Yet Another Healing Macro

[algol]

One thing I seem to be constantly tweaking is my healing macros. Since healing issues are one of the major causes of wipes among noob boxers, I thought I'd share this (*cough* wouldn't know anything about that... :huh: ). This should be good to get most people up and running, possibly good for much longer.

The targeting is a little lazy, but should be fine for PVE or even casual PVP. If desired, it's easy to replace the "/assist NameOfLeader" command with a "/click AssistLeaderMacroButton" statement which relies on keymaps to designate the current leader. Regardless, replace "NameOfLeader" with your leader's name and "Holy Light" with the name of your healing spell.

#showtooltip
/assist NameOfLeader
/cast [target=target,exists,help][target=targettarget,exists,nodead,help][target=player] Holy Light

The macro is relatively simple, yet allows for a certain amount of intelligent casting. It will do the following, in order of decreasing priority.

• If the leader is targeting a friendly unit, heal that unit. This allows on-the-fly heal targets, also concerted use of fast-cast or HoT spells with the right team.
• If the leader is targeting a living hostile unit, heal the mob's target. If you have a tank...hopefully this is your "heal the tank" case.
• If the leader has no target, heal yourself. Good for being AoE'd, many-mob pulls, after-combat cleanup.

Since the targeting functions by first assisting the leader, you can modify this for the lead character by only omitting the /assist line (at that point in the macro, both leaders and followers will have the same state before invoking the /cast command). Or again, use a /click method to invoke an assist macro that works with FTL keymaps.

[Zal]

ARG, confusing. don't know how you figured this macro out, but its a good one

[algol]

ARG, confusing. don't know how you figured this macro out, but its a good one

Practice, mostly. It only looks easy if you know what you're doing, aye?

If something specific was confusing, I'll try to clarify it for you. For TLDR, it does what it says on the tin...er, in the bullets. Sorry if the post is a bit long.