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

[Staris]

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

This will actually cast on yourself if your target is out of range, which is a bad thing. You really want to know when your out of range instead of healing yourself.
I think its <tt> that causes that actually.. so if you just did the first three it would likely work.

[Zell]

Hmmm...

You may be right... I'll have to test it some more. I'm good about knowing my healing distance where this issue rarily comes up. It's also very efficient healing for FATES.. but if it's going to be an issue which causes a wipe.... i need to know sooner or later.

[Lumines]

After trying both out, I'm sticking with <t>, it's mainly cause you can't really see as many debuffs on focus target so I usually target or <mo> allies. Gives me a better visual for dispels etc. With the boss focus targeted, you can still see inc actions. I wish something like

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

would work like we wanted it to, but unfortunately it seems buggy :<

[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.

[Kako0404]

<tt> is probably more useful when you want to DPS and heal at the same time. Otherwise, I only use macro to pop the abilities like Swiftcast and chain it with raise or big heal. I find clicking the name on the party bar or use F1-F4 much easier

[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.

[Kako0404]

I don't get why <mo> is useful when half the time the person I'm healing is not even on my screen.

[Zell]

I don't get why <mo> is useful when half the time the person I'm healing is not even on my screen.

You can mouse over their name in the party menu and it works just as well. The reason I like <mo> is because it makes me 33% more efficient. Traditional method is, (1) move mouse to character/nameplate; (2) Click on character/nameplate to target them; (3) press heal. With mouse over macros, you remove step 2.


Another cool thing about mouse overs that I like, I can have Tank targetted the whole time, and mouse over other party members and cure them. Once I no longer mouse over anyone, it default heals the tank.

Lastly, you can hve the boss/enemy targted the whole time, and mouse over your tank and/or party members and heal them without switching targets. This way I can see my SCH DoTs on the boss or see what the boss is casting. Most importantly, I get to see the boss's Target of Target, whether it's the tank, or someone else. I can heal that person proactively rather than reactively. Especially when the boss switches to another party member, I know who it is before the boss can get to them to apply stoneskin/adlo.

Millions of ways to do the same thing. I'm just trying to find my happy place right now... still tweaking... always tweaking.

My 2 cents.

[Kako0404]

You can mouse over their name in the party menu and it works just as well. The reason I like <mo> is because it makes me 33% more efficient. Traditional method is, (1) move mouse to character/nameplate; (2) Click on character/nameplate to target them; (3) press heal. With mouse over macros, you remove step 2.

That's interesting. I like the feedback clicking the name provides on the UI so probably gonna fit my style but still nice to see the game provide so many targetting options for different playing styles.

[Cassandaria]

I can't say I find macros like this useful at all. Mouse over healing (at least for me) is highly inefficient and depends on people's movement. I can just click the name in the party list or press the corresponding F key and immediately I have whatever person I want to target without fumbling to mouse over them. Also, I focus target the boss at the beginning of combat.
But just because this works for me does not mean it works for everyone, but given the amount of ways to target people, I don't think there's really a need for all of the macros. At least for healing.