I was wondering about Mage specialization AoE abilities such as Blizzard or Flamestrike. The comparison this is coming from is Elemental Sham & Shadow Priest, they recently got talented versions of their respective abilities Earthquake and Shadow Crash. They can choose whether it casts with a destination ring or at a target. I know this would create a talent that Frost or Fire might not have room for but in particular Fire casts Flamestrike so often that this seems like a must for this ability. I know Shaman and S Priest where recent changes but this one couldn’t come sooner if planned.
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Waiting for this change every day.
Idk about Shadow Crash, but to my understanding, Earthquake can be cast at target without the talent using Mouserover Cast in options and an @target macro; the talent is just so people don’t have an advantage because they have macros.
For Blizzard/Flamestrike/Meteor assigning them to mouseover casting is disabled. While Comet is cast at target only?
The point to take away though is: Blizzard has specifically chosen to not have Blizzard/Flamestrike/Meteor cast at target. And it is largely hated by mages from what I’ve seen.
just do a @mouse macro
@target macro does not exist for any ground-targeted ability, you can only use @player (casts at your feet), or @cursor (casts at current mouse location).
I tried playing with @cursor for a while and found it to be horrible: without the targeting reticle to see where the spell will land, it can be extremely difficult to predict where the cursor is actually pointing to on the ground except in specific situations like the terrain is very even and your camera is zoomed out pointed toward the ground. Just very unreliable in general.
This is especially important because a shadow priest’s entire AoE is designed around shadow crash, so if you miss that ability, you’re locked out of doing AoE for 20 seconds without manually applying dots individually to each mob. At least with flame strike it’s not as crucial, you just whiff one spell.
Yeah, I think I was mistaken. @cursor is the macro. And I agree that it’s very misleading sometimes. There is an option for making target bars not overlap that makes it “better”. At the end of the day, making it cast at target properly for all specs is just the real fix.