon_01.wav") end;

Raise Dead with sound

Another fun macro is to combine the Ashbringer final quote with your Raise Dead ability, find a corpse or some cropse dust and command your Ghoul to slaughter your foes:

#showtooltip
/cast Raise Dead
/stopmacro [noexists] [help]
/script local c="Raise Dead";if GetSpellCooldown(c)==0 then PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\Ashbringer\\ASH_SPEAK_12.wav") end;

Death Gate with Sound

Using Death Gate to leave some of your non-death Knight friends behind? Use this macro to add some sphistication to your exit:

#showtooltip
/cast Death Gate
/stopmacro [noexists] [help]
/script local c="Death Gate";if GetSpellCooldown(c)==0 then PlaySoundFile("Sound\\Creature\\NexusPrinceShafar\\Auch_NexPrince_Death01.wav")  end;

DK pet

This is basically just a macro to combine 2 diff spells together for the pet one to summon it and the other to kill it to give you life... basically only to be used as a last resort type thing just a simple code is all. make sure if u press the button not to do it a second time unless u are absolutely sure you need to get the life from it unless you press and hold ctrl first <made by Blackninja <Corruptedone on server baelgun>

/cast [nopet] Raise Dead [target=pet, nodead] Death Pact