SCH macro troubles

[Gylwin]

With this in mind I'd advise against macro'in embrace to any of your core healing skills. Give embrace its own spot to prevent accidentally breaking WD while giving your physick/adlo that .5 queue ability. This is just my preference tho~

Really glad I came across this. I added one of the many Phys/Aldo macros, but couldn't work out why healing just felt "off". This would be why. It doesn't seem to be a very well known fact about healing macros (or macros in general).

With my latency on a non-macro Physick I can hit the spell once when the cooldown animation on the icon goes past 3/4, and it'll start the next cast right away.

When I try it with Physick in a macro, this doesn't happen at all, the spell has to finish its cast/gcd before the next and depending on your latency this could potentially cut down your healing throughput by a noticeable amount.

Definitely going the way you did and having non-macro heals and Embrace on its own button.

[Manuka]

Thanks for the tip! Thanks to this I made some fooling around and found that /pac "Heel" <me> also works just as well as Stay for me Indeed, I like Heel better than Stay in most instances

Np! and yeah depending on your playstyle replacing Stay with Heel would be the best route. It's just that I personally use a combo'd Place/ Heel macro constantly that gives me both actions in a single click. Actually if you or anybody wants to try it out it's:

/pac "Place" <me>
/pac "Heel" <me>

I love this macro cause not only does save me a slot it makes moving her outta AoE's really easy and re-placing her after a knockback much more fluid (Heel triggers that half a sec wind-up when moving so it's less apparent when you confirm her new placement). Just be sure to wright it in that order, otherwise you won't get the Place reticle.

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I wouldn't say it isn't widely known, it is the sole reason why there aren't many dps macro setups out there. It's just that most healers don't really care for the .5 sec queue enough to forgo the convenience of combo'in Embrace an Physick, which is why most healer macro guides tend to overlook that aspect. Our class isn't built to to milk the GCD for all its worth like the DPS do. That said there are healing intensive moments due to mechanics or general team f**k-ups where having that .5 queue is glorious and is reason enough for me to want it. Keep in mind though that this doesn't apply to Embrace, so the solo embrace skill you can turn into a mouseover macro and it'll be just as slow as the base Embrace.

Also did you make a reddit thread about this? Cause there's one that sounds a lot like your post on the front page hahah