Any end-game healers use a controller?

[Kafziel]

My setup uses two cross action bars bars and one extra hotbar. The cross action bars both have all healing spells, aetherflow, and energy drain on the right side so I always have access to them. The left of the first bar is defensive cd and utility spells and manual embrace. The second bar has all dps spells(all macros) on the left. The extra hotbar has both fairy summons, limitbreak, a macro to set my focus to my targets target, swiftcast and surecast(macros), and some non combat abilities (return, teleport, etc).

The macros I use are as follow: Set my focus to my targets target (generally the tanks target). Summons with swiftcast.. Resurrect with swiftcast. Virus and all dps spells cast on my focus and my target if I have no focus.
I always set my focus to the boss so I can see his casts bar but can still freely heal the party. Same goes for why I macro to attack my focus. Some may prefer to just attack their targets target in their macros.

I do no pet management besides manual embrace (turned pet bar off) but could add place if needed. I generally only manual embrace when the situation calls for it. Otherwise I leave eos to herself and she does perfectly fine.

[Estellios]

Oh yea thanks for reminding me Kafziel, if you are going to be playing SMN or SCH for the love of god turn off the pet bar. It is a gigantic pain the ass as it messes with your R1 rotations, and not having to deal with it is worth the trouble of finding a way to squeeze pet actions on your bars.

If you get used to hitting R1 + button/direction for swapping to a bar manually you can just do that for your pet actions while removing that set from your R1 alone rotation.

[ebuu]

my main is whm and im using gamepad, im up to Turn 5 now, w/o any problems or slacking^^

[ZaxLavayi]

I do and it works fine!

[Masamune1004]

I think the best piece of advice I can give that hasn't already been given is if you use 2 or more crosshotbar sets (which you most likely will have to), place important spells like cure, esuna etc. on both sets in the same place so if you need to react fast you won't need to worry which set you're on to give out emergency heals.

[PetiteMalFleur]

I use a controller and it work fine in coil. I encountered a lot of frustration trying to target people not in my party for fates. Much of this was solved when I went into character settings to change my targeting options. I still scroll through a lot of players but I'm not targeting mobs or pets when trying to heal them.

[Norack]

I main WHM and am on a controller.

I have gotten to T4 and can beat T1 - T3 and heal in it np and no one ever even comes close to getting hurt when i go to heal them, I would think its simplier to heal using a gamepad cause if u set up your social party list like i do i just have to push down on the d pad 1 time before we start the battle and never even have to mess with it ever again for healing the main tank.

Also muscle memory plays a big role in it to, cause i am at the point where i can do all my WHM abilities without even having to look at where they are and know exactly what combo's i need to push in order to properly heal ppl.

So when it comes down to it i think there are 2 things that a WHM with a controller needs in order to play WHM as good if not better than WHM's on a kb and mous

1.) Set up your party list (group the healers, DD'ers and tanks together and put them in order from highest priority of needing heals)
2.) Just play your class and work up your muscle memory to where you don't even have to think about what you have to do and press to heal ppl.

[DoctorPepper]

The biggest tip I can give to anybody having problems with healing using a controller is REORGANIZE YOUR PARTY LIST. You can do this by going into the party members menu, selecting a person and then using the up/down arrows at the bottom of the window. For the longest time I healed without doing this and when I found out about it everything was so much easier. I'm currently in Turn 4 and find healing with a controller very very easy in comparison to keyboard.

[Tzain]

If you haven't checked it out yet. Also take a look at the "Custom Target Filters" options. By default they are turned off but they are really really powerful once you get good at them.

[RiouxRenata]

I can not heal without my controller... I'm a failure without it.