SCH Tips?

[Lyrinn]

Long story short, I'm having a really hard time microing my faeries. I've searched around for all the various macros SCHs seem to use but it's still a massive headache switching targets all the time. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong (besides being bad)?

[Marcusow86]

I can give you some tips on how i heal with my SCH

1. Unless in a specific situation where i needed to be 'hands free' from using fairies, i always keep her beside me. Due to being able to cast embrace manually, you basically do not need her to stay at a spot theoretically speaking.
*hands free situation includes: speed run where you required to DPS, you need your fairy to focus a target while you attend to others*

2. I put embrace in my cast bar, and manually control her (Selena,Eos) embrace healing.

3. Right after summoning fairies, you need to find a target (enemy) and click OBEY and then HEEL. This will allow you to control all her healing skills and she will only get to cast embrace freely (if you do not manually cast it for her) and she will follow you around.

4. In-order to cast embrace + adlo/physic simultaneously, you need to first cast embrace before casting one of your own healing skills. Why do you want to sync both fairy and your healing skill? Because it will minimize the need to monitor both healing skill at the same time.

5. Always take note of your fairies HP, they are a big chunk of SCH's healing, if she is dead, immediately swiftcast + summon to get her back. Without her, our healing is nothing.

6. Set a macros for fairy to focus healing on herself and you.

[Lyrinn]

The problem is that I do all that. Or at least try to. ._.

Trying to multi-task between casting Physick and Embrace has been a nightmare so far, especially if I need to heal two different targets. I've thought about macroing the two together but then there's no point in having two separate heals. Plus Embrace is on a higher cooldown, I think, so wouldn't the timing be messed up?

[Aylin]

I use a controller, so my macros are a little different than most round here.

I have (Eos) Embrace+Physick/Embrace+Adlo/Embrace+Leeches/Embrace+Lustrate all macro'd. Usually, I keep my target as the MT in my group, so as I cast Adlo/Physick/etc on others in the party, Eos is always casting Embrace on the MT. (Like I said, its a little different using a controller.)

I also have Fey Covenant macro'd with Sacred Soil, & have Rouse+Fey Illumination+Whispering Dawn together.

I use Steady+Obey+Heel on Eos, so I can make sure she's casting Embrace as frequently as possible.

Selene I let do her own thing, b/c she's fairly smart w/alternating buffs. I'll state that I've yet to be in a situation where I need to control her silence, so controlling/macro'ing her hasn't been something I've really need to deal with.

As I said, this is what works for me. I know people have posted macros around here, and over on Reddit as well, if you're looking for other macro suggestions/ideas.

[Merlee]

1. Obey + Follow Macro

/micon "Obey" pet
/tenemy
/pac "Obey"
/wait 1
/pac "Heel"

Source: FFXIV Healer Forum

Physick + Embrace Macro

/macroicon "Physick"
/ac "Physick" <mo>
/ac "Physick" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <t>

This let's you target the Tank and heal him with Physick and Embrace on command, on top of that you can mouseover any party member to Physick him while your target (Tank) still recieves Embrace

AoE Healing Macro

/macroicon "Rouse"
/ac "Rouse" <me>
/pac "Fey Illumination" <me>
/pac "Whispering Dawn" <me>

Buffs Eos, Buffs Healing around EoS, uses AoE HOT needs to be pressed multible times to activate.

Source: FFXIV-Reddit

[YuiSasaki]

If I use Eos, which is quite rarely the case lately, I use the following macros:

/pac "Fey Illumination" <me>
/pac "Obey"

/pac "Fey Covenant" <me>
/pac "Obey"

/pac "Whispering Dawn" <me> (or on MainTank, positioning yourself in proximity of the many party members suffices too)
/wait 2 //Whispering Dawn and Embrace have casttimes, and would get interrupted without the wait 2
/pac "Obey"

I got macros like that for Selene too, yet if I'm using Selene I'm kind of lazy in most cases, so I leave her on "Sic!".
Yes of course her healing is a bit slower, in comparison with microing her. Yet it suffices for me in most cases (e.g. CT, Primal HMs, lv50 Dungeons).

In PvP i like Selene more because of her Silence.