What is a macro? A macro is basically allowing 1 button to simulate pressing a few buttons. Let's learn how to make a macro. First hit your escape key on your keyboard. This will pop up a window and you'll hit the "Macro" Button.
Now that we've opened the macro menu you are going to create a new macro, so hit the "New" button, give your macro a name, and pick an icon that looks cool for it!
Now insert the specific Macro text you want, hit the "Save" button and drag the icon on to your action bar!
Fantastic! You now know how to make a macro. So, let's learn a two of my most used macros! Sometimes you'll need to cancel an auction, either because someone undercut you and you want to relist it to be the best price, or because you decided you want that item. Let's learn a quick and easy way to cancel a lot of auctions. Open your macro menu and create a new macro. In the macro commands window type this:
/click AuctionsCancelAuctionButton
/click StaticPopup1Button1
The best most efficient way is just to copy and paste the above into the macro command window. Save it and throw it on your action bar!
Since we have this new awesome button on our action bar this is going to make cancelling auctions super easy! Cancelling auctions will now only take 1 click and 1 button press. As seen below, click to select the item you want to cancel then press the button (3 in this case) associated with the cancel auction macro you just created. Boom! The auction is canceled! This method saves you 2 extra clicks and mouse moves per canceled auction, which if you have a lot of auctions you want to cancel can add up to quite a bit of time.
As I've mentioned in the past my main source of gold flow comes from glyphs, and while their prices are slowly going down a bit since the release of 5.4 they still sell quite a bit, so I find myself, when I don't have as much time on my hands to farm them, low on herbs quite a bit. My average price that I still make a pretty good profit from is 30g per stack of 20 of any Pandaren herbs. Tonight someone put up some Silkweed for around 28 gold so I bought them all out. Now I just need to mill them. That can be a hastle so let's look at a macro that can really help us out!
So get back into your Macro window and create another new macro. This one you are going to want to paste the following:
#show Green Tea Leaf
/cast Milling
/use Green Tea Leaf
Then as long as you have more than 5 Green Tea Leaf in one of your bags it will mill them for you just by doing 1 simple button press. Now if you have say 23 Green Tea Leaf take the 3 leaves and move them to one of your last bags so that the stack of 20 comes before the stack of 3. If the stack of 3 comes before the 20 you will get an error and it won't mill them for you.
Well don't you little gold goblins have a keen eye. Silkweed was on sale today, not green tea leaves. So we need to mill those herbs instead. Easy fix. Just open that Macro window again and Delete the Green Tea Leaf from the last line and type Silkweed or Snow Lily or whatever herb you need to mill in that spot instead.
#show Green Tea Leaf
/cast Milling
/use Snow Lily
Voila! This is going to save you a bunch of time. So now you can just watch some youtube videos while pressing your "4" key or whatever spot you have your macro on in your action bar, and mill away in peace.
Love you as always little gold goblins and gnomes!
Until tomorrow,
~ Turbos
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