Which Job should we raise first?

[Ezlin]

Note that you can actually sort your party list in the game's options such that certain jobs appear before other jobs. See below. My party list is sorted by:

Healers
Tanks
RDM
SMN
With the rest of the DPS jobs sorted by their theoretical DPS and utility.

My rez macro then executes /psort and casts Raise first on my selected target, and then moves down the party list until it finds a party member that can be raised. Since the first attempt is on my selected target I can manually prioritize another player if necessary. Eg; RDM is below level 64 so I manually select the SMN.

Without Swiftcast, Raise takes an eternity to cast. If the DPS are down then most likely mistakes have been made, and more mistakes will probably be made during the glacial pace at which Raise casts.

Here is my raise macro:

/merror off
/psort
/macrolock
/ac "Raise" <t>
/ac "Raise" <2>
/ac "Raise" <3>
/ac "Raise" <4>
/ac "Raise" <5>
/ac "Raise" <6>
/ac "Raise" <7>
/ac "Raise" <8>
/p Raise <t> <wait.1>
/micon "Raise"

The party sort option is located in Character Options -> UI Settings -> from there, choose "Party List" near the top of the options window. Now at the bottom of that window click Role Sort Settings.

/psort does what it sounds like, it sorts your party list according to the aforementioned setting.

/macrolock prevents other macros from executing until this one finishes. Thus no other macro can cancel or interrupt the raise macro.

Combined with macrolock, the wait of 1 second prevents spamming your party if you quickly tap the raise two or three times in a row.

/micon of course just sets the icon of the macro.

edit:

/merror off prevents the macro from spamming you with unnecessary error messages.

and also, adding a quick line to /party chat informs your cohealer about the raise so that they can avoid burning a Swiftcast.