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brunson
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here are the couple i use.

#showtooltip Revenge
/cast Shield Block
/cast Revenge

I only use this on bosses that can crush. If i dont have enough mana for both a shield block and revenge only the shield block will get cast. Occasionally the revenge wont get cast even if i do have enough rage, so i have learned to hit the button twice.


#showtooltip Shield Slam
/use 14
/cast Shield Slam

This uses my autoblocker right before my shield slam. Great for those big shield slams early in a fight to lock the monster down.
     
7_of_9
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I use the Autoblocker Macro and a Stance Dance Macro (Only cause I'm too lazy to hit a different combo of buttons sometimes).

Other than that, I personally detest linking 2 types of attacks together in any other way, I prefer to hit the key bindings for those attacks manually (That's my personal opinion and by no means do I mean it to be demeaning towards others who do use them).
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Tenatia
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is the autoblocker still worth picking up with Badges? I just spent 35 on the new tanking cloak, which was a sizeable upgrade for me, but I was thinking of starting to bank the badges for the new leggings they have.


Sorry to derail a macro thread:)

FWIW, I use a stance dance macro, and would probably use the autoblocker macro too.
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Arkhain
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#showtooltip Heroic Strike
/cast Devastate
/cast Heroic Strike

That one's useful since any time I'm using Devastate, I'm trying to bleed off range into threat. I use that and the SB/Rev macro. While I can see their downsides, hitting five buttons all the time instead of three just hurts my fingers.
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7_of_9
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Autoblocker - 200 BV which increases your shield slam #'s, especially when first building up threat when starting off a boss is nice, not to mention any time that you do block and it's up it's an extra 200 damage absorbed (Not major, but it does help when you think of all the other little things combined).
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sigsegv
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Depends which other trinks you have or are in easy reach. I use the autoblocker to gen threat (700+ slams are nice) and take the edge off the hits during transitions and silences. Of course just the passive block value is nice... if something is hitting for 3000, that is 2% mitigation right there. But it is situational, and useless for stuff that can't be blocked.
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Wammie
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I like rolling my face on the keyboard.

I have a few macros

Deva / HS
SS / HS
SB / rev

My zerker rage macro also intercepts, cause im lazy.
my macro i use to go back to def stance after hitting zerker rage puts up shield block.

Got an intervene macro and a macro that puts all my 30 min cool downs in one button.

would think i dont have alot of buttons on my screen, but i still got non macro SS, HS, Deva, Rev, SB on there to watch cooldowns.

Oh and i have a /castrandom devastation, Shield slam, Shield block button for laziness which i never use.

This link has some neat macros.
http://www.wowwiki.com/Useful_macros/Warrior

i found that useful to look at and see what stuff you can do.
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Redfang
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My personal favorite macro is /cast [target=focus] Devastate

Damned handy for locking down multiple mobs at once. I also have "set focus" bound to a key combo so it's very easy to reset a focus in a fight.
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