World of Warcraft Slash Commands

This is a reference for the WoW defined slash commands available for use in the WoW chat window, and as WoW macro commands in a macro.

Notes

• Commands are listed in lower case, however in chat can be upper or lower case.

• For macros a command is entered on a single line ending with a new-line '\n' character.

• Emotes list is from FrameXML\GlobalStrings.lua.

Key

• ? - command has not been tested or fully confirmed.

• REMOVED - Removed from WoW, retained here for historical reference.

• DISABLED - Command still exists, but does not function.

• DEPRECATED - Is deprecated and should no longer be used.

• Commands with multiple aliases are listed under the most expanded alias.

PvP commands

• Arena

  • following arena commands were removed (in 5.4)

  • teamcaptain - /teamcaptain,/tcaptain - Sets the captain of an arena team you are in.

  • teamdisband - /teamdisband,/tdisband - Disbands an arena team you are in.

  • teaminvite - /teaminvite,/tinvite - Invites a member to your arena team.

  • teamquit - /teamquit,/tquit - Leaves an arena team you are in.

  • teamremove - /teamremove,/tremove - Removes a member of a team you are in from that team.

• Battlegrounds

  • wargame - /wargame,/wg - Starts a War Game.

Blizzard Interface commands

These functions open a part of the Blizzard Interface

• achievements - /ach,/achieve,/achievement,/achievements - Opens the Achievements interface.

• calendar - Opens the Calendar interface.

• guildfinder - /guildfinder,/gf - Opens the Guild Finder tool.

• lfd - /lfd,/df,/dungeonfinder - Opens the Dungeon Finder interface.

• lfr - /lfr,/raidbrowser,/rb,/or,/otherraids - Opens the Raid Browser.

• macro - /macro,/m - Opens the Macro interface.

• stopwatch - /stopwatch,/timer,/sw - Opens the Stopwatch interface.

Chat commands

• afk - /afk,/away - Marks you as "Away From Keyboard".

• announce - /announce,/ann - Toggle channel announcements.

• ban - Bans a user from a user-created chat channel.

• battleground - /battleground,/bg - Sends a chat message to your battleground.

• csay - /c,/csay - Sends chat text to a channel.

• chatinvite - /cinvite,/chatinvite - Invite a user to a user-created chat channel.

• chatlist - /chatlist,/chatwho,/chatinfo - Displays a list of users in a chat channel, or what channels you are currently a member of.

• chatlog - Enables/disables chat logging.

• combatlog - Enables/disables combat logging.

• chathelp - /chat,/chathelp - Displays a list of commonly used chat commands.

• ckick - Kicks a user from a user-created chat channel.

• emote - /emote,/em,/e,/me - Perform an emote with the given text.

• dnd - /dnd,/busy - Marks you as "Do Not Disturb".

• guild - /guild,/g,/gc - Sends a chat message to your guild.

• instance - /instance,/i - Sends a chat message to the group of your instance (raidfinder etc.)

• join - /join,/channel,/chan - Joins or creates a user-created chat channel.

• leave - /leave,/chatleave,/chatexit - Leaves a user-created chat channel.

• moderator - /mod,/moderator - Sets moderation in a user-created chat channel.

• mute - /mute,/squelch,/unvoice - Prevents a user from speaking (voice or text) in a user-created chat channel.

• officer - /officer,/o,/osay - Sends a chat message to your guild's officer channel.

• owner - Displays or changes the owner of a user-created chat channel.

• password - /password,/pass - Sets or removes a password on a user-created chat channel.

• party - /party,/p - Sends a chat message to your party.

• raid - /raid,/rsay - Sends a chat message to your raid.

• raidwarning - /raidwarning,/rw - Sends a raid warning to your raid.

• reply - /r,/reply - Replies to the last user to send you a whisper with a message.

• resetchat - /resetchat - Resets chat settings to default.

• say - /say,/s - Sends a chat message to players in your immediate local area.

• unban - Unbans a user from a user-created chat channel.

• unmoderator - /unmod,/unmoderator - Removes moderation from a user-created chat channel.

• unmute - /unmute,/unsquelch,/voice - Allows a user to speak (voice or text) in a user-created chat channel.

• whisper - /whisper,/w,/tell,/t,/send - Sends a private chat message to a player in a whisper.

• yell - /yell,/y,/sh,/shout - Sends a chat message to all players in your zone.

Character commands

• These commands affect your character's status, social interaction, movement, or actions

• dismount - Dismounts your character

• equip - /equip, /eq - Equip an item to its default slot.

• equipset - /equipset - Change equipped items to a set stored in the Equipment Manager

• equipslot - Equip an item to a specific slot.

• friend - /friend,/friends - Adds a player to your Friends list.

• follow - /f,/follow,/fol - Set yourself to follow the selected target

• ignore - Adds a player to your ignore list

• inspect - /ins,/inspect - Opens the Inspection interface of the selected target.

• leavevehicle - Allows your character to exit their current vehicle.

• randompet - Summons a random companion pet (non-combat pet).

• removefriend - /removefriend,/remfriend - Removes a friend from your friend list.

• settitle - Sets the active title for your character.

• trade - Opens the trade interface with your current target.

• unignore - Removes a player from your ignore list

Emotes

These commands generally cause a character to 'act out' or emote.

May be abreviated to any shorter length, so long as there is no other conflicting command name or abbreviated command name. For example '/congratulate' can be typed as '/cong'.

Key: * does nothing, + has sound, % has unique animation, @ only when mounted (varies by mount)

Combat commands

These functions pertain to combat

• cancelaura - Cancels (turns off) an aura you have.

• cancelqueuedspell - /cancelqueuedspell,/cqs - Cancels casting of the spell you have in the queue.

• cancelform - Cancels your current shapeshift form.

• cast - /cast,/spell,/use - Uses the given item or casts the given spell.

• castglyph - Activates a glyph.

• castrandom - /castrandom,/userandom - Casts a random spell from the given list.

• castsequence - Casts the given spells in sequential order.

• changeactionbar - Changes your current action bar page.

• duel - Challenge another player to a duel

• forfeit - /forfeit,/yield,/concede - Forfeit a duel.

• pvp - Sets whether or not you are attackable by other players.

• startattack - Turns on auto-attack.

• stopattack - Turns off auto-attack.

• stopcasting - Stops casting or channeling.

• swapactionbar - Swaps between two given action bars.

Guild commands

• guilddemote - /gdemote,/guilddemote - Demotes a guild-member.

• guilddisband - /gdisband,/guilddisband - Disbands a guild.

• guildinfo - /ginfo,/guildinfo - Displays information about your guild.

• guildinvite - /ginvite,/guildinvite - Invites a player to join your guild.

• guildleader - /gleader,/guildleader - Makes another guild member the new Guild Master.

• guildquit - /gquit,/guildquit - Removes your character from your current guild.

• guildmotd - /gmotd,/guildmotd - Sets the guild Message of the Day.

• guildpromote - /gpromote,/guildpromote - Promotes a guild member to the next higher rank.

• guildroster - /groster,/guildroster - Opens the Guild window.

• guildremove - /guildremove,/gremove,/gkick - Removes a member of your guild from your guild.

Party and Raid commands

• clearmainassist - /clearmainassist,/clearma,/mainassistoff,/maoff - Clears the current Main Assist.

• clearmaintank - /clearmaintank,/clearmt,/maintankoff,/mtoff - Clears the current Main Tank.

• clearworldmarker - /clearworldmarker,/cwm - Clears world markers

• invite - /inv,/invite - Invites a player to your party or raid.

• ffa - Sets the loot method for your raid/party to Free-For-All.

• group - Sets the loot method for your raid/party to Group Loot.

• master - Sets the loot method for your raid/party to Master Loot.

• mainassist - /mainassist,/ma - Set the main assist.

• maintank - /maintank,/mt - Set the main tank.

• needbeforegreed - Sets the loot method for your raid/party to Need Before Greed.

• promote - /pr,/promote - Promotes the given member to Party or Raid leader.

• raidinfo - Shows you what instances you are saved to, along with the Instance ID.

• readycheck - Performs a ready check in your raid or party.

• roundrobin - Sets the loot method for your raid/party to Round Robin.

• targetmarker - /targetmarker,/tm - Sets or clears a target marker from your current target.

• threshold - Sets the loot threshold to apply loot rules.

• uninvite - /uninvite,/u,/un,/kick,/votekick - Removes a player from your current party or raid.

• worldmarker - /worldmarker,/wm - Allows placement of world markers.

Pet commands

• petassist - Sets pet to assist mode

• petattack - Sends pet to attack currently selected target.

• petautocastoff - Turn off autocast for a pet spell.

• petautocaston - Turn on autocast for a pet spell.

• petautocasttoggle - Toggle autocast for a pet spell.

• petdefensive - Set pet to defensive.

• petfollow - Set pet to follow you.

• petmoveto - Set pet to move to and stay at a hover-targeted location.

• petpassive - Set pet to passive mode.

• petstay - Set pet to stay where it is at.

System commands

• console - Allows user to view or change global client-side options, or perform certain system commands.

• click - Simulate a mouse click on a button.

• disableaddons - Disables all addons and reloads the UI.

• dump - Displays the value of a given variable.

• enableaddons - Enables all addons and reloads the UI.

• eventtrace - /eventtrace,/etrace - Allows the user to trace events in-game.

• framestack - /framestack,/fstack - Allows the user to see all frames under the cursor.

• help - /h,/help,/? - Displays a help message with some basic commands.

• logout - /camp,/logout - Logs your character out of the game, back to the character selection screen.

• macrohelp - Displays a help message with basic information about creating and using macros.

• played - Displays information about your character's time logged in.

• quit - /quit,/exit - Exits the game.

• random - /random,/rand,/rnd,/roll - Generates a random number from 1 to 100. "/random X" rolls a number from 1 to X, "/random X Y" rolls a number from X though Y.

• reload - Reloads the User Interface.

• script - /script,/run - Runs a block of LUA code.

• stopmacro - Stop processing the current macro.

• time - Displays the current time

• timetest - Used for benchmarking, also shows FPS.

• who - Shows you a list of people matching filtering options.

Targeting functions

• assist - /assist,/a - Targets a player's target.

• clearfocus - Clears the current focus target.

• cleartarget - Clears the current target.

• focus - Set a focus target

• target - /target,/tar - Target the given unit by name.

• targetenemy - Target the given hostile unit by name.

• targetenemyplayer - Target the given hostile player by name.

• targetexact - Target the unit by exact name match.

• targetfriend - Target the friendly unit by name.

• targetfriendplayer - Target the friendly player by name.

• targetlastenemy - Target the last attackable unit you had selected.

• targetlastfriend - Target the last friendly unit you had selected.

• targetlasttarget - Target the target of the last unit you had selected.

• targetparty - Target a party member by name.

• targetraid - Target a raid member by name.