Useful Healing Macros

[Warlic]

Hello, I'm Warlic, I took a break for a few years, and just got back into the game. I was wondering if you can assign macros for group heals, and if so how would you write the commands to execute such commands. I've seen a lot of self heals and target of target heals but no group heals macros

[Rongway]

I've seen a lot of self heals and target of target heals but no group heals macros

I'm confused as to what you're asking for. Medica, Helios, Succor, and the host of AoE oGCD actions are targetless actions; you don't need a macro for them--just push the button. Cure III is a single target spell with splash, so use <mo> or whatever you use for your single target heals. Ground target AoEs like Asylum and Earthly Star can be centered on a target with <mo><t><anyothertargettag>.

[EaMett]

I'm amazed that people are still using, and even worse, suggesting multi-target macros. Have SE changed how macros work recently or are people just throwing out bad advice?

[Seraphor]

I JUST posted about this. Don't use multi-target macros. You can't guarantee target order and as a result your heal will fallback to healing you instead (when it doesn't outright heal the wrong target).

Your macro should just be the <mo> action and you will never have that issue again.

EDIT: as an FYI it's the same for multi-action macros. So swifcast + rez can fail in just the same way and try to raise without using swifcast.

Not all multi target macros fail.

I'm on controller, so mo isnt an option.
I instead use target and target of target for dps spells, so that I can tab through the party list for heals and not worry about the target of my dps spells, they simply go off on whoever the tank (usually) is targetting.
So of course, you can't cast stone on a party member...

[Rongway]

Not all multi target macros fail.

Mutli target macros for healing actions are always a bad idea, because of the way heals are programmed to coerce self targeting. This feature is there to facilitate healing during solo play, but causes problems in party play.

[EaMett]

Not all multi target macros fail.

I'm on controller, so mo isnt an option.
I instead use target and target of target for dps spells, so that I can tab through the party list for heals and not worry about the target of my dps spells, they simply go off on whoever the tank (usually) is targetting.
So of course, you can't cast stone on a party member...

As Rongway stated, I assumed healing because macros for dps should be a no go from the start since they don't queue and you end up taking a serious dps hit. (and that's basically 90% of your uptime)

Basically:

- Don't macro your main dps skills
- Don't multi-target healing skills
- Don't multi-action (or make sure you understand exactly what you're doing and how macros work with the GCD)

Yeah doesn't paint a good picture for FF14 macros. They still have a lot of uses though for UI customisation, markers, some single target skills, etc.