Arms Warrior Interface, Macros and WeakAuras Guide

I am continuing to use Blizzard default UI for the majority of my base UI design. Blizzard continue to work on improving various aspects of their UI and, while some customizability still leaves a lot to be desired, it is doing the job excellently. A nice bonus of this is Blizzard’s default UI is substantially less likely to break with a new patch unlike many 3rd party addons, saving a number of headaches through an expansion. Below is the string for my UI if you want to try it for yourself.

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Leap cursor macro:

Heroic Leap macro that saves you a few milliseconds not having to click an additional mouse click when pressed.

#showtooltip Heroic Leap
/cast [@cursor] Heroic Leap

Execute Mouseover macro

A simple macro, this can allow executing an off target without having to drop your main target. Slightly less useful for Arms than for Fury but still potentially useful in some cases.

#showtooltip execute
/cast [@mouseover, harm, nodead][harm,nodead] execute

Bladestorm Cancelaura

There is significantly less need to cancel Bladestorm now since, if playing Slayer, you can now interrupt and cast Stormbolt while Bladestorming. However, if you’re playing Colossus with Bladestorm you may still need to cancel for kick/stun purposes.

/cancelaura Bladestorm

You can add this line into other abilities so as to take up less room on your action bars. An example would be:

#showtooltip Charge
/cast Charge
/cancelaura Bladestorm

Focus/Mousover Kick macro:

Particularly in M+, target focus is very important. Most of the time, the enemy you want to focus down isn’t the same one you want to interrupt. For these moments, this macro makes it easy to kick a different enemy to the one you are targeting:

/cast [nomod, target=target] Pummel
/cast [mod:shift, target=focus] Pummel
/cast [mod:ctrl, target=mouseover] Pummel

This macro does a few things. Without any modifier pressed, it will just kick your target. With shift held while using your Pummel keybind, it will kick your focus target (which you need to set with a differe keybind, mine is Ctrl + F for example). And if you hold Ctrl, it will kick your mouseover target. It can take a bit of getting used to but this is highly valuable if you want to push into high Mythic+ especially.

There are a wide range of useful Weakauras available on wago.io. I suggest having a look through the most popular ones to see if they will be of use to you.