Useful Healing Macros

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Originally Posted by Kyomih

You don't need to make multiple posts for longer posts. Just edit your first one since editing posts doesn't have a letter/word count, btw.

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Oh? That's a nice hint. thx :>

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Originally Posted by White_E

What I use in boss fights as healer or caster to make dodging mechanics easier for me might be useful for you:
/ac "sprint" <me>
/wait 28.0
/ac "sprint" <me>
/wait 28.0
/ac "sprint" <me>
/wait 28.0
/ac "sprint" <me>
/wait 28.0
/ac "sprint" <me>
/wait 28.0
/ac "sprint" <me>
/wait 28.0
/ac "sprint" <me>
/wait 28.0
/em press sprint again

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You are seriously my hero!

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Originally Posted by Praqzis

WASD and all commands are combinations of 1-6 (on mouse buttons) with and without shift, control, and alt. Very movement efficient.

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I realized last night that trying to make just the mouse or just a controller was silly of me when I can do homer row and 10-key blindfolded. That with these macros should really help!

I use three macros

/macroicon "cleric stance"
/ac "cleric stance" <me>
/crosshotbar change 1

The same with /crosshotbar change 2, and

/macroicon repose
/mk ignore1
/ac repose <t>
/party "<t> slept. You tag it, you bag it.

I don't know whether it is useful, but I've just made a healing macro that "If you target an enemy or nothing, cast Cure on a tank(<2>). Otherwise cast Cure on a target".

/merror off
/mlock
/focustarget <f>
/focustarget <t>
/ta <2>
/ta <f>
/tle
/tlt
/tle
/tlt
/ac "Cure" <t>
/ta <f>
/focustarget <f>
/micon "Cure"

I also made the following macro formerly. But it doesn't work now becouse of a disorder of "/focustarget" command; focustarget cannot be canceled by reuse.

/merror off
/mlock
/focustarget <f>
/focustarget <le>
/focustarget <t>
/ac "Cure" <f>
/ac "Cure" <2>
/focustarget <f>

On my SCH I have this:

/ac swiftcast
/ac ressurrection <t>

I gave up the /p macro, since its slower (you need a /wait command that would make the macro unspammable), but my WHM keeps the /wait macro:

/ac swiftcast
/ac "presence of mind"
/ac surecast
/wait
/ac raise <t>

If there's no value to wait, game considers it as 1.0. You can't simply use the macro, cause the animation for Swiftcast takes more than 1sec. But you can press the button twice and it will work like a charm (since any macro cancels any macro). I didn't test it with a /p command, but I guess if you put it after the /raise, it will only happen once, not bugging the party.

I'm waiting for the Ascend use in macro to be fixed to test the

/ac swiftcast
/ac lightspeed
/wait
/ac ascend <t>

Here is a macro for casting Cure on a leftmost non-enemy among <mo>, <t>, <tt> and <me>.

/merror off
/ac "Cure" <mo>
/mlock
/focustarget <f>
/focustarget <t>
/ta <me>
/as <f>
/ta <f>
/tle
/tlt
/tle
/ac "Cure" <lt>
/ta <f>
/focustarget <f>
/micon "Cure"

My heals are left alone however all my offensive abilities are set to the like.

/micon Stone
/ac Stone
/ac Stone <tt>

I use this for pretty much any offensive ability so I can keep my eye on the tank at all times and attack his/her target. My astrologian is the same way having gravity, disable and the like as well. I usually have no issue clicking on someone to get them healed up.

Question: is there a command to cancel Cleric Stance via macro? I'd like to add such a line to (probably) all of my heals, as I have a bad habit of not turning it off when I need to. :(

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Originally Posted by Fatalmephisto

Post your macros that you use for your healer. The ones i use the most are the following

Macro 1



Macro 2



Macro 3



Macro 4



With these 4 on my skill bar, i never have to click on someone's name in the party. Just click the macro and the person who is assigned to that party slot will get the heal. This is great so you can keep watch of your sleep target and maintain your heals as well. You can also do the same with all 4 for Cure II as well. The draw back is, it takes up 4 slots on your skill bar. I would only recommend this if you have a hard time playing on the PS3 or are new to healing.

Feel free to post and share your healing macros and spread the love :D

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This still works? There's not option "cycle through party members", so I think this would be best for me.

toggle "Cleric Stance" (for PvE) and "Surecast" (for PvP)
/mlock
/aaction "Cleric Stance"
/aaction "Surecast"
/aaction "Cleric Stance"

toggle ["Blizzard II", "Aero"] -> ["Stoneskin", "Aero"] -> ["Blizzard II", "Stoneskin"] -> ...
/mlock
/aaction "Blizzard II"
/aaction "Stoneskin"
/aaction "Blizzard II"
/aaction "Stoneskin"
/aaction "Aero"
/aaction "Stoneskin"
/aaction "Aero"

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Originally Posted by Anastacy

Question: is there a command to cancel Cleric Stance via macro? I'd like to add such a line to (probably) all of my heals, as I have a bad habit of not turning it off when I need to. :(

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The only way I believe is either clicking the Cleric Stance skill or having it as a skill in a macro to which I'd say Don't do it. Since in this game there is no if/then/else macros example would be something like this:

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"if Clericstane=1 then use "Cleric stance", "Cure" target:target/mouseover; else use "cure" target:target/mouseover.

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Note that that coding language is entirely made up if anyone bitches about it.


As for my contribution to the macros:

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/micon "Embrace" Pet "Eos"
/pac "Embrace" <mo>

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It seems like nowwadays the fairy won't heal anyone else if you only have this in the macro if there is no mouseover target, I swear that when I was maining my sch for a little while in 2.2 the fairy would had just cast a heal on herself if there was no mouseover target.

And then I have

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/micon "Summon"
/ac "Summon"
/hotbar remove 1 1
/hotbar remove 1 2
/hotbar remove 1 4
/hotbar pet "Fey Covenant" 1 1
/hotbar pet "Whispering Dawn" 1 2
/hotbar pet "Fey Illumination" 1 4

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And same with summon 2 and seen skills

I mainly target an enemy and focustarget a tank. I use a macro to toggle focustarget between <2> and <3>. If <f> == <3> or <f> is empty then /focustarget <2> else /focustarget <3>.

/ta <2>
/ta <3>
/ta <f>
/tlt
/focustarget
/tle

Since I didn't need to toggle in a light party, I made another macro. If in a full party and <f> == <2> then /focustarget <3> else /focustarget <2>.

/ta <3>
/ta <2>
/ta <f>
/tlt
/ta <f>
/tlt
/ta <8>
/tlt
/ta <2>
/tlt
/ta <8>
/tlt
/focustarget
/tle

Hello, I'm Warlic, I took a break for a few years, and just got back into the game. I was wondering if you can assign macros for group heals, and if so how would you write the commands to execute such commands. I've seen a lot of self heals and target of target heals but no group heals macros

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Originally Posted by Warlic

I've seen a lot of self heals and target of target heals but no group heals macros

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I'm confused as to what you're asking for. Medica, Helios, Succor, and the host of AoE oGCD actions are targetless actions; you don't need a macro for them--just push the button. Cure III is a single target spell with splash, so use <mo> or whatever you use for your single target heals. Ground target AoEs like Asylum and Earthly Star can be centered on a target with <mo><t><anyothertargettag>.

I'm amazed that people are still using, and even worse, suggesting multi-target macros. Have SE changed how macros work recently or are people just throwing out bad advice?

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Originally Posted by HachiHero

Hi all, first post, anyway...

I've been having an issues with my mouse over macros where I myself am being healed instead of the target. I know some other people have been having an issue as well, and a few quick google searches show me that either to have <mo> on its own, or remove anything like <t> or <me>.

I don't want to have to outright get rid of it since I love mouse over game play. I'm including the macro I currently use and maybe after seeing it someone can give me some sort of suggestion other then what I found via google:

/micon "Cure"
/ac "Cure" <mo>
/ac "Cure" <focus>
/ac "Cure" <t>

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I JUST posted about this. Don't use multi-target macros. You can't guarantee target order and as a result your heal will fallback to healing you instead (when it doesn't outright heal the wrong target).

Your macro should just be the <mo> action and you will never have that issue again.

EDIT: as an FYI it's the same for multi-action macros. So swifcast + rez can fail in just the same way and try to raise without using swifcast.

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Originally Posted by EaMett

I JUST posted about this. Don't use multi-target macros. You can't guarantee target order and as a result your heal will fallback to healing you instead (when it doesn't outright heal the wrong target).

Your macro should just be the <mo> action and you will never have that issue again.

EDIT: as an FYI it's the same for multi-action macros. So swifcast + rez can fail in just the same way and try to raise without using swifcast.

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Not all multi target macros fail.

I'm on controller, so mo isnt an option.
I instead use target and target of target for dps spells, so that I can tab through the party list for heals and not worry about the target of my dps spells, they simply go off on whoever the tank (usually) is targetting.
So of course, you can't cast stone on a party member...

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

Not all multi target macros fail.

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Mutli target macros for healing actions are always a bad idea, because of the way heals are programmed to coerce self targeting. This feature is there to facilitate healing during solo play, but causes problems in party play.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

Not all multi target macros fail.

I'm on controller, so mo isnt an option.
I instead use target and target of target for dps spells, so that I can tab through the party list for heals and not worry about the target of my dps spells, they simply go off on whoever the tank (usually) is targetting.
So of course, you can't cast stone on a party member...

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As Rongway stated, I assumed healing because macros for dps should be a no go from the start since they don't queue and you end up taking a serious dps hit. (and that's basically 90% of your uptime)

Basically:

- Don't macro your main dps skills
- Don't multi-target healing skills
- Don't multi-action (or make sure you understand exactly what you're doing and how macros work with the GCD)

Yeah doesn't paint a good picture for FF14 macros. They still have a lot of uses though for UI customisation, markers, some single target skills, etc.