Automatic Spell Redirection?

Nezralix · 05/09/07, 3:17 PM

Is there some mod that will automatically redirect harmful spells to my target's target if my target is friendly, and helpful spells to the TT if my target is an enemy? I would generally prefer not to have to create macros for each of my skills, but I've not heard of anything that accomplishes this sort of thing otherwise.

Maax · 05/11/07, 6:42 AM

Originally Posted by Nezralix

Is there some mod that will automatically redirect harmful spells to my target's target if my target is friendly, and helpful spells to the TT if my target is an enemy? I would generally prefer not to have to create macros for each of my skills, but I've not heard of anything that accomplishes this sort of thing otherwise.

I believe mods are not allowed to make those kinds of decisions anymore, but as you said, it can be done with macros (here are the ones I use):

Helpful spells:

#showtooltip Lifebloom
/cast [target=target,help] Lifebloom; [target=targettarget,help] Lifebloom; [target=player] Lifebloom

Harmful spells:

#showtooltip Moonfire
/cast [harm] Moonfire; [target=targettarget, harm] Moonfire

tr33hugger · 05/11/07, 8:47 AM

This would be similar do how assisting works in Everquest. You take a Boss in your target, press a heal, and heal whatever has aggro at that moment. You pick a friendly player in your target, and nuke whatever he nukes. Would be really neat to have this option in WoW w/o macroing every single ability.
I would love it.

• Chicken · 05/11/07, 8:51 AM

I think something like it might still be possible; the way it'd work is that it would automatically set up invisible macros like Maax's above on each of your action buttons depending on if it's a harmful or helpful spell. As far as I'm aware that's possible; though you would become incapable of replacing spells mid-combat by doing so.

Apate · 05/11/07, 11:15 AM

Hmm...some action bar mods have macrotext attributes for each bar, I think. How does this work? I think Bartender3 has it.

Something like MarsBar might be slightly easier to create the bars you want than making a lot of macros, but it takes a little bit of learning on its own.

Ignayshus · 05/16/07, 6:40 PM

Look up Mecaire's Macrotexter. I do not know when last he updated it, but he took the simple idea of macroing individual spells to make use of implicit targetting, and created an addon that did it automatically for all your spells, without having to setup individual macros.

It was pretty impressive, but I still like to macro all of mine, because it's just faster and I get greater detailed action if I just macro each one myself.