I was having a discussion of tips for a new druid healer and mentioned my use of Mouseover macros. It then occurred to me that not everyone knows what a mouseover macro is, so… This post was born.

First, I’ll tell you how they work. I move my mouse over a person’s grid frame or their character in game, hit the key for the heal I want to cast and it heals them. No Mouse click necessary. No Focus target necessary. No target at all necessary.

This allows me to target the main tank, heal whomever I move my mouse over, and if I don’t have my mouse over anyone, it heals the tank.

It also allows me to target the boss, mouse over anyone I want to heal, and watch the boss’s target to preemptively heal whomever might be getting whatever damage the boss throws out. In this situation, if my mouse isn’t over anyone, It’ll heal me. This is very much the same as if I have no target at all. If my mouse is on blank space, it will heal me.

So, here’s how I have my macros set up:

/#showtooltip Lifebloom

/cast [target=mouseover,exists][] Lifebloom

or,

/#showtooltip Regrowth(Rank 10)

/cast [target=mouseover,exists][] Regrowth(Rank 10)

So, what does all of this do?

/#showtooltip Spellname shows the icon and the tooltip of the spell you have in there, rather han just showing the name of the macro.

/cast. Well that’s obvious, right?

[target=mouseover,exists], that tells me to cast on the target that I have my mouse over. The exists part pretty much says, “If that mouseover target exists, target it, otherwise, cast on my target, if that exists, otherwise, cast on me.

Regrowth(Rank 10): is obviously the spell, and the rank I want to cast. you can use any spell, and any rank.

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