Help with Targeting macro, cannot get @focus or target to work

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Hey all, thank you very much for help.

Here is my macro:
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover] [] [@focus] Tricks of the Trade

I cannot get the Tricks to cast on the Focus nor the Target in this situation. All Mouse overs work though. Good enough? Ya probably, but would like it to be perfect cause i know it can be.

I think you can see what I want, but to be 100% clear, in order of priority:

  1. Cast on Mouseover
  2. Cast on Target (if friendly party/raid member)
  3. Cast on Focus (but keep enemy target targeted)

Thank you!

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When using @mouseover, it’s important to include other conditionals, as otherwise, whenever your mouse is over anything, it will evaluate as true. If what your mouse is over isn’t valid for the spell, the macro will just fail at that point. (Similarly, using the empty conditional for the target, will also prevent the macro from every checking for a focus if you have any target, regarless of if tricks of the trade works on them.)

So, you’re looking at something more like this:

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@focus, help,nodead] Tricks of the Trade

Edit: The above macro will do nothing if you don’t have a friendly mouseover, target, or focus. It will also show a “?” icon in those cases. So, you may want to add an empty conditional at the end as a default action. (If everything else fails, it will bring up a cursor for you to click a target.) If you don’t want that to happen, but always want the icon to show, then just add “tricks of the trade” to the #showtooltip line.

So, here are the two options. First, with the default action fallback:

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@focus, help,nodead][] Tricks of the Trade

And then without it and the modified #showtooltip:

#showtooltip Tricks of the Trade
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@focus, help,nodead] Tricks of the Trade
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OMG THANK YOU, not just for answering, but answering so indepthly! Super informative and very nicely put, I cannot appreciate you enough!