Noobie SCH has some questions please

[peaches]

I spent a good amount of time one day trying to make combinations of target macros work, and they inevitably end up with the fairy healing herself instead of the intended target under the secondary condition.

I ended up binding Embrace <mo> to my spacebar, and I avoid the whole mess simply by spamming it at will on whomever (usually the tank) as I DPS or heal a separate target.

I tried <mo> macros when the game first came out but found it to be a bit wonky, and sometimes it would heal me instead of the person I had targeted, or my MO target. Maybe it's been improved, or maybe I just didn't have it set up correctly, I'm not sure.

I'm a PC user, so I can't really imagine how a Scholar can play with all the constant target switching. There -was- a topic about this before. But of course as a desktop player I didn't bother reading it xD But for you console players, it may be interesting:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ighlight=macro

Thanks for this, will definitely check it out! I actually do play on PC though, I just use my PS4 controller. I started on PC, then switched to PS4 because my PC's GPU was a little weak for the game, and it played better on my PS4. Now that I've upgraded, I'm back on the PC, but I fell in love with healing on the gamepad. I can't easily press any buttons besides 1-5 and Shift+1-5, so I click a lot of my abilities, taking my eyes away from the fight.

With the Gamepad I have easy, instant access to about 48 ability slots, all of which have been memorized. That said, it definitely isn't optimal for certain classes I've found, and some things are a pain to do, like healing Alliance members in 24m content.

[Cynfael]

I tried <mo> macros when the game first came out but found it to be a bit wonky, and sometimes it would heal me instead of the person I had targeted, or my MO target. Maybe it's been improved, or maybe I just didn't have it set up correctly, I'm not sure.

I didn't like <mo> the first time I tried it, either, but once I resigned myself to using it for Embrace I was able to make it work well. I found that various attempts at <t> macros were too clunky, restrictive, or outright broken to be very useful, and the speed of mouse-over makes for very efficient split healing.

I also use <mo> on BLM for Aetherial Manipulation since it takes less time to mouse over someone in the party list than it does to click-confirm them prior to using the skill. If I were using AM to escape an AoE or to hug allies for a "gather" mechanic, I'd usually make it there faster and more reliably by clicking sprint and taking off running if I didn't have a snappy way to AM on command.