Healing tips (ps4)

[Dragnela]

I did my first dungeob as a scholar and it was awesome!

I did did 90% dmg and 10% healing my fairy did all the work lol

Anyone got a macro that makes the pet obey and heal the one I physick?!

[Ringabell]

I did my first dungeob as a scholar and it was awesome!

I did did 90% dmg and 10% healing my fairy did all the work lol

Anyone got a macro that makes the pet obey and heal the one I physick?!

I Highly recommend you do some research on macros. People can come list macros that they use, but once you understand them you can create your own as you see fit.

[Vaala]

Agreed with Ringabell, plus, how your healing is set up is a very personal thing. I've seen some great macro ideas out there, but for whatever reason, I prefer a different approach. Conversely some macros I've seen went onto my bar immediately.

Grats on your first dungeon

[giantslayer]

1. Enable cross hotbar.
2. No skill replaces another skill. Take time to plan out how you will lay out your skills at lvl 50.
3. Macro attacks/debuffs to target <t> or <tt>, but don't try to do that for heals. Have your tank targeted and you can heal/attack without switching using those macros.

Sorry don't have time to elaborate on all those points.

[ariaandkia]

Ah... Well, I won't be able to post on here much longer (someone remind me to make a video of all my macros so that I can remember to post up my macros later-though they are slightly outdated).

But a few tips:

Set up your target filters carefully. You will want very specific filters eventually so that each filter targets a different set of players. That combined with up and down for selecting your party makes it very easy to pinpoint target exactly what you want without taking a long time.

One of the macros I use is literally assist. All it does is switch my target to my target's current target. Why is this important? Speed and control.

I of course have other macros as well, such as a macro for telling my tank that they lost aggro and what they lost aggro on-because for some reason, even in end game content, there are some tanks that don't know when they lost aggro on a mob.

Another tip I have is learn to set up macros that maximize your potential.

For example, I have a macro that places my pet. Eventually, I'd like to modify it so that the same macro will also have my pet 'heel' but that will have to wait since that macro is currently overloaded. In other words, the macro already does so much that I can't add anything else to it.

Once you learn how to set up macros, they will make your life much easier.

Also, when casting a skill from a macro, specifically for things like Benediction or Raise, make sure you call that skill more than once. The reason is that macros don't work with the skill queue. The work around is to have a wait 1 and then call the skill about 3-4 times depending. This way, you can have say...


=Rock a by baby= (Repose. also used for BLM sleep)
/macroicon "Repose"
/focustarget
/mk bind3
/ac "Repose" <f>
/p <se.7> <f>, You seem exhausted, why not (sleep) for a while?
/wait
/ac "Repose" <f>
/wait
/ac "Repose" <f>
/wait
/ac "Repose" <f>

This way, instead of spamming the button and having "<se.7> <f>, You seem exhausted, why not (sleep) for a while?" appear over and over again....

It appears once and every second for three seconds, it will try to cast repose.

Also, healers and tanks tend to find it very easy to level quickly with daily roulette (you can usually get the adventurer bonus some time each day, when depends on which role).

Best way to force one class up is to play as that class almost exclusively (Make sure you do your other classes for their skills and for class change, such as stoneskin and protect for CNJ, Swiftcast for THM, and Eye for an eye and Virus for ARC.)

Then you just spam fates, hunts, and dungeons for exp. ALWAYS eat food. If you want, take a look at my more personal blog. especially the brief leveling tips part.

[Dragnela]

Thnx all! It helped me alot! I made some macros, looked up at some macros, tried to use macros from others, didnt know what /mo was, but it wasnt useful for me on the ps4:P

I got one healing bar, with a macro, that when U use cleric stance, it goes to my dps bar.

I got a normal Physick on the healing bar, and im using a macro,
/obey /physick /embrace /wait embrace /wait 3 /sic

Im using Selene, I dunno if this will work in end game, but for now its awesome, I just let selene heal and buff, and one someone if getting nuked I use the macro that command Selene to also heal my target, but when its not needed I just do some Physick alone and Selene heals others. But most of the time I can dps.

Dunno if I got time to dps in end game, and if I can let Selene go Sic, or do I need the heal from Phsy and Embrace and need Selene in obey all the time?!

[Dragnela]

@ ariaandkia I looked at your profile, and it seems you transmog your gear? It looks nice! How did you do that?

[KyrieBonvalet]

On the ps4 I definitely use macros for my sch. It's very difficult imo to heal without them. I paired all the fairy commands (other than whispering dawn) to moves that tie in with mine and it is a godsend! Physick/Embrace, Adloquium/Embrace, Succor/Fey Covenant, Rouse/Fey Illumination. It works pretty good for me. I put steady, obey, follow/heel(I can't remember for the life of me what that is called. Brain fart >_>), and place on my crossbar to help control my fairy.

As for your whm, you should be fine healing without macros. Since you already have swiftcast, maybeeeeeee a macro for raises? I don't personally use them, but it may be helpful to others. Keep your cure with your cure II. As people have said you will use cure more. Once you hit like 32 I think, it enables your cures to proc (trigger) free cure IIs, which save you a lot of mp. I think the Brayflox dungeon will be your first test to train you for mana management. Since you'll earn it on your scholar, I'd cross class skill Eye for an Eye when you get it for your whm.

Keep up the good work OP!

[Defteros]

whm i find this one good

ac "cure2" <t>
ac "cure2" <tt>
ac "cure"<t>
ac "cure" <tt>

helpful, it eliminates two buttons and allows cure withou switching iff tank. i use that for stone an aero as well so in lower dungeons it misses the higher spell first so in raids it uses the stronger cause its available. virus i use the same way so i could just virus tank target and hit the boss. mainly it just helps in case you have a mob targeted by accident or the tank by accident it will attack mob or heal tank

cure2 and cure in one macro? O_o

I heal on PS4, both SCH and WHM.
the only macros I can suggest you are

/micon "Raise"
/ac "Swiftcast" <me>
/ac "Raise" <t>

replace Raise with Resurrection, for your SCH&SMN&ACN xD

/Micon "Virus"
/ac "Virus" <t>
/ac "Eye For an Eye" <tt>

apart from these macros, for your comodity, you can macro all your attack spells with the "target of target" version, so you can still attack mobs while keeping the target on the tank...

on the scholar side, you have to lear how to micromanage your fairy.
that means you have to keep her in Obey stance (keep the Obey pet stance in your hotbar, and remember to use it the first time you summon your fairy)

keeping the fairy in obey, makes her cast only Embrace, so you have to use manually her pet actions (Whispering Dawn, and the other Buffs), and also learn how/when and where to positon her during fights, so she can express her full potential.

I've macroed Embrace on my main healing spells (Physick/Adloquium), and I macroed Rouse/Whispering Dawn together, so she can cast a stronger Regen on all the party members...

on the hotbar side, with the WHM you can safely put all your spells in the first hotbar, keeping situational spells on your cross hotbar (L2+R2). I put on my cross hotbar spells like Repose/Fluid Aura/Swiftcast(so I can use it with my Sch/BLM too)/Sancta

with the scholar I have healing spells on the left side of my hotbar, DoT on the right, and I switch to a second Hotbar if I have to use other spells like the Fairy debuffs, Place/Heel to move the fairy as I want...

[Roxinova]

As for macros i don't suggest them on whm but on sch you can macro things like your fairies heals onto your reg skills. I wouldn't use the pet hotbar just because it throws me off. try just taking the skills and putting them on your own bars.

Wut.

No, please do use macros. Especially Swiftcast + Raise. I save so much time having multiple things on macro on my WHM.

That's like telling someone to take 5 seconds to do something you can do in 1 second. I just don't see the logic in it. Once you figure out macros, you'll never want to go back.