Question about healing

[Rowdysattva]

First let me reassure you i have read the general macro section on wiki and that shaman macro section and i have read the wowwiki on macros as well. I am still stuck. I have played around a lot and have some odd experience to share.
I want to have a macro that says (and i want it to work)

/cast [target=mouseover] Healing Wave
/cast [target=mouseover, mod:shift] Lesser Healing Wave

I have bound the macro key to "V" on my keyboard. The first part of the macro works beautifully, when i mouseover and hit V it "healing waves" but when i hold down shift and hit V it does "nothing" I have found that if i don't have the key bound to my keyboard and then i click it and heal it will "healing wave" and if i hold down shift and click it then it will "lesser healing wave". I don't want to have to click though. I want my mouse free for movement and mousing over and all that good stuff.

I can have two macros on bound to V and one bound to Shift:V but that seems ineloquent and it is a bunch of extra buttons. I am on a mac and using clonekey (i don't think that is relevant but there it is).

How can i have a macro with modifiers in it and have that macro bound to a key and not have to click.

One more aside... i have checked and there are no other default keybinds that are jamming it up. I have unbound most of that defaults and only kept what i know and want to be there.

Thanks

P.S.
If this post goes in a different spot let me know.

[Jaese]

/cast [target=mouseover]Healing Wave;[target=mouseover][mod:shift]Lesser Healing Wave

[Rowdysattva]

I actually just copied and pasted your macro help (thanks for posting some help btw) but it still isn't working. When i hit V it works fine. When i hit shift and V noting happens. I get no message or feedback whatsoever, besides nothing happening.

;(

[Parsous]

These macros are working as intended. You are hitting V and it is executing the first item in the macro because it meets the conditions specified. Put the spell with the modifier first or use the no modifier conditional to prevent it from casting Healing Wave.

[Rowdysattva]

The trouble is that the below macro isn't working at all

/cast [mod:shift][target=mouseover] Lesser Healing Wave

And this one doesn't work either

/cast [mod:shift, target=mouseover] Lesser Healing Wave

If i hold down the shift key and then click the icon it will work... but if i hit the shift and V button it does not. If i hit the shift and then the V button it still doesn't work.

[Rowdysattva]

bear with me here. I am trying to figure this out.

So this macro does work.

/cast [mod:alt, target=mouseover] Lesser Healing Wave

And if i put in "ctrl" for "alt" it still works but if i put in "shift" it doesn't work.

What the heck can that be? Is my keyboard broke? I went through my keybinds and unbound everything that has any relevance to shift and it i still screwed up.

??

[Jaese]

If it works with the other mods but not with shift, you have something bound to Shift+V (default is friendly character pane toggle).

[Rowdysattva]

I also got some help from the Wow forums and they said to try this out

/cast [mod:shift,target=mouseover,help,nodead] Lesser Healing Wave; [target=mouseover,help,nodead] Healing Wave



When i bind this to my B key it works perfectly... and my H key and others. I left my other macro bound to V with its odd behavior of working with alt and ctrl but not shift.


Then i bound the above macro to V and it didn't work. And then i changed the modifier to alt or ctrl and it works with V.


So V and shift can't go together?


What in the world would this be?

[Rowdysattva]

I was also told that trinity bars can screw things up... anyone know about this?

I know that it had my autoloot bound to shift by default but i changed that.

[Rowdysattva]

I will ask this here so as not to create a new post and the question is related.

My mod keys (alt, ctrl, and shift) are right now used by actually pressing those keys. Is there a way i can bind them to some extra buttons on a mouse? The placement of those buttons on the keyboard is a pain for fast and comfortable mods. If i could have them on my mouse it would solve everything. I want to use my shift so much cause it is the easiest and most comfortable key to press while getting at another key.

[Jaese]

Your mouse should have come with software to bind functions/keys to the buttons.

Not sure if Mac natively supports that.

[Rowdysattva]

I will have to try out a new mouse. The regular "super" mouse that comes with mac has a function where you can change what is bound to its buttons... but not keyboard keys... only application que-ups.

Tomorrow... a new mouse.

[mitoshy]

If it works with the other mods but not with shift, you have something bound to Shift+V (default is friendly character pane toggle).
I'm not at a PC with WoW at the moment.. however I do recall some sort of functionality within WoW for self casting. Many bar mods as well as some others also have this functionality, I suspect something like this is messing with you.