I’m using target macro’s exclusively for arena but when I casually heal a dungeon/raid, I click the friendly target portraits to cast on them. There’s something that really annoys me: whenever I click a target to cast something on them, I have to wait a really short microsecond to cast otherwise the spell I intended to cast on my target, will target my previous target instead.
So for example: my current target is party1, I click party4 to target them and then attempt to cast barkskin on them. Now because I didn’t wait, the barskin goes to party1 even though my UI says I have party4 targeted. This doesn’t happen when I use target macro’s to target people.
My specs are more than appropriate: Ryzen 3700X, 16GB ram, GTX 1080, M2 SSD. Also, as shown in my video, my latency is very low (11MS).
Anyone else suffer from this?
Here’s a video of it happening: https://youtu.be/rpiWJQ3gcE0
(I disabled all addons in the video for demonstrating purposes)
Proof that I click the portrait first and only then press cast: https://imgur.com/a/QtXAwJF (the potrait fades from Grunt to me, that’s why you see Grunt in the background).
This behaviour seem to start in Legion (or maybe BFA) if I recall correctly and it also happens on DPS characters when targeting enemies.
You could try running the repair tool. This is honestly the first time I’ve heard of the issue you’re reporting (both on the EU and US forums) so it’s likely something on your end and possibly addon related.
Either way, mouseover macros will save you a step.
How can it be addon related? Did you even see the video? I have zero addons enabled. I’ve tested it on my friends computer and the same issue occurred so I doubt that it’s a problem on my end. You can test it for yourself, click someone and then instantly cast a spell (by keyboard).
The reason you haven’t read about it yet is A> because not many people play that fast paced. B> the error happening can be easily overlooked. Also, this didn’t seem to happen 1 expansion ago.
No, I hadn’t but looking at it you start casting before you switch targets. https://i.imgur.com/HOEBIzt.png
You can see that the GCD swirl for the cast has started and you’re still targeting the Grunt.
The likely reason you’re running into the issue is because the mouse click triggers on key up while your spell cast triggers on key down. So you’re essentially going mouse down, key down (spell stars), mouse up (target change).
That said, I wasn’t able to duplicate the behavior with my rig (55ms, 45fps).
My screenshot shows the target changing from one portrait to the other without having a cast bar beneath it and that could’ve never happened when I press it in mentioned order but apparently there’s a delay in the cast bar too.
I’ve tested it and the target doesn’t change when you don’t release the mouse button. So it indeed only changes target on mouse up which is pretty counter intuitive imo. I wish I could change this somehow. I found this thread: https://eu.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/17618063388 but no solution.