Macro commands

This article describes all of the macro commands (or slash commands) recognized by World of Warcraft (without addons). To use a slash command, enter its name preceded by a slash, and followed by any parameters the command takes into the chat box (for example, ). The command names are not case sensitive, and you may combine multiple commands in a macro by putting each command on a new line.

In the list below, commands with multiple aliases are generally listed under the most expanded alias.

• randomfavoritepet - Summon a random favorite battle pet.
• summonpet - Summon the specified battle pet.
• dismisspet - Dismiss your battle pet.

These functions open a part of the Blizzard Interface

• achievements - Opens the Achievements interface.
• calendar - Opens the Calendar interface.
• guildfinder - Opens the Guild Finder tool.
• dungeonfinder - Opens the Dungeon Finder interface.
• loot - Open loot history
• macro - Opens the Macro interface.
• raidfinder - Opens the Raid Browser.
• share - Share to Twitter.
• stopwatch - Opens the Stopwatch interface.

All custom chat messages can make use of the chat substitutions to insert dynamic content into messages.

• afk - Marks you as "Away From Keyboard".
• announce - Toggle channel announcements.
• ban - Bans a user from a user-created chat channel.
• battleground - Sends a chat message to your battleground.
• csay - Sends chat text to a channel referenced by number only.
• chatinvite - Invite a user to a user-created chat channel.
• chatlist - Displays a list of users in a chat channel, or what channels you are currently a member of.
• chatlog - Enables/disables chat logging.
• combatlog - Enables/disables combat logging.
• chathelp - Displays a list of commonly used chat commands.
• ckick - Kicks a user from a user-created chat channel.
• emote - Perform an emote with the given text.
• dnd - Marks you as "Do Not Disturb".
• guild - Sends a chat message to your guild.
• join - Joins or creates a user-created chat channel.
• leave - Leaves a user-created chat channel.
• moderator - Sets moderation in a user-created chat channel.
• mute - Prevents a user from speaking (voice or text) in a user-created chat channel.
• officer - Sends a chat message to your guild's officer channel.
• owner - Displays or changes the owner of a user-created chat channel.
• password - Sets or removes a password on a user-created chat channel.
• party - Sends a chat message to your party.
• raid - Sends a chat message to your raid.
• rw - Sends a raid warning to your raid.
• reply - Replies to the last user to send you a whisper with a message.
• resetchat - Resets chat settings to default.
• say - Sends a chat message to players in your immediate local area.
• unban - Unbans a user from a user-created chat channel.
• unmoderator - Removes moderation from a user-created chat channel.
• unmute - Allows a user to speak (voice or text) in a user-created chat channel.
• whisper - Sends a private chat message to a player in a whisper.
• yell - Sends a chat message to all players in your zone.

These commands affect your character's status, social interaction, movement, or actions

• dismount - Dismounts your character
• equip - Equip an item to its default slot.
• equipset - Change equipped items to a set stored in the Equipment Manager
• equipslot - Equip an item to a specific slot.
• friend - Adds a player to your Friends list.
• follow - Set yourself to follow the selected target
• ignore - Adds a player to your ignore list
• inspect - Opens the Inspection interface of the selected target.
• leavevehicle - Allows your character to exit their current vehicle.
• randompet - Summons a random companion pet (non-combat pet).
• removefriend - Removes a friend from your friend list.
• settitle - Sets the active title for your character.
• trade - Opens the trade interface with your current target.
• unignore - Removes a player from your ignore list

• api - Query the WoW API documentation.
• tableinspect - Open the table inspector.
• eventtrace - Allows the user to trace events in-game.
• framestack - Allows the user to see all frames under the cursor.
• dump - Displays the value of a given variable.

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• unused

Other emote aliases: congratulate (same as grats,congrats) disappointment (same as frown,disappointed) objection (same as object,holdit)

These functions pertain to combat

• cancelaura - Cancels (turns off) an aura you have.
• cancelqueuedspell - Cancels casting of the spell you have in the queue.
• cancelform - Cancels your current shapeshift form.
• cast - Uses the stated spell or item (conflict in names goes to spell on "cast").
• castrandom - Casts a random spell or uses a random item from the given list.
• castsequence - Casts the given spells in sequential order.
• changeactionbar - Changes your current action bar page.
• startattack - Turns on auto-attack.
• stopattack - Turns off auto-attack.
• stopcasting - Stops casting or channeling.
• stopspelltarget - Cancel the spell or ability currently being targetted.
• swapactionbar - Swaps between two given action bars.
• use - Use the stated item or spell (conflict in names goes to item on "use").
• usetoy - Use a toy.
• userandom - Casts a random spell or uses a random item from the given list.

• guilddemote - Demotes a guild-member.
• guilddisband - Disbands a guild.
• guildinfo - Displays information about your guild.
• guildinvite - Invites a player to join your guild.
• guildleader - Makes another guild member the new Guild Master.
• guildquit - Removes your character from your current guild.
• guildmotd - Sets the guild Message of the Day.
• guildpromote - Promotes a guild member to the next higher rank.
• guildroster - Opens the Guild window.
• guildremove - Removes a member of your guild from your guild.

• clearworldmarker - Clears world markers
• invite - Invites a player to your party or raid.
• ffa - Sets the loot method for your raid/party to Free-For-All.
• group - Sets the loot method for your raid/party to Group Loot.
• master - Sets the loot method for your raid/party to Master Loot.
• mainassist - Set the main assist.
• mainassistoff - Clears the current Main Assist.
• maintank - Set the main tank.
• maintankoff - Clears the current Main Tank.
• promote - Promotes the given member to Party or Raid leader.
• raidinfo - Shows you what instances you are saved to, along with the Instance ID.
• readycheck - Performs a ready check in your raid or party.
• requestinvite - Request to be invited to the specified group.
• targetmarker - Sets or clears a target marker from your current target.
• threshold - Sets the loot threshold to apply loot rules.
• uninvite - Removes a player from your current party or raid.
• worldmarker - Allows placement of world markers.

• petassist - Sets pet to assist mode.
• petattack - Sends pet to attack currently selected target.
• petautocastoff - Turn off autocast for a pet spell.
• petautocaston - Turn on autocast for a pet spell.
• petautocasttoggle - Toggle autocast for a pet spell.
• petdefensive - Set pet to defensive.
• petdismiss - Dismiss your pet.
• petfollow - Set pet to follow you.
• petmoveto - Set pet to move to and stay at a hover-targeted location.
• petpassive - Set pet to passive mode.
• petstay - Set pet to stay where it is at.

• duel - Challenge another player to a duel
• forfeit - Forfeit a duel.
• pvp - Sets whether or not you are attackable by other players.
• wargame - Starts a War Game.

• console - Allows user to view or change global client-side options, or perform certain system commands.
• click - Simulate a mouse click on a button.
• disableaddons - Disables all addons and reloads the UI.
• enableaddons - Enables all addons and reloads the UI.
• help - Displays a help message with some basic commands.
• logout - Logs your character out of the game, back to the character selection screen.
• macrohelp - Displays a help message with basic information about creating and using macros.
• played - Displays information about your character's time logged in.
• quit - Exits the game.
• random - Generates a random number from 1 to 100. "/random X" rolls a number from 1 to X, "/random X Y" rolls a number from X though Y.
• reload - Reloads the User Interface.
• script - Runs a block of LUA code.
• stopmacro - Stop processing the current macro.
• time - Displays the current time
• timetest - Used for benchmarking, also shows FPS.
• who - Shows you a list of people matching filtering options.

• assist - Targets a player's target.
• clearfocus - Clears the current focus target.
• cleartarget - Clears the current target.
• focus - Set a focus target
• target - Target the given unit by name.
• targetexact - Target the unit by exact name match.
• targetenemy - Cycle through nearby hostile units (no name matching).
• targetenemyplayer - Cycle through nearby hostile players (no name matching).
• targetfriend - Cycle through nearby friendly units (no name matching).
• targetfriendplayer - Cycle through nearby friendly players (no name matching).
• targetparty - Cycle through nearby party members (no name matching).
• targetraid - Cycle through nearby raid members (no name matching).
• targetlastenemy - Target the last attackable unit you had selected.
• targetlastfriend - Target the last friendly unit you had selected.
• targetlasttarget - Sets your current target to the last unit you had selected.

Metacommands pass data to the WoW client to affect its appearance on the action bar. Metacommands are preceded by a "#" symbol. Unknown metacommands will be silently ignored.

• #show - Affects the button's icon on the Action Bar.
• #showtooltip - Affects the button's icon and tooltip on the Action Bar.

These commands are recognized by the WoW client, but do not perform any actions.

• usetalents - Change to a different dual spec.
• petaggressive - aggressive AI was replaced with assist. (deprecated in 4.2)