/stopcasting then heal help.

[QuantumX]

Guys,

Atm i'm levelling so i'm not using a dedicated healer therefore i use a /stopcasting macro..

its pretty basic setup atm with my elemenatal shaman using lightning bolt and elemental mastery. so currently i use to use the following macro

/stopcasting
/cast [player=focus] Healing Wave

However i found it unreliable quite often so i changed too

/stopcasting lightning bolt
/cast [player=focus] Healing Wave

Seems better again sometimes messes up. Is there a better easier way to override a damage spell to force the character to stop what they are doing and cast the heal?

your help would be appreciated.

[Bettysue]

anything after the g in stopcasting is ignored by wow, there is no way to specifiy which spell is stopped.

The unreliability you're seeing is most likely the fact that you are spamming the hell out of the button and stopping the heal as well.
Stopcasting is a curse at times you just have to train yourself to only whack the button once to save someone.

Another way that may work for you, and worked for me in the past was to make a macro solely for the purpose of stopping a cast then bind it to something and spam the separate heal button. This will most likely help you in those panic moments.

[Whowantstoknow]

In my dps spam macro I use

/stopmacro [target=mouseover,help]
/dps macro goes here

as I do all of my healing via unit frame clicking

I tend to try not to use /stopcasting in spam macros and reserve it for emergency heal buttons eg natures swiftness + healing wave

[Ogloo]

yeah lool it sucks when u see the tank dieing or w/e then u spam stop cast and u never heal lol..

i tried /stop cast , but loll i coulnt just press it once, so i went back lol

[Bettysue]

dirty solution to the spam thing, not quite sure how to pass the target to alts though. Gimme a bit more time I'm sure something will come to mind.

DPS pseudo-macro

/click [target=mouseover,help] healmacrobutton
/cast dps of doom spell

heal pseudo-macro on that button you told it to click in the DPS macro

/stopcasting
/cast heal of infinite help spell

[QuantumX]

hm thanks for the suggestions and comments.

I'm using ISBoxer now, which i like far more then my last software.

One thing i know is IS boxer can be used to create clicking areas for heals not really up on it but perhaps i should look more into that.

[Fizzler]

hm thanks for the suggestions and comments.

I'm using ISBoxer now, which i like far more then my last software.

One thing i know is IS boxer can be used to create clicking areas for heals not really up on it but perhaps i should look more into that.

Mouse Region is easy donuts with ISBoxer.

Shift Alt G - opens up the repeater config.

Select what clients you want to pass the mouse click to for my healer he is slot 2. So I drop down slot 2 add the region.. move it to the section of the screen resize it and save it to the Auto and Shift Alt G to close.. all done.

[QuantumX]

Mouse Region is easy donuts with ISBoxer.

Shift Alt G - opens up the repeater config.

Select what clients you want to pass the mouse click to for my healer he is slot 2. So I drop down slot 2 add the region.. move it to the section of the screen resize it and save it to the Auto and Shift Alt G to close.. all done.

OK, sounds easy but is there an idiots guide to setting up repeater region somewhere?

[QuantumX]

hmmm "SHIFT + ALT + G" does nothing ingame for me..

Lol i did not have it enabled in my character set... right to to try to get healbot to work with it.

[QuantumX]

Right this rep[eater stuff is not simply lol.. how to do make sure its in the same position on each screen.. seems not to work, and healbot might not be for me..

Bascially i want to use repeater regions to send heam requests to my 2 x shaman from my tank paladin, which i'm directly controlling...

seems this repeater thing is not as simple as it seems.