The three macros you'd meet in heaven

There are many, many macros that a lot of warlocks swear by. Cast sequence macros, funny tells for summoning things, etc. But the there are THREE essential macros that you need to find a place for on your tool bar. They are your crowd control focus macros to control Seduction, Banish and Fear, and my recent computer wipe re-emphasized the importance of these as I recreated them just recently. So, here's what you need to know to make these three beauties shine.

First of all, all three of these macros work on the same framework. They all set your focus so you can keep your DPS up on the tanked target and allow you to crowd control without having to retarget that enemy.

Seduction macro
The first macro is one I've already discussed in my How to seduce with a warlock post: The seduction Macro. Here is it again:

#showtooltip
/clearfocus [modifier:alt]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]; [target=focus,dead]
/clearfocus [target=focus,help]
/petstay
/petfollow
/cast [pet:succubus,target=focus,exists,harm] Seduction; Seduction

This macro clears your focus if you press alt. It will set your focus to whatever you are targeting if you are targeting an enemy and your previous focus is dead, or you don't have a focus. It also clears your focus if you are currently focusing a friendly player, (which lets this work in the heat of battle, if you somehow changed your focus setup). Then it finally casts Seduction on your focused target. Remember that Seduction is a spell cast + channeling, so you need to leave your succubus be as it takes care of the mob. Mash this macro again when seduction is about to pop and it'll break seduction and start casting it again. It's the best way to manage your succubus and seduction there is.

Banish macro
Next up is a very similar macro for Banish. We basically take the same macro as above and remove all the pet aspects.

#showtooltip
/clearfocus [modifier:alt]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]; [target=focus,dead]
/clearfocus [target=focus,help]
/cast [target=focus,exists,harm] Banish; Banish

I removed the two lines about petstay and follow and then removed pet from the cast line and changed Seduction to Banish. This macro will set your focus target and banish it. Mash it again when banish is up and you'll re-banish.

Fear macro
Finally, let's do the same with fear.

#showtooltip
/clearfocus [modifier:alt]
/focus [target=focus,noexists]; [target=focus,dead]
/clearfocus [target=focus,help]
/cast [target=focus,exists,harm] Fear; Fear

This is perfect for your fear yo-yo. You'll be able to keep track of who's running around without the difficulty of finding them again. Same deal as the banish macro, just with fear.

Of course, you can only use one of these at a time. If you find yourself, like I have several times, in a situation where you are seducing, banishing and fear yo-yoing, then you are going to have to do two of those without the aide of focus. I usually choose the seduce as the focus macro I use and then manually fear or banish. I like to automate as much as I can when it comes to the seduce because of it's occasional lack of reliability.

So, if you don't have those macros, copy them and put them on your action bar this minute. I mean, if you're a warlock. Obviously Ret Pallys should avoid these macros at all costs.