Here is a macro for anyone interested.
#showtooltip
/cast [@player]Living Flame
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um pretty basic macro to share but thanks.
So my question is what if you want to dps with living flame instead? Put a second one on another bar? Seems clunky.
Since it both Heals and Dps probably would be better to use a Mouseover macro, and just put the cursor over yourself/raidframe. Or select the in the options to allow spells to cast on mouseover.
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I used for a time because I didn’t want to dps at all with it. Then just found better ways to heal.
Yeah put the regular skill on another slot.
I find it easier to have the self cast one if I’m kiting. One less button to push to target self. Mouse over is quite hard when you’re kiting in my experience.
Yeah it’s simple. But not everybody knows how to macro. And I couldn’t find one anywhere so I had to make one.
What’s a better way to heal faux?
This is mostly aimed at devastation pvp for usefulness.
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Yes i use this a lot in solo world.
Solo i set living flame to heal over time, and make it so 40% speed on selfcast.
Since devast does not have many abilities i have room for another button and i can spam it.
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was using it to proc essence burst in raids as preservation for a time. hahah.
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#showtooltip Living Flame
/cast [mod:ctrl,@player][@mouseover,exists,nodead] Living Flame
This is what I use. Ctrl causes it to target you no matter what, then it casts at any mouseover if one exists, and then if you’re not pressing ctrl and don’t have a mouseover it defaults to your current target, or yourself if you have no target.
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The point of the original macro is to eliminate a “shift + key” or whatever ctrl, alt. Because we can already use alt by default to target self.
That’s a nice macro though. I will definitely add it for my Preservation build.
I put my self-target commands into the macro itself because the default interface binding option causes that modifier to be locked to that action. If I set it to ctrl I can only use ctrl to target myself. By doing it on a spell-by-spell basis I can use ctrl on my healing/buff spells to target myself while also using ctrl as an extra bind on keys that don’t have any friendly spells.
For example, my T key is T: Pyre, shift-T: Deep Breath, alt-T: Tip the Scales. None of them ever require self-casting so I can also bind ctrl-T to something if I need to. Devoker doesn’t have enough abilities to need this, but I do still use it for my CC/interrupt spells because I have those keys set up such that the base key is the generic mouseover version and then alt/ctrl/shift and that key is arena 1/2/3.
Just typing this out reminded me how much I hate how convoluted it is to set up a character to be properly operated in this game.
Imagine clicking everything with a mouse.
Not gonna lie. I did that for a long time. Then one of my friends was like “you don’t use keybinds?” and I was like “what are those?”
Game changer.
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I appreciate the macro while it is basic for some, I don’t usually play classes that can heal so it’s nice to have this!
My WoW dream is to have a neural interface for it. Can’t really prune it enough to not be unwieldy without also destroying what makes WoW combat WoW combat, but I also hate the UI that goes along with it. If we could control everything with our thoughts, however, go ahead and double the number of abilities.
I think for me Lost Ark is the sweet spot, but sadly the game surrounding the phenomenal combat system is toxic trash.
To each their own, everybody plays different. I use selfcast macros, but usually only with things with area effect targeting…like EB. The added Bind of LivingFlame Heal and LF Dps for me is a bit much since we already have a lot of Abilities.
Personally for Kitting, I strafe. Also, I use Vuhdo so when ever I need to Heal myself I just click my unit frame.
Actually, that is exactly what I did. I use that exact macro the OP posted, but changed the icon to something green, because reasons, and just pretend it’s a self-healing button to press.
I have a max level of basically every class, and so a lot of similar abilities between classes occupy the same spot, such as a quick healing ability, spell interrupt, shield, etc. are all in the same location on my bars. Thus, having LF as both a self-heal macro and a second instance used as an attack seems more practical to me in actual gameplay, even if some min-maxer would argue with it
Here is a macro for anyone interested. It is intended to be a separate key bind from the damaging version of the ability that allows you to heal yourself or an ally without changing your current target. It will not do damage to an enemy.
#showtooltip Living Flame
/use [@mouseover,help,nodead][help,nodead][@player] Living Flame
It will heal you if targeting an enemy.
It will heal an ally if you are hovering over their raid frame/character with your mouse (regardless of who you are targeting).
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You could also use the se key with a SHIFT option or something.
Depends if you are DPS and going
DPS/SELF-HEAL/DPS
or a healer going
HEAL/SELF-HEAL/HEAL
The latter isn’t clunky for a Preserver, where you don’t lose the tank or other main healing target. Sp there can be a small gap in quick single-target heals and I would rather save combo-heals for everyone else and just use this 1,2 even 3 times in a gap in damage taken.
Yes, for Preserver, I have bottom bar all heals, middle bar CD’s & movement, top bar DPS and I have living flame up there purely for DPS.
This is what I wanted, simple, easy, no alt press, just a quick macro. thank you kindly 