Manually using pet abilities?

[SeraviEdalborez]

It depends on how much you can handle your information inflow. Fairy auto seems impervious to lag, and often much faster then you can blink, and she will not get interrupted because her AI controls her cast rate vs movement rate.

I've been using a middle-ground between total macro warfare and full-auto for my manual Embrace. Unlike most people it seems, I don't macro it to Physick. I do something like this

/micon "Embrace" pet
/pac "Embrace" <mo>
/pac "Embrace" <f>
/wait 2
/pac "Embrace" <f>
/wait 2
/pac "Embrace" <f>
/wait 2
/pac "Embrace" <f>
/wait 2
/pac "Embrace" <f>
/wait 2
/pac "Embrace" <f>
/echo <se.15> Reapply Embrace! <se.15>

I have 2 other versions with <2> and <3>, the latter used for things with heavy tank swapping where my focus target will be a non-tank (boss usually, or other healer in Ifrit EX).

The first line with <mo> is if I need to use this as a spambutton on any random party member. The remainder is devoted to healing the designated target. With /wait 2, roughly 3 of the Embraces will fire correctly before you need to reapply the macro. This also leaves a small window where fairy can still auto-cast. I've tried different /wait times; 1 only gets 2 off at best so it needs too much reapplying, 3 is just short because of the delay between pet receiving command and actually casting. You would need a significant amount of spell speed to force /wait 3 to work.

Is it maximum efficiency? Nope. But then I'd argue manual Embrace macros have never been needed to clear any current content.

[Avette]

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That macro will likely fail if, during the slight gap between the macro time and the cooldown, any party member is below 80% and triggers an auto-heal. Plus, sometimes you might want the fairy on a different target because your idiot dragoon stood in an eruption when he wasn't supposed to.

[SeraviEdalborez]

That macro will likely fail if, during the slight gap between the macro time and the cooldown, any party member is below 80% and triggers an auto-heal. Plus, sometimes you might want the fairy on a different target because your idiot dragoon stood in an eruption when he wasn't supposed to.

That's kind of the beauty of the macro though. It doesn't compromise fairy's auto-healing. Just supplements it with scattered "manual" Embrace. If you want to spam it on someone that isn't the target of the majority of the macro, that's what the <mo> part is for. Just hover and mash.

[kukurumei]

That's kind of the beauty of the macro though. It doesn't compromise fairy's auto-healing. Just supplements it with scattered "manual" Embrace. If you want to spam it on someone that isn't the target of the majority of the macro, that's what the <mo> part is for. Just hover and mash.

I don't think many sch worry about embraces. Sure it makes up for the down times, but endgame wise you are really more about using succor and aqu then about embrace. Phyisk is usually a spam-able thing, but ultimately the whm is the one that's going to be handling it with medica 2/regen

The thing that rattles most sch is the wispers which eos and selene is very suspect at with their AI. I personally don't think it's that big of a deal, as it doesn't really make you a better healer, since no content has ever required that as a critical make or break skill (unlike lustre).

Some people just like to think they are doing better by having timable skills, which I'm not quite sure if it ever affected the flow of the battle before.

The only area is Turn4 which I would have liked better eos/selene timing, but that's more team work then a healer battle.