Need help with creating a smart nuke/heal focus macro

[echo]

Hello all!

I am trying to make a macro which will nuke the focus by default; but one that will cast a heal on the focus' target if I were to hold down a modifier key like control or shift.

(so for example, when I hit key #5, it will cast a nuke, but if I were to hold down control + 5, then it would cast a flash heal. and maybe if I held down shift + 5, then cast a greater heal)

If someone is able to help me, it would be greatly appreciated. I have tried to do this myself but so far the system only recognizes the default keypress, and when I used the modifier: shift option, nothing happened. I copied and pasted it from a separate smart heal macro I found from here, which works well. But for some reason when I copied it into my new macro, it just wouldnt work. (got a "this spell is not ready" message, only it kept giving me that message no matter how many times I pressed it.)

Thank you in advance for your time and have a great day!

[maqz]

Could you post the macro you have tried? Something like this maybe.

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift,target=focustarget,help] Heal; [mod:ctrl,target=focustarget,help] Other Heal; [target=focus] Nuke

A few possible problems:
1. Spelling errors.
2. Make sure the spells with modifiers comes first in the macro.
3. You could have shift+5 bound to something else already.
4. Sometimes there are problems when cutting and pasting. Maybe some tabs or spaces at the end of a line that you can't see.

[echo]

Thank you for your help maqz!!

This is the macro that I tried to make

#showtooltip
/cast [target=focus, nodead, harm] lightning bolt
/cast [target=focus, noharm, nodead] lesser healing wave
/cast [target=focus, noharm, nodead, modifier:ctrl] healing wave
/cast [target=focus, noharm, nodead, modifier:shift] Cure disease

and it works just fine with the default keypresses, but when i tried to use the modifier keys nothing would happen.

Thank you very much for the info about putting modifiers first though. so if i were to shift the order of my macro to something like this


#showtooltip
/cast [target=focus, noharm, nodead, modifier:ctrl] healing wave
/cast [target=focus, noharm, nodead, modifier:shift] Cure disease

/cast [target=focus, nodead, harm] lightning bolt
/cast [target=focus, noharm, nodead] lesser healing wave

then it should work? Thank you again for taking time out to help me. Really appreciate it!

[Djarid]

you don't need to change the order if you use the nomodifier option

but why not try this

/cast [target=focus, nodead, harm] lightning bolt; [target=focus, help, nodead,nomodifer] lesser healing wave; [target=focus, help, nodead, modifier:ctrl] healing wave; [target=focus,help, nodead, modifier:shift] Cure disease

which is just

/cast [target=focus, nodead, harm] lightning bolt
/cast [target=focus, help, nodead,nomodifer] lesser healing wave
/cast [target=focus, help, nodead, modifier:ctrl] healing wave
/cast [target=focus,help, nodead, modifier:shift] Cure disease

on one line

Note that noharm is not the same as help.

from WowWiki

help & harm

The [help] condition is true when the unit can receive a beneficial effect, e.g., a healing spell. The [harm] condition is true when the unit would get an adverse effect, e.g., a damaging spell.

[maqz]

Also, you said you wanted to cast the healing spells on the target of the focus. That would be [target=focustarget].

[Moxy]

Thank you for your help maqz!!

This is the macro that I tried to make

#showtooltip
/cast [target=focus, nodead, harm] lightning bolt
/cast [target=focus, noharm, nodead] lesser healing wave
/cast [target=focus, noharm, nodead, modifier:ctrl] healing wave
/cast [target=focus, noharm, nodead, modifier:shift] Cure disease

and it works just fine with the default keypresses, but when i tried to use the modifier keys nothing would happen.

Thank you very much for the info about putting modifiers first though. so if i were to shift the order of my macro to something like this


#showtooltip
/cast [target=focus, noharm, nodead, modifier:ctrl] healing wave
/cast [target=focus, noharm, nodead, modifier:shift] Cure disease

/cast [target=focus, nodead, harm] lightning bolt
/cast [target=focus, noharm, nodead] lesser healing wave

then it should work? Thank you again for taking time out to help me. Really appreciate it!

For your macro to work, you would have to put the modifier lines first. Otherwise, no matter what modifier you hold, the first line will still flag as true.

[echo]

Thanks for the help everyone I really appreciate you all taking the time out to help me. I'm going to go login and try out all the suggestions now. Thanks once again and have a great weekend!