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Mouseover macros for healing: the ultra-terse guide.

For Trax’s new pugging priest, here’s my compact guide to mouseover macros for the whole family.

This is the macro template to use:

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help][help][@focus,help][@player] Spellname

The conditionals specify heal target priority. The first helpful unit the macro encounters in the list will get the heal cast on it. This macro’s priority list is: mouseover, regular target, focus, player. You can change the order of the bracket clauses to suit your needs. (Though mouseover should always be first, or there’s no point.)

Make a macro from this template for every targeted healing spell you use. Put it on a bar or bind it to a key. Voila! You’re now an efficient mouseover healer.

If you like to use modifier keys to change which spells you cast, use this tragically verbose template:

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,mod:shift][help,mod:shift][@focus,help,mod:shift][@player,mod:shift] Spell1
/cast [@mouseover,help][help][@focus,help][@player] Spell2

Valid arguments for mod are shift, alt, and ctrl.

You probably have some nifty cooldowns that you’d like to use sometimes for emergency healing. The abilities usually do not trigger global cooldowns, so you can macro them together with other spells. For instance, the typical druid instant-big-heal macro looks like this:

#showtooltip
/cast Nature's Swiftness
/cast [@mouseover,help][help][@focus,help][@player]Healing Touch

Macroing trinkets into spellcasts:

#showtooltip Spellname
/use 13
/cast Spellname

13 is the slot for the top trinket. To activate your bottom trinket, use slot 14 instead.

As always, I recommend pasting macros into Fitzcairn’s Macro Explain-o-Matic to check syntax before you try them in-game.