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Remove Heroism / Bloodlust Macro for Mythic Jaina

A strategy for Mythic Jaina involves having every raider removing their heroism / bloodlust… and everyone in the raid needs to remove it. There are multiple different ways a guild can pop bloodlust, and the whole Horde / Alliance swap means you might be removing the opposite faction’s buff too.

Here is a cancel aura macro that removes all the possible ways your raid could have the heroism / bloodlust buff.

/cancelaura Heroism
/cancelaura Bloodlust
/cancelaura Time Warp
/cancelaura Primal Rage
/cancelaura Drums of the Mountain
/cancelaura Drums of Fury
/cancelaura Drums of the Maelstrom

Drop it all into a single macro, name it Jaina bloodlust, and you can use it to instantly remove the buff without worrying about which flavor of the buff you have.

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Weak Aura to Let Someone Know They Have Ankh Totem Rez

If you play Resto Shaman and use Ancestral Protection Totem (AKA Ankh Totem), it can be annoying when someone has the ankh totem rez available, but they don’t take it because they simply didn’t notice it. This weak aura will pop up an alert on screen letting the person know they have the ankh totem rez available to take.

This can be especially useful on progression bosses when Shamans are dropping the totem to rez someone mid fight on a part that someone in the raid tends to die, or even for tanks when they knowingly take an ankh totem death.

The weak aura can be downloaded from wago.io

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Creating Mana Food Mid-Dungeon in Mythic Plus

We have all done it, we start that +10, +15 or +18 only to discover that you started the run without any mana food. And it can be pretty embarrassing to need to use mana potions instead of intellect or damage pots because you ran out of food.

There is a secret trick you can use to create emergency mana food – or Sugar-Crusted Fish Feasts – on the fly in mythic plus, without having to be obvious that you are out of mana food.

First you need to level up BFA cooking to a minimum of level 85. This can easily be done using mostly vendor items – and don’t forget you can now get cooking levels in Darkmoon Faire now. You need to learn the recipe for Seasoned Loins, which is a health and mana food.

In you reagent bank, always keep at least a full stack of Stringy Loins and Foosaka.

Now, you need to have one of the pets that doubles as a cooking fire. This includes Lil’ Ragnaros (from the Blizzard Store) or Pierre (crafted by engineers). For convenience, set your chosen pet as a favorite so it always appears near the top of your pet list.

When you find yourself out of mana food, simply summon your cooking pet, then when you have a few seconds to spare, you can quickly cook up some food on the fly. You can also cook in combat, so you can cook when the group is stabilized and not needing healing.

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Why Does the Auction House Mount Not Have Mana Food?

When you spend 5 million gold on an auction house mount, you would think it would come equipped with everything you need in game to survive. But for some reason, while Merchant Maku offers a wide variety of food that restores health, you cannot purchase vendor food that restores mana, such as Rockskip Mineral Water.

We didn’t see it added with 8.1.5, so there is hope we might see it with the Rise of Azshara content patch 8.2. The ability for healers to grab mana food off a vendor mount when not an an innkeeper or when there isn’t a mage available is annoying.

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Quick Cancel Aura Macro for Tanks to Remove all Healing Hots

If you are a tank and needs to die quickly, such as when you are trying to die within a certain time period using Ancestral Protection Totem (AKA Ankh Totem), having a quick cancel aura macro to instantly remove all healing hots can make a tank death occur much quicker, and without any healing proc RNG.

Using this type of macro is a great strat on Mythic Jaina in Battle of Dazar’alor.

Here is a simple cancel aura macro for tanks to use that covers all healing hots as well as trinkets. Select based on your healer comp (otherwise the macro will be too long, or you can split it into multiple macros. Paste it into a macro slot.

/cancelaura Power Word: Shield
/cancelaura Atonement
/cancelaura Riptide
/cancelaura Power Word: Fortitude
/cancelaura Power Word: Shield
/cancelaura Concentrated Mending
/cancelaura Rallying Cry
/cancelaura Glimmer of Light
/cancelaura Blessed Portents
/cancelaura Enveloping Mist
/cancelaura Renewing Mist
/cancelaura Essence Font
/cancelaura Spirit Mend
/cancelaura Resounding Protection
/cancelaura Gemhide
/cancelaura Enveloping Protection
/cancelaura Bracing Chill
/cancelaura Pain Suppression
/cancelaura Life Cocoon
/cancelaura Blessing of Sacrifice

There are also some spells from azerite gear and essences in BFA that can be removed via cancel macro depending on what healers are running. These heals tend to be exceptionally minor on one person however, and are probably not worth the macro space. The exception might be unwavering ward depending which rank is being used, as rank 3 also includes a damage reduction.

/cancelaura unwavering ward
/cancelaura seed of eonar
/cancelaura bracing chill
/cancelaura concentrated mending

Lastly there are some self healing from azerite, again these tend to be minor but worth noting depending on the fight and/or strat:

/cancelaura resounding protection
/cancelaura miniaturized plasma shield

Tanks can also remove weapons to lower health. And Tanks should also /sit so they get critted.

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Why is there no spirit food for healers in Warlords of Draenor?

We have been hearing about how mana should (hopefully) be an issue for healers in Warlords of Draenor, so healers have to think about the spells they are casting, but

We also know that when it comes to gearing, only a few pieces of gear will actually have spirit this time around.  And depending on RNG, there could be healers raiding without decent spirit pieces and trinkets, so every last point of spirit will make a difference.

Which raises the question, why does Warlords of Draenor not have any spirit stat food?

Healers at the start of any expac will know the spirit pain (remember first tier in Cataclysm anyone?)  And the majority of healers use spirit food for the first tier of any expansion, because of the mana issue.  Spirit is also one of the more interesting stats since it is sometimes called a primary and sometimes a secondary stat.  However, tanks get stam food, so why not spirit food?

Hopefully we will see the addition of spirit food before Warlords launches (and hopefully it is food that just requires healers to fish and not have to go kill level 100 beasties with a low drop rate)… otherwise healers might want to start stocking up on Steamed Crab Surprise. Unfortunately though, it currently only gives 34 spirit on the WoD beta, versus 135 of other stats with WoD food.  So healers will have to figure out whether the extra spirit is worth it.