Tips and Tricks

I am writing this because I think it may help diagnose some issues with World of Warcraft.

1. For slow loading issues you can type in: /console worldPreloadNonCritical 0

To reset this if this does not help /console worldPreloadNonCritical 2

BTW, this is for the Retail copy of World of Warcraft not the Classic.

2. Delete the Cache folder, this can be found: <path to your game>World of Warcraft_retail_Cache

3. Verify and Repair the game using the Battle.net app

Click on World of Warcraft > click on the ⚙ icon > click on Scan and Repair.

4. Clean the drive by using the Disk Cleanup tool, Right click on the drive that contains World of Warcraft and then click on Properties, in there click on the Disk Cleanup button.

Check the boxes that is taking up space, click Clean up system files.

Again check the boxes that is taking up space, click on Ok, click Delete Files. Wait for it to finish and then close off the windows.

5. Use the Windows Defrag tool to Defrag the drive that contains World of Warcraft. Don’t worry, Windows Defrag tool automatically detects SSD’s and Hybrid Drives and does a Optimize / Trim instead if either is detected.

You should Defrag / Optimize the drive on a regular basis, depending how often you use the computer/laptop and play World of Warcraft.

Here’s some macros that may come in to good use: think of this as a little bonus, you can reply and share yours if you like.

Pandaria WorldBosses:

/run for k, v in pairs({ Galleon = 32098, Sha = 32099, Nalak = 32518, Oondasta = 32519}) do print(format("%s: %s", k, C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(v) and "124cff00ff00Yes124r" or "124cffff0000No124r")) end

Add this to your action bar, click it and it will display the name of world boss with a green Yes if you killed it or a red No if you haven’t killed it yet.

Draenor Worldbosses:

/run for k, v in pairs({ Rukhmar=37464}) do print(format("%s: %s", k, C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(v) and "124cff00ff00Yes124r" or "124cffff0000No124r")) end

Add this to your action bar, click it and it will display the name of world boss with a green Yes if you killed it or a red No if you haven’t killed it yet.

Shadowlands WorldBosses:

/run for k, v in pairs({ Famu=59869}) do print(format("%s: %s", k, C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(v) and "124cff00ff00Yes124r" or "124cffff0000No124r")) end

Add this to your action bar, click it and it will display the name of world boss with a green Yes if you killed it or a red No if you haven’t killed it yet.

Hunter Pet Dungeon / Raid / Group Macro:

#showtooltip Growl

/petautocastoff [group] Growl

/petautocaston [nogroup] Growl

Simply add this to your action bar, if in or out of group it will either turn off or turn on Growl, keep that tank happy please.

Warlock Pet Dungeon / Raid / Group Macro:

#showtooltip

/petautocastoff [group] Threatening Presence

/petautocaston [nogroup] Threatening Presence

Add this to your action bar, if in or out of group it will either turn off or turn on Threatening Presence, keep that tank happy please.

Random Toy Macro:

#showtooltip Never Ending Toy Chest

/randomtoy check

/cast Coin of Many Faces

Add this to your action bar, click it and it will use a random toy, nothing really fancy, fun to do while waiting in a group.

Dugi or Football can you please sticky this topic?