How to Share a Map Pin in WoW Retail

Open the world map and Ctrl+left-click the spot you want to mark. Then Shift+left-click the pin to put a clickable link into chat. That's the fastest way to send a party member to the right entrance or meeting point in World of Warcraft Retail. You can also share a map pin outside the game using the /mappin command copied by the client.

Drop a pin in the right zone

1. Open the world map with M if you're using the default keyboard binding.
2. Zoom or navigate to the zone you want to mark. Check its name before placing the pin, particularly when you are looking at a neighboring zone or different map level.
3. Hold Ctrl and left-click the spot. A diamond marks the pin. You can also use the map's pin button and then click to place it.
4. Click the pin normally if you want to focus it and follow the navigation marker on your HUD.

Place the pin on the point where someone should actually go. If your group is gathering at a cave, mark the mouth of the cave and say that it's the entrance. A pin over the middle of the cave's footprint can send someone to the top of a hill with no obvious way down. Likewise, if the route starts at a bridge or a path around a wall, mark that approach instead of expecting everyone to travel directly to the destination.

Send the pin to your group

Open chat in the channel you want to use, such as Party or a whisper. Hold Shift and left-click the diamond on the map. Check that the chat box contains a clickable map link, add a short label if the meeting point needs context, then send the message. For example, write “Meet at the lower entrance” next to the pin if there are two entrances close together.

The recipient can click the link to open the map at the marked location. If they're trying to follow the direction marker after opening it, ask them to focus the pin on the map. For a new group, give people a moment to follow the link before moving the party. If someone ends up at a different elevation, send a landmark or direction; the marker is a point on the map, not a route around terrain.

A map pin works better than a minimap ping if you're sharing a destination for later. It also gives players who aren't looking at the map at that exact moment a link they can revisit in chat. If the destination changes, send the new link and say which one is current.

Share a pin in Discord or a note

The Retail client can copy a /mappin slash command when you Shift-click the pin. After clicking it, paste into a text field outside the game to see the command. Send the entire line, including the leading slash and all of the arguments supplied by the client.

The other player pastes that line into WoW's chat input and presses Enter. The game creates the pin and opens the map to it. A pasted bracketed chat label on its own doesn't carry the same information, so use the actual command if the destination is going into a Discord message or a saved note. If you copy something else after clicking the pin, Shift-click the pin again before pasting.

Fix the pin or remove it when you're done

If Ctrl-click doesn't create a pin, use the pin button on the map and try again. If Shift-click doesn't add the link, verify that you're clicking the diamond you placed rather than an existing quest icon. Check the chat box before sending; it's easy to submit a message without the pin when you use the wrong modifier.

If you put the pin in the wrong place, Ctrl-click the pin to clear it, then place a new one. Click the new pin to make sure the marker points where you expect before you send it. If a recipient sees a different zone from the one you intended, compare the map title and generate the link again from the correct map.

Try this once with a friend before using it to coordinate a group: pin a visible landmark, share it in a whisper, and ask them to say what appears on their map. You'll learn both where the client puts the link and how it looks when someone opens it.