So I’m playing Holy and I’m noticing that whenever I switch from attacking an enemy to casting word of glory, my auto-attacks stop. Is there a way that I can keep auto-attacking the enemy while I’m using instant healing spells on my allies? I know one solution would be to use mouseover macros, but I personally don’t like them.
Correct me if I am wrong, but this is just how the game works. That said you should start autoattacking again right after you crusader strike. A few missed auto attacks isnt the end of the world.
I know you said you dont like them but I highly recommend a mouseover macro, if only for holy shock. Its made things alot easier for me personally and I held off doing it for a decade. You can also set it up to just use the button your using regularly for it and keep doing it the same way you have been but with the added option of just hovering over and slamming the button.
Unfortunately, it just isn’t compatible with my playstyle.
There’s no way to truly do what you want outside of mouseover healing. I prefer using the addon Clique over a regular mouseover macro as the game’s mouseover macros can not distinguish between your cursor being over a frame or being over a player. This makes them clunky and annoying and leads to accidentally casting things when your cursor is over a players model. Using Clique lets you bind keys to only mouseover heal when your cursor is over the frame, which prevents annoying issues if you use the same key for different things depending on if your cursor is over a frame or not (but lets you avoid mouesover casting on a players model if you don’t want to do that).
It’s really not that difficult to get used to if your current style is to left click and then press a button. You just press the button while your cursor is over the frame instead of left clicking first and get to skip the left click.
The closest you could come outside of doing it that way is making macros to rapidly change your target back to an enemy and start attacking again. You still will miss some auto attacks because you’re going to stop swinging any time you change targets, but you may miss fewer ones.
You could macro targeting the nearest enemy into your CS or something like:
/cleartarget
/targetenemy [noexists][dead]
/startattack
/cast Crusader Strike
Didn’t test it in-game but I think that would target the nearest enemy, start auto attacking and possibly crusader strike if it’s off cd. You could leave that part out if you just wanted to start attacking.
You could also do something like target the last target and then start attacking
/targetlasttarget used to be a command but I’m not sure if that still works. You might have to look that up if you wanted to do that.
I didn’t realize I could use Clique for this purpose. I’ll look into it, thanks!
No problem. By default, if you just bind a key to an ability in clique, it will only cast when over a frame (which is what I prefer). You have to actually turn hovercast on as an option for that keybind if you want it to also heal when over a players model (which is then how the games mouseover macros work).