Toggle On/Off Mouse hover macros

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Hey there everyone! I have pretty much all my skills set “on mousehover”. 90% of the times that works just great! However, sometimes, especially when I’m surrounded by a ton of enemies, that actually gives me a little troubles, because I’ll end up selecting different targets when I want to focus on just one.

So I was wondering if there was a way to toggle the mousehover function on and off. I guess one way would be to put a modifier for each macro, but that wouldn’t be a good option for me, for two reasons… First one being that I already use all my modifiers and the second being that I wouldn’t be able to hold a key while fighting to avoid mouse hover interactions.

So ideally I’d have a key combination that I can press once to deactivate mousehovers and again to activate them. Is something like this doable (my guess is no, but you guys know more than me).

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Just hold down your right mouse button to hide your cursor.

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Thanks for the chip in, but as said I don’t want to hold anything, just toggle on/off.

Also hiding my mouse wouldn’t be ideal either as I’d still like to be able to click to target enemies.

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There’s no other option. You can’t toggle off portions of a macro.

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Can I toggle off ALL macros instead, while keeping the same keybinds for the skills?

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I suppose you could build an entire second action page with the other abilities and use SHIFT-1/2 to toggle between the two but it would be a nightmare to manage and would make it so you can no longer use SHIFT as a modifier.

I’ve been using mouseover macros for years across all specs in the game and you quickly get used to holding down the right mouse button when you want to ensure you’re not going to accidentally cast on a mouseover target. When you want to target something you just release the right mouse button and left click on them, it’s not rocket surgery.

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Gotcha, I’ve been using mouseover macros from over a year as well, but I don’t play with a mouse (I use the trackpad from my Macbook) so that would not be easy…

So I guess my two options are:

  1. Keybind the “toggle mouse off” button to a different keybind then right click
  2. Put my abilities in other action pages (is it possible to have more action pages across all the default blizzard bars? And if so, is there any way to make so that when I press certain key combination I switch all the action pages at once?)
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Ah, ya, that’s a different scenario entirely.

Only Action Bar 1 has paging support on the default bars.
There are 6 different Action Pages.

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You may be also able to do something with a Mac equivalent of AutoHotkey where you use a key press to toggle holding down/releasing the right mouse button. It should technically fall under the 1 press 1 action requirements of non-automation.

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Ok, I’ll take a look.

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Could use a modifier for the situations when you don’t want to mouseover.

/cast [mod:shift][@mouseover] blackout kick

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Obligatory 10 chars

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Yep, also as previously said I wouldn’t like to hold a key down but rather “toggle” on and off. Given that it’s impossible, probably right click is the best thing I can try for now.

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