Need spirit beast heal macro!

[Jonmcslain]

Im getting into arena now with a mdps and on a 2v2 Im targeted first being a lowly hunter.

I'd like to have a spirit beast heal me from time to time when it can if Im using one.

Anyone have a macro for that?

[Tudyk]

Are you looking for /cast [@player] Spirit Mend or something to make it autocast sooner or something?

[Jonmcslain]

Yes, One button to heal me since these fight may not last long.

[Adam-Savage]

This is what I use

/tar (Your toons name)
/cast Spirit Mend

[Acherontia]

That has the disadvantage of targetting yourself Adamsavage, unless you add /targetlasttarget to the end.

I use:

#showtooltip
/cast [target=player] Spirit Mend

The showtooltip lets you see the cooldown ticking down on it (the gray area) and to see the tooltip on macro mouseover. You'll probably want to manually select the right icon, though, because otherwise, when your SB is away, it can show as a black icon with a red ?.

I have a couple really nice macros for PvP, but I'm gonna make a new thread for them now so they don't get lost.

[amrasillias]

Like Tudyk I use:

/cast [@player] Spirit Mend

works like a charm
No need to fill in your name it works like this.

[Jonmcslain]

The actual macro for me would be /cast [jonmcslain] spirit mend or do I need to put something before my name?

[Acherontia]

On either of our macros, type them exactly as typed--the "player" command in wow automatically means you

If you're going to be focusing quite a lot on arena, I'd recommend using the macros I've laid out here:

http://forums.wow-petopia.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=8882

You can set your partner focus before the match, and use master's call, roar of sacrifice and spirit mend on them with a keypress.

[Adam-Savage]

That has the disadvantage of targeting yourself Adamsavage, unless you add /targetlasttarget to the end.

I can't see how this would be a disadvantage at all. It's worked like a charm for me every time and never has effected my targeting or the pet. The pet will toss the heal on me and goes right back to what he was doing.

[Foru21dr]

That has the disadvantage of targeting yourself Adamsavage, unless you add /targetlasttarget to the end.

I can't see how this would be a disadvantage at all. It's worked like a charm for me every time and never has effected my targeting or the pet. The pet will toss the heal on me and goes right back to what he was doing.

Doesn't /tar (Your toons name) change your current target to yourself, and then keep it on you so that you are require to retarget back the person you were attacking? Yes I agree that your pet will go back to his target, but I would believe if you didn't put in the target last target, you would be required to reselect your target you were going after.

It's not a real disadvantage, but requires a step to get you target back.

[Acherontia]

Indeed, everything he said.

Adding /targetlasttarget or simply making it say /cast [target=player] means that you get to keep your current target, saving valuable PvP time.

[Anyia]

If you're writing long macros and run out of space, the 'target=player' part can be shortened to just '@player'.

Also, if you're in an arena I imagine you might want to have an easy way to heal your party member(s), so something like this might be handy:

/cast [nomod,@player][mod:shift,@pet][mod:ctrl,@party1][mod:alt,@party2] Spirit Mend

This would give you a button which normally heals you, heals your pet if shift-clicked, heals your first party member when ctrl-clicked, and the second party member when alt-clicked.

I should note that party members range through "party1" through to "party4", and never includes you. If you want to be fancy you can also string things together to say stuff like "party1pet" or "party1targettarget". In arenas you can also explicitly refer to the opposing team members by saying "arena1" through to "arena5", which can be useful if you want e.g. have macros for CC'ing specific opponents without first having /focus'ed them.