Getting the fairy to heal a highlighted player.

[LoganNinefingers]

@Evian: As you're a controller player, you're probably aware that anytime you use a Player Action on your soft-target, your soft-targeting system will proc, cancel, and focus back to your hard-target.

The issue you're having is that your own skill (Physick in your example) is proccing and then canceling your soft-target, making the next line act on the newly-re-targeted hard-target.

The nice thing is that pet actions don't cancel your soft-target (and I sincerely hope this never changes, as it's a huge part of my pet-microing muscle memory now!), so if you do the pet command first, you'll still be soft-targeted on whoever you selected, then your own action will proc, effectively "using up" your soft-target and popping back to your hard-target.

Simple fix should be to swap the order of commands, i.e.

/macroicon "Physick"
/pac "Embrace" <t>
/ac "Physick" <t>

etc.

Give it a go and see what happens!


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Side note: I don't recommend macroing pet heals in with your own heals at all - there're so many times a DPS or the OT need a very slight top-up and the MT only needs a single heal, at which point I Embrace the DPS/OT and Physick/Adloq the MT - saves over-healing and a whole GCD, even if the fairy heal is effectively cost-less.

My "big heal" button is just hitting q (Embrace) and w (Physick) on keyboard, or RT-A (Physick) and RT-B (Embrace), which takes a negligible amount of extra time over a single keypress.

In general, unless I know I'm gonna want to use an alternative Fairy action during the next global cooldown, I essentially hit Embrace immediately after any of my own GCD-triggering actions, which leaves plenty of time for weaving any off-CD abilities before the GCD rolls around again. If someone other than the MT isn't at 100%, I'll scroll down the party list to them (usually keep people I know will eat a plume just below the MT/OT) which takes less than half a second and Embrace them, otherwise it'll fire on the MT in case they take a little more damage in the meantime.

I find since switching to separating my own heals from Embrace it's much easier to manage the whole party's HP, since when it's lowish damage, we've effectively two heals to a WHM's single heal. Highly recommend trying it out for a bit.

[EvianEverdeen]

Simple fix should be to swap the order of commands, i.e.

/macroicon "Physick"
/pac "Embrace" <t>
/ac "Physick" <t>

etc.

Give it a go and see what happens!

Side note: I don't recommend macroing pet heals in with your own heals at all - there're so many times a DPS or the OT need a very slight top-up and the MT only needs a single heal, at which point I Embrace the DPS/OT and Physick/Adloq the MT - saves over-healing and a whole GCD, even if the fairy heal is effectively cost-less.

Your code swap worked beautifully and exactly the way I wanted it to work! Thanks! Also, I am liking my Embrace macro's to all of my player actions at the moment, haven't noticed any issues yet, so for now I'm going to stick with it

[A_Magical_Unicorn_Rider]

Wait… you use macros for that? I'm on console and I NEVER use macros. For anything. I've never used macros in any games I've played. I'm not too fond of the "click this and afk" method of playing. Seems too boring.

As far as getting the fairy to heal a highlighted player, just put pet to obey, highlight the target and use the pet heal command. After that, just switch over to your normal hotbars and DPS/heal, etc. that you would normally be doing. The fairy SHOULD be doing what you commanded it to do; if not, then it might be a bug/technical error that you might want to report?