I’m trying to use a mouseover macro to apply the blistering scales buff to the tank in keys because it is easier than having a target macro and remembering to change the target to the tanks name every key since I only pug on this toon.
Unfortunately, it only has about a 50/50 chance of applying it to me regardless of whether I hover over the tank’s party hp bar or on the tank’s actual character model. The only time it has a 100% chance of working is when I target the tank and hover over the target hp bar.
There is also no noticeable difference between whether I am refreshing the spell or applying it brand new. I am also certain that I am within the spell’s 25 yard range because I often was standing within melee range.
During my last key I made sure that my mouse was actually hovering the tank or its hp bar before I press my keybind for the spell and I am certain that it was because my tooltip would show the tank’s info. Despite this, it was still a dice roll as to whether it worked or not.
The macro is very basic and works for every other similar helpful spell in the game without issues for many, many years across a wide variety of classes/specs that I have played:
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover] Blistering Scales
It originally had “/cast Blistering scales” as a third line but I deleted that portion thinking it might help in case the mouse wasn’t registering my mouseover and was defaulting to casting it on myself. There was no noticeable change after the edit.
Any advice to getting this to work consistently?
I got too bored to play Aug very quickly, so this may be dated information and someone else can keep me honest; I’m pretty sure this has nothing to do with your macro and everything to do with the fact that blistering scales targeting is buggy as hell.
I was using a mouseover and having similar issues as well. I had a better time just waiting for targeted enemies to target the tank and refreshing it.
My suggestion would be to make a focus macro and have tank set to focus, since even though that takes an extra keybind, it’s relatively less prone to failure.
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No need for a macro. Blistering scales will auto target the target of your hostile target. Meaning if the mob you’re shooting at is attacking a tank it will autocast on the tank.
With that said your macro is almost correct.
/cast [target=mouseover,help] Blistering Scales; Blistering Scales
Adding in help isn’t explicitly required but I do it out of habit and because on occasion I’ll have a damaging spell after the ;.
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I’ve never tried it as just a mouse over, since I personally have it as mod self->mouseover->target->auto.
So my macro for scales, and most of my healing abilities (rewritingfrom memory since I’m not home to physically look)
#showtooltip
/cast [mod:alt,@player][@mouseover,help,exists,nodead][help,exists,nodead][] blistering scales
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Blistering scales loves to target the target of your target, so long as that target isn’t hostile, and even if your target is friendly.
Say you’re targeting your tank, and your tank is targeting somebody else in your party, it’ll go onto that person.
There’s also the range factor. If the tank is out of range when you cast it while targeting an enemy, it’ll go back on you.
TBH i use it on dps/heals more than i use it on the tank. Tanks don’t have many issues staying alive in dungeons or raids, but there’s always an instance where a DPS gets chunked down to nothing and a huge barrier can keep em off the ground.
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And not having such macro causes me to often cast it on myself or another non-tank because for some awful reason mobs constantly stop targeting the tank.
I use this addon for both prescience and blistering scales, works quite nicely: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/preciousprescience
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Thanks to all the replies!
I had the time to do a key and it turned out that just assigning the version of the spell from the spellbook to my action bar and use it when targeting a hostile mob targeting the tank was the right call. I only had it once apply to me a single time and that was when the tank jumped out range when I was casting.
So I won’t need a macro for this spell after all!