Mouseover Macros

[Landros-shadowsong]

Experimenting with mouseover macros and wondering what, if any, line stops the macro from misfiring because my mouse is hovering over an ally or someone dead or whatever. Ir’s been a problem for me in dungeons.

Here is my macro

/use [@mouseover, exists] Drain Soul
/use [@mouseover, exists] Drain Soul; Drain Soul

^ diff toon obviously

It doesn’t seem to do this in the open world until I intiate combat with a dummy and have it targeted. Then if my mouse is over the Vorkal dudes in Ardenweald it thinks I want to attack them when they’re friendly. I’d like it to just recognize I wanna hit the thing I have targeted UNLESS I have a hostile moused over.

Any other tips or support on how to make these macros work, or good addon synergies with them, would also be greatly appreciated.

[Irrenhaus-the-underbog (Irrenhaus)]

#showtooltip
/cast [target=mouseover,harm,exists,nodead] Drain Soul; Drain Soul

Try this? I am bad with macros, but if I understand this right, harm and nodead should account for enemies only, eliminate dead targets, and target=mouseover will prioritize mouseover, but if nothing else is on mouseover will hit the target.

I’m not positive on how accurate this is, so I will correct myself if someone has the answer.

[Zipster-jaedenar]

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover, harm, nodead] Drain Soul; [@target, harm, nodead] Drain Soul

This will cast drain soul at your mouseover, and if you don’t have a mouseover selected, will default to your actual selected target.

As far as tips or support, you’re in luck! We have an entire forum dedicated to them here:

UI and Macro

And this thread specifically is very helpful. Happy macroing

Macros: Essential Information

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[Landros-shadowsong]

Thank you both!
The second line in my macro has my Drain Soul hit my targeted mob if nothing is moused over so I just needed to get rid of it thinking I wanna doubly kill some tick corpse.