How in the world am I supposed to play SCH on PS4?

[AncientCrystal]

I wanted to get my SCH to 70 with the quick easy Q's so I could get my SMN to 70 as well but just looking at all the abilities + pet commands this looks nearly impossible!

Any tips? And what are "keybinds"?

[Misstique]

Sorry, don't take this the wrong way but please.... If you are going to queue as a sch to level up smn, please make sure you are at least decent at healing or practicing a bit before joining groups. I have experienced enough times where someone who had no idea what they were doing caused issues in groups and roulettes. And...sch healing is probably the most complicated healer to play due to the micromanagement of your pet.

That being said.

I mained sch for all of hw and play using a controller as well. I would recommend macros and lots of them. As for keybinds, they are buttons or combination of buttons to perform a action (keyboard related) and not really useful for the controller.

One thing I recommend to all healers that want to dps and heal is to do a <t> and <tt> macro.

Example would be

/ac "broil" <t>
/ac "broil" <tt>
/micon "broil"

This is a really simple macro and what is does is this. Say you have the tank targeted to heal him, while you have him targeted, you cast broil and it will attack his target. This will also work on any other targets you target yourself. Just make sure to remove error messages from your chat. You can also use this for other spells such as miasma, bio, etc.

For aoe targeting such as shadowflare and sacred soil, you can do an instant cast without worrying about where to target it.

/ac "shadowflare" <t>
/micon "shadowflare"

or

/ac "sacred soil" <t>
/micon "sacred soil"

What this does is that anyone or anything you target is where your aoe will be cast and you dont have to use the joystick to aim it. (remember: only either shadowflare or sacred soil can be up)

As for the pet, use Eos. There is very little reason to use Selene atm.

I can't get on to check the macros I made for my pet but for quick cast of a pet, the macro is

/mlock
/ac "swiftcast" <wait.1>
/ac "summon"
/micon "summon"

Also, make sure to have obey, place, and stay.

Obey makes the fairy only use regular heals without randomly casting cooldowns
Place allows you to place the fairy where you want.
Stay makes it stay there.

As for fairy spells, you are going to want cast those on your own instead of leaving the fairy to randomly cast them on it's own.

Also --Make sure to focus target bosses.

[Aeducan]

Hi there,

I play SCH quite regularly for high-end contents and I'm also on PS4. Here are my few tips that hopefully make your experience more enjoyable as SCH:

1. It's perfectly fine to put your pet in sic mode for most contents so you don't have additional pet commands to worry about. This will make your crossbar easier to toggle as well, assuming you're using 2 crossbars like I do (if you want to remove that dedicated pet crossbar you can't edit from toggle, you can do so from character config -> hotbar section). Although putting your pet in sic mode is not something I'd recommend for high-end contents, it's great for casual contents because it activates automatically whenever possible. So it's almost like you get various freebies at certain intervals, very neat!
2. You might want to consider using macros in order to cull some skills. For example, the popular protect-esuna/E4E combo, swiftcast + resurrection, rouse + whispering dawn, among other things. I think you can reduce buttons as many as 6 this way. I personally never use macro so I can't help you in this department, but I'm sure others will be able to help you if you're interested. Perhaps this is what you meant by keybinding? at least, that's what I immediately thought when I read that word.
3. Have you tried shared crossbar features? The ones you can access by double tapping R2/L2 and holding them together? I use these features for buttons I share with my other jobs (i.e. sprint, lb, mount, teleport, return, ethers, etc.). So I'm only using 2 crossbars, but they're all SCH-specific and I seem to be able to fit in everything I need within these 32 slots.

At the end of the day, SCH will still have more buttons compared to the other 2 healers and so it may be confusing at first. However, it's perfectly possible and viable to play SCH effectively on PS4. I hope you'd enjoy SCH and good luck with your leveling

[Shouko]

I wanted to get my SCH to 70 with the quick easy Q's so I could get my SMN to 70 as well but just looking at all the abilities + pet commands this looks nearly impossible!

Any tips? And what are "keybinds"?

Besides what's already been said you don't exclusively need to play with a controller, you can set it up via in game with a keyboard and mouse which if you're most used to is helpful.

[Sebazy]

I mained sch for all of hw and play using a controller as well. I would recommend macros and lots of them.

Just be aware that using macros brings up another set of issues, namely that they do not queue properly and as such, add an additional delay to pretty much everything you do with them.

Back in ARR I used to macro embraces into all of my dps abilities to maximise my fairy output but it wasn't until I did some side by side testing that I realised how much this was impacting my ability to DPS. It's really easy to test yourself, just make a broil macro and get a friend to use a hotkey next to you, spam a dummy for a couple of minutes and watch as they end up 1-2 GCDs ahead.

SCH is pretty much the worst healer to play on gamepad due to having the most button bloat by far. My only advice would be to either use the pet hotbar as one of your button bars or use switching macros along with your summons to switch hotkeys when you alternate between Eos and Selene.

[supaiku]

I play on Ps4, not using a single macro and I don't have any problems managing my skills and my fairy.
In the end it doesn't matter if you have 2 pages for your skills or 4, as you can straight go to the page you want using R1 + the appropriate button. So if you press R1 + X or R1 + circle doesn't really make a difference. It's just a matter of getting used to it.

[Terkhev]

While I play on PC, I use controller. Game allows you to assign 48 skills (on my settings, maybe you can squeeze more) and it's more than enough.
Don't use macros with GCD skills, they slow you down.

You actually shouldn't have less skills on SMN.

[ULoki]

Use W - Cross Hot Bar, so that you will have 32 slots to play around. You just Hold L2+R2 or R2+L2 to access the other 16 slots. I macro my pet abilities to put in my main 16 slots. Example below. They have the same time, so both will always be available to use.

/micon "Whispering Dawn"
/ac "Rouse" <me>
/pac "Whispering Dawn" <t>

[silverlunarfox]

I play on Ps4, not using a single macro and I don't have any problems managing my skills and my fairy.
In the end it doesn't matter if you have 2 pages for your skills or 4, as you can straight go to the page you want using R1 + the appropriate button. So if you press R1 + X or R1 + circle doesn't really make a difference. It's just a matter of getting used to it.

This. You get used to it. I started on the Ps4 before migrating to PC and continue to use a controller. I find it faster honestly. But thats just me.

[Anselmet]

Another thing you can do is make it so when hold down r2 and l2 you will bring up 8 extra spots up and place all your dps skills on there. You should then be able to fit the rest of your healing spells onto hotbar 1 with proper macros. I don't need to flip through pages with this set up and I only have a few rare spells on hotbar 2 such as dissipation in case that really rare moment i need that skill. Prioritize most important spells and macros. I find that many of sch skills are important, but then there are just some that you're not gonna really be using that much.