Useful Healing Macros

[HachiHero]

I also try to keep the boss targeted as much as possible (except on encounters where a debuff goes out, since...lol...sometimes it just scrolls off the party frames, woo!). That makes sense to me, I hope that helps!

Just ran a couple WP's with it and didn't see any heals dropped, and could be in my head but Regen and other instant cast skills I had macroed are responding more quickly. Thanks again.

[dragonflyseksparade]

Haste is another word for Spell Speed. In other games, it increases the rate at which DoTs tick. Do you have any idea how much Presence of Mind lowers the GCD for?

Prescense of Mind doubles the spell speed stat. So PoM effectively scales with gear/spell speed. For me, presence of mind gives me roughly 1.8-1.9 second GCD compared to 2.39 with my base spell speed. But will be different for everyone depending on a players spell speed.

[Layla-chan]

I love macros that take advantage of cooldowns. For example, here is my Raise macro:

/macroicon "Swiftcast"
/ac "Swiftcast" <me>
/ac "Presence of Mind" <me>
/ac "Raise" <t>
/wait .8
/ac "Raise" <t>

Here is how it works: If Swiftcast is available, the macro will activate this and then Raise; it will not activate Presence of Mind and the first Raise because Swiftcast is still in its casting phase. If Swiftcast is still in cool down, then the macro will then activate Presence of Mind before casting Raise. Finally, if both Swiftcast and Presence of Mind are in cooldown, then Raise itself will be cast.

Cooldowns also make macros that use button mashing possible:

/micon "Divine Seal"
/ac "Divine Seal" <me>
/ac "Presence of Mind" <me>

This macro requires you to press the button *at least* two times. First press activates "Divine Seal" then the second press activates "Presence of Mind" since "Divine Seal" is still in cooldown.

[Layla-chan]

Playing in the PS3 means using the crosshotbar, which means switching from one hotbar to another to be able to use most of your skills effectively. I find that you can actually bind "Cleric Stance" with the /chotbar command to make macros, and this effectively gives you an "attack crosshotbar" when "Cleric Stance" is on, and a "healing crosshotbar" when it is off.

Requirements for this to work are

1. In Start > System > Character Config > Hotbar Settings > Cross, set both "Enable Customization" and "Enable Customization for when weapon is drawn" to off
2. Choose two crosshotbars, one will be your "Healer Hotbar" (in this example Hotbar 1) and the other will be your "Cleric Hotbar" (here, Hotbar 5). Set your hotbars such that your "Cleric Hotbar" has your attack spells and macros, while your "Healer Hotbar" has your healing spells and macros.

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[Layla-chan]

Now set this macro in your Healer Hotbar (Hotbar 1 in this case)

"Attack Hotbar"
/macroicon "Cleric Stance"
/ac "Cleric Stance" <me>
/chotbar 5

And this macro in your Cleric Hotbar (Hotbar 5)

"Healer Hotbar"
/macroicon "Cleric Stance"
/ac "Cleric Stance" <me>
/chotbar 1

I would suggest placing these macros over the most used upon spells/macros in the other hotbar. This way, button mashing will change the hotbar then fire up your most used often spell in the other hotbar. For example, my "Attack Hotbar" macro is in the L2+X position of my Healer Hotbar, which is in the same position as my "Stone II" macro in my Cleric Hotbar. Therefore, by mashing L2+X while in my Healer Hotbar, the "Cleric Stance" spell is activated, hotbar changes, and "Stone II" is fired.

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[Layla-chan]

I would suggest having this additional macro in your Attack Hotbar, your "OH SHIT!" macro:

"Divine Healer"
/macroicon "Divine Seal"
/ac "Cleric Stance" <me>
/chotbar change 1
/ac "Divine Seal" <me>

and placing this over the position of your "Cure II" spell/macro in the Healer Hotbar.

Finally, unfortunately the macros are not perfect. If you press the macro before "Cleric Stance" cools down or in the middle of another spell, the hotbar will change without firing "Cleric Stance" and your attacks or (worse) heals will be suboptimal. That's why I recommend either placing a regular "Cleric Stance" spell in one or both hotbars, or get yourself familiar with changing hotbars on the fly (i personally use this latter one)

[coffeeking]

good for ppl having trouble clicking.

I don't use macro's though so can't share any!

[Delvish]

Playing in the PS3 means using the crosshotbar, which means switching from one hotbar to another to be able to use most of your skills effectively. I find that you can actually bind "Cleric Stance" with the /chotbar command to make macros, and this effectively gives you an "attack crosshotbar" when "Cleric Stance" is on, and a "healing crosshotbar" when it is off.

Requirements for this to work are

1. In Start > System > Character Config > Hotbar Settings > Cross, set both "Enable Customization" and "Enable Customization for when weapon is drawn" to off
2. Choose two crosshotbars, one will be your "Healer Hotbar" (in this example Hotbar 1) and the other will be your "Cleric Hotbar" (here, Hotbar 5). Set your hotbars such that your "Cleric Hotbar" has your attack spells and macros, while your "Healer Hotbar" has your healing spells and macros.

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Good advice on your stance dancing macro. If you go back and edit a previous post though, you can bypass the 1000 character limit instead of continued, continued, continued...

i.e. this post is 1192 characters long. I chop out what fits, and add the rest later.

[Gardes]

Anyone know how to turn off buffs/stances with a macro command? I want to start healing but since I use controllers, I want to use separate sets for healing and attack spells. I figured that /chotbar change would be best if place on the cleric stance but the on and off from pressing the cleric stance sometimes leads me to healing with cleric stance on. Something like

/buff "Cleric Stance" off
/ac Cure <t>

Would really be nice.

[Kyomih]

You don't need to make multiple posts for longer posts. Just edit your first one since editing posts doesn't have a letter/word count, btw.