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.

[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.

[Berserker]

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.

hehe spent all weekend doing CC bars, heal bars and a cool "role bar" implementation that lets me make my bards do bard only stuff, sab only stuff, or ranger+sab. As a side bonus I have the option to dps with the cleric or heal only, tank the warrior or dps the warrior -- all without changing my souls. When I get a few minutes I put up a walk through.

[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.