Healer Macro help

[Odal]

Hello,

I started leveling Conjurer and I've been really enjoying having a mouseover macro, however it does seem slightly bugged.

/macroicon "Cure"
/merror off
/ac "Cure" <mo>
/ac "Cure" <t>
/ac "Cure" <me>

Problem is I will clearly have my mouse above the tank's name plate to heal him, but maybe 1 out of 30 casts still casts on myself. It hasn't killed anyone yet, but as I get higher level, I can't help but think it will eventually. Like it's not a mistake of me accidentally moving my mouse off the name plate as it'll happen randomly when I haven't even moved my mouse throughout a fight.

So I'm fine with an alternative, honestly. But sometimes this information is hard to find: Is there a shift modifier I can use to cast on myself when shift is held and cast on mouseover when shift is not held without creating whole new macro and taking up another slot on my action bar?

[EveK]

Well, you can have two separate hotkey assignments where one has the keybind of the other plus shift.

You might also try pointing to the party list rather than a potentially-moving nameplate.

[Rongway]

The only way to have shift+button do something different is to have a separate action in another action bar slot.

My recommendation is to use just <mo>. A multi target macro works great for, say, friendly buffs like Apocatastasis, but for something critical like a heal, you really want a single target to reduce the possibility of macro-related error. Then when soloing, just park your mouse over your name in the party list, or for t you can mouseover your Target Bar.

A slightly more complicated solution would be to create duplicate versions of your bars, store them to CNJ, and swap them to your WHM bar via macro, but that's a lot more involved than the simple <mo>-all compromise.

[Odal]

Well, you can have two separate hotkey assignments where one has the keybind of the other plus shift.

You might also try pointing to the party list rather than a potentially-moving nameplate.

Well When I said nameplate, I meant focus target (tank) nameplate or party nameplate, but yeah. I'll probably just remove the "<me>" and "<t>" aspects of my macro. Shame because it was such a nice macro aside from the buggy side of it.

[LunaFaye]

There's not one reason you should macro heals, scholar would be a bit different due to the fairy micro management, however even that is not recommendable. Only macro you should be having, and that's just to annoy the party, would be raise.

[Rongway]

There's not one reason you should macro heals

Macroing heals is fine. Mouseovers reduce the cognitive load of healing by eliminating the requirement to acquire the correct target before activating the action, or switching back and forth between friendly and hostile targets. This is worth the costs that would make macroing not worth it on a DD job.

[Taika]

There's a thread on the healer forums about similar healing macro issues: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-some-problems

[miraidensetsu]

Take off this:

/ac "Cure" <me>

And your code should work well.

When you're on a party, try to keep the tank selected on party list. It will be easier to heal him. If other party member needs heal, just select him (on the party list) and press the hotkey for Cure (or Cure II).