Macro commands for White Mage

Been playing this game for a week as white mage.

What useful macro commands are there to make the life easier for healer?

I honestly use no macros as White Mage, except for a text alert macro on my Raise. There are some that exist, which basically involve copying an action with different targetting priorities (eg three lines of "\ac "Cure" <tt>", where the <tt> becomes <t> and <me> in subsequent lines, to help ensure the healing is targetting the tank where possible). But even those have downsides, and are certainly not necessary.

I do have one friend who has a Cleric Stance macro which automatically rotates one of their hotbars (I don't know the text) from healing to damage spells and vice versa on click.

I also don't have many macros for my White Mage.

If I had to recommend any macros, I'd suggest <tt> (target of target) macros for your attack spells. When you hit 50 on WHM, usually your attacks will be your AoE which doesn't need a target. But having a target of target macro for your single target spells will allow you to hit what the tank is hitting without having to unselect him. Meaning you can heal him quickly if needed. :)

I only have one macro for my WHM. It's just a combo of swiftcast and raise with a /p alert for other healers, so they don't burn swiftcast or stop to cast raise on the same person I'm casting on.

Everything else, I execute more more efficiently with my hotbars well arranged to my comfort.

A Virus macro is the only one I use

/micon "Virus"
/ac "Virus" <t>
/ac "Virus <tt>
/ac "Virus <f>

pretty handy but needs at times 2-3 clicks to go off.

Like others said, macros aren't needed for whm. A party alert for your raise is good though, to let the other healer know you're raising. I use something like this.

/macroicon "Raise"
/ac "Raise"
/p ( Raise ) <t>

An useful macro on ps3 for conjurer that I've been using is:

/ac Cure <tt>

I use it when dps-ing, usually the main target is the tank so I can heal without retargeting, it only saves one or two button presses but I find it useful.

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Originally Posted by Werhusky

pretty handy but needs at times 2-3 clicks to go off.

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This is true of anything you macro, and is the major danger of using macros. The big thing to remember if you decide to macro anything is that you lose the queueing effect that would give you some leeway on activating things.

To explain what that is, everything in the game can be considered to have a 'lockout' - for instance, you can't start casting another spell or blow a cooldown when you're busy casting something already, and the same goes for cooldowns like Virus or Benediction - they have an animation that plays, and you can't trigger another spell or cooldown until that's done. When you don't macro, trying to do another action during this 'lockout' time queues that action, so that it triggers immediately afterwards. If it takes 3 seconds to cast Stoneskin and you hit Divine Seal 2.5 seconds into the cast, well, Divine Seal can't go off right away because you're busy. But, Divine Seal will actually go off half a second later, when the spell is done, because it's been queued to occur. Macro actions cannot queue - so if you're in the middle of any animation whatsoever, the action simply won't go off.

I only have macros for Eye for an Eye and Raise text. I had a swiftcast/raise macro for a while but I didn't really like using it and honestly forgot it was there. After you get more comfortable with your hotbar/crossbar set up I doubt you will find a need for many, if any at all.

Keeping everything neat and in a comfortable location is key for any job. Keep your options open so you can adapt to any situation on the fly. :)

The macros needed to put targeting on the right side of your gamepad are demonstrated here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VR2_qJLZ1sg

The construction of those macros is shown here.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-8wg3W9KysU

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Originally Posted by Garlyle

This is true of anything you macro, and is the major danger of using macros. The big thing to remember if you decide to macro anything is that you lose the queueing effect that would give you some leeway on activating things.

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Yeah hence I as main sch macro fairy skills but NEVER would macro attack skills... you loose the queueing and thats horribly annoying >.>

Tried raise macro but with my latency you see the text in party but swift goes off too slow or other stuff happens so I gave up on this and just tell my co raisers which priority we use (also has swiftcast macroed but think that rather annoyed some people but was more relyable then raise macro).

It's not recommended to use macros for healing or DPS as WHM. The only macro I use on WHM is "/ac "Virus" <f>" that casts Virus on my focus target without me having to change targets from my current healing / DPS target. I only use it in very specific situations (for example in Turn 8 on Dreadnaught while keeping healing our only tank back then) and instead use Virus the normal way usually.

I created one macro for raises, but after trying it out a few times, I just ditched it. Why ? Because any lag, or sometimes positionnal issues (targeted player gets hidden all of a sudden?), or debuff (paralyze), or unique circumstances (cutscenes out of the blue in Castrum) will cause the macro to fail and causing the switchcast to go to waste.

Doing it by hand is by far more reliable.

Macros aren't very good for having one skill follow another. Their timing is inefficient, and they're too subject to being broken by lag or other interruptions for that to be a good idea. (The timing inefficiency was deliberately placed there by SE to ensure that players who play directly by manually activating each skill have the advantage over those who overuse macros.)

They can, however, be useful for things like situational targeting, where you'll have a skill apply to either your current target, your target's target, or your focus target, depending on who/what you have targeted at the time. They're also sometimes used to combine a party notification with a skill, like (as mentioned before) when a healer announces that she's casting Raise on someone so that the other healer in the party doesn't waste a Swiftcast on trying to Raise the same player. Those are the sorts of things they're most useful for.

I have to say I've learned some things from this thread...
I'm a roleplayer and I have some macros for "flavor" like a protect/stoneskin macro where I "/s I want to protect you all, please stay close." and other similar things. I only regularly use macros for big cooldowns like Swiftcast Raise and Benediction. And protection at start of dungeons. I have my aoes with macros that I use in fights for big mechanics to tell people to gather together... Not as cool as some of them, and the macros work for any big thing well enough.

It's generally recommended not to use macros. I had a tt one for virus since it is off gcd but found it unresponsive so I removed it. I also removed my text macros for raise because I found I had to spam the button before it would go off.

Is there anything specific you'd like to be made easier? Perhaps we can help. :)

Otherwise, as others have said, WHMs don't usually use macros except to announce things to the party. I main it as well, and have never felt the need for them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mPmX6fFpIOg

You can do everything, on one hotbar through macros (though not recommended).

I have only two macros that i use. One is an annoucement/swiftcast/raise macro, and the other is specifically for when I need to do full buffs (typically at the start of a dungeon or just before a boss) that does a /p Please Do Not Attack, Protect & Stoneskin II, then casts those two spells. not really super necessary but it is really convenient to have a 1-button PreFight Buff' button that you can poke and be done with it.

I have 4 macros but they are basically so I can look at the tank the entire time and still attack so I am not scrambling in the "oh no" moment pops.

/micon Stone/"stone II"/Aero/"Aero II"
/ac stone <tt>
/ac stone <t>

So regardless, if I am looking at the tank or not I still cast stone, i still see the cooldown

And of course the party alert with swiftcast+raise