Wall of text warning... End game schar healing

[AzucenaC]

This is really helpful and I thank all for posting this.

After getting my SMN up to 50 I was like why not get another insta-50 with SCH? Now I have only done a few of the high end dungeons and some scenario roulette, but I do see that healing with a SCH is a lot different than I expected it to be. I had gone into SCH with the basic healing premise of keep party alive, which I realized after a few runs, does not work so well. I also noticed the huge difference in pet management (only being able to hit "Obey" while targeting an enemy is super silly) compared to Garuda-Egi. I wish there was a way to adjust the embrace to 80% instead of 70%.

Now I don't have any of my pet's abilities done as macros as I was informed that Eos is "pretty good" about using them, but from experience, she tends to not do a whole lot haha. I'm also trying to figure out how best to set up my hotbars and number order.

I do want to get better at being a Scholar so again this is all very helpful!

(got to the 1000 Character limit....so annoying lol)

[Ninix]

This is really helpful and I thank all for posting this.

After getting my SMN up to 50 I was like why not get another insta-50 with SCH? Now I have only done a few of the high end dungeons and some scenario roulette, but I do see that healing with a SCH is a lot different than I expected it to be. I had gone into SCH with the basic healing premise of keep party alive, which I realized after a few runs, does not work so well. I also noticed the huge difference in pet management (only being able to hit "Obey" while targeting an enemy is super silly) compared to Garuda-Egi. I wish there was a way to adjust the embrace to 80% instead of 70%.

Now I don't have any of my pet's abilities done as macros as I was informed that Eos is "pretty good" about using them, but from experience, she tends to not do a whole lot haha. I'm also trying to figure out how best to set up my hotbars and number order.

I do want to get better at being a Scholar so again this is all very helpful!

(got to the 1000 Character limit....so annoying lol)

Eos used to be "pretty good" pre 2.1 when manually placing her would cause her to chain-cast Embrace and spam the shit out of it on injured party members. She had instant reaction time and immediately start recasting Embrace as soon as it went off cooldown. Now in 2.1 she isn't as good at this and will often sit around doing nothing for a bit and seems to have a built in delay in her autocasting to make it less efficient. She's also as dumb as ever when it comes to her cooldowns, so you should definitely be controlling those manually. Just get used to targeting an enemy and pressing Obey+Heel every time you resummon her or change zones. It helps if you keybind it.

I macro Embrace into Physick so I can make each one heal for about as much as a Cure II. I *also* have Embrace keybound so I can split healing between two targets when I need to (tell Eos to heal on one target, then use Physick on another, since she's already mid-cast the Physick macro won't interrupt her).

You don't really need macros for her cooldowns. In fact, they don't seem to work very well when you do use macros for them. Just drag them onto your bar from the Pet Actions panel and use them like any other ability. Rouse is great and will increase your healing output significantly when you use it (if you have Embrace macroed to Physick), and Fey Illumination will increase the healing output of you, your fairy, and the other healer if they're nearby. It's incredibly good. I usually pop Whispering Dawn and Rouse at the same time too, since they're on the same cooldown and Rouse makes a pretty big difference in the heal over time.