PS4 Scholar Macro Question.

[Cynfael]

uh, why is that? >_>
I've always macro'd embrace with adlo/physick, and i've never had any problems healing, unsless I go full derp mode xD

If you're quick to interrupt your casts to split heal as necessary it isn't as bad as all that, but mouse over gives you superior flexibility. Once I got used to Embrace<mo>, I never looked back.

[DarkerOrange]

Cynfael beat me to it. Have a pet for healing gives you so much flexibility, and tying its casts to you GCD removes all of that. Need your fairy to heal the same target as you? Create a <mo> and <t> macro for Embrace and press that button. Same goes for healing other targets, which you can't really do with Embrace locked to your GCD.

[Defteros]

eh, from PS4, MouseOver macros are a huge problem >_>

[Cynfael]

Just to add one more thing, not needing to confirm clicks on both of your split heal targets speeds up your process considerably.

Heal+Embrace:

1. Click target, initiate heal, tap movement key to interrupt.
2. Click primary target, cast heal while fairy is Embracing secondary target.

Embrace <mo>:

1. No need to change target; <mo> secondary targets as needed.

[VanilleFang]

I play sch on ps4 and have no problem. You just need to know what stuff ur not going to use. My 1st hotbar is healing spells, pet spells and aetherflow stuff. 2nd has pets, rez and cooldowns. Macro ur dots and remove bane and either ruin.

Do NOT listen to this guy. At all. You should have all of your abilities (and pets') on your hotbar, that's why they take 3. If you aren't using 3 Cross Hotbars as a SCH you aren't using enough. I'd explain my hotbars but its a bit messy. Its mainly:

#1 = Most used abilities (Left Side is mostly Offensive, Right is Defense/Healing)
#2 = Secondary + Rez + Most Fairy Abilities
#3 = Misc Abilities + Pet Summoning

Not saying this would work for everyone but I cannot imagine only using 2 hotbars, that's madness. Macroing your DoTs is pretty ballsy, you are a healer you should be applying what DoTs you can at what times, not sitting there waiting for a macro to end (especially if you have to prematurely end the macro, then you can't specifically choose to cast ones that never got applied). Not only that but what about Miasma II? Removing Bane or either Ruin is a bad idea. Bane is badass and greatly boosts your DPS. Both ruins have their uses: Ruin for Low Dungeons/Damage when you got nothing else to do and Ruin II mainly for blind but you can use it as a quick kill-while-running spell.

If you train yourself well enough switching hotbars becomes second nature and you rarely think about it.

On topic: I haven't found much use with Macros as a SCH. I've tried, but other than Eos' Abilities Macro I've found them to either be pointless (they don't make things easier or faster) or clunky. I tried Macroing Embrace to heals and found that it tied the Fairy up to much on my target for no reason, so I just leave her alone.

@Players talking about using MouseOver on controller: How do you do this? I can't see this working well if at all.

[dtv20]

Last time i checked bane is useless on final coil and it seems like a waste when it could be used on a lustrate or SS. The lower stuff yeah but final coil not really.

[Cynfael]

Last time i checked bane is useless on final coil and it seems like a waste when it could be used on a lustrate or SS. The lower stuff yeah but final coil not really.

Bane is yummy on T10 adds, just saying.

[dtv20]

But the tank is taking damage too

[VanilleFang]

Last time i checked bane is useless on final coil and it seems like a waste when it could be used on a lustrate or SS. The lower stuff yeah but final coil not really.

You are giving advice for just one raid? You either completely missed the point of this thread, or are just really bad at giving advice. OP isn't talking about final coil, so why would you tell her to set her bars up the way you do for this one raid?

I don't get this. I haven't got this far, sure, but I can't understand justifying getting rid of Bane. You may not use it a lot in high content, but having access to it makes it so that you can use if and when you can.

[Kazumac]

It is more difficult to set up and train yourself on a controller but spend the effort, don't just remove skills or macro them together for the sake of saving space... I have an embrace + Adlo/physic macro. I also have them separated out and embrace on a mouse over because I like having the split healing when I want it and the forced heal bombing on the tank in one button press if I want that.

Last I checked I think I had 30-40 keybinds, but I also can't stand clicking anything (including consumables etc). My advice if you want less, keep the base skills on your hotbar and remove the additional macros. This way you still have full control.