In the good old days it was possible to fake mouse clicks by using the MiniMap: PingLocation() method. If the minimap was configured to rotate it was possible to cast AoE spells like Rain of Fire 10 yards in front of an alt with a macro. Unfortunately this was "fixed" by Blizzard half a year ago and doesn't work anymore.

Another way to is to broadcast mouse clicks to the alt windows. It works fine if the windows are visible on the screen, but I play with all alt windows minimized and there seems to be no way to fake a mouse click in a minimized WoW client window.

I gave up on this when the MiniMap: PingLocation() workaround stopped working and haven't used any ranged AoE spells since then, but I want to give it another try now.

Does anyone know any trick to use ranged AoE spells in a macro?