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

[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?