I’m trying to create a macro for Penance so that I can free up a keybind slot…
Basically, what I’d like is an option to use it in a healing rotation without needing to deselect my current hostile target. I’m assuming a [@mouseover] variant is what I need, but I can’t seem to create one in the correct manner - it just keeps firing at my current enemy.
Anyone know the magic code incantation that will solve this?
im confused as to what youre trying to do with penance? you should be pening a hostile target unless someone is near death.
but heres a simple mouse over that can be cast at enemies or allies if your mouse is over them
/cast [@mouseover,exists,help] [harm] [] penance
Well, three things, actually…
/use [nomod,harm][mod:alt,@player][nomod,@cursor]Penance
is what I had so far, which is obviously not doing what I wanted. I want it to heal on mouseover, damage my current target normally, and heal myself without selection or mouse if I use the alt modifier. I’m unsure of what the empty [] specifier accomplishes in yours. What does that do, just act as a default of some sort?
i just use a simple mouse over
/cast Penance @mousover so im over a enemy unit frame it casts on them if i hover over an ally unit frame it casts on them. if i have nothing targeted it autos me. i just googled a help harm macro cuz it sounds like what you were looking for.
Yah. I’ve been using much the same thing, with a second button that targets me no matter what as an emergency no click heal. I just wanted to open that up as keybinds are not plentiful.
I may at some point actually break down and grab a healing addon, which so far I have resisted.
i have all my spells written as mouseovers cuz i dont like healbot /vudo.
I’m not playing the game these days.
But didn’t blizzard say they were going to incorporate all healing spells being able to be used as a mouseover without needing a macro / addon?
I thought that’s a thing or will be. just don’t know if its in the game and how to turn it on.
thats a DF thing
Your macro will cast penance at the first target parameter that is true. The override option should be in the first set of square brackets and the desired default behaviour should be in the last set of square brackets.
I used to say disc was not playable without a mouseover addon live vuhdo. Someone corrected me by showing me one of the top disc priest’s using a bunch of macros.
I realized disc can be playable without vuhdo, but why would you want to?
With vuhdo I bind:
Left click shadow mend
Right click power word shield
Push in mouse wheel (button 3) to life grip
Mouse wheel up rapture
Mouse wheel down pain supression
Side mouse button is penance
Shift + left click is purify
Shift + right click is shining force
Shift+ push in mouse wheel (button 3) power infusion
Whenever i need to use any of thsoe spells on friendly players i move my mouse curser over their unit frame on vuhdo then press one of those mouse clicks.
This way 100% of the time im targeting on hostile targets. I never target friendly players.
I then bind smite to E
Penance to Q
Raidience to R
Shadow word pain to F
Divine star shift + Q
Solance shift + E
Fade shift + W
Mind blast shift + D
Feathers to 1
Barrier to 2
Boon is set to T
I use my keyboard for group heals and dps
I use my mouse clicks for individual heals
I found this was the best setup.
I don’t like addons for the same reason my zettelkasten notes are still in markdown: I don’t like it when I get locked into someone’s proprietary system, and I therefor revert to the equivalent of plain-text, a universal format. This way I can move my entire database of collected knowledge from any OS or implementation to any other, as long as I shun proprietary formats. As a result, I’ve had my notes and documents stick around safely for over thirty years.
Macros are something that really can’t be effed up by some addon writer who changes things at his whim…
Plenty of disc don’t use vuhdo and simply use mouseover macros like myself.
Just a matter of preference 
I play all healers like that now…
Aha!
/use [mod:alt,@player][@mouseover,help][harm][]Penance
does the three things I was looking for - one keybind saved…