Tips for SCH? :)

[JackFross]

You my friend, are godsend!

The ONLY caveat - PS3 does not have horizontal and vertical hotbars. The PS4 does, though, which makes things just as easy to manage as a PC if you have a mouse for more accurate HUD manipulations.

Played around with it more and I do take back that Novelty comment.

Agree to disagree to an extent! I won't argue that Blizz II is worthless in a raid scenario. It absolutely is! My only serious argument is that I can personally never justify spending the mana on Stoneskin for anything. Anytime I want a Stoneskin, Adloquium is both faster and more effective. I'm not gonna SS the whole party, Adlo is both quicker and more effective (esp followed by Lustrate) to pick up the random DPS who eats Height Error during the A8N intermission...

But it comes down to personal preference. Nothing wrong with using Stoneskin, at all, I just don't personally like it on my Scholar. C:

(Now if only they could macro turning on and off certain cross class skills D: </3)

There actually IS a way to macro this. It's /additionalaction or something along those lines. Look it up in text commands when making a Macro. You can remove one skill and add another. I have that set for my DRG when I swap between PvP and PvE - I keep Mantra on for PvE, and I use Foresight instead in PvP. I can get you the actual macro lines I use for it tomorrow! C:

Stoneskin pushes back your need to heal by 1 Embrace on a tank(In a sense as it is a little more than an embrace).

Not sure why you're talking in Embrace terms, especially since that happens independently of me. It's more logical to discuss in flat damage amounts - a Stoneskin on a 27k health PLD (my friend has this much at near i240) will mitigate 2700 damage - a bit more than 2 auto attacks. In a 3 mob pull, this could delay your heals by a GCD... if you ever needed to heal in the first place with a pre-pull Adloquium (which I don't ever have to). In a larger pull, this will have a negligible effect on it - mitigating +2 AA's in a group that's dropping 8+ per 3 seconds isn't gonna change anything. You'll still barely have time for your DPS GCDs!

That said - it's whatever works for you. If Stoneskin works, has worked, and continues to work, use it! I'm not gonna tell someone how to play, just offering my views on the cross-class. <3

[Rawrz]

My only serious argument is that I can personally never justify spending the mana on Stoneskin for anything. Anytime I want a Stoneskin, Adloquium is both faster and more effective. I'm not gonna SS the whole party, Adlo is both quicker and more effective (esp followed by Lustrate) to pick up the random DPS who eats Height Error during the A8N intermission...

I don't use Stoneskin like that exactly. I'll use it during the free moments between pulls if I have time to adlo after. In combat I'll use it, if it's raid wide and someone has weakness, think sephirot's phase 2 LB after a party wide succor, especially if we are late. (Adloing them specifically after, would cut its potency by 150 since succor is present. Again assuming I don't deploy, because it's on cool down.) It also really helps keep a6s clean during brawler phase 2 for green orbs. But thanks for the macro tip! It really will help me use them both, rather than just sticking with Stoneskin. xD

9/10 I'll cringe at someone casting ss in battle, so I use it little, but more justifiably in raid content (because if you can give yourself a little more options, why not xD.)

[JackFross]

I don't use Stoneskin like that exactly.

I usually just rely on my WHM to do that for me. xD

I consider the Stoneskin on weakness players to be "not my job!"

[Rawrz]

There actually IS a way to macro this. It's /additionalaction or something along those lines. Look it up in text commands when making a Macro. You can remove one skill and add another. I have that set for my DRG when I swap between PvP and PvE - I keep Mantra on for PvE, and I use Foresight instead in PvP. I can get you the actual macro lines I use for it tomorrow! C:

I made one myself actually! It's a one button push switch from Stoneskin to Blizzard II or vice versa with a notification of what is changing. Thanks again so much xD.

I chose the lightbulb for my macroicon but none really matters.

/Macrolock
/echo You are switching your cross class skills. The following skill will be disabled:
/recast "Stoneskin"
/recast "Blizzard II"
/aaction "Blizzard II"
/aaction "Stoneskin"
/aaction "Blizzard II" on
/chotbar action "Stoneskin" 8 13
/chotbar action "Blizzard II" 8 13
/echo Your current cross class has been changed to the following:
/recast "Stoneskin"
/recast "Blizzard II"


xD Its Macrolocked, because its kind of slow and I wouldn't want it to mess up. The game just cant do this action as quickly as hotbar/text commands. Bar 8, slot 13 is just where mine is on my cross hotbar (ps4) and youll have to enter your own if anyone wants to use this. If on PC, use /hotbar instead of /chotbar command.

[Gemina]

The ONLY caveat - PS3 does not have horizontal and vertical hotbars. The PS4 does, though, which makes things just as easy to manage as a PC if you have a mouse for more accurate HUD manipulations.

I've had some serious internet troubles the last couple days, but finally got around to giving this a try. I feel like I should have known about this a long time ago, but quite honestly, I can see how it can be missed. I had to swap between controller and mouse mode to set this up. And for someone like me who is less savvy with this kind of things, I never would have discovered it on my own. It's one of the less stand-out features despite being one of the most important to incorporate into gaming with a controller.



Just my initial set up to get things going. I still have to work with it a bit. But as you can see, only two of the twelve abilities I set are on crossbar 1 lol. Needless to say, I've been doing WAY more button presses than is necessary. So much so that I was still doing it after this setup. I have to break out of it now.