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How to be a Clicker

The word “Click” brings out bad things in WoW players, and trying to explain mouseover macros and click casting to someone who doesn’t know what it is can get ugly. So I decided to clue people in on my style of healing and one that has become more popular over time.

What is A Mouseover Macro? It can be a very simple /cast macro. The only difference is your target is whatever unit frame your mouse pointer happens to be over at the time, this includes your target, target of target, focus target, or any unit frame in your raid, its limitless!

Helpful Spells

Basic Mouseover Macro:

/cast [target=mouseover,help] Lifebloom

Bind this to a mouse button of your choosing (Mouse Button 5 is my Lifebloom) and you are pretty much good to go!

Using the Same Key with a Modifier for Multiple Spells:

/cast [modifier:shift,target=mouseover,help][modifier:shift] Rejuvenation;[modifier:alt,target=mouseover,help][modifier:alt] Swiftmend;[target=mouseover,help][] Lifebloom

This is all bound to my Mouse Button 5 and does the following:
Mouse Button 5 : Lifebloom
Shift + Mouse Button 5 : Rejuvenation
Alt + Mouse Button 5 : Swiftmend

It will first cast on whatever unit frame my mouse pointer is over, if that doesn’t exist and I have a target selected it will cast on my target and if I have no friendly target or mouseover target, it will self cast if I have auto self cast turned on.

Harmful Spells

While less useful it does have its time and place.

Simple Macro:

/cast [target=mouseover,harm] Hammer of Justice

For the most part a key bind is quicker for offensive spells, but I’ve found these especially useful for my focus frame. It allows me to keep track of and possibly cast on two separate people quickly, my target and focus. A focus macro does the same but its just another option

Harmful and Helpful Combined

You can set up your macro so if you have a friendly player selected it will perform one action and an enemy selected another:

/cast [target=mouseover,help] [] Lesser Healing Wave; [target=mouseover,harm] Earth Shock

I have this bound to “Right Click” on my shaman. If I have my mouse over a friendly target it will cast Lesser Healing Wave, an enemy target Earth Shock, and no target or mouseover, self-cast Lesser Healing Wave.

This is Way too Complicated Give me an Addon

If the idea of setting up new complex macro’s for all your spells is a bit over whelming and you want to experiment with Click-Casting have no fear, there is a great mod you can download called “Clique” by Cladhaire. It gives you a nice simple GUI to set up all your click casting macros for you and doesn’t effect any macros or spells you may already have on your action bars, or take up any space in your macro section. I highly recommend it. While I have a few macro’s set up and learned how to set them up in case Clique ever disapears, the mod does all the work for you and leaves all that macro space free for other stuff.

 

Once you’ve installed Clique and enabled it, Log in and Open your Spell Book

You’ll see a brand new button on the bottom to open the Clique Interface as shown above.

 

You can select from 4 different “Click Sets” This allows you to use the same mouse key depending on the circumstance:

1. Default: These settings are a fall back when another action isn’t found
2. Harmful actions: To be used on hostile mobs or players
3. Helpful actions: To be used on allies
4. Out of Combat: Great for Buffs, or for retaining your “Right Click Menu” when not in combat

 

Take a look at my Helpful Actions section below:

To set a bind is incredibly easy. You just browse to that spell in your Spell Book and hit the mouse+key combination you wish to use to cast that spell.

You’ll Notice my Innervate is set to a Macro Function, to do this simply click on Custom and you’ll see the following screen:

The Macro Index is simply the name I have given the macro from my macro ui. You can enter that name or enter in the macro directly in the box labeled Macro Text.

There are tons of other things you can do, including selecting which specific unit frames you want certain “Clicks” to be active on. For example you want Right Click : Silence only to be active on your Focus Frame.

Click casting takes some time to get used to but in PVE it is extremely effective. In PvP as well, but you often want your mouse to be free for movement in pvp so its a bit more limited.

Happy Clicking!