Healing Macro

[Malgor]

Right now I'm just 2 boxing, but I'd love to set up the best healing Macros I can for my warden healing my Paladin.

Right now I'm just using a few spells and using the following macros:

#show Soothing Steam
target Malgor
cast Soothing Steam

Soothing Steam stacks up to 4 times. Then once I have Malgor targeted I can hit other heals while he whacks away at stuff.

I know mouseover works. I tried it, but I am not sure how that will work once I'm in a group.

I'm curious for anyone running a true healer and a tank (and others?) what healing you are doing.

Thanks,

mal

[Berserker]

Here's what I do for macros and ISBoxer Click Bars to heal (cross posted from the ISBoxer site):

I've updated how I do the healing with my cleric. I'm now using a click bar in combination with this set of macros:

Macro: Heal1-3

#show Healing Breath
cast [ctrl] @mark 1 Healing Breath
cast [alt] @mark 2 Healing Breath
cast [shift] @mark 3 Healing Breath
cast @self Healing Breath

[the last line is more of a debugging flag -- it will cast if none of the mod keys get sent via ISBoxer's click bar (which will never happen, but in case it does, I want to know lol)]

Macro: Heal4-5

#show Healing Breath
cast [ctrl] @mark 4 Healing Breath
cast [alt] @mark 5 Healing Breath
cast @self Healing Breath

Macro: HoT1-3

#show Healing Grace
cast [ctrl] @mark 1 Healing Grace
cast [alt] @mark 2 Healing Grace
cast [shift] @mark 3 Healing Grace
cast @self Healing Grace

Macro: HoT4-5

#show Healing Grace
cast [ctrl] @mark 4 Healing Grace
cast [alt] @mark 5 Healing Grace
cast @self Healing Grace

Here are the keymaps to fire this macro:



Here's the click bar setup:



Here's how it looks in game:



(added an extra button to the toggle bar to turn on the mouse repeater, and placed a repeater region over the pet bar for all toons with pets)

[Malgor]

Does that mean you have to mark each of your toons with a 1-5? I tried the @mark and it never worked.

[Berserker]

Yes. Sorry -- I forgot to give this macro too:

targetexact char1
mark 1
targetexact char2
mark 2
targetexact char3
mark 3
targetexact char4
mark 4
targetexact char5
mark 5
targetlasttarget

[wyofiddler]

Interesting ideas.... I have completely parked my Tank/healer pair for now, they die to often and usually quite harshly.

Simple macro'd heals - target/cast type, no click regions or anything fancy - bound to unused buttons near the warrior's dps spam key are never enough to keep my tank up, with all the aggro she draws at lvl 13 :/ Might help if I took off the Cleric's spam of waterjet for the added dps, but then whats the point of playing two when only one is doing dmg? The other thing I want to try is specing the cleric more melee and less heals, and the tank more dps and less "tanky", for a simpler double dps setup. I report back on how that works out

On another note, my double bards are doing quite well......

Edit: I took my bards' points out of MM and put 8 into riftstalker for the imp dmg to cadence, and all the rest into bard tree. Really nice questing spec, and even cleared the first three trash packs in IT @ 19 with nothing but my two bards in the dungeon.

[Mosg2]

I'm running a 4 Warrior/1 Cleric setup using a Warrior as the main. Buttons 1-5 tell the healer to go to bars 1-5. Bar one has a cast chain of every instant cast heal all targeted at the first guy. 2-5 the same. Then I just memorized that when, say, Stribog is getting whacked on I just hit my 4 key and the Cleric starts spamming heals on him.

It works great. My only complaint is that without a mod like Grid and GridCustomLayout it's difficult at times to quickly tell who's taking damage.

[Lyonheart]

I'm running a 4 Warrior/1 Cleric setup using a Warrior as the main. Buttons 1-5 tell the healer to go to bars 1-5. Bar one has a cast chain of every instant cast heal all targeted at the first guy. 2-5 the same. Then I just memorized that when, say, Stribog is getting whacked on I just hit my 4 key and the Cleric starts spamming heals on him.

It works great. My only complaint is that without a mod like Grid and GridCustomLayout it's difficult at times to quickly tell who's taking damage.

Back in beta there were tons of threads with addon guys talking about what they will do when Trion starts supporting addons. A few said they will make healbot type addons. cant wait. When i was doing a healer/tank combo, i used macros+repeater regions on one of the in game hotbars. worked perfect!

[Berserker]

Interesting ideas.... I have completely parked my Tank/healer pair for now, they die to often and usually quite harshly.

Simple macro'd heals - target/cast type, no click regions or anything fancy - bound to unused buttons near the warrior's dps spam key are never enough to keep my tank up, with all the aggro she draws at lvl 13 :/ Might help if I took off the Cleric's spam of waterjet for the added dps, but then whats the point of playing two when only one is doing dmg? The other thing I want to try is specing the cleric more melee and less heals, and the tank more dps and less "tanky", for a simpler double dps setup. I report back on how that works out

On another note, my double bards are doing quite well......

Edit: I took my bards' points out of MM and put 8 into riftstalker for the imp dmg to cadence, and all the rest into bard tree. Really nice questing spec, and even cleared the first three trash packs in IT @ 19 with nothing but my two bards in the dungeon.

For the tank/healer pair, go heavy into Justicar. Grab Druid for the pet heals. This is my spec at 15: http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=0zRsw.Vdhu0c.bc

I run that spec with my wife, and she can't keep aggro, so she's all DPS. I occasionally cast the Justicar group heal when we're in it, but for most encounters the hit heals are all that's needed.

[Lyonheart]

For the tank/healer pair, go heavy into Justicar. Grab Druid for the pet heals. This is my spec at 15: http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=0zRsw.Vdhu0c.bc

I run that spec with my wife, and she can't keep aggro, so she's all DPS. I occasionally cast the Justicar group heal when we're in it, but for most encounters the hit heals are all that's needed.

I wonder if the melee heals stack?

[methodical13]

Nice idea Berserker. I'm using it now with my new team and it works great. I leverage your idea and added polymorph to the bars as well. I just have my main mark the targets with 6 and 7 and my 2 mages with each polymorph there marked targets. I'm even toying around with the idea or dropping my scout for a 3rd mage now.