Healing Macros

[Jenilya]

/action "Protect" <1>
/wait 4
/action "Stoneskin" <1>
/wait 4
/action "Stoneskin" <2>
/wait 4
/action "Stoneskin" <3>
/wait 4
/action "Stoneskin" <4>

I use this at the beginning of a dungeon to give everyone Protection and Stoneskins with a simple click.

/p Mage's Ballad please! <se.1>

When I need some mana, if there is a Bard around.

/action "Fluid Aura"
/wait 1
/action "Swift Cast"
/wait 1
/action "Repose"
/macroicon "Swift Cast"

When I got a monster on me, and I need it off fast.

[DreamWeaver]

/micon "attack skill"
/ac "attack skill" <t>
/ac "attack skill" <f>

I macro-ed all my attack skills to the above macro as I always focus target the boss.
This will allow me to heal the party members I have targeted, as well as hitting the boss with my attack skills, all without changing targets .

Personally I dislike macro-ing my main healing skills, such as the often mentioned swiftcast + raise macro.
I find 0 advantage in doing macros like above for one main reason:

You do not save hotkey space, swiftcast itself deserves a place in your hotkey, as it has multiple applications other than just swift ressing, thus, you require a swift cast hotkey, + the ress macro hotkey, thus you are using two hotkey slots, the exact same as you would have used if you just hotkeyed both ress and swift cast skills.
I would even argue you lose out!!, if your swiftcast is on CD, of course you can press the swift cast+ress macro, it will fail to execute the swift cast, and then perform the slow ress, but due to the /wait 1, you will begin your ress cast 1 second slower as compared to just pressing your ress hotkey.
So to bypass the above problem, you will need a THIRD hotkey for ress, thus completely defeating the purpose of having this macro in the first place.

Hope this is clear!!

[Maero]

Wow great post as thinking of trying macros to make it easier on PS3.
Thanks for all the posts

[AniCelestine]

If you're one of those scholars that wants to control your both pet, and have the pet actions dragged to hotbar, setting up a macro to change the content of a hotbar might make things easier. But this requires you to have 2 unused hotbars
I.e hotbar #5 and #6

/micon "Summon"
/ac "Summon" <me>
/hotbar copy SCH 5 SCH 1

And other with "Summon II" and 5 is replaced with 6

It copies the content of your hidden hotbar ( 5 and 6 for example) to the visible hotbar 1 that you have keybinded. Use for example hotbar 5 for eos' and hotbar 6 for selene's skills.
This is really helpful especially if you have pet actions on 1 hotbar like me.

Set the hidden hotbars as if it was the #1 hotbar.

Yoy could use this witj CS too, but then you'd need 2 macros, as you'd want one macro to change the hotbars to attack mode, and other to change back to healing mode.

Sorry if that's a bit hard to understand. I know that I'm mostly bad at explaining.

[Simaril]

<tt> macros are wonderful, all of my offensive spells are macros with <tt>.
I can't imagine why you wouldn't want to use the swiftraise macro.
The simple benedicition macro (so you don't use it on yourself if the target dies) is beautiful.

After that I think most macros are counterproductive:
-Divine seal, medica II macros are often a waste of DS. Sometimes you just want to top people off and leave them with a HoT... they don't always need the BEST HoT. However, sometimes when heavy damage is coming, or mana intense fights, DS regen on the tank is incredibly valuable.

-Making Cure III self targeted doesn't make sense to me either. Often mellee and the tank need more healing than the group, and I don't want to be close enough that a cure III targeting myself would reach them. I also actually really like plain old Medica. If you're astute enough to know the pros and cons of the cast times, MP, and potency, then you know there are situations for both - I see value in a self targeted Cure III, but if I made that macro, I'd also want an unmacrod cure III.

[kayuwoody]

/hotbar copy SCH 5 SCH 1

Whoa dude I didn't know this was possible! Thanks very much!

[MrDiezel]

I would even argue you lose out!!, if your swiftcast is on CD, of course you can press the swift cast+ress macro, it will fail to execute the swift cast, and then perform the slow ress, but due to the /wait 1, you will begin your ress cast 1 second slower as compared to just pressing your ress hotkey.

/ac Swiftcast
/ac Raise
/wait 1
/ac Raise

Fixes that 1 second delay if Swiftcast is on CD

[Akiva_Ninazu]

/p Healer needs Mage Ballad! <se.1><se.1><se.1>

The world would be a better place if more WHM had this. Adding multiple <se.1> (or any other sound effect) actually makes it *louder.*

[AldoVonAlexandros]

I forgot one, and can't believe I did. One of the most "memorable" macros ever!

/ac "Shroud of Saints" <me><wait.60>
/echo Shroud of Saints up in 120 seconds! <se.9><wait.60>
/echo Shroud of Saints up in 60 seconds! <se.9><wait.30>
/echo Shroud of Saints up in 30 seconds! <se.9><wait.30>
/echo Shroud of Saints is up! Use it you ****! <se.4><se.4>

Very helpful if you're forgetful of your Shroud of Saints cooldown. This doesn't use party chat, and instead uses the Echo function (basically sending yourself a tell!) which works with /echo and /e.

why i didnt think of this earlier, this is for me xD, this will be my only macro, i dont think i need more for my whm, my sch has all my skills with macros

[Waltz_Beat]

-Making Cure III self targeted doesn't make sense to me either. Often mellee and the tank need more healing than the group, and I don't want to be close enough that a cure III targeting myself would reach them. I also actually really like plain old Medica...

I have both macroed and unmacroed, I only use the unmarcoed Cure III in one fight - Ifrit EX, when I'm afflicted with searing wind.
The only instance I have to use Cure III rather than Medica 2 or Medica is during fights when the party is stacked up - Titan EX, sometimes Garuda EX and Turn 5. Its much easier to just hit a button then target myself. In these fights you cannot cast it on the tank as the tank will be too far away from the party. Its just easier to use a self-casted Cure III.