Healer.. How do you target in Fates?

[Rivienne]

Best way to get credit in FATEs as a healer if to cycle through with Shift and cast Aero. Repeat and win. Keep your heals for members of your party as anything else is pretty much a waste of time, unless you feel like going the Medica way.

You only need to cast 1 aero to ensure you get credit. From then on regular healing nets top score as well. For example the other day I received the Svara best possible achievement while solo-healing. I targetted svara and hit aero, and then for the rest of the fight I just cast cure 1, 2, regen, and raise. I have done the same thing in most fates, and I have most of those "best possible score" achievements.

EDIT: this is not to say aero'ing isn't easier. Because face it, it is. Just cycle mobs and cast aero. Instant gold on everything. But it is in fact possible to get top score by healing every time if you cast on aero first and cycle heal, and I much prefer to do it myself because it feels more like it is useful experience. Whereas casting aero on everything and ignoring my healing is about as useless as you can get for practicing for dungeons.

My preferred method right now is to target another player and use a macro for aero <tt>. I cycle through, and cure then aero tt, then keep cycling. I don't always have time for damage dealing in some fates, so this way I can focus on healing, and throw in an aero as time permits.