Your Healing Style - Why <t> or <tt> (Which is better?)

[Dynamisx]

I use a variation of this technique that works well for me in almost every situation.

My macro is:

/ac "Cure" <mo>
/ac "Cure" <focus>
/ac "Cure" <target>
/ac "Cure" <me>

I keep the main tank as focus target, allowing me to target the mob/boss. I mouseover the party window to heal other members, and if i want to heal outside the party (eg during a Fate) i can target them directly. I also dont have to keep setting focus target for each new encounter.

Its handy have the boss/mob targeted as I can see what the boss is casting, and if the tank loses aggro i can see who is about to need healing. I can also tab around if there are multiple mobs to keep an eye on them while never losing focus on the tank. I find I often lose targets in highly mobile fights (probably from rightclicking on the ground while moving, but this way i can always safely heal the tank just by making sure i'm not mousing over anything and casting my heals.

[Dynamisx]

The downsides are that only 5 debuffs are visible on the focus target due to current UI limitations. Supposedly expanded to 8 at some point, and generally not an issue as almost all debuffs are displayed with high priority.

I also very occasionally find that the spell lands on me instead of the target, but i think this is due to:
a) LOS causing the <focus> to fail or
b) GCD ending after the top two lines of the macro are processed when no LOS issue.
These issues should be common to all macros of this type of course.

[Zell]

I use a variation of this technique that works well for me in almost every situation.

My macro is:

/ac "Cure" <mo>
/ac "Cure" <focus>
/ac "Cure" <target>
/ac "Cure" <me>

I keep the main tank as focus target, allowing me to target the mob/boss. I mouseover the party window to heal other members, and if i want to heal outside the party (eg during a Fate) i can target them directly. I also dont have to keep setting focus target for each new encounter.

Its handy have the boss/mob targeted as I can see what the boss is casting, and if the tank loses aggro i can see who is about to need healing. I can also tab around if there are multiple mobs to keep an eye on them while never losing focus on the tank. I find I often lose targets in highly mobile fights (probably from rightclicking on the ground while moving, but this way i can always safely heal the tank just by making sure i'm not mousing over anything and casting my heals.

This is exactly what I was thinking but my variation is as follows:

/ac "Cure" <mo>
/ac "Cure" <t>
/ac "Cure" <focus>
/ac "Cure" <tt>

The only question I have is, why focus before target? I'm primarily going to heal with Scholar so I need to make sure I can micromanage Embrace with my pets. You cannot macro pet abilities, nor can you set them to work on focus target. The only way is to click on the target and use the ability from a keybind. That's why when I need to heal bomb a target, not just a tank but a party member, I will occasionally click on the party member and cast Adlo and Embrace at the same time. If I focus before target macro (like yours), I will potentially heal my focus target and a party member (one with embrace the other with adlo/physick) instead of healing the one person with BOTH. Also, by having target first and focus second, I can do the opposite and heal the tank with Embrace while I heal a party member with adlo/physic at the same time. The pet is good enough to do it for me, but sometimes I want to micro manage.

Lastly, the <tt> is for FATE grinding. If I have nothing set as my focus, and have the mob targetted without mousing over anything... it will automatically heal the person targetted by the FATE mob (especially a boss). The FATE mob can change targets 100 times and it wouldn't matter, i will always be able to heal whoever is targetted with my macro, so long as I don't have a focus target (which I will never have during Fate grinding).

One more thing, I removed <me> because I noticed during dungeon runs that it would default cure me each time the tank/focus was out of range and I wasn't mousing over anything. I want to know when someone is out of range or else they'll die. So I taught myself to heal myself with <mo>. Problem solved.

What do you think?

[Sinaloa]

tldr

This is how I do it:

On all heals I got
<t>
<tt>
On my casted damage spells and instants that do not trigger gcd I got
<t>
<tt>
On my instant damage spells that trigger gcd I got
<t>

In healingmode I focus the tank and can toss some spells on his target but am unable to trigger a gcd with an instant. Just a saftynet - If a heal is necessary I can abort any cast while focusing the tank. The only exception I set for this is ruin II. I cast that way to often in healing mode to prevent incoming damage.

As the fight goes well I can switch to an enemy still being able to heal his target (most propably the tank) but also being able to dot em up.

[nocks]

I use all <tt> for my damage abilities, and all <t> for my heals. I never use mouseover, and I'll explain why.

I've found it is very powerful to direct my faery's heals where I want them to go, yet you cannot do a mouseover macro for the pet. This way, I have the tank targeted, and when I need to DPS I just hit one of my macros to automatically hit whatever he is hitting. Very useful to not have to stop and re-target to use Energy Drain or to drop a Bio on an enemy. I can always direct embrace at whoever I am targeting.