-Luar,
Feathermoon

Maybe it’s just I play on my laptop without mouse and I avoid using the trackpad as much as possible

When I need a heal, I just click on my name in healbot. Extremely efficient and never having to worry about having the right target. As a matter of fact, even before healbot, I always played having the NPC targeted. I use to hotkey my heals–press heal and then click the unit frame that requires it. Healbot just took away my need to hit a hotkey first.

@Someone: You know, this is one of the reasons that I enjoy having a blog. I learn a lot from writing about different things but I often learn even more from the intelligent and insightful comments people post. I had *no idea* that the option you mention exists and will have to edit my post with this information (as soon as I can get a screenshot of it). The only possible downside I could see if enabling it for all spells (rather than the ones specified in specific macros) would be for spells that you might not necessarily want to cast on yourself by accident (such as Abolish Poison), but those would be few and far between and so would the circumstances in which you wouldn’t want to cast it on yourself. Thank you!

And that is a really cool emergency macro for Bears. =)

Also, for soloing, when I had enough TPs in resto to have Nature’s Swiftness, I’d be in cat (or bear if dealing with too many mobs at once), and I’d use this “escape” macro assigned to my PgUp key which, on my laptop’s keyboard, is the one at the top right corner and thus easy to reach for emergencies:

(Note: this is off the top of my head, so some errors may be present but it’s roughly like this, adapted to the new 2.3 behaviour…)

#showtooltip Nature’s Swiftness
/cast [stance][modifier] Nature’s Swiftness
/castsequence [nostance] Healing Touch, Dire Bear Form

This will always show the NS icon so you can see the cooldown, and on 1st press will pop you out of whatever form you’re in and cast NS + HT; on a subsequent press it will put you back in bear. It *WON’T* work if you’re in caster form already unless you press a modifier key. I you remove the “[stance]” from the first cast, you get an error on the 2nd press and won’t complete it’s job because it will try to cast NS again when it’s on CD.

My PgDn macro is a bit more complex and doesn’t involve healing but rather switching to cat form, so if I want(ed) an instant heal and back to cat, I’d PgUp then PgDn, or 2xPgUp for instant heal + bear.

HTH,
Someone