SCH Playstyle/Macro Help.

[Arupopo]

Been stalking the forums a bit and noticing people talking about their SCH macros. Like, putting embrace on certain skills. My playstyle is to put Eos/Selene on Obey and use the buffs when I need them. I usually leave embrace for auto because tbh, they do a pretty good job at topping people off.

I actually don't have any macros but was wondering if there was some good ones to chuck in with my playstyle (Auto Embrace).

Just wondering what everyone uses, Im also on the playstation version if that counts for anything.

[AskaRay]

I absolutely don't macro Eos/Selene heals with mine. I like to be able to heal separately; if I want us both to heal the same target I'll command her to.

I have all my attacks macroed. Here's a link to the SCH crossbar thread, I explained it in there: clicky

Hope that helps

[Sandrinea]

Here are the macros i use, I play on PC but it's pretty much the same aside from <mo>. You can also use <f> aka focus target for PS use. I hope it helps

Healing Macro:
/macroicon "Physick"
/ac "Physick" <t>
/ac "Physick" <tt>
/pac "Embrace" <mo>
/pac "Embrace" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <tt>

DPS Macros:
/macroicon "Bio II"
/ac "Bio II" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <mo>
/pac "Embrace" <tt>

/macroicon "Miasma"
/ac "Miasma" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <mo>
/pac "Embrace" <tt>

/macroicon "Bio"
/ac "Bio" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <mo>
/pac "Embrace" <tt>

you can also write those DPS macros in another way using focus target,
/macroicon "Bio II"
/ac "Bio II" <f>
/pac "Embrace" <mo>
/pac "Embrace" <t>

the <mo> before the target will make me able to heal any party member nad if i don't mouse over anybody, pet will heal the tank. You can't <mo> in PS, so you can just omit that line. it just adds more micromanagement for PC.

[Sandrinea]

You can also use stuff like these:

Covenant Succor Macro:
/macroicon "Succor"
/ac "Succor" <me>
/pac "Fey Covenant" <me>

Regen Succor Macro:
/macroicon "Succor"
/ac "Succor" <me>
/pac "Whispering Dawn" <me>

Resurrection Macro:
/macroicon "Swiftcast"
/ac "Swiftcast" <me>
/ac "Resurrection" <t>
/p Casting Ressurection on <t> <se.2>

Eye for an Eye Macro:
/macroicon "Eye for an Eye"
/ac "Eye for an Eye" <t>
/ac "Eye for an Eye" <tt>
/p Eye for an Eye activated on <t> <se.2> <wait.60>
/echo Eye for an Eye ready! <se.8>

Virus Macro:
/macroicon "Virus"
/ac "Virus" <t>
/ac "Virus" <tt>
/p Virus activated on <t> <se.2>

It's all up to your own style so you can change any macro around to your own liking. Have fun

[Tsurayu]

While Macros are generally fine to use, it's often often better to ween yourself off of them, nor never use them to begin with.

For example, the popular Physick/Adlo + Embrace Macro is okay. It essentially gives you a 700 Potency heal spell at all times, which is nice. However, Eos and Selene's Embrace has a longer cooldown than your Physick or Adloquium, so if you constantly force her to cast with you, eventually your spells will fall further and further out of sync. You'll notice this if you try to use this macro immediately after you finish casting the first one, Eos or Selene won't be ready for around another half-second. Continue to spam the macro, and it'll just become even more chaotic. It's a much better to learn to Physick and Adlo while ordering your Faerie to use Physick on the same, or different target, manually. Yes, it takes practice, but will save you a headache once you master it.

Another popular set of macros is targeting (<t> <tt> <ft>) macros to your attacks. Just.. no. Don't do it. If you macro your Bios and Miasma spells, for example, you lose the ability to pre-cast those spells. You know how you cast Bio II and around say... .20 before it finishes you can hit your Miasma button and as soon as Bio II finishes the game automatically registers your Miasma cast? Well, you can't do that with macros because of the different internal sever timings used for macros. Sure, that's not THAT big of a deal, but over the duration of a battle, you will start losing significant DPS. Just learn to quickly switch between an enemy target and an allied target you need to heal and forego the use of targeting macros altogether.

At the end of the day, macros can be useful for certain situations, but you really need to do a lot of playing around with them in order to optimize them. There are many out there that seem useful, but if you really look into the mechanics, they are often a hindrance in the long run.

[Spoekes]

Healing Macro:
/macroicon "Physick"
/ac "Physick" <t>
/ac "Physick" <tt>
/pac "Embrace" <mo>
/pac "Embrace" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <tt>

Does this work, I mean the <tt> part after a line with <t> ?
My only macros are virus and ress-shoutout, and as far as I remember the <tt> stuff after the <t> line does not work; instead, if a monster is targeted, you will be healing your self and not it's target.

Macroing embraces into everything is also a thing I would not recommend, especially if doing full party content. The fairy is unbeatably quick in healing a DPS that ate an AoE for example, you counter this with such excessive macro use and may keep the fairy busy without reason.

Also, you might want to work over your whsipering dawn macro. Your CDs of Rouse and Fey Illumination align really well and it's kind of a crime to use WD without at least one of them.

Last but not least, just give your DPS actions a try without macros.
Not using macros might not save a whole GCD, but depending on lag it can save a second or more and can make the difference in beeing able to get one more dot off in time or not.

[Werhusky]

Does this work, I mean the <tt> part after a line with <t> ?
My only macros are virus and ress-shoutout, and as far as I remember the <tt> stuff after the <t> line does not work; instead, if a monster is targeted, you will be healing your self and not it's target.

It doesn't work if the first target you tell your dear fairy is out of range or not healable she just triggers a selfheal :/
I play on PS4 I have on Healbar a

/pac "Embrace" <t>

and on DPS bar

/pac "Embrace" <tt>

I spam the button like hell to keep maintank topped off. Also on mechanics like in Pharos or WP HM where you remove a debuff with healing to top i just softtarget the one to be healed up and let the fairy handle while I stay in stance.

[Spoekes]

If your only line in this macro is
/ac "Embrace" <t>

may I ask why you even macro it then? ^^
Can you on PS4 not just assign the pet embrace spell to a button? why use a macro?

[Werhusky]

If your only line in this macro is
/ac "Embrace" <t>

may I ask why you even macro it then? ^^
Can you on PS4 not just assign the pet embrace spell to a button? why use a macro?

If I leave out the <t> i may trigger selfheal if target not in range, with it she goes across the room and heals the target (I used it once in our FC house to test it when the target without my knowing went upstairs and Eos stalked all through the house )

[Spoekes]

I don't mean leaving out the <t>, I mean not using a macro for that one-liner in the first place ^^

Why would you macro /pac embrace <t>
If I don't miss something here, its as useless as /ac physik <t>, if you can just bind physik (unmacroed!) to your hotbar