Macro Help

[Demi_Goldheart]

Since Maero started this thread, I might as well ask stuff about macros in here.
As a PS3 player, I noticed that healer jobs are very unfriendly to gamepad + keypad setups. I know, some people will say "get a mouse + keyboard", but the whole point of playing on a PS3 is the gamepad, at least to me. Being as it is, I have some doubts:

I have a Scholar and I want to make a "buff" macro that works for my full party. Now, I can't cast protect and stoneskin on all party members, I don't have enough macro lines to add the last member, nor the pets.

This is command I use:

/ac "Protect" <me>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Stoneskin" <1>
/wait 4.0

And so on till member number 7.

Is there a way to cast that on all party members using less lines? Like a <1> - <8> sort of command?
15 lines are, aparently, not enough to make healers a friendly job for PS3 users to play on their gamepads. It's not pratical to change cross hotkeys and 16 buttons is simply not enough.

[Bixby]

It's not pratical to change cross hotkeys and 16 buttons is simply not enough.

Have you tried the R2+L2 option(s)? It lets you have other bar(s) set to both buttons at once. I wouldn't think that would be too hard to handle for pre-fight buff things like this at the least, if not in-combat abilities. 15 lines would be enough to SS the whole party even before the <wait.X> patch, and you could put Protect on its own button. You'll want to be able to re-protect a resurrected player mid-combat anyway.