Useful Healing Macros

[Praqzis]

The only downside with this is when you are in party of 8 and have to quick count that the person is 5th, 6th or 7th on the list.
Think I'll be quicker to hit it with mouse click and the number on the task bar

I have bound keys R, F, C, and V to target Self, 2nd member, 3rd member, and 4th member respectively. I also manually change order of party at start of dungeon so the tank is always key F. This allows me to change party members and heal without ever moving the mouse or having my fingers leave the home row (I hate the function keys since they are so out of the way). After a while it becomes second nature where you cast a spell, change the target to a a new target while the previous spell is casting so you are immediately ready to go with your new spell.

If you have 8 members, then other healer is Shift+R and other tank (if there is one) is Shift+F. I also have a Logitech mouse with 8 buttons (all mapped to number keys). So fingers are always 1-2 keys within WASD and all commands are combinations of 1-6 (on mouse buttons) with and without shift, control, and alt. Very movement efficient.

[zeehairah]

WASD and all commands are combinations of 1-6 (on mouse buttons) with and without shift, control, and alt. Very movement efficient.

I realized last night that trying to make just the mouse or just a controller was silly of me when I can do homer row and 10-key blindfolded. That with these macros should really help!

[DmitriMosolov]

Oh man I guess I gotta use macros to become pro!

[Taemek]

Oh man I guess I gotta use macros to become pro!

I disagree, in most cases I believe that a lot Healers are bad healers because they rely to heavily on macros to begin with.

Simple macros are win, long drawn out macro's with wait timers and all the rest are a liability due to peoples human nature side of them thinking they need to wait for the macro to play out rather then interrupting it for something on the fly to be more adaptive to what is happening real time.

[LiadansWhisper]

I disagree, in most cases I believe that a lot Healers are bad healers because they rely to heavily on macros to begin with.

Simple macros are win, long drawn out macro's with wait timers and all the rest are a liability due to peoples human nature side of them thinking they need to wait for the macro to play out rather then interrupting it for something on the fly to be more adaptive to what is happening real time.

I'd never use one of the longer macros, but I don't see the issue with mouseovers. They only improve your performance.

[Stanice]

I disagree, in most cases I believe that a lot Healers are bad healers because they rely to heavily on macros to begin with.

Simple macros are win, long drawn out macro's with wait timers and all the rest are a liability due to peoples human nature side of them thinking they need to wait for the macro to play out rather then interrupting it for something on the fly to be more adaptive to what is happening real time.

And I agree with this post. I don't mean to offend anyone but most of the macros here are pointless, if not hurtful. They might ease your work in less demanding dungeons but in harder ones like Titan and Coil you have to be much more fluent and responsive, you simply don't have the luxury of waiting out your macro to end.

I also find <mo> macros a preference thing and I believe it's ok to use them if you prefer mouse targeting (obviously). With that said, I only use 2 macros.

/micon "Energy Drain"
/ac "Energy Drain" <t>
/ac "Energy Drain" <tt>

and

/micon Raise
/ac Swiftcast <me>
/wait 1
/ac Resurrection <t>
/ac Resurrection <mo>
/ac Raise <t>
/ac Raise <mo>

I also liked the idea of what I adopted as "Sprint-a-lot" macro:

/ac "sprint" <me>
/wait 30
/ac "sprint" <me>
/wait 30
/ac "sprint" <me>
/wait 30
/ac "sprint" <me>
/wait 30
/ac "sprint" <me>
/wait 30
/ac "sprint" <me>
/wait 30
/ac "sprint" <me>
/wait 30
/echo Out of sprints!

I can see this being useful in Titan especially, and I'll try it as soon as I get the chance.

[Impendus]

I can't for the life of me get a stoneskin/protect macro to work for me, tried to do two separate macro's for 1-4 and 5-8 and it keeps skipping people with a wait of 3 but meh, I got no problem selecting them individually

[Wyndam]

I have a feeling the answer is going to be no, but I want to ask anyway. Is there a way to make a macro that will cancel Cleric Stance if it's active but not use it if it isn't active? The intent would be to macro this into my Cure spells so that I never accidentally cast a Cure with Cleric Stance active.

[Emraell]

I have a feeling the answer is going to be no, but I want to ask anyway. Is there a way to make a macro that will cancel Cleric Stance if it's active but not use it if it isn't active? The intent would be to macro this into my Cure spells so that I never accidentally cast a Cure with Cleric Stance active.

No conditionals in the current implementation of macros.

[AnimaAnimus]

I haven't played with healing macros yet nor have I read all 21 pages of this thread so I will just ask lol.

Is the <stpc> command we have in xi still usable in xiv and if we do does it function the same? It always made healing easy since you could just arrow up or down to the char you wanted to target. I hate using a mouseover, it feels clunky and and awkward to me