![]() #showtooltip Solar Wrath displays the Solar Wrath icon and tooltip no matter what. This allows me to set the boss as my focus target and DPS without switching targets from whomever I’m healing. These macros are commonly used for crowd control abilities and interrupts, but I also use them for my DPS abilities as a healer. Finally, if you don’t have a friendly target either, it will cast it on yourself.Ī focus target macro casts an ability on whatever you have set as your focus target (target something and type /focus in chat to set one). If you don’t have a mouseover target, will cast it on your current friendly target instead. cast Nature's will cast Nature’s Cure on your friendly mouseover target. I personally use a mouseover macro for my my dispel abilities, such as Nature's Cure. No need to click to target first! Some players, healers in particular, go as far as having all or most of their spells used through mouseover macros. Mouseover macros allow you to use an ability on a player or enemy by having your mouse cursor over their physical character, raid frame, or nameplate. Now we’ll build on this basic macro concept! You can either type it out yourself or Shift+Click on a spell in your spellbook while editing a macro to automatically put the name in. Rejuvenation is the name of whatever spell you want to cast. Other common options include harm (to cast on enemies) and dead (to cast on something that’s dead). This prevents you from trying to cast on an enemy by mistake and getting errors telling you that you can’t do that. Other common options you’ll use are to cast on yourself, to cast on the entity your mouse cursor is over, and to cast on whatever you have set as your /focus target.Įxists,nodead,help tells the macro to only cast the spell on your target if it exists, is not dead ( nodead), and is a friendly player ( help). You can technically omit this part for casting things on your current target, but we’ll be doing some more advanced things with it below, so it’s nice to have. Another common one is /use if you’re going to be telling the macro to use a trinket, potion, or other tells the macro to cast the spell on your current target. cast tells the macro that you’re going to be using a spell or ability. This means there’s no need to manually select the icon from the list, and you can have macros with automatically changing icons if you have multiple abilities and criteria in them. #showtooltip causes the macro to take on the icon and tooltip of whatever ability will be used if you activated the macro. This macro is pointless to use because it does the same thing as having the normal spell on your action bar, but I thought it would work well to explain some basic macro pieces that we’ll build on later. You can leave a comment at the bottom of this page or tweet Basic Macro Partsīelow is a basic macro that casts a spell on your current target. I've used Restoration Druid spells as examples, but you can substitute your own spells in.įeedback and macro ideas are always appreciated. Below are some common macro types that can be applied to nearly any class and spec. Macros allow you to refine your playstyle and spell usage without installing an addon. Updated 4 years, 4 months ago for patch 9.1.0 by Preston.
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