Need opinions from fellow scholars.

Hello,
I've been experimenting a bit with macros and all. For instance, I macroed embrace with physick, adloquium, lustrate and leeches. I also put embrace on its own keybind, but I noticed most of the time it didn't work since embrace was already macroed to my main heals. Embrace was already being casted when I tried to use the keybind to heal a second target. So I've come to the conclusion that it'd be either one or the other, not both. What do you guys use and why do you like it that way?

I'm also thinking about putting rouse and whispering dawn together since I don't come across a lot of situations where I only use one or the other.

I was also wondering if Selene's buffs made a big difference in dps because to be honest, I haven't noticed much and that makes me want to use Eos at all times. What do you think?

I have the same things macro'd with Embrace. However, I still have Embrace on it's own button for various reasons. Sometimes, you just need a smaller heal, so you can just cast Embrace vs. the combo version.

Or sometimes, if you wanna heal two people at once, you can heal one with Embrace and then use your Physick on the other party member.

I also use the Rouse/Whispering Dawn combo, never use them separetely. The are on the same exact recast timer, so they work perfectly together.

Embrace is in between other healing spells on my hotbar and I'm using it whenever necessary. I left it this way so the Faerie can heal one target and me another.

Selene's buff is pretty noticeable in my opinion and lets you clear stuff faster, I'm using her for pretty much everything including Twintania and sometimes even Ifrit X.

The choice between the two is pretty much:

• learning content, allowing healers to make mistakes - Eos
• farming content, allowing your DDs to make mistakes - Selene

If you are on a pc you can set your macro up so that embrace is cast out mouse over target then normal target. That way you can have the tank selected cast physick and have your mouse over someone else and have the embrace go there or just make sure you don't have a mouse over and it all goes to the tank. It has a weird feel when you start because embrace has a longer cd than your other spells but once you get used to it, its extremely powerful.

For me, I never ever macro embrace on any of my other heals. I do however use a logitech G13 so I have everything keybinded on it, and embrace is with all my other heals. I treat it like a heal thats off the GCD.

If I want to cast a large heal on someone, after I hit physick, I hit it. If I want to top someone off after I shield, I hit it. DPS needs a spot heal? I hit it on mouseover while I cast on tank. I couldnt have such fine control if I had it tied to all my casts of other heals.

Some scholars dont like to micro manage the fairy to that extent, but I tend to treat the fairy like its abilities are mine....and never let it run around like a chicken with its head cut off - blowing all its cooldowns on the pull.

I tend to favor Eos over Selene just cause of all the theorycrafting I had read about how the haste buffs dont even amount to one extra cast a minute for blm and for melee its negligible. I think the buff to healing output, magic defense and group HoT far outweigh haste that may or may not be a benefit, since I can rest easy that those at least DO make a difference.

OP, feel free to check out the FC website in my signature, www.isisfc.org

We have a number of guides up there, and some on scholar too. Feel free to check them out.

i have embrace macroed to all my healing skills, also i have a rouse+WD macro, some times i use fey illumination before this macro and i have fey covenant macroed to succor

I am still a pretty fresh 50 sch, working on my relic as we speak. I use only a few macros, mostly for pet control though. Taking this one from another post i made in the healer forums for you.
/micon "Rouse"
/ac "Rouse"
/pac "Fey Illumination"
/wait 2
/ac "Succor" <me>
/pac "Whispering Dawn"
/p Super HoT Active <Gather Together.> <Please>
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really simple, effective macro. Other primary one is for selene silencing, which i was a bit surprised how easily you could use her for silencing. takes a very quick reaction time though, and praying she isnt in the middle of a heal when you need it.

If you wanna heal 2 targets, use the Embrace one first. That way she'll be casting a heal on her own target and won't go to heal yours when you cast Physick or whatever.

Or simply do 3 macro lines:
embrace with <mo>
embrace with <t>
Physick/Adl with <t>.

That way you can hover the mouse over the party list, and eos/selene will heal that person. If your mouse is not over someone else (either character or party list), embrace will hit the same target.
I use that, and it works really good.

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Originally Posted by Truefaith87

I am still a pretty fresh 50 sch, working on my relic as we speak. I use only a few macros, mostly for pet control though. Taking this one from another post i made in the healer forums for you.
/micon "Rouse"
/ac "Rouse"
/pac "Fey Illumination"
/wait 2
/ac "Succor" <me>
/pac "Whispering Dawn"
/p Super HoT Active <Gather Together.> <Please>
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I dont reccomend blowing all thoses cool downs at once, you might regret it when you really need it.

I Pair (Fey Illumination with Succor) & (Rouse with Whipering Dawn) separately and only use Whispering Dawn+Rouse combo when I need the extra healing.

Also, you dont need to put a wait command within those MACROs. Rouse is Instant and will hit before Eos Start Whispering Dawn & Fey Illumination will finish befoer your succor cast. When your CD are not up Your hurting yourself with a 2 sec delay everytime you use those macro for no reason.

my macro for those 2 looks like this.

Whispering Dawn
/micon Rouse
/ac Rouse <pet>
/pac "Whispering Dawn"

Succor
/micon Succor
/pac "Fey Illumination"
/ac Succor <me>

I have Embrace macro'd separately to all my other heals. I like the freedom to mouse over and heal a secondary target with it.
I do have a Physick+Embrace for heavy healing phases as well.

As stated above, a Rouse+WD macro is also great to have on the bar.

having embrace on its own key works very well to me, i actually have 2 macros for embrace, one to heal focus target and other to heal on mouse over. the focus target one allows me to focus healing the 2 tanks by myself to some extent when i don thrust the other healer *usually white mages, too shy to actually heal because they fear run out of mp* *this on coil btw*. when i really need both heals i just mouse over the name and press both physic <mo> and embrace to heal him, but then, chances are his hp will be already very low, and that would trigger the fairy heal by itself, if it is a sudden huge damage like mountain buster, better to just use lustrate....

for fairies i like having rouse and dawn in separate keys.. that just me though... *i usually have problems with macros that use multiple skills being cut in the middle and not activating the follow up skill... making me having to press the same key again multiple times till it goes off.... meaning i might as well have it on separete keys and knowing what i actiavted easier since it will ahve 2 different icons*

i have all my fairy's keybinds separately on their own.
feels like i have more control over it and can pick my own timing.
with macros if you end up having to move a lot (like post heart in titan ex) your macros get all messed up so I find it a fool proof way to guarantee that her skills will go through.
it might be a problem if you're not a pc user though

Great thread!
After playing with Scholar for the last 5 or so levels, I completely fell in love with the versatility of the Scholar Job!

I have obey/heel/embrace on < me > to get her on a leash and full control.
I have Physik and Embrace on macro. Allows for extra healing without any enimity. It's also a safe bet when needed.
I have not experimented with DPs, working on becoming an effective healer first, but will be using < tt > as part of the macro, target of target.
This will avoid having to switch off your current heal focus target (tank).

I've got Eos's Embrace on my hotbar by itself, and it's not macroed with any of my heals. I tried having Embrace + Physick macroed together, but I found it more useful for me to just use Embrace separately. I do have Rouse + Whispering Dawn macroed together; they're on the same cooldown and are just perfect to use at the same time. I often use Fey Illumination before a R + WD, but that's on its own key.

I use Selene, on sic (she manages her cds just fine), for pretty much everthing. I find Eos is pretty situational.

Times I use Eos:
- Phase 3 of T5. Fey Illumination + Rouse + Whispering Dawn is a huge help with the first set of snakes. And Fey Covenant is great to mitigate some damage from Aetherial Profusion.
- When in CT with a WHM who won't AoE heal (happens a lot actually).
- When duo-SCHing anything. Selene's buff don't stack, so one of you might as well use Eos. Again, Fey Illumination + Rouse + Whispering Dawn is awesome during stomps on Titan EX when there's no WHM.