I don’t personally mess with cast sequences, and I actually think it’s best if healers make each macro cast only one spell. Each command line starts with a / just like when you type commands manually. Once you have your name and icon, go into the dialog box and type your commands one per line. I prefer to choose highly individual (and funny) icons for mine, but you can also duplicate the original spell icon, as I will explain below. After a while, your fingers will learn the key binding and you won’t need to look. But you can call it pizza, and believe me, it won’t matter. For example, I use LB for Lifebloom and RJ for Rejuvenation. I usually assign a two-letter code for the spell. To make a basic mouseover macro, go in your character-specific macros window and click “New.” You’ll be prompted to choose a name and an icon for your macro.

Just substitute in your spells of choice! Examples

As a note, I’m using druid spells as examples in this post, but mouseover macros will work for any healer. Mouseover macros let you target a player and cast a spell in just one movement. This is a very slow process that requires you to move your hand not once but twice. With the standard, unmodified interface, healing is a 3-step process: 1) decide who to heal, 2) left click to target her, and 3) click the spell on your action bar or press the keystroke bound to it. It replaces tab or click targeting as a quick way to pick up heal targets. Mouseover what?Ī mouseover macro is a series of commands that lets you press a single button (on either your keyboard or your mouse) to heal the target that your mouse pointer is currently hovering over. Here’s a short guide to my preferred UI-altering technique: the mouseover macro. I thought the explanation might benefit the community as a whole, especially as many of us are cleaning up our UIs in an attempt to be faster and more accurate once Ulduar hits.

One of my buddies from Conquest, the resto-shamantastic Catrii, asked me a question this week about setting up mouseover macros.

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