Macro to heal the most appropriate friendly.

[Abruh]

Originally Posted by Lindline

That just isnt true. The help conditional simply determines whether or not beneficial spells can be cast on the target. There is also nothing else in that macro that determines unit health.

Could you cite the source of your information?

Go try it out then, and prove me wrong.

[LindlineOLD]

I think the confusion here is coming from what this macro actually does. Unit health here has no bearing on how the macro performs. Its a prioritizing macro based on actions of the player. This is the priority chain for this macro:

Target -> Mouseover -> Self

As soon as on of those is a friendly target (i.e. satisfies the 'help' conditional), then that will be the target. This has nothing to do with unit health as was implied in this thread. Its up to the player to determine who gets the heal by making sure the macro prioritizes the correct target.

[Nebulus]

for sure it is not true that help does anything health related

these are modificators that are based on the relationship (bad english couldnt find a good word atm) between you and the selected target.
you must use _help_ to make sure your healer doesnt try to cast heal on a boss or something AND skips to the next option

lets break this up

focus is usually your tank or main char -> help
focustarget is the target of your main char -> help or harm
focustargettarget is most likley your tank again -> help

so you have to go :

/castsequence [target=focustargettarget,help][target=focustarget,help][target=focus] Renew

so no this macro goes like this (i will use tank as focus from now on)
#1 tries to cast heal on the boss target -> tank
#2 tries to cast heal on the focus target -> boss
#3 tries to cast heal on focus -> tank

all macro options are like a very simple programming language

[target=focustargettarget, help]

this delivers TRUE if the focustargettarget IS friendly AND breaks the if chain and cast the spell
else it delivers FALSE and goes to the next part of the if row.

thats all macros can do for you, they will never ever select someone / something for you based on health or buff status

hopefully i didnt mess up my writing

[Abruh]

I think this guy knows what he's talking about.

Smart Mouseover Healing
Casts the specified spell on the most appropriate target.
In order of priority: target (friendly), mouseover (friendly), player
Allows you to keep your current target while healing a friendly (mouseover them or their profile) or yourself (do nothing), while still acting like a normal cast (friendly targets have priority).

#showtooltip Lesser Healing Wave
/cast [help,exists] [target=mouseover,help,exists] [target=player] Lesser Healing Wave




Other useful macros can be found here: Useful macros for shamans - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft

Finally can qoute where I found it.

World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> New Resto Shaman? Look up here!

--> Also on Wowwiki.com : "How to heal the most appropriate target, with a macro!"


Good day.