Dear fellow Scholars. How do you hotbar?

[Risvertasashi]

Ehm... you've already decided which method you like best, not much point in arguing. Like I said, to each their own.

[Lyrica_Ashtine]

Ehm... you've already decided which method you like best, not much point in arguing. Like I said, to each their own.

Perhaps, I'm still interested in any advantages macroing them together has. If it has any at all. Laziness is no valid reason, mind you.

[Risvertasashi]

Well, since you mentioned this earlier... one thing that I like is that I can, actually, split heal with them macros. Taking advantange of that different cooldown: while I'm casting physic/adlo, target another person and push the button again when embrace is almost off CD and it will go on them.

Same when DPSing. While you're casting Bio II or miasma, or waiting on the GCD from bio or aero, push the button and your fairy will heal the person, but you can safely stay in cleric.

But honestly, I haven't found a need to split heal very often, at least not manually. If it's damage that isn't at risk of killing the DPS and won't be repeating again soon, Eos/Selene auto healing is sufficient. If it's not, then most often I want to bring my full healing power to bear--that means both an adlo and embrace, perhaps preceded by or following a lustrate. Yeah, the cooldowns are different, but you can push the button when embrace comes off CD too.

Levi EX and ramuh EX solotank are the exceptions to this so I do, as mentioned, use a slightly different setup for those. But most of the time, I've found it more of an advantage to focus healing, and get the fairy precasting, than to split heal. And when I do need to split heal, I still can.

I guess I should mention that I do have unmacro'd embrace on my main healing hotbar. But, at least to me, most of the time it just doesn't seem necessary. I can respect that not everyone sees it that way, however.

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