How to Clique

I know people are interested in Clique. It's one of my favorite Addon's for WoW, especially for any class that needs to cast anything on party members. That means ANY HEALER or DECURSER,or BUFFER. Priests, Druids, Shaman, Paladins, Mage, Warlock. There's not much here for warriors, rogues, or hunters, but even they can find uses for it.

So, again, here's what Clique is: Clique is an addon that lets you define "click casting" for the unit frames on your screen. Here's more:

If you play a healer with no addons, you probably play like this: When someone needs to be healed, you click their health bar to select them, or you press F1-F5 to select them. This sets them as your target. Then, you click an action bar button that has a heal spell on it; or you press the keyboard hotkey that has a heal on it, and your character begins to cast a heal.

Alternatively, you might have nothing targeted, or the monster targeted, and then either click an action bar button, or press the hotkey for an action bar button with a heal spell on it. This causes your pointer to glow white, which means it's looking for a valid heal target. Then, you click on a party member's health bar, or press F1-F5. This method only works if you don't have the auto self-cast function activated, otherwise you end up healing yourself.

If you're very creative, you might have created macros that let you cast a specific heal spell if you click the action bar button normally, but something like Remove Curse if you happen to be holding down CTRL or ALT when you click it.

So, What if simply CLICKING on your party member's health bar while holding down CTRL or ALT would tell the game that you want to cast Remove Curse? What if Shift-Right-Clicking on their health bar would tell the game that you want to cast your BIG heal on them - all without having to click an action bar button at all (or it's hotkey?) THAT is the ESSENCE of "Click Casting". (Mechanically, Click Casting works the same as hitting a spell action button to get a "spell seeking cursor" and then clicking on the target. It just works faster, and you still don't loose your current target, and it gets around auto-self-cast settings)

Clique is an addon that lets you ELEGANTLY setup those click-casting definitions. It provides a clean interface to view the click-casting definitions that you've set up, and a perfect gesture for actually setting them up.

So, when you install Clique, it adds a new tab to your spellbook. Open your spellbook and look for the white rabbit tab as the last tab in your spellbook. Click that, and it opens the Clique window.

The first time you open the Clique window, you are greeted by a message explaining how this works. At the top is a Click Set: dropdown, and at the bottom are a few extra buttons that I'll talk about in a bit.

To create a click cast definition, all you have to do is actually perform the gesture you want to use - directly on the spell button in the spell book. For exaple, if you want to be able to cast Flash Heal on someone when you shift-click (left click) on their health bar, then you would go to your HOLY tab in your spellbook, find Flash Heal, hold down shift, and then left click on the Flash Heal button in the spellbook.

Once you have defined a click cast definition, the Clique window updates to become a list of your click cast definitions. This makes it easy to look-up the list if you forget - just open the spellbook and click the rabbit to see the list. Be aware that anytime the list is open, it's in define mode, so if you click any spells while it's open, it thinks you're trying to define a click-cast. Close Clique's window if you need to click on a spell for some other reason (like to drag it to your action bar)

An important thing to understand is that Clique will define the click cast as the specific rank of the spell you clicked to define it - even once you learn higher ranks. To tell clique that you want to always use the highest rank of a spell when you click cast, then here's what you do: Click the click cast definition in the click window (the border of the tile lights up yellow when it's selected). Then, click the Max button at the bottom. You will see the "(Rank x)" text disappear off the tile to let you know that it will now try to cast the highest rank of that spell available.

To change the mouse button or modifiers that you want to hold down when clicking for a click cast defintion, you just select the defintion as above, then click the Edit button at the bottom. The custom window comes up, and you will see a button with the current mouse button assignment on it. To change the buttons, just hover your mouse pointer over that button, hold down the keyboard modifier buttons that you'd rather use, and then press the mouse button that you'd rather use, and it changes. Click save to finish.

To remove a click cast definition that you don't want, select the Click Cast definition and the click the delete button.

Those other buttons at the bottom are for more advanced setup. The Profiles button is for helping you copy entire Clique setups from one character to another (useful if you have more than one of the same class on your account). The Frames button lets you select exactly which healthbars Clique works with. "Out of the box", it works with pretty much ANYTHING, so you might want to turn some off if you have special needs. Finally, the Custom button lets you create specialized click cast defintions.

Here's an example of a custom definition that you might want to know about: I like to heal by simply right-clicking on someone's health bar. When I set up a click cast defintion for Right-Mouse-Button without any keyboard modifiers, it will ruin the "Pop-Up Menu" that you usually see when you right click on someone's health bar. That's the menu that you use to set someone else as the group leader, or even to LEAVE A GROUP(right click your own health bar). So, for me, I always define one extra click-cast defintion to bring up that menu when I hold down ALT and SHIFT and then right click their health bar. To do this, I click Custom, the select "Show Menu" at the bottom of the custom list, then hodl down Alt and Shift, and right-click the button next to the question mark icon. Then click Save. Now I can still get to that menu.

Lastly, that "Click Set" dropdown at the top... Click Cast defintions can be sensitive to the type of unit that the healthbar you're clicking on belongs to. By that I mean it can tell the difference between a friend or an enemy(it also knows when you're out of combat). You can create different click casts for the same mouse-button-modifier combinations depending on if the healthbar is for friend or foe - for example, a druid could set Right-Click to be Rejuvenation for a friend, and Moonfire for an enemy. Personally, I never use that feature because I exclusively hotkey keyboard actions intended for myself or my target - I only use click casting to cast spells on my group or raid members. But, the feature is there if you want it.

For me, Click casting makes up one third of the critical triad of techniques that I use to play. Clique is the one single addon that makes it possible, so it's an addon I wouldn't want to play without. The other techniques that I use are Mouselook/Hotkeys, and Mouseover Macros, both of which I've talked about before and will probably cover again.

So, that's Clique in a nutshell. It's a tool that lets you create those click cast definitions, and it works with almost any unit frame or raid frames addon out there. It provides a nice quick-reference list to look at when you need it, and it stays quietly out of the way while you're playing. I'd also like to mention that it's written by one of the foremost EXPERTS on World of Warcraft add-ons / Mods - Cladhaire. He's brilliant. Go Him!

Thanks for reading!