Healing on PS3

[Praqzis]

...There's a thread in this forum on healing macros, and I especially suggest using the set from the very first post in there... put 'em on the four first buttons of the crossbar, the easiest ones for you to get to, whichever those are for you, and your healing speed and proficiency will get much better, much faster.

My concern with this is how many buttons it takes up (on an already crowded hotbar). And if you add Cure 2 on to it, that's 8 of the 16 buttons on my main hotbar taken just for two spells. Does this leave enough room for buffs, specials (Shroud, Benediction, etc.), and Stone/Aero for occasional DPS? Sounds great in theory though. I may need to give it a shot. I'm also worried about the interaction habits it builds that don't scale to full 8-man parties in end-game.

[Zeikial]

Right now im just healing the only way I know, no macros set up or anything, and im not having any trouble. Players need to understand they are as much responsible for their own health as much as the healer is. Move out of aoes etc etc.

[Hans_Landa]

I play on PC with my PS3 controller and I think it's great healing with it. I have no trouble at all.

[JeniLinsky]

My concern with this is how many buttons it takes up (on an already crowded hotbar).

Get used to R1-shifting which hotbar you're using. Once you practice it, it actually goes quickly, easily, and you can have a great many more than 8 hotkeys up.

[Simaril]

Ha! pathetic lesser races with their inferior stone age tools... let me see you try to heal in 24 man raids successfully, then maybe...MAYBE I'll acknowledge your existence!


but seriously, I'm surprised SE implemented something that actually worked very good and didn't horribly went wrong...

I work on a PC, and don' like playing on one - so I've shifted my gaming back to consoles. Currently, I'm really hoping SE continues to deliver a usable product... and fosters a new era of console friendly MMOs. I actually REALLY like the long GCD... it makes the game less of a latency test and spammfest.

Here's hoping they can continue to deliver a FUN low APM game.