Mouseover changes in 9.1?

[Elvenbane-veknilash (Elvenbane)]

@Addonis-elune

Backstory : I took time off from the game for many years and recently returned at the end of BFA. Most of my old macros broke, but I expected that. I noticed that basic mouseover functions were available in the base game, so I got by, and adjusted some of my buttons accordingly.

Shadowlands : I just got into the pre-patch 9.01 and am finding frustrations with mouseover healing macros. Did things get changed a lot??? I cannot find anything on the web searches indicating this.

Nothing significant has changed with mouseover macros since the introduction of @ as an alias to target=, which I believe happened during BC. Also, to my knowledge there are no options in the base UI that you can enable to facility mouseover casting, it all needs to be done via addons or macros.

@Addonis-elune

#showtooltip
/cast [target=mouseover,help][help][target=player] [] Rejuvenation

@Elvenbane-veknilash

Base Healing Macro

Alt: Self Cast
Mouseover Friend: Cast on Mouseover
Target Friend: Cast on Target
Target Enemy Targeting Friend: Cast on Enemy’s Target
Default casting behavior. This condition also serves to generate the correct tooltip.

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:alt,@player] [@mouseover,help,nodead] [help] [@targettarget,help,nodead] [] SPELL

Or if you want the most basic version it’s simply

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:alt,@player] [@mouseover,help,nodead] [] SPELL

Make sure you have Interface > Combat > Auto Self Cast enabled.

@Addonis-elune

Currently, if I mouseover a character, and that character is target selected, it works as you would imagine, except it will not self-cast if i mouse over MY DRUID 3D character. It WILL cast Rejuv on myself if i have another target, and then mouseover MY UNIT FRAME.

You have never been able to mouseover your own 3D character. Similarly, you cannot click on your 3D character to target yourself. The reason behind it is that it would always get in the way when trying to interact with things very near to it.

@Addonis-elune

I cannot seem to right-click my macro button in the action bar to self-cast. This makes no sense to me. I have right-click self cast box checked in Bartender4.

Those options do not affect macros, only spells pulled out of the spellbook; for macros this functionality needs to be manually coded. The macros I posted above have forced self-cast set to alt+key. If you wish to change it to right click (which I don’t recommend because it’ll mean constantly moving your mouse a significant distance away from your unit frames) replace [mod:alt,@player] with [btn:2,@player]

@Addonis-elune

I used to be able to moonfire all the mobs I had collected via mouseover. That is no longer possible

@Elvenbane-veknilash

Basic DPS Mouseover Macro

Cast a harmful spell prioritizing mouseover.

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead] [] SPELL