Scholar gimped by macros?

[Manuka]

Has never been that way. The one way you prevent them from doing nothing is to spam any pet command (usually Stay, Heel, or Obey). Interrupts casting.

Actually prior to 2.1 Steady would prevent your fairy from doing any actions including Embrace (I believe) while Guard was basically a semi-Sic stance where your fairy would blow her CD's. It's the reason Summon macro's back then had an Obey> Steady combo mixed in to prevent her from doing so. However 2.1 made Steady and Guard functionally identical so it doesn't matter what you go with now.

/micon "Whispering Dawn"
/pac Steady
/ac Rouse
/pac "Whispering Dawn" <me>
/wait 6
/pac Guard

I wouldn't use the /wait 6 > Guard. It can easily get broken if you use any other macros, I suggest this:

/micon "Whispering Dawn"
/pac Steady
/pac Guard
/ac Rouse
/pac "Whispering Dawn" <me>

It'll give you the desired effect you want since the Steady and Guard lines will jump to whichever one isn't grayed out then proceed to cast WD as normal.

[Kaisha]

Actually prior to 2.1 Steady would prevent your fairy from doing any actions including Embrace (I believe)

Fairy always embraced regardless of stance from 2.0 onwards.

As for pet macros, I never use them, because all my primary actions are all macro's (mouse-over goodness), so the last thing I want is physick cancelling out something I need my pet to do.

[Manuka]

Fairy always embraced regardless of stance from 2.0 onwards.

As for pet macros, I never use them, because all my primary actions are all macro's (mouse-over goodness), so the last thing I want is physick cancelling out something I need my pet to do.

Ah my mistake then, I got into Sch later in the game so I didn't get to experience 2.0 fairy much. Also you don't have to worry about your macro's cancelling your fairy's actions if you did use'em. Fairy macro commands operate independently from yours so they can even share the same 'line' in a macro without overwriting each-other. However using another macro while a /wait is in process will break it which is why I avoid them, also they're much slower.

[peaches]

...You do know what "round up" means? Saying 2.5 works where 2 doesn't... doesn't prove anything. Because 2.5 rounds up to 3.

Make a wait 2.5 macro. Make a wait 3 macro. Watch it be exactly the same.

Wow, someone is snarky. No need to be hostile. Okay so decimals don't work. Does this make you feel like a big man? Well congrats, your comment was nearly as pointless a "FIRST1!!" comment.

[SeraviEdalborez]

I'm not sure where the snark is. I said decimals don't work. You said they did. I said that. Here we are.

Am I wrong?

[Lyrinn]

Personally, the only healing macro I use is physick+embrace, because as a WHM main it's what feels the most natural to me (I pre-cast/cancel all the time). I find that comboing embrace onto everything locks the fairy up too often to reliably use its skills. For DoTs and Ruin (II) though, I use attach <t> and <tt> so I don't have to click off of whoever I'm healing.

[Hilaroux]

Actually prior to 2.1 Steady would prevent your fairy from doing any actions including Embrace (I believe) while Guard was basically a semi-Sic stance where your fairy would blow her CD's. It's the reason Summon macro's back then had an Obey> Steady combo mixed in to prevent her from doing so. However 2.1 made Steady and Guard functionally identical so it doesn't matter what you go with now.



I wouldn't use the /wait 6 > Guard. It can easily get broken if you use any other macros, I suggest this:

/micon "Whispering Dawn"
/pac Steady
/pac Guard
/ac Rouse
/pac "Whispering Dawn" <me>

It'll give you the desired effect you want since the Steady and Guard lines will jump to whichever one isn't grayed out then proceed to cast WD as normal.

Yea that should work too! but I hadn't any problems with wiat 6 till now. Maybe because I use only macros on fairy so I never spam her skills one after another.

[Axlle10]

I'm not sure where the snark is. I said decimals don't work. You said they did. I said that. Here we are.

Am I wrong?

"you do know what round up means?" thats a whole lot of snark right there. All you had to state was that 2.5=3 in macros without needing to question someones intellect.

The best way to do it ive found is to macro Embrace on an adlo and phys, then leave an embrace all by itself (INCREDIBLY helpul for healing OT in Levi EX) also the rouse/whispering dawn is perfect too since they are on the same 60s cd. I like to keep Fey Illum for when i know i will need it so i dont macro that to anything. As scholars we are first and foremost Tank healers, if you have a whm in the party you really shouldnt need to heal up other party members that often with a single target heal so leaving a non macro heal is kind of a waste of hotbar space imo. But this is all up to you. I recommend at the LEAST macroing physic and embrace so you can single heal better. adlo is not as important because of the shield and can be wasted if you are using it to only prevent damage and not heal+prevent.

[Logo]

I'm not sure where the snark is. I said decimals don't work. You said they did. I said that. Here we are.

Am I wrong?

You are actually wrong, decimals do technically work.
They just round up.