Macros Part 2 - Targets

Target different enemies -

The macros described in Part 1 are some very basic macros that are also fairly commonly useful and, ignoring the specific spells, relevant to every class. However the functionality/usefullness of macros doesn't finish there, oh noes, there's plenty more where that came from.

Let's say I want a macro that allows me to pewpew my current target but then fire off a Kill Shot at a different target without having to tab or manually click and select the secondary target and then back again. Cause lets face it - that shit right there is cumbersome. Easy, all you have to do is make a mouseover macro! Following from the above examples I, once again...

#showtooltip Kill Shot

(now the next line is where it gets tricky)

/cast [target=mouseover][target=target] Kill Shot (Rank 3) 

(remember...shift left clicking an ability straight from your spellbook will autofill the correct spell and rank details so you don't have to manually type it out)

Now...all I have to do is pay attention and notice when a mob other than my current target is below 20% health, hover my mouse over that mob/bar and BAM...killshot away without deselecting my current target. If I have no mouseovered target the macro will then look at my current target and if below 20% - bam.

Other useful macros in this vain include

#showtooltip Master's Call
/cast [target=mouseover][target=Rumtum] Master's Call

which first checks if I have a mouseovered target to cast Master's Call on (which also works on unitframes by the way) and if not it casts Masters Call on myself.

#showtooltip Tranquilising Shot
/cast [target=mouseover][target=target] Tranquilising Shot

a VERY useful macro particularly in PVE instances whereupon the hunter may get called to tranq. shot enraged mobs (LK and Anub'Arak spring to mind).

Aside from Mouseover targets you also have Focus target which can be added to macros. To select a unit as a focus you can either bind your focus key from Blizzard keybinds, type /focus while selecting them or create a macro to do this for you which would be -

/clearfocus

/focus

Now...anytime you wanted to cast a heal on a tank, or in our case as hunters a misdirect on the tank all you have to do is create the following macro -

#showtooltip Misdirect
/cast [target=focus] Misdirection

You can now cast misdirect in the middle of your shot rotation/priority list without having to actually deselect your current target. Useful during moments where you need to quickly draw a mob to a secondary tank you've already set as your focus for instance.