Looking for SCH macros, key layout, and misc advice.

Looking to improve my pus... erm scholar game.
Home you pros here can tell me some good macros, possible rotations and key layouts you use.

Also looking for tips on how to heal in endgame dungeons like coil, where you have a 2nd healer, and everything is blowing up.

One main problem i have now, is missing visual cues because i am trying to heal everyone that needs it. Maybe moving stuff around on screen will help?

So tell me an example of when you miss cues because you're healing maybe I can help, one great thing about scholar is you have lustrate so you can dodge and still keep your tanks up, I have my fairy macros with physik and Aldo, so I cast my heal and even if I move to interrupt my cast my fairy still does embrace while I dodge
I also try to manage and burn aetherflows as they come soooo if I still have stacks of aetherflow while I can cast aetherflow ( like it's already been cooled down) I usually burn them depending the situation, if I have less than half mp I do energy drain then restock, if I'm good on mp use lustrate or bubbles as you see fit before restocking . Just a couple things I do that may help :p

Going to leave macros/layouts for others to comment on...however...

When you have a 2nd healer, first thing that affects my approach is if the other healer is WHM or SCH. With a WHM, you have a great synergy with skills and you can really lean on your shields such as Succor and Adlo while the WHM has some great AoE heals to cap off the party as a whole and Regen to keep the tanks moving. With a second SCH...you won't have the big bang heals that a WHM will have and your shields won't stack up...so when that happens I tend to pay a bit more attention to what the other SCH is casting, how often they shield the party/tanks and find if being more of a Physick spammer would compliment them better or if I'd be better off with a bit more shielding. Either way, a lot is reading how the other person heals and finding that synergy with them.

The fight also dictates it a bit. To be very basic, Turn 1 has a couple instances of tanks splitting up where it becomes very easy to split healing duties between you two. Knowing your own priorities will also keep you from having to make split second decisions. Sometimes it comes down to either a healer dropping or a tank dropping. Some fights you know you can get a healer back up and fight through weakness no problem, but a tank absolutely cannot fall. Other times, you can lose 1 tank and still be okay for a short time. DPS typically are at the back unless you're facing a rough DPS check that you won't clear without all DPS but can do so with 1 healer or 1 tank down.

As far as visual clues...you'll get used to them. For the most part I "know" roughly the HP% of my party members and can watch the screen for moves. I do have the boss on Focus Target to watch for special moves, and glance at HP bars for anyone who's hurting. Usually can pick up sudden drops through the corner of my eye as well. I always think to "stabalize" a person first. Often if you can make sure they don't die right away, your fairy will kick in and cap them off. You'll get to a point where you'll see something happen on-screen when you're watching the fight, and instinctively will look at the HP bar to see who got hit by the move...and have a stabilizing cure off instantly. AoE's are similar...you'll see it on-screen and have Succor going off already as you start to see if anyone is critical from the move, where you can fire off a lustrate to keep them up.

Hope this helps out some :) Feel free to shoot off any more questions!

I put the party list right next to my character. I can dodge and keep an eye on the party list without moving my eyes across the screen. ALWAYS try and place your fairy. They dont heal if theyre moving. Then you can use
/pac "Heel"
wait.1
/pac "Fey Illumination"
When u need the heal boost but your fairy is away from u. Also some people will tell u to macro whispering dawn and rouse together. Dont do it. Theres time when u will want to rouse your fairy but dont need the aoe heal. If u play on controller use the extended hot bars by holding R2/L2. I use macros there that allow me heal party members without scrolling
/ac "Physick" <me> up on controller
/ac "Physick" <2> left on controller
/ac "Physick" <3> down on controller and so on..
im on ps4 and have healed all content up to t9 heavens fall. any sch questions feel free to ask me

I just did a new scholar macro guide that I think you would like plus there are other guides on my channel

Macro guide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy4oBMjHLY0

Personally, I'm a fan of stacking your fairy skills with your main healing skills. Things like adding embrace and physick together make for a potent heal with no real down side. As for missing cues? that is simply something you need to learn with time. There is no quick and easy fix.

Marked for future reference.

I've been maining scholar since around December and I'm currently on T9 and there's a few things I can tell you.

- First, know the mechanics of the white mage and know how a white mage heals. Know what their forces and weaknesses are and try to make up for it. By that I don’t mean the players’ weaknesses, but the white mage job’s. If they’re any good they should know yours (as a scholar) too. For example, leave raid wide healing to the white mage. I’m not saying we can’t do it, but their spells are more suitable to that kind of situation. We have 2 AOE heals: succor and whispering dawn. Scholars work with shields; know the fights and when to shield a certain person or the whole raid for incoming damage. It comes with practice and experience.

- Try to time yourself to work on a 60 seconds “clock” to use your Aetherflow stacks wisely. In fights you don’t know you’d want to keep them for emergencies, and in fights you know, you’ll be able to use them for certain things. Many times a lustrate will be better than a sacred soil. I never found sacred soil to be super useful on a single target. When people are all stacked (Titan ex, T8…) it comes in handy. Using sacred soil can proc a free succor, it’s pretty cool when it happens. Only use energy drain if you have stacks left AND everyone is topped off. Don’t use it to recover mp, because it doesn’t give you enough to heal more than a lustrate would. You never want to sit on stacks when Aetherflow is off cool-down. Don’t forget to use it as soon as it comes off cool-down. It happened to me a few times. I forgot to reuse it and had no stacks in critical moments. Derp.

- Place your fairy. A moving fairy does not heal. There are often a few good spots to place her. You can experience with that. If you’re in a dungeon and place her somewhere, she’ll stay there. If you move out of her range, she withdraws and you’ll have to re-summon her again, so don’t forget to use heel too. Or you know, you can just re-summon I guess.
- Put Embrace on a key to use it separately. I also macro’ed embrace to my main heals (physick, lustrate, adloquium and leeches) but put it on the first “action” line of the macro; that means I can use Embrace first with the keybind to heal, say, target 1 and then cast a physick on target 2, healing two targets at the same time. If I don’t use embrace on its own before using physick, the fairy is going to heal the same target as me.

- Don’t macro rouse and whispering dawn together. Sometimes you’ll want to rouse your fairy without the aoe regen. Just put them close to each other on your keys just in case.
- There is no best fairy. It just depends on the situation. Progress content: play it safe with Eos. Stupid easy content (roulettes and stuff): you can use Selene on sic. Doesn’t really matter. You don’t know your co-healer: use Eos just in case. If you’re farming content and think you can trust the other healer after a few runs you can switch to Selene. Using her on obey or sic is up to you. You might want to keep her on obey to keep her cooldowns for things like dps checks and being able to control her embrace. Just never, ever use Eos on sic, always obey.

- If you’re using Eos, try to remember which attacks are dealing magical damage. For raid-wide magic damage, Fey Covenant is your friend.

- Fey illumination also affects the other healer. Try to use it when you’re both in range of Eos.

- If you command Eos to use either of her cooldowns while she is casting embrace, she won’t stop casting. She’ll finish her embrace and then begin to cast what you asked her. That’s why I have macros for her cooldowns that INTERRUPT her casts and tell her to cast what I’m asking. I don’t have access to my game right now, if you’re interested in those macros just tell me and I’ll post them.

- My summons are macroed to put Eos on obey automatically and Selene on sic. If I want Selene on obey I just click on obey, but since most of the time I’ll use her on sic, that’s what it’s macroed to. Same as above, just ask and I’ll post them.

-Your build is kinda up to you up to a certain point. It goes like this: mind (always put mind first) -> critical hit rate (adloquium’s shield DOUBLES on crit, and if your fairy crits, you have a 20% chance to get a buff that increases your casting speed for like 5 or 10 seconds, I don’t remember. Not really noticeable, but it’s there) -> either determination or piety (I’ll explain myself) -> spell speed. Determination affects how much you heal for and the amount of damage you do. It’s not as powerful as mind though. If I remember correctly, 1 point of mind equals around 4 points of determination, but don’t quote me on that. Most people say piety is garbage for scholar because if you’re playing correctly and don’t have complete idiot as a co-healer, (and don’t raise 2-3 persons in a row) you won’t need mage’s ballad or anything to get your mp back (this redirects to using Aetherflow correctly). The thing is, if you both dps (and keep all of your 5 DoTs up, meaning Bio II, Bio, Miasma, Shadowflare and Aero) and heal, you can get low on mp quickly. Piety affects the total of mp you have, but also the amount of mp you get back from Aetherflow, which can be a life saver in tight spots or when you dps and heal heavily. In the end it’s up to you, I guess.

- If you wanna dps, do it correctly. This means using Cleric stance. If you dps without cleric stance, it’s as if you did nothing. The more mind points you have, the more dps. Cleric stance switches your mind and intelligence points and gives you a damage buff. It also reduces your healing though. Lustrate, stoneskin and your fairy’s embrace are not affected by it, so use it them accordingly. Don’t bother with Miasma 2 unless it’s on multiple targets. On single target, it’s actually a dps loss. You want to use Bio II -> Miasma -> Bio (weave something in, like energy drain, virus, rouse, a potion, eye for an eye, Aetherflow…) -> Aero from white mage. Don’t bother with Blizzard II. Don’t forget about Shadowflare! Tip: you can use Ruin II to trigger your gcd and weave more stuff in. Not more than one thing per gcd though. It’s important to not let your DoTs fall off. If you’re ruin spamming and need to move, ruin II is your friend.

- You cannot use both Shadowflare and sacred soil at the same time; one cancels the other.

- Some people give summoners the priority to raise. I don’t quite agree with that. Summoners have less mp than scholars and are going to need it especially if there are tight dps checks. I prefer to give the priority to scholar, then summoner, then white mage. I guess it depends on the fight and your party composition and gear though.

- You can heal your fairy yourself and she can heal herself as well. I’m not too fond of sustain. It costs mp and is over time (it ticks 3 times before falling off). I often make my fairy use embrace on herself instead. I miss the time when it used hp instead of mp.

- For food, I like to use buttons in a blanket or black truffle risotto. Black truffle risotto is more expensive and isn’t that much better. If you’re the kind of person who wants the most out of things, feel free to spend gil on the risotto. I myself don’t care because I craft my own HQ 2 star food with a single click. I prefer to use accuracy food if I’m feeling fancy for leviathan ex or ramuh to dps. I rarely do it but thought I’d mention it. Since we’re healers our accuracy is MUCH lower, so we miss a lot on harder content. I’ll probably do a dps novus with accuracy on it just for that.

- Again, if you’re feeling fancy, you can use a mind potion while in cleric stance to boost your dps. Do it if they’re cheap or if you can make them yourself.

- Don’t forget that our versions of protect and stoneskin are weaker than a white mage’s. Our protect only gives physical protection (we have fey covenant for magical protection) and our stoneskin shields for 10% of the total hp instead of 18%, just like paladins.

- My cross class skills are as follows: protect, stoneskin, cleric stance, aero and swiftcast. Swiftcast is nice for raises, but it can save you in tight spots when you’re in need for a quick heal, or just to cast shadowflare instantly.

- Don’t underestimate Eye for an Eye and Virus. They’re awesome. There’s no use in using Eye for an Eye on someone who doesn’t get hit because it procs when the target gets hit. It cool on bosses but really cool when a tank is aoe tanking. Virus is a huge help when big hits are incoming, or when a tank has to tank two things that hit like trucks (T4 and T8 dreadnoughts). I macroed Virus and Eye for an Eye to give a warning in party chat qith a sound effect so the summoner/white mage/black mage doesn’t use it at the same time and waste theirs. As a cross-class skill Virus loses a part of its mitigation, so yours will be stronger than a black or white mage’s. The only difference with your E4E and the cross-class one is the shorter cooldown.

- A roused fairy is like a fairy on coke. I know a lot of scholars who forget about Rouse. It’s actually really useful.

- Double scholar healing is possible, it just requires a bit more communication. The big inconvenience is that your shields don’t stack with another scholar’s. You also can’t use the same fairies because their buffs will overwrites each other. The only exception is whispering dawn. So two Selene is a nono, two Eos isn’t as bad but Selen and Eos together are the best.

If there’s any stupid mistake blame my French. I know I started this post with “there’s a few things I can tell you”, but I ended up getting too…passionate.

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Originally Posted by Hivernica

If there’s any stupid mistake blame my French. I know I started this post with “there’s a few things I can tell you”, but I ended up getting too…passionate.

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Actually, as a WHM with no SCH experience (and I've have only ever silently pugged with SCHs) that is considering poking at SCH class soon, I found that your info and insight is -incredibly- helpful! :D Thank you!

Also - I didn't see any language mistakes, really - I wouldn't have known otherwise :D

I'm glad it helped at least one person. I really love the scholar job so it didn't feel like a chore to write all that, but yeah I'm happy it helped ^^

Hivernica pretty much pointed out most of the points, I'll just specifically repeat this one:

for the love of god, please do NOT macro your fairy abilities with ANYTHING. Be it rouse + Whispering dawn, Physick with Embrace. Do not macro ANYTHING.

You'd want full control over your fairy (and your own abilities). You may want to pre-rouse the fairy and use whispering Dawn later. Or just Rouse in general or just Whispering Dawn in some cases. Sometimes you want to cast Physick on the tank and have Embrace on a DPS that got nicked by a little bit of damage. The Embrace CD timer is also different than your own and the fairy sometimes casts Embrace randomly at someone who got damaged. This can be a real annoyance if you're expecting to heal for 700 potency worth and the fairy isn't casting at all or is late.

Q embrace
E physik
R adloq
T lustrate
F succor
G aetherflow
z,x,c DOTS
V ruin II
B energy drain

the rest goes on 1-5 and F1-F5.

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Originally Posted by Lyrica_Ashtine

Hivernica pretty much pointed out most of the points, I'll just specifically repeat this one:

for the love of god, please do NOT macro your fairy abilities with ANYTHING. Be it rouse + Whispering dawn, Physick with Embrace. Do not macro ANYTHING.
You'd want full control over your fairy (and your own abilities). You may want to pre-rouse the fairy and use whispering Dawn later. Or just Rouse in general or just Whispering Dawn in some cases. Sometimes you want to cast Physick on the tank and have Embrace on a DPS that got nicked by a little bit of damage. The Embrace CD timer is also different than your own and the fairy sometimes casts Embrace randomly at someone who got damaged. This can be a real annoyance if you're expecting to heal for 700 potency worth and the fairy isn't casting at all or is late.

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I have mine macroed together but stated a way to still heal two targets at the same time. You just need to put embrace on a different key and /pac Embrace first in your macro. You use your embrace keybind first on let's say, a dps and then cast your physick on the tank. Your fairy is already casting her embrace so she won't heal the tank, only your physick will go through.

Oh, for sake of helping the one asking:

I have all my fairy keybinds on my mouse (15 buttons on my mouse). Although you do not need all of them there. The most important ones would be to have Embrace and perhaps Place on your mouse. Having embrace on the mouse allows you to button smash that as much as you want (muscle memory comes in mind) and place is just more comfortable for myself to have on the mouse. Having the "button smash" key on the mouse also prevents your left hand from being trigger happy (remember: Muscle memory)

` (or whatever button you have next to the 1) is "Heel"
mouse button for embrace
mouse button for place

So general rule of thumb:
Left hand character control
Right hand fairy control (with exception of heel)

Even if you don't have a mouse with UMPH amount of buttons, you can always manually click on the icons. (You can just make a hotbar for it and place it somewhere easily accessible)

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Originally Posted by Hivernica

If you command Eos to use either of her cooldowns while she is casting embrace, she won’t stop casting. She’ll finish her embrace and then begin to cast what you asked her. That’s why I have macros for her cooldowns that INTERRUPT her casts and tell her to cast what I’m asking. I don’t have access to my game right now, if you’re interested in those macros just tell me and I’ll post them.

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I'm interested.

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Originally Posted by Hivernica

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I too appreciate your passion! I love hearing other peoples play style and comparing it to my own, and modifying it for an optimum set up.

I had Embrace macro'd with Adloquium but I took it off and I only have embrace macro'd to Physick for the main heals. I must next really learn how to utilize embrace between the GCD.

I believe the marcro code for what he spoke of is (keep in mind I use a ps3, so I will include a mouse over macro but this was just off the top of my head)

/micon "embrace" pet
/pac "heel" pet
/pac "embrace" <mo>
/pac "embrace" <t>

I have access to my game right now, so here are my macros. Just remember that if your fairy isn't placed, she'll stay where she is and won't move afterwards. You can either press heel or add a heel at the end of the macro. If you add a heel and place your fairy, you'll have to place her again after she's done casting. Up to you.

Fey Illumination

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/micon "Fey Illumination" pet Eos
/pac Stay
/pac "Fey Illumination"

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Fey Covenant

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/micon "Fey Covenant" pet Eos
/pac Stay
/pac "Fey Covenant"

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Whispering Dawn

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/micon "Whispering Dawn" pet Eos
/pac Stay
/pac "Whispering Dawn"
/wait 3

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The wait 3 is the cast time so she doesn't cancel her own cast and waste whispering dawn.

Selene summon

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/micon "Summon II"
/ac "Summon II" <me>
/wait 2
/pac Sic
/wait 7
/pac Sic

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The wait 7 is for when swiftcast is down and you don't have a fairy already summoned. If you want Selene on obey automatically, just change the sic for obey

Eos summon

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/micon "Summon"
/ac Summon <me>
/wait 2
/pac Obey
/wait 7
/pac Obey

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I checked and I was actually wrong with my physick+embrace macro, embrace comes in second.

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/micon Physick
/ac Physick <mo>
/pac Embrace <mo>

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So I can use embrace on its own first and then physick to heal two targets, or just physick to cast both physick itself and embrace on the same target.
I play with mouseovers, so my "embrace keybind" is

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/macroicon "Embrace" pet
/pac Embrace <mo>

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The only problem here is that you can't interrupt her embrace, because of the cooldown. If you added a "stay" to interrupt her, you'd have to keep smashing the button until it's off cooldown or wait until it's off cooldown to reclick it again. I prefer to let her finish her thing. It's up to you though, you're free to add a "stay" before the /pac embrace if you want. It's a matter of preference I think.

Also, Lyrica is right about muscle memory. I have a similar mouse. Put stuff you use together close to each other.
Just remember that nobody is "perfect". You can experiment and find what you prefer.

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o..m..g.... why didn't I think of using "stay" ??? /facepalm

also:
/micon "Whispering Dawn" pet Eos
/pac Stay
/pac "Whispering Dawn"
/wait 3

THANK YOU!

Hahaha, glad to help :3

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Whispering Dawn
/micon "Whispering Dawn" pet Eos
/pac Stay
/pac "Whispering Dawn"
/wait 3

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First of all, thank you for sharing. You posted a lot of great tips. I have a couple of questions on this macro:
1. What is the Stay for?
2. My understanding of wait is that is simply a delay before the next line of the macro is executed, not a pet command. Since there isn't a next line in the macro, I don't see how it is doing anything.

K so just started getting into this SCH thing, and I am enjoying it. The macros you provided are nice, but are main for micro managing your fairy yes?

So far I haven't had to micro too much. In boss battles I'll place her in proximity to tank and DPS and she does well. At times I will tell her to Whispering Dawn or Illuminate, but then she goes right back to what she was doing. So far all seems well.

If I want her to Embrace on a specific target though, just so I know I understand, I would have to have them targetd then click embrace or do I need a <t> macro set up for that. Would select target <st> work, I am not sure if I can handle <mo>.

Thanks in advance for the advice.

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Originally Posted by giantslayer

First of all, thank you for sharing. You posted a lot of great tips. I have a couple of questions on this macro:
1. What is the Stay for?
2. My understanding of wait is that is simply a delay before the next line of the macro is executed, not a pet command. Since there isn't a next line in the macro, I don't see how it is doing anything.

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The stay is to interrupt her if she's already casting embrace. As for the wait, I'm not sure myself. I always thought the wait meant to wait 3 seconds and then consider the macro finished and resume her thing.

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Originally Posted by Synestr

K so just started getting into this SCH thing, and I am enjoying it. The macros you provided are nice, but are main for micro managing your fairy yes?

So far I haven't had to micro too much. In boss battles I'll place her in proximity to tank and DPS and she does well. At times I will tell her to Whispering Dawn or Illuminate, but then she goes right back to what she was doing. So far all seems well.

If I want her to Embrace on a specific target though, just so I know I understand, I would have to have them targetd then click embrace or do I need a <t> macro set up for that. Would select target <st> work, I am not sure if I can handle <mo>.

Thanks in advance for the advice.

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I don't use target macros except for Virus because I'm am very rarely targeting a party member, pretty much always the boss or a mob. I think you can put embrace on a key, select your target (click it) and then press the button. I don't think you need a macro for that. I use a macro because I'm a mouse over player.

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Originally Posted by Hivernica

The stay is to interrupt her if she's already casting embrace. As for the wait, I'm not sure myself. I always thought the wait meant to wait 3 seconds and then consider the macro finished and resume her thing.

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Macros interrupt each other's execution, and don't affect non-macro abilities in any way, so a /wait or <wait> really only does anything within its own macro. It's just telling the game client not to send the next line in the macro for that many seconds. If you use another macro or ability during that 3 seconds, it will still execute, and it won't effect your pet's behavior in any way.

Said another way: There's no way for the macro to know you're telling your pet to wait 3 seconds. The next command (after that wait) could be a character spell, a pet spell, a configuration command, a line of chat, etc. Waits are commands for the game client, not characters or pets.

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Originally Posted by Hivernica

The stay is to interrupt her if she's already casting embrace. As for the wait, I'm not sure myself. I always thought the wait meant to wait 3 seconds and then consider the macro finished and resume her thing.

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I'm going to have to try that. I've tried to do the same thing with Steady, but that is unreliable because it only interrupts if she was on obey or sic. I'll post after I get around to testing.

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Originally Posted by Bixby

Macros interrupt each other's execution, and don't affect non-macro abilities in any way, so a /wait or <wait> really only does anything within its own macro. It's just telling the game client not to send the next line in the macro for that many seconds. If you use another macro or ability during that 3 seconds, it will still execute, and it won't effect your pet's behavior in any way.

Said another way: There's no way for the macro to know you're telling your pet to wait 3 seconds. The next command (after that wait) could be a character spell, a pet spell, a configuration command, a line of chat, etc. Waits are commands for the game client, not characters or pets.

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Thanks! I'm always looking to learn more, and that's a good thing to know.

A nifty little macro that I've used for a long time that I don't see mentioned often is:

/pac "Place"
/pac "Heel"

Usually the game wouldn't allow both actions to queue up but since Place only gives a reticle and doesn't commit an action you can effectively have the benefit of both and save yourself a hotbar slot. Plus I personally find fairy movement to be more fluid with this macro when moving to avoid certain AoE's since pets sometimes feel like they have this slight wind-up before they start moving which ends with them getting hit anyways. I find it less apparent with this macro as heel will kick off the wind-up as you confirm the new placement, but that could be just bias since I've used it for so long.

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Originally Posted by giantslayer

I'm going to have to try that. I've tried to do the same thing with Steady, but that is unreliable because it only interrupts if she was on obey or sic. I'll post after I get around to testing.

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If you want to use steady/ guard to interrupt casts simply add them on the same line like so:

/pac Steady
/pac Guard
/pac ~fairy skill~

With this it'll interrupt embrace with w/e stance isn't active at the time if you want to avoid using Stay/Heel. Just keep in mind this will pop up that annoying error message/ sound so it's up to ya~

Cool. Thanks for the reply. I got it figured out.

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Originally Posted by Hivernica

I'm glad it helped at least one person. I really love the scholar job so it didn't feel like a chore to write all that, but yeah I'm happy it helped ^^

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I came to this thread to try to learn how to be a more effective SCH, because I don't feel like I am doing a very good job at it, atm, and your post was incredibly helpful!

And your English is excellent!

As a 50 SCH who is ok on healing but still learning the small details that make a difference in endgame content, I have the question if there is any way to set a macro to use a skill on the focus target? On ps3i t would be nice to be able to use virus on the boss without having to switch targets from the tank I am trying to heal >.<
That and if there is a macro command to use a skill on pet without targetting them?

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As a 50 SCH who is ok on healing but still learning the small details that make a difference in endgame content, I have the question if there is any way to set a macro to use a skill on the focus target?

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/ac "Virus" <f>

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That and if there is a macro command to use a skill on pet without targetting them?

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/ac "Stoneskin" <pet>

I have macros designed to swap out their skills and put them on obey after summoning to help save on space.

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/macroicon "Summon"
/ac "Summon"
/crosshotbar pet "Fey Covenant" 2 13
/crosshotbar pet "Fey Illumination" 2 14
/crosshotbar pet "Whispering Dawn" 2 16
/wait 7
/pac "Obey" <me>

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/macroicon "Summon II"
/ac "Summon II" <me>
/crosshotbar pet "Fey Glow" 2 13
/crosshotbar pet "Fey Light" 2 14
/crosshotbar pet "Silent Dusk" 2 16
/wait 7
/pac "Obey" <me>

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Originally Posted by Manuka

A nifty little macro that I've used for a long time that I don't see mentioned often is:

/pac "Place"
/pac "Heel"




If you want to use steady/ guard to interrupt casts simply add them on the same line like so:

/pac Steady
/pac Guard
/pac ~fairy skill~

With this it'll interrupt embrace with w/e stance isn't active at the time if you want to avoid using Stay/Heel. Just keep in mind this will pop up that annoying error message/ sound so it's up to ya~

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The stay/heel macro works like a champ.

I can't get the steady/guard macro to work. It can't take those changes that quickly back to back and only does one. Have you done this successfully with a macro?

Stay works like a charm for interrupting the faerie, and also works for macros. Heel also works for that purpose.

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Originally Posted by Renen

Also looking for tips on how to heal in endgame dungeons like coil, where you have a 2nd healer, and everything is blowing up.

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Your other healer will usually be a white mage. The heavy lifting is his job. It is primarily his job to fill those health bars back up. Your job is primarily damage mitigation and strategic use of cooldowns. That means keeping succor up at all times, especially before and after a big hit. That means using sacred soil and/or fey covenant when a lot of damage is coming. Use lustrate to keep people from dying. Use faerie cooldowns when they are most needed.

When "everything is blowing up," my ace in the hole is fey illumination, because (if everyone is in range) it buffs me, my faerie, and the white mage's heals by 20%. Rouse + Whispering Dawn is my other ace, if I think we still need more or if the white mage is out of commission. I try not to blow them both at once unless it is necessary.

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Originally Posted by giantslayer

I can't get the steady/guard macro to work. It can't take those changes that quickly back to back and only does one. Have you done this successfully with a macro?

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I just tested it out using Whispering Dawn written as so:

/pac Steady
/pac Guard
/pac "Whispering Dawn" <me>

I had her use embrace and once I pressed the macro she switched to Guard from Steady, interrupting her Embrace and performing WD soon afterwards so it appears to work. Also I'm not sure what you mean by back-to-back, like are you trying to put them back into their original Stance (ie. Steady>Guard>Steady) in one macro? If so then yeah that won't work, but there's really no need to do that as after the pet behaviour changes Guard and Steady are functionally identical in every way now.

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Originally Posted by Manuka

I just tested it out using Whispering Dawn written as so:

/pac Steady
/pac Guard
/pac "Whispering Dawn" <me>

I had her use embrace and once I pressed the macro she switched to Guard from Steady, interrupting her Embrace and performing WD soon afterwards so it appears to work. Also I'm not sure what you mean by back-to-back, like are you trying to put them back into their original Stance (ie. Steady>Guard>Steady) in one macro? If so then yeah that won't work, but there's really no need to do that as after the pet behaviour changes Guard and Steady are functionally identical in every way now.

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When I did it, she would switch to steady, but would not switch back to guard. Here is why this is important: if Eos is already in Steady, then issuing the Steady command will not cancel anymore. That means the macro will work the first time you cast it, but not the next time.

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Originally Posted by giantslayer

When I did it, she would switch to steady, but would not switch back to guard. Here is why this is important: if Eos is already in Steady, then issuing the Steady command will not cancel anymore. That means the macro will work the first time you cast it, but not the next time.

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I'm not sure what's happening on your end as I tested it again before server went down and it worked fine. Since the active stance (Steady in this case) is grayed out and simply spits out an 'in use' error message the macro shouldn't consider it an action and should 'skip' to Guard. I successfully broke embrace and casted WD four times with this macro with no issue hopping between stances. Maybe double check that the Guard line is written correctly, I know I've made that mistake before lol

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Originally Posted by Aeviot

As a 50 SCH who is ok on healing but still learning the small details that make a difference in endgame content, I have the question if there is any way to set a macro to use a skill on the focus target? On ps3i t would be nice to be able to use virus on the boss without having to switch targets from the tank I am trying to heal >.<
That and if there is a macro command to use a skill on pet without targetting them?

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You could also use the <tt> command, <targetstarget> if you have the tank selected.

So:
/micon "Virus"
/ac "Virus" <t>
/ac "Virus" <tt>

I have it set up that way so that if I am targeted on a mob, it uses the skill, if targeted on tank, then it hits his/her target.

Hope it helps.

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Originally Posted by Manuka

I'm not sure what's happening on your end as I tested it again before server went down and it worked fine. Since the active stance (Steady in this case) is grayed out and simply spits out an 'in use' error message the macro shouldn't consider it an action and should 'skip' to Guard. I successfully broke embrace and casted WD four times with this macro with no issue hopping between stances. Maybe double check that the Guard line is written correctly, I know I've made that mistake before lol

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It does work. I finally understand it. My confusion was I didn't know that changing from Steady to Guard also cancelled Embrace, so I thought the macro had to reset back to Guard for the next one to work.

Manuka, you are a genius. This is basically a perfect interrupt macro for faeries. Thank you!