A few helpful healer(AST) Macros

Hey guys, just wanted to throw a few quick, useful macros out there that I frequently use in PVP...And sometimes PVE too! I use these literally every match, often several times a match, and I find that consistent use of them can make you a better player.

"Discard Macro": This macro is used when you draw useless cards that you neither want to use or royal road.

/micon "Redraw"
/statusoff "Spire Drawn"
/statusoff "Spear Drawn"
/statusoff "Ewer Drawn"
/statusoff "Balance Drawn"
/statusoff "Bole Drawn"
/statusoff "Arrow Drawn"

"Attunement Off Macro": This macro is used when you want to end your attunement early, without risking accidentally right-clicking off a different buff by mistake.

/micon "Attunement"
/statusoff "Attunement"

"MP Plz Macro": For informing your team in Solo Queue that you are out of MP, and asking BRD/MCH for MP Regain.

/p I am out of Mana! Manasongor ReportPlease! <se.6>

"Purify me or die Macro": For informing your team that you are CC'd (or have a plethora of lethal debuffs on you that NEED to be removed immediately)

/p I'm in trouble, <Purify> me please! <se.6>



These are just a few, but I think they are essential. Hope they help.

I would go as far as to add a macro asking for purify from a teammate. Its a long shot in solo queue but sound effects tend to get people's attention :^)

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Originally Posted by Exira

I would go as far as to add a macro asking for purify from a teammate. Its a long shot in solo queue but sound effects tend to get people's attention :^)

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Good point, will add.

Honestly, for me, the Attunement Off macro is a waste of space. Add an extra line to your discard macro for /statusoff "Attunement" and you have one button for all your /statusoff needs. This leaves you with extra real estate for another button.

In other words, I think it's easy to be overwhelmed by skill bloat for someone learning pvp and attempting to utilize the entire kit. While obviously it's more ideal to have two separate buttons, I think combining them gives players another option to free up space, while being 99% as effective.

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Originally Posted by Senndra

Honestly, for me, the Attunement Off macro is a waste of space. Add an extra line to your discard macro for /statusoff "Attunement" and you have one button for all your /statusoff needs. I'd rather have the extra real estate for another button.

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But what if you're holding a card when you attune? I never take the lazy route, as that card could be vital.

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Originally Posted by Renault

But what if you're holding a card when you attune? I never take the lazy route, as that card could be vital.

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I guess you could put it at the top of your macro before the cards.

But that discard macro is GOLD! I been looking for that for awhile now lol.

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Originally Posted by Renault

But what if you're holding a card when you attune? I never take the lazy route, as that card could be vital.

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Edited previous post with a broader explanation.

Serious question: Does this scenario happen often with you?

Honestly, this situation rarely happens for me, and I don't think it comes up often unless your strategy is to plan a draw immediately before attunement.

I started ast pvp a few weeks ago, and honestly, attunement usage seems very strategic. If I get caught being surprised by a burst and attempt to react with attunement, by the time the action registers, I'm already low on health. In this situation, the only thing attunement provided me was a few seconds to hopefully get Essential Dignity off of cooldown by the time attunement ends.

With that being said, I'm finding more usage from attunement trying to react more preemptively, looking at the obvious signs of the enemy popping cooldowns and targetting me. In this situation, by the time I pop attunement, I'm at a comfortable life level and the enemy successfully wasted their buffed attacks on me.

When looking at attunement usage in this way, I honestly can't recall an instance where I ever popped attunement with a card buff drawn. Card buffs are usually taken care of because everything was planned accordingly. When I realized this, I thought hey, this seems perfectly ok to just combine the two and move an extra button in the slot.

If you could provide your thoughts, I'd appreciate it. As someone newer to the pvp side of xiv and with as little discussion of it as it is, any feedback from a more experienced pvper is both helpful and appreciated.

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Originally Posted by Senndra

Edited previous post with a broader explanation.

Serious question: Does this scenario happen often with you?

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Yes. I draw on CD. Literally on CD. Like a religion. There is a good chance I may draw a card, then need to immediately attune. After I get out of attunement, that balance/bole/ewer could very well decide life or death.

Here's a good example of a situation I get in every now and again:

Getting focused, draw bole, immediately attune, end attunement early, cast essential dignity + bole for when they get back on me.

I'd say, in my opinion, it's better for a newer PVPer to not take short cuts, and do it the most efficient way up front. It will be easier in the long run, though more difficult at the start (if button bloat is a challenge for you.)

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Originally Posted by Renault

Here's a good example of a situation I get in every now and again:

Getting focused, draw bole, immediately attune, end attunement early, cast essential dignity + bole for when they get back on me.

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I don't disagree with this at all, but hopefully you can comment on my response just so I get a better idea of best actions to take.

Obviously the downside to attunement is that you can't do any actions while it's in effect. If you're getting focused and draw bole, do you find it best to save it for yourself after attunement? Currently I would throw it on the dps that I believe they'd switch to while I'm invulnerable. I think delaying my attunement by a quarter second to buff a party member while I'm inactive is a net gain, so long as I think it won't kill me. I can't do anything during it, after all. Or...do you find in the upper tier of pvp that they decide to stick on you rather than switch?

If you are banking on them sticking on you, do you find it a net gain to save the bole afterwards, or pop it beforehand on yourself? In this situation, would you rather utilize the full effect of bole afterwards and delay your next card draw, or pop it, still get 15-20ish seconds of bole + another potential card draw during the game?

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Originally Posted by Senndra

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It depends on the situation, but as a general rule I'd say that fraction of a second spent delaying your Attunement could be the difference between life or death. I find that higher skilled players will switch off of me when I attune, with full knowledge that I will come out soon, and promptly switch back, so delaying the use of the card would be more optimal, as then I have a second to decide if I want to buff myself or another (for bole).

Although, what it boils down to is that what I've posted simply works for me. By all means, if you think it will be better for you to use the combined macro, I encourage you to try it out.

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Originally Posted by Renault

It depends on the situation, but as a general rule I'd say that fraction of a second spent delaying your Attunement could be the difference between life or death. I find that higher skilled players will switch off of me when I attune, with full knowledge that I will come out soon, and promptly switch back, so delaying the use of the card would be more optimal, as then I have a second to decide if I want to buff myself or another (for bole).

Although, what it boils down to is that what I've posted simply works for me. By all means, if you think it will be better for you to use the combined macro, I encourage you to try it out.

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Thanks for your thoughts. I've tried it out and it's been working fine, but I think after this talk it's worth separating the two for the long run like you've said. Sure, it's a small change in effectiveness, but that's probably a couple more wins in my future compared to if I stuck to my old method.

I guess in general I have difficulty with having the proper mindset when it comes to cards. It's what defines our uniqueness and can apparently make or break games, but at the same time, I can't help but feel like they're inherently weak and barely make any difference unless they're boosted. Because of this, I tend to trash a lot of cards trying to fish for a good combo, potentially destroying my net gain from everything I throw away.

Cheers, Renault. Tuned into your stream once. Hopefully catch you again sometime in the near future.

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Originally Posted by Senndra

Cheers, Renault. Tuned into your stream once. Hopefully catch you again sometime in the near future.

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I want to continue streaming but the 10-30 minute queue times since ranking up have made it unappealing to watch, I'd think :(

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Originally Posted by Renault

I want to continue streaming but the 10-30 minute queue times since ranking up have made it unappealing to watch, I'd think :(

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I just got to gold myself, are my queue times gonna turn to custard now too? D:
(there's a lot less golds on the Primal datacentre too! ;-; )

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Originally Posted by NessaWyvern

I just got to gold myself, are my queue times gonna turn to custard now too? D:
(there's a lot less golds on the Primal datacentre too! ;-; )

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It's ok. I'll get there and try to help your queues out lol.

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Originally Posted by NessaWyvern

I just got to gold myself, are my queue times gonna turn to custard now too? D:
(there's a lot less golds on the Primal datacentre too! ;-; )

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Primal is a pretty small data center PVP wise compared to Aether. Took almost a week just to weed out the bronze from the top 100 lol. That being said im sure there will be more gold players later on its just gonna take longer here because of the population as well as the lower quality of players compared to the more hardcore data centers. Platinum and diamond (solo queue wise) on the other hand lol.............

/macroicon "Disable"
/ac "Disable" <mo>

Its a bit tricky to use but basically instead of clicking your target you hover over the target to disable.
The good thing about doing it this way is if your healing a party member the <mo> command makes it so you never leave your target when healing.

(so for example click party mate to heal through burst, hover over dragoon disable. Even though you Disabled you are still clicked on your party mate thanks to <mo>)

Of course the downside of using <mo> for disable is sometimes if your opponents are too clustered together you might Disable the wrong thing (like a healer) to aid with the macro I use "Highlight Potential targets" so I know thanks to the yellow outline that what i'm moused over is the correct target.

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Originally Posted by Vejjiegirl

/macroicon "Disable"
/ac "Disable" <mo>

Its a bit tricky to use but basically instead of clicking your target you hover over the target to disable.
The good thing about doing it this way is if your healing a party member the <mo> command makes it so you never leave your target when healing.

(so for example click party mate to heal through burst, hover over dragoon disable. Even though you Disabled you are still clicked on your party mate thanks to <mo>)

Of course the downside of using <mo> for disable is sometimes if your opponents are too clustered together you might Disable the wrong thing (like a healer) to aid with the macro I use "Highlight Potential targets" so I know thanks to the yellow outline that what i'm moused over is the correct target.

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Thanks! I don't personally use mouse overs but this is a very good tip! Will add.

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Originally Posted by jonbo

It's ok. I'll get there and try to help your queues out lol.

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You don't have to worry Indra, I'm not gold anymore.