EVERY Tank & Healer SHOULD be using these FFXIV macros! 

Another Kardia macro that is good for 2 tank content that has tank swaps is doing "/ac Kardia " This makes it so that when you are targeting an enemy and you push the button, it will put Kardia on whomever is the target of that enemy this makes it so that you can easily swap Karida between the tanks at tank swaps occur. This also allow, if tanks die, for you to switch Kardia quickly to whomever is alive and being targeted at that moment.

One macro I use, especially in dungeons is /ac "Icarus" /micon "Icarus" I have the MT on focus all the time, so I use Icarus on focus, I found that especially useful for wall2wall pulls!

I use a healer macro where my attack spells will target whatever enemy the party member I’m on targets. For example, I leave the tank selected as my target for the heal spells and my attack spells will target whoever the tank targets. It’s a huge help because I have some motor issues with my hands and if I didn’t do this I could never play healer effectively, now I get comms and complements all the time.

I absolutely love the healer Rais macros that say something funny in chat like this one I saw a few days ago, "Hurry! Get up before I get in trouble!" Or something like that

I love creative healer raise macros. I think its cool when someone puts thought into their raise macros instead of being basic.

I really wish SE would stop the BS idea that macros need to be intentionally gimped to avoid automation. Using and for healer offensive spells so you can continue to use them while physically targetting a party member is a major QoL improvement, especially for target heavy jobs.... like AST.

As a PLD on controller I macro a lot. I macro a message for Cover, PoA, Invulnerability, Shirk, basically any time the party should know something. I macro mitigations together so I just need to mash one button for Sentinel and Sheltron or another button for Rampart and Reprisal. I macro FoF and Requiescat together because they are both popped at the same time.

As a pld i got irritated when i used certain mitigation for my party such as "cover" because the second they see that green teather they run away from me. (Thinking its from the fight) snd then ultimately getting wrecked lol So i put a macro on it that way tlthey stopped running everytime. Simply saying "this is good. Dont break it" I think its important for members to know that tanks are tanks for a reason lol we are literally there as a defense for everyone else. Dont be afraid to use us especially for pld which has great party mitigation

I can really appreciate the wall2wall pulling heads up in the macro.

That DRK macro for Living Dead is gonan be super helpful in DF, much appreciated. Now I can use it without watchign my DPS run off as I'm typing to my heale that I'm gonna pull with it...and hoping they know the icon lol.

what's te chest piece you had at the beginning of the video called? i'm returning to the game this week as monk and i'd like to use that

I try the the swift cast timer macro on my scholar and I’m on console but it doesn’t show the timer in the chat?

extravagent raise macros: for non savage i look at it as just being a lighthearted thing and i find them entertaining, now for (current) extremes/savage no they are distracting

Really long/complicated raise macros confuse the situation too much. It's better to be able to glance, see a name and confirm "OK I don't need to get that raise".

What macro is the raise for Sage

thanks for the video. got my raise macro setup, also that asylum macro is so useful.

What is mean when raising.. i dont get it.

I've got a fun kardia macro. /Ac kardia or something close to that. Basically apply kardia to my targets target, so I can move Kardia to the off tank durring tank swaps

Bro is using a final boss spoiler in a tutorial video. O_O 1:00 Don't ever do this, it's a one way trip to getting kicked from a party for spamming chat with useless info.

waiting 45sec to raise someone just because swiftcast is not ready is dumb

Telling healer you are wall to walling vs asking healer if okay to wall to wall pull is rude af. This is from a healer who prefers wall to wall pulls but yeah. You shouldnt just assume your healer is okay with wall to wall.

It is frustrating to come to FFXIV, after playing WoW for nearly 2 decades, and see how gimped macros are for usefulness in combat. While you can't string GCD abilities in WoW using a macro, you can easily string oGCD abilities quite nicely, queue skills on the tail end of a macro, spam other skills, and even execute multiple actions while a macro executes, like moving around. There is also no delay when stringing oGCD abilities in WoW. For example, in WoW Mages have a skill called "Presence of Mind". The FFXIV equivalent is "Swiftcast". The FFXIV skill, "Presence of Mind", is the same as the WoW skills "Bloodlust/Heroism/Time Warp". Just that the WoW skills are raid wide and FFXIV's skill is self only. Going back to "Presence of Mind"-WoW/"Swiftcast"-FFXIV though, healers will macro "Swiftcast" with their resurrection spell for an instant battle res. In WoW, a Mage will macro "Presence of Mind" with a very long and powerful nuke, like Pyroblast which has a 5 second cast time. When these macros are pressed the following happens: In FFXIV, you need a /wait 1 between "Swiftcast" and the revive spell to account for a server delay between activating the oGCD skill and the GCD skill. In WoW, there is no delay. The moment the macro is hit, the Mage will instantly cast their big spell as if it was natively instant cast and not powered out by another skill. If you don't use a /wait 1 in FFXIV macros, between oCGDs, then you have to spam the macro button repeatedly to get it to cycle through all the oGCDs until you arrive at the GCD ability you are wanting to boost. Thankfully, if everyone knows what they are doing and are generally competent, you don't really need many macros to be highly effective. As such, as skill goes up, you don't notice the lack as much.

As a healer main I hate raise macros .. while the other healer is spamming his macro I've already raised the person and am healing them. And if I ever saw anyone spamming that swiftcast macro I'd report them for macro spam. That's so unnecessary and spammy.

Hello! PLD/DRK Main here! This is a macro that is specifically for 8 man content usually high end stuff BUT super useful regardless. For shirk if you set a macro to /ac “Shirk” this will always target your cotank during tankswaps since as a tank your cotank will always be the second person on your party list and is the only time youre ever using shirk outside of memeing on your dps friends in dungeons. Another way you could write the macro is as /ac “Shirk” which means your targets target, or the current main tank, I dont tend to use this one as theres no real reason to not use 2. You _could_ use this target method as a healer for a maintank heal macro but id usually stay away from that for the aforementioned issue Bun said of server ticks, it is however AWESOME for a kardia reapply macro if youre on sage and the main tank and off tank will be swaping for extended periods of time like in p5s or p6s

I'm a paladin. These are the macros I have: Tank swap (shirk off tank) /merror off /micon "Shirk" /ac "Shirk" /ac "Shirk" /ac "Shirk" /ac "Shirk" /ac "Shirk" /ac "Shirk" FATE (level sync + tank stance) /merror off /levelsync /wait /ac "Iron Will" Healme (Clemency self for emergencies) /merror off /micon "Clemency" /ac "Clemency" /ac "Clemency" /ac "Clemency" /ac "Clemency" /ac "Clemency" /ac "Clemency"

The sound effects ones are annoying as fuckin in Frontline and pvp

I'm new to healing but one macro that has really helped me is having my attack spells on target of target, so I can keep tank as my target and still attack without changing target. This is WHM example: /macroicon "Stone II" /ac "Stone II" /ac "Stone II" also use one for Aero. I think I learned it from one of your other vods. Thanks!!

as a controller user mainly playing SCH, I use; /micon Galvanize /ac Galvanize used when in a party and used on the boss. the shield will apply on the bosses target (the tank), no need to switch targets to apply shields for tankbusters etc similarly, swap in /ac Excogitation to place excog on the tank in trash pulls, while still targeting mobs while running or in boss fights, also works for WHM regen, it's a simple second saver by not having to cycle through the party list.

for the revive macro you can actually put every revive spell into the same macro and for this i'd just use the [Resurrection] word from the auto-translate list so it's universally understandable what you're doing :D /micon "jump" general action /merror off /p Resurrection /ac "swiftcast" /ac "raise" /ac "resurrection" /ac "ascend" /ac "egeiro" /ac "verraise"

I really like your videos man, thats for all your knowledge sharing

And there’s me with my fat fingers accidentally hitting Superbolide at the start of an instance with a auto message to the party 😂 😅

I feel like a Cover macro on PLD is the way to go on controller since that way i can just press L3 or R3 for it the second i use the D-pad to go down and select the ally i want to use cover on without any time being lost since i can't have the Hotbar active as im moving through the list of allies in the party

you want /micon at the bottom to reduce macro delay /merror off at the top to remove error messages. for example, my Kardia macro: /merror off /ac Kardia /ac Kardia /ac Kardia /ac Kardia /ac Kardia /ac Kardia /ac Kardia /ac Kardia /ac Kardia /ac Kardia /ac Kardia /ac Kardia /ac Kardia /micon Kardia The repeated lines help you sort of "correct" the macro delay and is best because you can swap around Kardia instead of being committed to one target only.

I know this isn't correct but I always liked swift cast res macros. Make one that targets player 2, 3, and 4(your co healer and tanks) and one for 5 and 6 (your red mage and summoner, I always put them on the top of my dps list because they have res) and one for 7 and 8. It's sub optimal but the halve second I lose I gain back by not having to scroll to their name for the rest. I fine it useful for proging new raids. If they complain about it being sub optimal, I would point out that dying is also sub optimal

I've been a tank main since ARR. The only macros I use are to shirk/mitigation on the OT. Like as PLD I have a /ac intervention , DRK I do oblation/tbn etc. I also have some macros for placing salted earth on DRK, one for placing it on myself and one for placing it on my target. The reason for both is that in raid content sometimes you need to place it while moving the boss or while out of melee range, so having the flexibility of both options let's you always place in in a way it will hit the boss for the full duration without having to manually place it.

....5 years...i have 5 years on my account and did not know you could self target holmgang...5 YEARS! I'm sticking to healing...

So Why copy the tank Macros 14 times? Like what if I just type it once?

thanks so much for the Holmgang macro!!

Such a helpful bun

How do you change the interface windows to blue color in PS?

Hold up! How’d you get the double-cross macros? I use a controller and while fantastic, I would love to be able to see the CDs of my non-main skills.

im just getting into healer i usualy run with my freinds but im wanting to run without my group when there offline these macros will help thanks a bunch

/micon "Refugium" /merror off /ac "Refugium" gtoff cast the whitemage heal over time bubble on curser position

What would be the macro for sacred soil? It says that sacred is not a valid action name

Gonna be honest- if I’m in a dungeon or raid or trial, I’m looking at the players Hp and if it had the raise icon next to it. I’m not looking at the chat box. By the time that macro kicks in I’ve already cast raise and moved on

Imo the people who throw a fit or gripe about raise macros are no fun at all. Gimme my funny macros lol

Always great content

I like that Swiftcast countdown macro. I'd like to be able to let people know I haven't forgotten them, just waiting for Swiftcast to come back up. Interestingly I saw that Tank invulnerability macro for the first time about 2 hours ago in The Burn. The Gunbreaker kept popping it and I just realised what he was trying to say to the healer.

I have rescue macro and Benediction/other healer big heal macro for targeting weavable heals. Which is possible by writing the line over and over to give the game more chances to actually use it. For tanks I do similar with nascent flash, aurora, TBN etc so that I can weave mitigations/heals in during a fight that normally would require me targeting that player, casting it and targeting the boss again which depending on what I am doing might lose me a GCD or might cause me to miss a cast. The macro reads like /ac "Nascent Flash" repeated as many times as possible, and with the /micon name. This is interchangeable for any weavable party member targeted skill and all you ahve to do is change the name and the number to designate which party member to target. Some people say its not necessary but the number of times it has saved me a from clipping into my GCDs or worse warrants the use for me, plus its just easier for that specific use.

You don't really need the healer to save you when using Living Dead since the buff though. The only instance where you would actually die after using LD is if every single mob dies before you can get your self healing. But seeing as it takes one AoE or like 2-3 single target attacks for the full heals, this will very rarely happen.

Something I stumbled across is building a macro with both Swift cast and Res, but no wait time. If you just press it twice, the first press will perform swift cast, and the second will do Res because swift is in cool down.

Everytime someone says "healers shouldnt use macros if they do theyre bad" or "healers that use macros get no comms from me" bruh...do you know ho fcking annoying it is to WASTE my Swiftcast AGAIN AND AGAIN. "well just listen for the swiftcast noise" why tf would i be listening for that when dodging 50 AOE's and other shit "just get better" go touch grass. I should move to the EU servers, I heard theyre nicer XD

Ive been killed because of those with macros with a sound alert, I absollutely hate them :')

i use this one as healer so i can ress without having to change target. it does not let the other healer know who im ressing, any help on that front i appreciate. /merror off /ac "Swiftcast" /ac "Egeiro" /ac "Egeiro" /ac "Egeiro" /ac "Egeiro" /ac "Egeiro" /ac "Egeiro" /ac "Egeiro" /ac "Egeiro" /macroicon Egeiro

I like this one, for mouse and keyboard, you can rescue someone just by pointing your mouse on them and hitting the ability, I find it easier than clicking on them or checking their name /merror off /micon Rescue /ac Rescue /ac Rescue /ac Rescue /ac Rescue /ac Rescue /ac Rescue /ac Rescue /ac Rescue /ac Rescue /ac Rescue /ac Rescue /ac Rescue /ac Rescue

First :P Edit: Now having watched the video (lol), these are super helpful. Added them all to my macros. Thanks for the informative video :)

I do use revive messages and most of the time I try not to make them too long but I do try to make them kind of funny

holmgang was changed recently to not need a target 🙂

What I think about the long and annoying ones are just that ... long and annoying. I don't need you to tell me I am a zombie or Nophica has given me her blessing or that you are the best healer in the world because you have daned to raise me while we are fighting. If you want to put "back to the fight you go (target)" or "up you go (target)" I am not opposed to those but yeah make it short and sweet and not smart ***y please. Because to be very clear I now take pots to dungeons because healers seem to be reluctant to heal in dungeons these days. It's like your within that above 50% mark I can't be bothered ... oops didn't know they would aoe for over 30% then do a direct hit to kill you wow mb. Funny how its always mb but some long winded sililoquy about the raise. And all I want to say is if you had healed in the first place wouldn't need a raise. Nor to sit on the floor for 90 sec while your swiftcast reprocks because you just raised the tank. Oops mb for the rant.