First, I like to put something near the middle of the screen to remind me of my primary short-cooldown abilities. The “PowerAuras” addon, can be configured to show nifty icons based on buffs or abilities being off cooldown. Or use a bar mod like Bartender or Dominoes to move a small bar near to the middle of the screen so you an see the cooldowns. Power auras is a little too complicated for me, so I use Dominoes to show a small six-button bar that shows Shield Slam, Revenge, Devastate, Concussion Blow, Shockwave, and Thunder Clap. That, combined with OmniCC for cooldowns is pretty good. Plus Sword and Board and Revenge procs do have audio and visual cues.

Second, I do use a few macros but as I said, I can’t stand /castrandom so what I do is combine abilities that don’t use the global cooldown with related cooldown abilities. Currently, I have Shield Block/Shield Slam, Revenge/Heroic Strike (glyph of revenge makes this one awesome), Charge/Devastate, Thunder Clap/Use Trinkets, and Charge/Taunt. The nice thing about this is that while the abilities are on cooldown, the non-GCD abilities are still available for use, so I’m mostly using three buttons for my usual threat cycle. ( SB/SS, Dev, Rev/HS) I just keep everything on my six-button mini bar on cooldown (TC only for AOE) and hit my Rev/HS button regularly when I want to dump rage with HS. It’s not spamming abilities, but it’s mindless enough that I can pay attention to what’s happening around me. I guess it’s a bit more complicated than the two /castrandom macros, but it adds a little more control that I feel I need.