Shadowburn: deliberate shard-spending attack
Cast Shadowburn on a living enemy mouseover, then your living enemy target, while keeping your selected target.
This macro is based on research and still needs testing in game. Check the requirements and known limits before trying it.
Exact macro text
Shadowburn
HARMShadowburn
#showtooltip Shadowburn
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][harm,nodead] Shadowburn78 UTF-8 bytes · 78 characters · Version 1.0.0
Shadowburn: recorded level 20 · talent: Shadowburn. Confirm acquisition and other requirements in Details.
How this fits a Warlock key layout — compare shared keys and dedicated controls before choosing your pack.
Build and validation
- Status
- Researched
- Target builds
- 1.60.1-beta, 1.60.1.70009
- Tested builds
- No recorded client test
- Class / profile
- Warlock / Damage
- Specializations
- Destruction
Targeting and features
Living enemy mouseover → Living enemy target → No eligible target: no cast
Mouseover
Requirements
- Learned Shadowburn; the source records its first rank at level 20. Each higher rank must be learned separately.
- An actual point in the Shadowburn talent (Destruction) and its prerequisites; selecting a recommended spec alone does not grant it.
- Shadowburn: Reagents: Soul Shard.
Known limitations
- Research-supported design for beta 1.60.1.70009; no recorded in-client macro tests. English spell names require localization on other clients.
- The first matching target branch wins; an out-of-range, line-of-sight, immune or otherwise invalid recipient does not fall through to another target.
- Requires a Soul Shard. It does not test kill range or guarantee a refunded shard.
Notes
- Spell IDs identify the sourced first-rank reference; unranked names request the learned rank selected by the client. A spellbook tab is not a specialization lock.
- Talent and level records are provisional beta extraction, not proof of spell acquisition.
- Ability metadata adapted from Chris Baldwin / Talents Forever under CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Macro design and summaries are original Allegedly Skilled work.
Abilities
- Shadowburn
Spell IDs
- 17877
Sources
- Talents Forever — all class spellbooks, talent trees and icon mappingsTalents Forever / Chris Baldwin · 1.60.1.70009; export generated 2026-09-26
- Macros: Essential InformationAdreaver / Blizzard community forums · General WoW secure macro syntax; Forever compatibility untested