Really nice macro for Embrace

[Dayala]

I used to have it macroed to physick but I found it really cumbersome when I would manually target someone in the party to get Eos/Selene to heal them while I <mo > healed the tanks, she would stop healing the person I manually targeted her on and go back to healing who I was targetting with Physicks. I manually use it (Embrace is keybound to the letter E on my keyboard and Physiks to 2 so it's not annoying to spam them)

I don't recommend maccroing them together in one step, causes more issues than anything imo.

[SeraviEdalborez]

The type of macro listed in the OP is on the right track, but you can make it better.

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

Replace <f> with <2>, <3>, <tt>, whatever you like.

The purpose of this macro is to let fairy do as much as possible for as little effort as possible, and avoid putting GCDs into macros (the common Phys/Adlo+Embrace). The way this works is that, pretend the odd-numbered Embraces are "A", evens are "B". B's will fail because the cast is still going and recast isn't up yet, so you only get the A's to work. However if she is delayed for whatever reason (movement, knockback, other non-macro command), the B lines take over. Whole point is for redundancy.

This also lasts almost 30 seconds so it functions as a soft "egg timer" for any 30/60 second cooldowns.

Before it it brought up: If you hit another macro, just hit this again. Obviously.

[giantslayer]

The type of macro listed in the OP is on the right track, but you can make it better.

If that macro floats your boat, then go ahead. It's kinda missing the point of my macro. My macro is not lazy macro or a "put the faerie on cruise control" king of thing. I'll explain it one more time:

Embrace has a 2 second cast time.
Embrace has a 3 second cool down time.
This leaves 1 second in between when her cast bar finishes and when she can recast.
Attempting to cast in that 1 second window will give a "not ready yet" error.
Attempting to cast in that 1 second window will not queue. (I went back and re-tested the macro and the regular command to confirm, and I had also tested this prior to 2.3 with the same results).

My macro allows you to cast within that 1 second window without worrying about it not queuing. With this, I can watch the faerie's cast bar in the party list and queue up a recast as soon as she finishes.

Seravi, if that macro you posted is one you use and you want to incorporate what I am talking about, then you should do it with 1 second waits instead of 2. 2 second wait won't sync with a 3 second cool down.

[SeraviEdalborez]

I explained my reasoning behind 2 second waits. Using 1 second waits makes you have to hit the button again (more than) twice as often. It is not "cruise control". You don't get any more optimal than this for the amount of effort involved without mashing buttons.

Not saying you macro doesn't work, or that mine is better. I would instead advise YOU to put more wait 1s if you want your macro to do what you are saying you want it to do.

[giantslayer]

I explained my reasoning behind 2 second waits. Using 1 second waits makes you have to hit the button again (more than) twice as often. It is not "cruise control". You don't get any more optimal than this for the amount of effort involved without mashing buttons.

Not saying you macro doesn't work, or that mine is better. I would instead advise YOU to put more wait 1s if you want your macro to do what you are saying you want it to do.

Sorry if I came off as being a little snide. I understand what you are saying now. I also tried it out and the 1 second waits don't work any better than 2 on your macro. You do, unfortunately, lose 1 second on each round (too bad a 3 second wait doesn't work right), but I see where the convenience comes into play.

I'm going to take your advice and add another wait and embrace to my macro so I can hit it before she finishes casting and have it queue up. I know I could add several more lines so it would do multiple casts and not just be a ghetto fix for queuing. I might go back and do that later if I see that I need it. Thanks for the advice.

So my current macro is:
/macroicon "Embrace" pet Eos
/pac "Embrace"
/wait
/pac "Embrace"
/wait
/pac "Embrace"

[EvianEverdeen]

I like being able to control my fairy independently of my own healing. That way, if I am pumping out some dps, I can still have my fairy keep the tank topped off instead of waiting for 70% health.

Why don't you have your dps actions macro'd with Embrace in it? I do. I can keep my target on the tank (or whoever), slam a dps action (while still targeting tank or whoever), and my fairy will also heal that person. It takes a lot of time/effort to make all of the macros like that, but worth it.

[SeraviEdalborez]

Why don't you have your dps actions macro'd with Embrace in it? I do. I can keep my target on the tank (or whoever), slam a dps action (while still targeting tank or whoever), and my fairy will also heal that person. It takes a lot of time/effort to make all of the macros like that, but worth it.

You don't generally want to do that because putting macros onto GCD actions is an explicit DPS loss.