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    Player Seraphor's Avatar
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    Seraphor Vhinasch
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    Zodiark
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    Gunbreaker Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by EaMett View Post
    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...
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    Cyrillo Rongway
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    Hyperion
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    Black Mage Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
    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.
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    EaMett's Avatar
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    Ea Sin
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    Faerie
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    Scholar Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
    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.
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