Regarding Tip 3...

Macros are not a lifeline. Sometimes, they're a crutch that keeps you from realizing your full potential. Combining abilities like that makes you less versatile. The way to be a truly excellent Scholar is to work at pet management until you can manage your pet just as well as yourself.

The Rouse + Illumination + Whispering Dawn macro is an excellent example of wasteful macroing. There are very few situations where you actually need this much regen on the party. At any other point, pressing this button basically wastes two of your most valuable cooldowns and causes Eos to do a ton of overhealing. You can get around this by making the macro fully separate from the previous skills in an oft-forgotten place on a hotbar to reserve it as an "Oh crap!" button... or you could just press all three buttons whenever you think you actually need all three.

Macroing Embrace on your single target heals: do not replace Physick and Adloquium entirely on your skillbars with such things. Doing so is a huge mistake. Sure, you no longer have to worry about focusing your pet on a single target for maximum heals, but it also gives your pet trouble with, well, healing the rest of the party. The best way to combine something with Embrace is to order your pet during the cast time. Forcing both on a single target is something that is not often needed, and your fairy is usually just fine Embracing whoever she wants most of the time. Additionally, this macro blocks off the most flexible thing a Scholar can do: Give two party members good potency heals at the same time. They're already worse with AOE healing than White Mages, and being unable to freely control your pet separately from yourself only makes it worse.

Here are some nifty things you can do instead:

- Macro your DPS spells to also Embrace the Tank.
- Macro your pet to Embrace a party member you have Focus Targeted.
- Macro pet cooldowns prefixed with the "Stay" command to interrupt the Embrace your pet is currently casting. Yep, Selene can silence after all!
- (Not sure if you can actually do this) Macro Eos to move to a location and immediately use Whispering Dawn/Fey Illumination there.