SCH Playstyle/Macro Help.

[Sanguisio]

Using macros for attacks is fine, is doesnt affect your playstyle at all.

It also helps the other healer out by not having them unnecessarily solo heal.

[Spoekes]

Fairy Complications and Macros:

You must note, that skill queueing for the fairy does only work for auto embraces.
If you macro the embrace to everything and/or spam embrace like crazy, Fey Illumination and Whispering Dawn action will not be qeued. In this case you will have to hammer on your macro and hope to trigger the pet actions right after her GCD is ready again.

I would not recommend a macro for rouse.
Rouse is a OGCD skill you can just queue in between your own casting, for Fey Illumination and Whispering Dawn it heavily depends on how you control your fairy.
The macro works fine if you do not overcontrol embrace manually.

Macroing attacks is just bad play style. In any game. You can overlay a flavor text string for certain attacks (eg Virus) that don't stack, but otherwise you risk wiping the party because you couldn't cast healing spells while combat spells are firing.

Macroing is bad for reasons of skill qeueuing.
What you mean is macroing attack sequences, which is terribad, noone should ever do this outside of Fates.

[Kabzy]

I've observed a lot of SCHs (myself included) go through this progression:

1. What are macros?

2. Macros are sweet! Let's see how close I can get to "one press does everything!"

3. Macros are okay, but I think I have too many actions bundled together.

4. Macros are best for things like announcing rez and setting up mouseover skills; my gameplay is more flexible and more efficient when I don't macro too many things together.

This. I pretty much went through these 4 stages and feel like these supposedly 'useful' macros are more restricting if anything. Your best bet is to just spend time doing everything manually and getting comfortable with the job.

[KisaiTenshi]

Macroing is bad for reasons of skill qeueuing.
What you mean is macroing attack sequences, which is terribad, noone should ever do this outside of Fates.

Yes. Attack sequences are terrible things to Macro as it eliminates any skill speed/spell speed properties when it's rounded to the closes whole second. The way games queue commands (FFXIV is not the first) trends towards "You're never supposed to Macro combat" but rather "You're supposed to macro buffs, crafting and gear/UI swaps"