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

• Three steps: pick the spell, who it lands on (any unit, a group member by name, or their target), and what runs first: /stopcasting, /startattack or /stopattack, removing buffs, trinkets and items.
• 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 for spells, items, buffs, commands, conditions, units, raid markers and sequence resets, with syntax colours.

⬆️ 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 previews a string and shows which macros it would replace before writing anything.
• The window updates the moment you change macros in Blizzard's macro window.

🎨 Themes

• Highground (dark navy and teal), Ember (charcoal, crimson and amber) or Parchment (light paper with the classic WoW font): /hgm theme NAME.

Supported game versions

Preset spell names are English.

Getting started

• 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.
• 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.

Links

• Source code and issues: https://github.com/kemicofa/highground