Hello. I was playing around with the assisted highlight and I was impressed. However, I’ve seen people saying they don’t want it to recommend a certain spell or a few spells. There’s a very straightforward solution if you never want to use the spell…
Option 1: Just take the spell off your bars.
But this option also makes you unable to use the spell on your own if you want to.
I present a new option that will allow you to keep your spell on your bars, in the same spot, but the assisted highlight rotation helper will no longer recommend this spell to you.
Important: This does not work for the Single-Button Assistant, only the Assisted Highlight feature that recommends spells on your action bars to use next.
Option 2: Confuse the game with a macro.
I didn’t want Execution Sentence to be recommended to me on my Retribution Paladin, because it would often be recommended to me against enemies which I was sure would die in less than 8 seconds (meaning it did 0 damage). I didn’t want to stop using this spell, though. I just wanted to choose to use it on my own, while still keeping the benefits of the Assisted Highlight rotation helper. Here’s what I did on my Windows computer:
Step 1: Logged into your character, type
/macro
into your in-game text box and hit enter.
Step 2: Click “new” on the bottom right next to “exit”
Step 3: Type in the name of the spell you want to replace (or whatever macro name you want) in the “Enter Macro Name” text box
Step 4: Find the icon of the spell you want to replace. There are a lot of icons, so it might help you to change the dropdown filter from “All Icons” to “Spells”
Step 5: Click “Okay” at the bottom right of the macro configuration window.
Step 6: In the text box, type the following macro, replacing X with the spell you want to replace:
#showtooltip auto loot
/cast X
For my ret paladin, I used
#showtooltip auto loot
/cast [@mouseover,harm,nodead][@target] execution sentence
because I also want to be able to mouse over the target and use the spell on them without targeting them.
Step 7: Drag the macro from your macro area over your spell button on your action bar. Make sure to remove any instance of the original spell anywhere on your action bars.
Step 8: Log out and back into the game in a rested area, it’ll save your macro to the server. (That way your macro is not deleted if you disconnect)
Now, we’re almost done. You now will have the button you can use on your own and rotation helper won’t recommend it to you. However, you won’t have the cooldown anymore, which can be confusing. If your spell has a cooldown, follow the rest of these steps.
If you already have the WeakAuras addon, skip steps 9-13
Step 9: Download CurseForge, I recommend the “Download standalone” option.
Step 10: Click on the installer in your downloads file, if you have the same Windows OS as me and didn’t change stuff with it, you can search “file explorer”, open that, and “Downloads” will be on the left side.
Step 11: Installing CurseForge with the Installer > next > accept the terms checkbox > next > it will open CurseForge once installed
Step 12: Search in the search bar up top: “weakauras” and hit enter
Step 13: The first result, WeakAuras, hit the “Install” button for WeakAuras. Wait for the installation to finish.
Step 14: Back in your game, type
/reload
into your chat text box and hit enter.
Step 15: Type
/wa
to open up the WeakAuras menu
Step 16: Click “+ New Aura”
Step 17: Click “Premade Auras” under the “Simple” heading
Step 18: Click “Icon” > “Medium Icon” (you can resize it in step 23 to fit your bars) > Cooldowns > Click on whatever spell you’re replacing (I clicked on Execution Sentence) > “Basic Show on Cooldown” > Hit enter
Step 19: Scroll down in the display tab to “Position and Size Settings” above “Sub Elements” and open the menu by clicking on it
Step 20: Under “Anchored To” use “Select Frame”
Step 21: There will be a new “Choose” button underneath, click that, and then click the button your new macro is on, somewhere on your regular action bars.
If you ever move this macro around on your bars, do steps 15, then click on the weakaura you made on the left side, then follow steps 19 and then 21
Step 22: Change the Frame Strata from “Inherited” to “High”
Step 23: (Optional) Change the Width and Height under “Position and Size Settings” so your cooldown is the same size as your action bar button.
Step 24: Close WeakAuras with the X button
You now have a spell and cooldown display that won’t be recommended by the Assisted Highlight feature, but you can still use at your discretion. If you have ideas to simplify or improve this, please add them in a comment.
Love,
Smelly Elmyouu
