SMN AOE and other micro management questions

[givemeraptors]

In terms of pets:

Titan and Ifrit and Selene work best on Sic.
Garuda and Eos work best on Obey.

If I find the opportunity to use Garuda's AoE I'll do so. It would probably be easiest to macro it to something like Shadowflare. Shockwave is good in FATES and solo content but then why wouldn't you be using Titan or Ifrit? Both are better for that stuff.

[Geracia2]

3. Not sure what you mean but those skill use by default.. no?

The second, third and fourth skills available beyond the base/default attack. so instead of having a cross bar spot for 3 different sets of 3 skills, i have just 3 macros that trigger differently based on what pet is out.

Titan and Ifrit and Selene work best on Sic.
Garuda and Eos work best on Obey.

Hmm never really thought to let Selene run on Sic, does she ever use silent on sic?

I have my Garuda's AoE macroed to my Bane, then I Rouse, Spur and RS bound to another macro to conserve hot bar space. Those are the only macros I use for SMN without totally gimping the job

Nice, i'll add that macro and get back some space on cross bar.

Also, a bit off topic but, 6 smn 2 sch levi ex?!? that sounds interesting

[givemeraptors]

Hmm never really thought to let Selene run on Sic, does she ever use silent on sic?

Selene rotates through Fey Glow and Fey Light perfectly on sic. Not having to micromanage those buffs takes a significant amount of pressure off of you as a healer, especially during healing intensive fights.

She does Silence but 99% of the time it's useless. She tosses it out whenever a mob starts casting and frequently it does nothing (mob is resistant, skill can't be silenced, etc.) However, there's still almost zero reason to manually control the skill unless your raid group lacks any combination of BRDs, MNKs and PLDs.