WORKAROUND for casts that go on the wrong person (Auto Self Cast bug?)

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Since the release of DragonFlight, the “Auto Self Cast” key seems to override specific targeting inside macros, such as using @cursor, @focus, @target. If you are holding the self cast key when the macro executes, your player always gets the spell cast on them.

As a side effect, healing addons (such as HealBot) end up wrongly casting spells on the player whenever the self cast key is held as a health bar is clicked.

WORKAROUND …
I got things working near perfect again. In the WoW Interface Options - Combat options, I had to turn off the “Self Cast” checkbox and also set the “Self Cast Key” to none. That resolved my HealBot targeting issues, but broke my macros that relied on auto self cast.
To solve that problem, any macro with conditions that ended with empty brackets [ ] had to be changed to end with [@player] to emulate auto self cast. Also, some spells on my button bar had to be changed into a macro so they could be written to do auto self cast.
For example, on my Priest, I had to create a macro for “Power Word: Life” like this …

#showtooltip
/use [@target, help] [@player] Power Word: Life

For a more advanced example, my shield macro casts on myself if ALT is being pressed, else on my target if its friendly, else on my focus if one has been set, else on me (as auto self cast).

#showtooltip
/use [mod:alt, @player] [@target, help] [@focus, exists] [@player] Power Word: Shield

I only made these changes on my main character for now, in hopes that Blizzard restores the old behavior by the time I get to my alts.

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Thank you this post helped a ton

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Thanks for all of this. Is there any option to keep self cast and use healbot with the same self modifier? I have Alt set to self cast, and I use it a ton, instead of creating macros for self spells, I just have all my normal spells and use alt to self cast. But now with the update, I cannot use any healbot actions with Alt. Is there no way to override this to go back to before so that I can have self cast work and healbot alt clicks works too?