Brand new player - question about Swiftcast and Macros - PS4

[ChameleonMS]

Welcome Eorzea.
Some things to note about macros are:
Actions can only be executed in successions of full seconds.
e.g.
/ac "Stone"
/wait 2.5
/ac "Stone"

The macro actually attempts to active the second Stone at 2 seconds. The .5 is completely ignored.
Use of macros for GCD actions are less optimal that actually pressing buttons. A GCD is action which invokes your cool down timer before the next move is allowed to be activated.
The next macro command will not invoke until the previously activated one has completed.
When using a GCD skill, such as Stone, you pre-activate about .25 seconds before the GCD timer has completed. This ensures fastest activation.
When using the macro, the activation must wait until the full GCD has completed, this waiting translates to a minor delay in casting, causing a time loss.

Off GCD (the instant actions like Swiftcast) have a "delay" of about .25 seconds. This forces your swift raise macro to be.

/micon "Raise"
/ac "Swiftcast" <wait.1>
/ac "Raise" <t>

I prefer /micon "Swiftcast" because it shows me when the Swiftcast timer has finished resetting. With your limited hot bar space using PS4 (like I do). This information is more important to me than seeing a Raise icon.

To save button space and my sanity I have the following macro for Stone. This prevents me from having to shift my hot bars around when level synced; which happens a lot. I will take the menial DPS loss (I am healer after all) for the convience factor.
/micon "Stone"
/ac "Stone III" <t>
/ac "Stone III" <tt>
/ac "Stone II" <t>
/ac "Stone II" <tt>
/ac "Stone" <t>
/ac "Stone" <tt>