how to make macros

[monochromicorn]

this is my first mmo, and ive been playing for a while, but ive never understood how to make macros. ive looked online, but it doesnt make much sense to me. i main as a WHM, and doing brayflox, i always sleep the second boss when the add comes in, and i always say when i do it, so i have to type, taking away from my healing. i would like to be able to know how to make macros for things like this and when i tank or dps. i play on ps4 now, if that makes any difference in how its made

[DAMNLAMA]

/macroicon "Sleep"
/ac "Sleep" <t>
/p Casting Sleep on <t>

This will put the sleep cooldown on the macro (you will still need to find the icon in the image list, this is just the timer), and sleep whatever you have targeted as well as let the party know you are sleeping so a BLM or other WHM doesn't waste their sleep. Another good one for WHM would be:

/macroicon "Swiftcast"
/p Rasing <t>
/ac "Swiftcast" <me>
/ac "Raise" <t>

Usually you would still use the Raise Icon, but this puts a timer for when Swiftcast is available and allow you to do a fast raise with one button. Then if swiftcast is not available you just keep mashing the button to skip the swiftcast line and cast a slow raise (or you can have the normal raise on your bar too). The /p line notifies your party so the other healer doesn't waste a swift raise too/ the person knows not to return. Sometimes you will see people put a jab/joke in the /p like "TIME TO WAKE UP, RAISING <t>" or "STUPID DD, learn to dodge" etc.

[Mimilu]

Important commands to remember when making macros:
/macroicon "Skill Name" This will make it so the macro's icon and cooldown time will be based off of the Skill you assigned.
/p Your message, <t> /p to talk to your party and tell just them what you are doing and <t> will say who you are targeting.
/ac "Skill Name" /ac is the action command, this is what makes you use a skill.
/pac "Pet's Skill Name" This makes pets use a command.
<t> Place this at the end of a command so it uses it on the whatever you're targeting. The general targeting.
<tt> Place this at the end of a command so it uses it on a target of who/whatever you're targeting. Good for healers who keep their Tanks targeted most of the time and want to add to the DPS.
<me> Place this at the end of a command so it uses it on yourself. Good for self buffs, group healing, or summoning pets.
/ wait #of seconds You'll need this if you're chaining skills that are on the global cooldown.

[monochromicorn]

can you inturrupt your macros? several people ive run with have their dots marcoed for smn, can you interrupt the macro in the middle of the sequence, or do you have to let it finish before doing anything else? because i thought about having 2-3 spell sequnces for my black mage once i get max lv and i can figure out how much mp is required for the string of spells. while i do appreciate telling me the setup for the 2 above, but im still not entirely sure about some things. for skills, do you have to put quotations? how do you annotate pet actions? i have absolutely no clue how to do stuff like this.

[Mimilu]

Yes you can interrupt macros by moving.

[monochromicorn]

/ wait #of seconds[/U] You'll need this if you're chaining skills that are on the global cooldown.

do you have to iclude this for cast times, or is that already taken into account?

[Mimilu]

do you have to iclude this for cast times, or is that already taken into account?

The cast times are already taken into account, you just need to worry about the cooldowns.

[monochromicorn]

i would like to thank you all for the help, i really do appreciate it. ive made the macros for WHM and 1 for my BLM, with your help, of course.

okay, correction, the macro for my BLM never gets past blizzard 3. it doesnt tell me whats wrong, or if anything is going wrong, so here it is, maybe someone can help me fix it

/macroicon "blizzard III"
/ac "Blizzard III"
/ac "Thunder II"
/ac "Blizzard II"
/ac "Fire III"

at the end of each line i had originally included <t>, but that didnt work, so i took it out

[Nix80]

Please! Please!

If you are gonna use a macro to write something in party chat put a /wait 1 before, like:
/macroicon "Sleep"
/ac "Sleep" <t>
/wait 1
/p Casting Sleep on <t>

This way if you smash your button many times you won't spam the chat but only write in party chat once.
Your party members will appreciate

[Mimilu]

/macroicon "blizzard III"
/ac "Blizzard III"
/ac "Thunder II"
/ac "Blizzard II"
/ac "Fire III"

Try it like this:

/macroicon "Blizzard III"
/ac "Blizzard III" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Thunder III" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Blizzard II" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Fire III" <t>

You need to put the /wait in between because of the global cooldown.