Creating a Hover Debuff Macro (how to l2play post-Decursive)Follow

Mouseover casting was already possible. And yes, those are nice macro's, but you can expand on them. Your basic macro was:

/cast [target=mouseover,exists] Remove Curse

Now, what this does is when you hold your mouse over someone's frame, you remove curse from that person. But what if you don't hold your mouse over someone's frame. Wouldn't it be easy if you did it on your target then? So we do:

/cast [target=mouseover,exists] Remove Curse; [exists] Remove Curse

Keep in mind that if you don't provide a target, it defaults to target=target. Simple enough, right? Only, this should only affect friendlies, so:

/cast [target=mouseover,help] Remove Curse; [help] Remove Curse

But what if you're not hovering over a friendly and not targeting a friendly? Now say you're fighting a boss that's debuffing the MT, and you got the boss selected a lot. You could add:

/cast [target=mouseover,help] Remove Curse; [help] Remove Curse; [target=targettarget,help] Remove Curse

Now if the boss has the MT targeted, and you have the boss targeted, and not hovering over someone's frame, you try to remove the curse of the boss' target. Now assume that sometimes you're walking around by yourself and got a curse from one place or another. You wanna get rid of it, so you wanna cast it on yourself. Then we simply add:

/cast [target=mouseover,help] Remove Curse; [help] Remove Curse; [target=targettarget,help] Remove Curse; [target=player] Remove Curse

Now the above macro does the following: If your mouse hover over a friendly unit's frame, you try to decurse him. If it doesn't, but you got a friendly target selected, you try to decurse your target. Now if your target is not friendly, you try to decurse your target's target. Now assume there is no target's target, or it's not friendly, then whaddaya know, you try to Decurse yourself :)

By the way, I see Shaman as some kind of green on your screenshot. I thought they used to be pink like Paladins. Was I just misconcepted and were they always green? Or did they change them this patch, since Paladins and Shamans can be on the same side now?

Edited, Dec 8th 2006 4:13pm by ThelsDeKwant

:Insert frowny face here: Yes! Shamans got changed to this teal color that is VERY similar to mages and I don't like it. I suppose the reason is so that it won't conflict with Paladins as you said.

Abolish and Cure Disease use the same amount of mana, so no need for 2 macros. Just use Abolish.

Dispel Magic is a little more tricky, since you should also be able to cast it on enemy targets, so either it looks like:

/cast [target=mouseover,help] Dispel Magic; [exist] Dispel Magic; [target=player] Dispel Magic

Which makes you lose out on the target's target casting. Or, you write one Dispel Magic for curing and one for offensive dispelling. The curing goes just like the Remove Curse I posted, the offensive dispelling could be something like:

/cast [target=focus,harm] Dispel Magic; [harm] Dispel Magic

This makes it cast on your focus, if your focus contains a harmful creature. If it doesn't it'll try to dispel your target.



Not exactly true. Cure Disease only works if the target has a disease. You cannot overcure with Cure Disease. Abolish Disease aways works, even if someone else already cured the disease and might cause a waste of mana. Also, in emergency calls, you might need more dispelling than once per 5 seconds.

Bump. I'd like to see this stay on Page 1 through the weekend.

Webjunky posted a good summary.

Here it is again with some rewording:


First, create the "decurse macro" such as:

/cast [target=mouseover, exists, help] Cure Poison

Replace Cure Poison with the applicable spell name (i.e. Dispel Magic, Remove Curse).

Second, place the macro on your action bar. Now, you just need to hover the mouse over the your target and press the hotkey for the macro. This macro works with CTRA, Blizzard Party and Blizzard Raid UI.

bump!

Everyone should have learned how to play pre-Decursive.