Purge Bug? What am I doing wrong?

PVP Arenas
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I have a weird issue.

Purge works amazing for me in the real world. I can use it with an assist or mouseover macro. I can use it with a standard key binding.

But when I enter the arena, it completely stops working. The only way it will cast is if I physically mouse over to it on my bar, and click it.

I’m not sure if it is an interface problem (I use ELVUI but nothing else).

Any ideas? Thanks!!!

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What class and can you post the macros you use?

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are you specifically trying to use the mouse over in arena?

if not just use

#showtooltip
/cast [@arena1,exists][] Purge

replace 1 with 2 and 3 or focus depending how you wanna use it

no clue though if you’re specifically trying to continue using mouseover

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General mouseover macro I use is:

#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,exists] Purge; Purge

This tells the macro to purge if your hovered over a target frame with mouseover, or to just purge on current target if your not.

Focus macro should look like:

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:alt,@focus,exists] Purge; Purge

Can remove the modifier part if you just want exclusively focus purge. As well as replacing focus with arena1, arena2, arena3.

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Thanks guys and gals for the speedy reply.

I play a resto druid and and my macro looks like this:

/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Nature’s Cure

I’ll give the other suggested macros a shot and see what happens. It’s just weird because it works in dungeons and in the open world and even in battlegrounds, but just not the arena…

My focus macro looks exactly like the one Scary posted (but with "Nature’s Cure).

Peace

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Do you by chance use other mouse over macros that work/don’t work for reference? There is currently a bug with arena’s where an invisible object takes up the middle of the screen and prevents click interactions of any kind. To fix it, you have to /reload after each arena. It’s one of those things that’s been happening since 8.1 that blizz won’t do anything about since it only affects people who do arena’s apparently.

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Yeah, all my heals are mouseover, but they work. :expressionless:

It’s so weird!

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ah just to clarify the confusion there

friendly dispels are just called dispels

purges are offensive dispels that only mage/priests/shamans (some spec pets) have that remove things like enemy hots/damage cooldowns/utility spells

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Try my macro (Also includes offensive soothe dispel)

#showtooltip
/cast [spec:4,@mouseover,help,nodead] Nature’s Cure; [@mouseover,help,nodead] Remove Corruption; [@mouseover,harm,nodead] [harm] Soothe; [spec:4,help] Nature’s Cure; Remove Corruption

Although player/party1/party2, arena123 macros are so much more reliant than mouseover macros.

Since you’re using elvui. Go to the various unit frame tabs / and check for both buffs and debuffs that you do not have “click through” enabled.

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THANK YOU! This looks really great.

@Scary

You are totally correct sorry for the confusion.

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Rather then trying to reinvent the wheel for a subpar way of healing in arenas why not just download the clique addon and bind this same way without using macros since it does it for you. I’ve seen many a pve healer attempt PvP using things like this rather then trying to setup macros for it. The side note to this is obviously direct keybinding is much better and using target buttons/mouse wheel or something but if that doesn’t matter to you I would at least look into that.

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I really appreciate this advice, and I love Clique, but it doesn’t work properly with ELVUI.

I do try to use dedicated buttons for arena targets when I can but I need to get a mouse with even more buttons now. Six side buttons isn’t enough as a healer for me xD

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