In Dragonflight, WoW implemented a Click Casting feature that only allows binding mouseover spells to LMB, RMB, MMB, Button4, Button5. It allows the full use of modifiers (SHIFT, CTRL, ALT) and combinations of modifiers as well.
It does not allow the use of any other keys. Many healers use a “MMO mouse” with 12 side buttons. These side buttons are not bound to any of the aforementioned allowed buttons and are typically bound to regular “keyboard buttons”.
I do not understand why there is a limitation on which buttons on my mouse I can and cannot bind spells to in the Click Casting interface.
Addons like Clique (which clearly inspired Click Casting) support binding spells to any key.
As WoW: Midnight approaches with a goal of moving addon functionality into the base game to alleviate the need for excess addons, I would ask that the dev team kindly remove the current limitation in the Click Casting interface and allow any key to be bound.
I see threads asking for mouse wheel support for this as well which also sounds reasonable. I cannot think of any good reason why any such key limitation should exist in this interface. I believe this would be a very simple change that would have a large impact, and further reduce the need for additional addons in WoW: Midnight.
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they also don’t allow for spells like “Nature’s Cure” to be used by healers. so we can’t cleans debuffs with the built in
I wanted to add another +1 with a specific healer use-case.
I’ve moved off VuhDo/Clique to use the built-in Click Casting (which is awesome), but the current limitation to LMB/RMB/MMB/Button4/Button5 makes it impossible to use many MMO mouse side buttons as actual mouse buttons, because they’re commonly mapped to keyboard keys (1–=, F-keys, etc.).
With Midnight continuing the direction of bringing addon functionality into the base UI, are there any plans to expand Click Casting to allow any key input (keyboard keys and mouse wheel, plus modifiers) to be bound? Even just supporting “mouse wheel up/down” and/or “additional mouse buttons beyond Button5” would help a lot.
This would be a huge QoL/accessibility win for healers and would further reduce reliance on click-cast addons. Thanks for considering.
Unitframes don’t eat keyboard buttons like they have mouse buttons so you can just enable the mouseover casting feature and put those keys on buttons like you normally would. If you don’t want them on your in-game bars there’s addons like BindPad that have let you bind them directly in the past but I haven’t confirmed that it’s working for Midnight.
Blizz’s Click-casting is specifically for mouse buttons because they weren’t able to be bound in a way that let them interact with unitframes prior (without the use of addons).