Stanceedit

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A stance is a position that a character can occupy that enables or disables certain abilities. Stances most commonly refer to warrior stances. In macros and some action bar add-ons, a stance also refers to forms that non-warrior classes can take, such as Stealth, Shadowform, and Moonkin Form. "Form" is a synonym for "stance" in macros. They function exactly the same.

Macro Stance Numbers

WarriorDruidPriestRogueShamanWarlock
Stance 1 Battle Bear or Dire Bear Shadowform Stealth Ghost Wolf
Stance 2 Defensive Aquatic Demon Form
Stance 3 Berserker Cat
Stance 4 Travel
Stance 5 Moonkin or Tree of Life
Stance 6 Flight or Swift Flight

Excluding warriors, "nostance" in macros refers to your default form.

If a druid does not have the talent for Moonkin nor Tree of Life, Stance 5 is Flight Form or Swift Flight Form.

Note that a druid can have only one of Moonkin or Tree of Life talent at this time. Tree of Life Form is a 41 point investment in the Restoration Druid talent tree. Moonkin Form is a 31 point investment in the Balance Druid talent tree. At level 80, a character is able to have 71 talent points. This is one short of allowing both of the forms to be taken.

Warrior stances

Some warrior abilities require a specific stance. For example, Intercept only works in Berserker Stance. Changing stance will cause a warrior to lose all their rage. At level 20, warriors can train Stance Mastery from any warrior trainer, which lets them retain 10 rage. This can be further increased to 25 rage with 3 points in Tactical Mastery.