Cure Macro craziness with the new Fix

[Darkoon]

I used this macro when the game first launched.

/ac "Cure" <mo>
/ac "Cure" <t>
/ac "Cure" <me>

but due to lag and other issues that macro was ineffective, so I resorted to deleting the second and third line of the macro. Now with 2.16, /ac "Cure" <mo>, works exactly like the macro I first used and I do not wish for SE to change it back to the way it worked before 2.15.

[HaoA]

I'm pretty sure the reason (especially for healers) for the non-self targeting macro pre 2.16 is to give you an indication of your heals being out of range. That's why most end-game healers use macro to prevent healing yourself. In my opinion, when I pressed my heal macro and the cast failed, immediately I knew it's out of range and I can react to it. I'm not sure the reason for the macro change when there is <me>.

Another thing is <f> doesn't work anymore (in my case unless i did it wrong). If I placed <f> on first line it works but any other lines will not work.

/ac Cure <mo>
/ac Cure <t>
/ac Cure <f>

Above is what i used before, I can heal focused tank without targeting the tank while I can mouse over to heal or heal a specific target. Still works but the <f> doesn't work for me anymore, it just trigger self heal when no <mo> or <t> is present.

[Shaddix]

When will be able to input buffer macros?

[Emonik]

I used this macro when the game first launched.

/ac "Cure" <mo>
/ac "Cure" <t>
/ac "Cure" <me>

but due to lag and other issues that macro was ineffective, so I resorted to deleting the second and third line of the macro. Now with 2.16, /ac "Cure" <mo>, works exactly like the macro I first used and I do not wish for SE to change it back to the way it worked before 2.15.

Except this isn't completely accurate. Now if you have a target, and hit your "Cure" <mo> macro, if your mouse happens to be moused over something invalid it will heal <me>.

Such as AV if you have the Tank targeted and leave your mouse hovering on the Fruit and hit your Cure macro it will heal <me> instead of <t>
Or if you have your tank targeted and an add happens to walk where your mouse is hovering it will heal <me> instead of <t>.

This is the problem I am trying to point out with this post.

[icurehangovers]

3. If my mouse is over an invalid target(enemy, npc, out of range target), Cure will be cast on <me>

Scenario 3 is what makes no sense to me. Why <me> and not <t>?

As far as my understanding goes, this happens because the game assume that since you are targeting an invalid target (i.e. an enemy) it heals you because that's the way it's coded. Just like when you are soloing, if you hit a heal while targeting an enemy, it's not going to try to heal the enemy. Instead this assumes you meant to heal yourself. Same goes for an NPC. NPC's don't need heals. However, the target out of range is weird. It should at that point see an error and drop the macro completely or go to target unless your target is out of range too. Then it would just not work. Hmm...

[Nux]

They just fixed the macro, now <mo> no longer give <me> as default but return invalid, just like the old days

Edit: The lag still set in, but at least you can make 2 line of macro instead of 1

[wildgalax]

so far looks fixed, thanks se, finally get enjoy healing again.

[Darkoon]

I do not welcome this "fix". <mo> no longer heals the way I want it to.

[Apl_Juice]

I do not welcome this "fix". <mo> no longer heals the way I want it to.

That sounds like a personal problem, because there's very little the current macro system can't do. What exactly do you want your macro to do?