The "healers do or do not dps" debate is fun. I've always broken it down like this: healers are casters, and casters need to mind their ABCs.
Always
Be
Casting
Naturally you apply some sanity checks to this... if mana or time is tight, you hold off. But if you're just idle then you're slacking.


Using surecast>medica II works a lot better than wasting presence of mind and swiftcast on the same rotation. You'll want to save PoM for stone II spam (mainly on the duties mentioned) or to cover massive damage with cure I/cure II rotation. There is no reason to make a slow cast faster and then make it instant, mainly when there is no real high damage output afterwards.


Divine Seal is in that Macro too. I use it as part of a "pull everyones ass out of the fire" macro and surecast still requires surviving the cast time of Medica II. I can take PoM out of it but then Divine Seal's time is wasted when the next spells are Cure/CureII anyway. I don't exactly remember why I put it in the order I did, but It was probably with cutting the recast time.Using surecast>medica II works a lot better than wasting presence of mind and swiftcast on the same rotation. You'll want to save PoM for stone II spam (mainly on the duties mentioned) or to cover massive damage with cure I/cure II rotation. There is no reason to make a slow cast faster and then make it instant, mainly when there is no real high damage output afterwards.
For the macros - i noticed, that you can only have ONE "wait" running at a time - every new will overwhrite it running and you might not get the echo notifications. That means you should decide wich CD is the most important for you to be reminded off and only make a macro for this.
some other macros a can suggest if you are using mouse/keyboard, are mouseovers wich allowes you to cast on certain targets without switching the target.
its generaly looking like this:
/ac <mo> "skillname XY"
My favorite is embrace with the sch.
I can do dps while giving out my fairy the targets to heal or split the healing targets between me and my fairy (for recovering after AoE) it also works for healing player who are out of range or just in another party (CT1-3)
Other examples are:
virus - dont lose sight on your healing target while you debuff
Eye for an Eye or lustrate - keep doing DPS while saving your tank
Esuna/leeches - keep on the tank while cleansing nasty stuff
Personally my favorite macro type is
/ac "Cure II" <mo>
Casts cure II on whatever your mouse is hovering over. Only useful on the PC of course, but if you are using mouse and keyboard it is really useful.
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