Highground Macros — Macro Presets and Builder

Highground Macros gives you ready-made macros for your class and a builder that writes, checks and explains them for you. No more hunting for macro guides or guessing why a line doesn't fire. It runs on Retail, WoW Forever, Cataclysm Classic, Classic Era and The Burning Crusade (Anniversary), and only shows what exists in your game.

Features

📚 Presets for every class

• PvP presets: interrupts and crowd control on your focus or arena 1–5, defensives, trinkets, stance and form swaps, toggles like Ice Block and Divine Shield.
• PvE presets: focus interrupts, mouseover taunts and dots, mouseover heals and dispels, Misdirection and Tricks on the tank, battle resurrections, raid markers, ready check and pull timer.
• Pick the target with one click: focus, mouseover, target, arena 1–5, party 1–4 or yourself. The + button holds the rarer ones, and every button explains itself on hover.
• Their target: cast on whoever your focus or a party member is attacking without changing your own target, like a Starsurge sent at your focus's target.
• Each card shows whether the macro is ready (every spell in your spellbook) and where it's already saved.
• One click copies a macro into WoW's General or Character macro tab. Copy & Edit opens it in the builder to make it your own.
• Presets are checked against each game's spell data: self-only spells stay a plain cast, and spells that can't target yourself don't offer it.

🛠️ Build your own (new)

• Create / Edit separates guided setup from the editor: choose an action and a fully named target, then review and save. Fold out target conditions, casting options, items and utility actions when needed; folded headers show how many options are active.
• Sequences (/castsequence with resets) and random casts too.
• The macro text is yours to edit: lines you type by hand stay when you change options.
• Explain: every line in plain English, like "Casts Polymorph on your focus if it is a living enemy; otherwise on your target."
• Checked as you type: unknown conditions, missing brackets, spells not in your spellbook, items you don't have, commands your game lacks, and the 255-character limit. Every WoW command and emote is known, plus the ones your other addons add.
• Autocomplete appears beside the caret, above or below the current line inside the editor, keeping the explanation visible. Tab inserts a match; Escape dismisses the list. Syntax colours cover spells, items, buffs, commands, conditions, units, raid markers and sequence resets.
• One save action: choose This character or All characters. Existing names clearly show Update macro. When both tabs contain the same name, only the chosen destination changes. Empty drafts are not errors; saving waits until errors are fixed and combat ends.
• Target fallbacks check the intended recipient and avoid unreachable self casts.

📜 Script macros

• Presets for repair, guild repair, sell junk, next vendor page, first dialogue option, accept and turn in quests, random mount, leave battleground and a quiet trinket. Each uses the calls your game version has.
• Script action in the builder: buy an item, pick a dialogue option, equip a set, repair, sell junk, next page, accept or turn in a quest, after your cast or on its own.
• /run and /script lines are explained in plain English, autocomplete suggests the game functions your client has, and calls that are blocked in macros, removed, or do nothing in combat are flagged.
• Don't want them? The Script macro presets switch in /hgm config hides them all.

⬆️ Highest spell rank (WoW Forever, Classic Era, The Burning Crusade)

• RANKS lists a preset for every spell you know that has ranks. Each casts by name, so it always uses your highest rank.
• When you learn a new rank, action buttons and macros on the rank it replaces move up to it. Lower ranks you keep on purpose to save mana stay.
• /hgm ranks moves every button and macro up at once. Changes wait until you leave combat.
• The builder's RANK field pins a rank when you want a smaller heal.

🗂️ Your macros

• Every macro you have, checked and explained. Edit opens one in the builder.
• Export turns macros into a text string to share. Import offers per-macro Skip, Replace and Rename choices, and checks names, bodies and available slots before writing. (new)
• History keeps the last 40 addon writes, including imports and rank updates. Restore a previous macro or undo creation; later manual edits are protected. Open it with /hgm history. (new)
• The window updates the moment you change macros in Blizzard's macro window.

🎨 Themes

• Clearer text and focus indicators, labelled status chips, adjustable text size and Reduced motion. Buttons, menus and windows animate; Reduced motion keeps tactical cues steady and transitions instant. (new)
• Highground (cool slate and teal), Ember (charcoal and copper), Parchment (muted linen and pine) or Azeroth (new) (obsidian, antique gold and Warcraft titles): /hgm theme NAME.

Supported game versions

Localized presets (new): generated spell names use your client's language when a matching spell ID is available. Hand-written scripts and imported macro bodies stay as entered.

Getting started

• Restart the game after updating; this release adds new files, so /reload is not enough.
• Type /hgm to open the window. /hgm pvp, /hgm pve and /hgm build open it on a mode or the builder; /hgm help lists every command.
• /hgm config opens its settings page.
• Already using Highground? It has the same macros window built in (/hg macros). Install Highground Macros on its own if you only want the macros; next to Highground it stays off.

Links

• Join the Highground Discord — addon discussions, help, bug reports and feature requests.
• Guides, source code and issues