Hello all, I'm a new player to the game, just started over the weekend on PS4. I'm playing a healer class, soon to be WHM. I'm currently at 23 CNJ, 25 THM, and 1 ACN.

A friend of mine introduced me to the game and informed me that I needed to get Swiftcast from THM asap, hence why my levels are kind of all over the place at the moment.

I'm familiar with the healing playstyle as I usually play healers in other MMOs, however, given that this is console and not PC, I'm not quite sure how to the macros work.

So I guess my questions are:

1. Is there any other instance in which it is critical to use Swiftcast outside of raise?
2. How exactly do I set up macros?

Since this is a console version, I'm trying to get used to juggling the different tabs on the action bar and would rather keep the most important heals on Bar 1 before putting others on Bar 2, etc.

Any helpful hints or other information for a starting healer?

Thanks.