Please Allow Skill Queueing with Mouseover Macros

[Rongway]

Not worth implementing as a change to the macro system. They should add a global option to use mouseover as the target method for unmacroed beneficial actions when current target is hostile or invalid. Currently any beneficial action cast while targeting an enemy will coerce a selftarget and this sometimes undesirable behavior is why we have to change targets or use targeting macros. If instead an option could be enabled to allow all beneficial actions to cast on mouseover instead of self, changing targets or using targeting macros wouldn't be necessary in the first place and the macro issue would be moot.

Current:
Beneficial effects cast while targeting a valid friendly target cast on that target.
Beneficial effects cast while targeting an invalid or hostile target cast on self.

Option suggestion:
Beneficial effects cast while targeting a valid friendly target cast on that target.
Beneficial effects cast while targeting an invalid or hostile target cast on mouseover.
(Beneficial effects still cast on self if both target and mouseover are invalid.)
(Beneficial ground effects still cast using ground targeting rules.)

[Arcadious]

They should add a global option to use mouseover as the target method for unmacroed beneficial actions when current target is hostile or invalid.

Your proposed implementation would definitely be ideal! If they did exactly what you've described here I'd happily switch back to healing.

I only proposed the macro solution because, to me at least, it feels like the simplest fix for the time being. Especially since the current situation is quite dire.

[Packetdancer]

Your proposed implementation would definitely be ideal! If they did exactly what you've described here I'd happily switch back to healing.

I only proposed the macro solution because, to me at least, it feels like the simplest fix for the time being. Especially since the current situation is quite dire.

FWIW, as best I can tell based on the game's action system, I suspect Rongway's solution is actually easier under the hood than fixing the macro system's wonky queuing would be.