How in the world am I supposed to play SCH on PS4?

[Misstique]

Sorry, don't take this the wrong way but please.... If you are going to queue as a sch to level up smn, please make sure you are at least decent at healing or practicing a bit before joining groups. I have experienced enough times where someone who had no idea what they were doing caused issues in groups and roulettes. And...sch healing is probably the most complicated healer to play due to the micromanagement of your pet.

That being said.

I mained sch for all of hw and play using a controller as well. I would recommend macros and lots of them. As for keybinds, they are buttons or combination of buttons to perform a action (keyboard related) and not really useful for the controller.

One thing I recommend to all healers that want to dps and heal is to do a <t> and <tt> macro.

Example would be

/ac "broil" <t>
/ac "broil" <tt>
/micon "broil"

This is a really simple macro and what is does is this. Say you have the tank targeted to heal him, while you have him targeted, you cast broil and it will attack his target. This will also work on any other targets you target yourself. Just make sure to remove error messages from your chat. You can also use this for other spells such as miasma, bio, etc.

For aoe targeting such as shadowflare and sacred soil, you can do an instant cast without worrying about where to target it.

/ac "shadowflare" <t>
/micon "shadowflare"

or

/ac "sacred soil" <t>
/micon "sacred soil"

What this does is that anyone or anything you target is where your aoe will be cast and you dont have to use the joystick to aim it. (remember: only either shadowflare or sacred soil can be up)

As for the pet, use Eos. There is very little reason to use Selene atm.

I can't get on to check the macros I made for my pet but for quick cast of a pet, the macro is

/mlock
/ac "swiftcast" <wait.1>
/ac "summon"
/micon "summon"

Also, make sure to have obey, place, and stay.

Obey makes the fairy only use regular heals without randomly casting cooldowns
Place allows you to place the fairy where you want.
Stay makes it stay there.

As for fairy spells, you are going to want cast those on your own instead of leaving the fairy to randomly cast them on it's own.

Also --Make sure to focus target bosses.

[Sebazy]

I mained sch for all of hw and play using a controller as well. I would recommend macros and lots of them.

Just be aware that using macros brings up another set of issues, namely that they do not queue properly and as such, add an additional delay to pretty much everything you do with them.

Back in ARR I used to macro embraces into all of my dps abilities to maximise my fairy output but it wasn't until I did some side by side testing that I realised how much this was impacting my ability to DPS. It's really easy to test yourself, just make a broil macro and get a friend to use a hotkey next to you, spam a dummy for a couple of minutes and watch as they end up 1-2 GCDs ahead.

SCH is pretty much the worst healer to play on gamepad due to having the most button bloat by far. My only advice would be to either use the pet hotbar as one of your button bars or use switching macros along with your summons to switch hotkeys when you alternate between Eos and Selene.