Mouse over macro issue

[ShiftingFate]

Hi All,

I play SCH and am a huge fan of mouse over casting. I set up my macro as follows:

/macroicon "Physics"
/ac "Physic" <mo>
/ac "Physic" <t>
/ac "Physic" <me>

So ideally this should cast Physics on my mouse over, if i don’t have a mouse over then it should cast it on my target, if my target isn’t friendly then it should cast it on me. Trouble is this macro all the time will sometimes IGNORE both my mouse over and target and hit me with the heal. This has been bad because sometimes that heal is a crucial one.

Does anyone know how i can improve this macro or even better can you just turn on mouse over casting in the UI somewhere?

Thanks everyone for any and all help.

Shift

[oda]

Pretty sure this is due to the latency issues that many players are experiencing. My SO complains about this all the time -- the only current solution is not to use mouseover and use directly targeted heals instead.

[Molly_Millions]

Does anyone know how i can improve this macro or even better can you just turn on mouse over casting in the UI somewhere?

I hope you left the s off the end of Physic

also, the three lines with the same spell seem to me like you're asking for trouble. I'd use 3 separate macros, or always use targeted healing as the poster above said.

[Dyrstahl]

Furthermore, it should be noticed that having three seperate macro like this in one macro displays a bloody annoying error message right in the middle of your screen (and in your chat). Really annoying.

[RedPriest]

I do the exact same thing, I turned off errors in chat, but it still shows errors in the middle of your screen. The times when it displays the error "target out of range" it will just cast on you instead so you have to watch the error being displayed. That's the biggest problem with that macro settup is telling if a target is in range. Other times is when you raise a target, it takes forever before you are allowed to actually heal after his/her health shows up. Line of sight is the other error you have to watch out for but you will still cast on yourself.

I've been thinking about taking the <me> out of the macro and see if I get better response from it, but haven't tested it yet... don't know why lol. Every now and again I get the latency issue where there is no reason I should be healing myself but I do >.> but its not that often.

[Ruethryl]

I ignore the errors with a similar macro setup, but I've also encountered <mo> failing to work with mouse on party member names or over their characters on occasion.. good way to blow a Lustrate for instance >_<;

[Ninix]

Has nothing to do with latency. The <mo> tag is just bugged and will occasionally provide the /action command with your name instead of the name of the person under your mouse. I reported the bug a few weeks ago (well, and in phase 2/3 also) and it's been moved over to the accepted bugs section so hopefully that means they're doing something about it.

I will say, though, that the bug seems to occur more frequently if you spam your macros. Try to get into the habit of pressing your heal key exactly once and it becomes much more reliable. I've been healing coil using mouseovers and it only fucks up very rarely, certainly not often enough to warrant swapping back to regular target-click casting.

Of course, if you get into a situation where you panic and start mashing the keys (say, because someone's about to die) you're more likely to experience the issue. Kinda sucks.

[Viscara]

Has nothing to do with latency. The <mo> tag is just bugged and will occasionally provide the /action command with your name instead of the name of the person under your mouse. I reported the bug a few weeks ago (well, and in phase 2/3 also) and it's been moved over to the accepted bugs section so hopefully that means they're doing something about it.

I will say, though, that the bug seems to occur more frequently if you spam your macros. Try to get into the habit of pressing your heal key exactly once and it becomes much more reliable. I've been healing coil using mouseovers and it only fucks up very rarely, certainly not often enough to warrant swapping back to regular target-click casting.

Of course, if you get into a situation where you panic and start mashing the keys (say, because someone's about to die) you're more likely to experience the issue. Kinda sucks.

Very good to know! Will be great when this gets fixed.

[ShiftingFate]

I hope you left the s off the end of Physic

I just created this quick for an example. I have corrected the spelling in the OP. Thank you.

[ShiftingFate]

Furthermore, it should be noticed that having three seperate macro like this in one macro displays a bloody annoying error message right in the middle of your screen (and in your chat). Really annoying.

I have disabled error messages in chat and hardly notice the error on the screen due to staring at health bars in the heat of battle.