What do you use for movement?

[Stratus9]

There seems to be a lot of different styles. I considered changing the F1 - F8 to other keys but ultimately that seems like too many keybinds used up on targeting even with the ones it frees up on movement. 8 targets feels like too many for me. It is tempting because this would completely free up the mouse for movement and the mouse is the best way to move is most circumstances. I can see the benefits in pvp as well.

I'm not comfortable with party scroll so I think I'm left with click targeting. I considered mouseovers but I heard they aren't as efficient in FFXIV due to the way macros register spellcasts or something like that. Mouseover macros are a staple to MMORPG healing for sure as well as click-to-cast which I use in WoW. That generally always requires add-ons, which of course there will be none in FFXIV.

[Liam_Harper]

I considered mouseovers but I heard they aren't as efficient in FFXIV due to the way macros register spellcasts or something like that. Mouseover macros are a staple to MMORPG healing for sure as well as click-to-cast which I use in WoW. That generally always requires add-ons, which of course there will be none in FFXIV.

They aren't as efficient because you can't queue them and if you try to macro instants onto another ability they have a 1 sec wait inbetween by default. One reason I dislike swift+raise macros. They're fine enough for ST heals and probably one of the very few "acceptable" combat macros, especially if your reaction time is slower than the fraction of a second you lose from being unable to queue. You don't ST heal that often in most content anyway.

If you go with mouseover macro, make sure you only put the /ac "ST heal" <mo> line in your macro (not counting /merror off or /micon), don't try to be fancy and add a <t> line at the end to try to make it default to yourself or a target in the case of no mouseover, it'll just mess up and heal you 90% of the time.
Also fill every spare line of your macro with the /ac mouseover line to reduce the chance of it not registering.