SCH player, new to WHM

[EvianEverdeen]

technically the only thing that you need to know is that you are alone and the only best friend you'll have is the tank and if the tank hates you then everything will be 10x harder lol.
No pet, nothing.. all situational and reactive.
If you know the fight and is geared then you are capable of carrying.
Just keep calm and remember if the tank goes down you need to go and stoneskin urself and use every skill to survive!!!!
Also you'll be dpsing a lot more than a scholar looool
Cuz we have
-aero
-aero 2
- blizzard
- stone 1
- stone 2
* holy
- PoM and CS

SCH has quite a bit of DPS actions as well, but since WHM is more reactive a sothers have mentioned, I can see where a little more time to DPS comes in. Also what do you mean PoM and CS? What is CS and why did you lump Presence of Mind in with the other listed DPS actions?

[Manuka]

SCH has quite a bit of DPS actions as well, but since WHM is more reactive a sothers have mentioned, I can see where a little more time to DPS comes in. Also what do you mean PoM and CS? What is CS and why did you lump Presence of Mind in with the other listed DPS actions?

CS = Cleric Stance. And the reason they probably included PoM in the dps list is that some WHM's will pop it for moments where they want to spam Holy during things like speedruns or phase 1 of T4. It's pretty useful as the SS buff is good enough that you can stunlock the adds for quite a bit until immunity kicks in. Also I'm not sure if I agree that WHM's will (or should) dps more than SCH's specifically because they are more reactive. WHM's don't have many means of consistent damage mitigation or insta-cures like lolstrate that they can throw out to control incoming damage while they switch to Cleric Stance and dps without worry (unless the content is so weak your HoT can do the job). Like if you're stoning some baddy while the tank is taking consistent damage an he suddenly gets a reeeally unlucky crit? Well things just got interesting lol Not to mention MP management is more of a worry and Stone 2 an Holy are pretty expensive over time, so careful in drawn out fights.

That said there aren't many must have macros for a WHM. Besides Swiftcast-Raise I'd suggest these:

/macroicon "Virus"
/ac "Virus" <f>
/ac "Virus" <tt>
This will cast Virus on Focus Target first an if none, to the Tank's target. Saves you the hassle of manually switching.

/macroicon "Benediction"
/ac "Benediction" <t>
I use this to try an avoid the frustrating situation when you cast it on the tank a little too late an it self-casts.. :/ the <t> insures that you must have a valid target.