Useful Healing Macros

[yoruichia]

You can also use mouseover macros, with the <mo> (Example: /action "Cure" <mo>)

Mouseover Macros have the be best for healing!!!!

[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.

[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

[Lexine]

Mouse over macro's seem to bug out and heal myself instead of my mouse over target. Not safe in coil.

[neo_sabbath]

nice macros so far. i'm trying to create one where when a spell that has a long cooldown is used, i can use the /wait command and just before it comes off cooldown, it will echo to me saying that its ready. since i read somewhere that the maximum /wait is 60. is there a way to chain it if the cooldown is longer than 60s? also discovered a problem with it... eg

/micon "Swiftcast"
/ac "Swiftcast" <me>
/wait 58
/echo Swiftcast is UP in 2s !!!

now, on its own..the above macro works. but if u cast another spell after that..then it wont work for some reason..any ideas?

[Bixby]

is there a way to chain it if the cooldown is longer than 60s?

I think multiple /waits work. Haven't actually tested it, though.
/wait 60
/wait 30
for a 90 second CD.

now, on its own..the above macro works. but if u cast another spell after that..then it wont work for some reason..any ideas?

You can cast other spells if they're pulled straight out of the abilities menu. You can't use other macros. You can only have one macro running at a time. Using a macro while another is still running kills the first one and starts the second. The only thing you can really do about it is not rely on long /waits, avoid using macros for other spells, and/or stick use /recasts in macros that you use more often (e.g., put /recast Swiftcast in your Cure II macro so you get that information in your chat log regularly).

[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.

[kysulli]

Mouse over macro's seem to bug out and heal myself instead of my mouse over target. Not safe in coil.

Huge issue for me. There needs to be a way to turn off automatic self cast, but there isn't. I also Esuna myself instead of my targets, and self cast when things are out of range. It is ridiculous.