Macro commands for White Mage

[Brun]

Been playing this game for a week as white mage.

What useful macro commands are there to make the life easier for healer?

[Garlyle]

I honestly use no macros as White Mage, except for a text alert macro on my Raise. There are some that exist, which basically involve copying an action with different targetting priorities (eg three lines of "\ac "Cure" <tt>", where the <tt> becomes <t> and <me> in subsequent lines, to help ensure the healing is targetting the tank where possible). But even those have downsides, and are certainly not necessary.

I do have one friend who has a Cleric Stance macro which automatically rotates one of their hotbars (I don't know the text) from healing to damage spells and vice versa on click.

[Selli]

I also don't have many macros for my White Mage.

If I had to recommend any macros, I'd suggest <tt> (target of target) macros for your attack spells. When you hit 50 on WHM, usually your attacks will be your AoE which doesn't need a target. But having a target of target macro for your single target spells will allow you to hit what the tank is hitting without having to unselect him. Meaning you can heal him quickly if needed.

[Kaitlen]

I only have one macro for my WHM. It's just a combo of swiftcast and raise with a /p alert for other healers, so they don't burn swiftcast or stop to cast raise on the same person I'm casting on.

Everything else, I execute more more efficiently with my hotbars well arranged to my comfort.

[Werhusky]

A Virus macro is the only one I use

/micon "Virus"
/ac "Virus" <t>
/ac "Virus <tt>
/ac "Virus <f>

pretty handy but needs at times 2-3 clicks to go off.

[ChiiSoSeriouz]

Like others said, macros aren't needed for whm. A party alert for your raise is good though, to let the other healer know you're raising. I use something like this.

/macroicon "Raise"
/ac "Raise"
/p ( Raise ) <t>

[ExiledOne]

An useful macro on ps3 for conjurer that I've been using is:

/ac Cure <tt>

I use it when dps-ing, usually the main target is the tank so I can heal without retargeting, it only saves one or two button presses but I find it useful.

[Garlyle]

pretty handy but needs at times 2-3 clicks to go off.

This is true of anything you macro, and is the major danger of using macros. The big thing to remember if you decide to macro anything is that you lose the queueing effect that would give you some leeway on activating things.

To explain what that is, everything in the game can be considered to have a 'lockout' - for instance, you can't start casting another spell or blow a cooldown when you're busy casting something already, and the same goes for cooldowns like Virus or Benediction - they have an animation that plays, and you can't trigger another spell or cooldown until that's done. When you don't macro, trying to do another action during this 'lockout' time queues that action, so that it triggers immediately afterwards. If it takes 3 seconds to cast Stoneskin and you hit Divine Seal 2.5 seconds into the cast, well, Divine Seal can't go off right away because you're busy. But, Divine Seal will actually go off half a second later, when the spell is done, because it's been queued to occur. Macro actions cannot queue - so if you're in the middle of any animation whatsoever, the action simply won't go off.

[Quinna]

I only have macros for Eye for an Eye and Raise text. I had a swiftcast/raise macro for a while but I didn't really like using it and honestly forgot it was there. After you get more comfortable with your hotbar/crossbar set up I doubt you will find a need for many, if any at all.

Keeping everything neat and in a comfortable location is key for any job. Keep your options open so you can adapt to any situation on the fly.

[radioactive_lego]

The macros needed to put targeting on the right side of your gamepad are demonstrated here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VR2_qJLZ1sg

The construction of those macros is shown here.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-8wg3W9KysU