How Gear Swapping Works: Simple Macros for the Simple Minded

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Originally Posted by Leonlionheart

If only SE would adapt Windower into the actual game so you wouldn't have to deal with those GOD FORSAKEN limited macros.

Being able to change all your PDT gear or MDT gear at once is kind of a game changer at times.

... not that I use it or anything

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We're all the same and hear you loud and clear >.> lol

As for the guide it's very nice and put together well, would be good for misinformed or new people :D!

Pfffffffft skill>gear when you can solo 5 ep mobs at level 30.



Great guide though, but I fear it will just be a new place to start flames.

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Originally Posted by Alkalinehoe

Pfffffffft skill>gear when you can solo 5 ep mobs at level 30.



Great guide though, but I fear it will just be a new place to start flames.

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plus an IT add with a well timed 2-hr.

I've been playing for about 2 years now... How did I not know about <stal>?

Yeah, my noobishness is very apparent here, but THANK YOU!

Gear swapping is just how this game works. I'll admit when I first came to FFXI, my brain was still in table-top D&D mode, where swapping gear would cost entire rounds of turns, but even with the standard couple lines of macro default in-game, there's really no excuse not to do it. Thank you OP for this guide, it would've saved me a LOT of trouble 5 years ago, lmao.

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Originally Posted by Chaitea

I've been playing for about 2 years now... How did I not know about <stal>?

Yeah, my noobishness is very apparent here, but THANK YOU!

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Because <t> is the default go-to (effortless) targeting command for everything. It's all good though since you learned, which is the point of the thread.

Now we need a discussion on the good and awesomeness that is <stnpc> for all my mob-engaged bretheren.

stal and stpt do not work with f1-f6 and are therefore worthless.

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Originally Posted by DebbieGibson

stal and stpt do not work with f1-f6 and are therefore worthless.

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For those of us that use a controller, stal and stpt are godsends. Different strokes for different folks.

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Originally Posted by Zatias

Thanks, but I was aiming for simple macros for people who are ill informed. This stuff is useful but it also might baffle newer players ^^;

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You are correct, and I'm not very good at wording it clearly, but I figured it should be posted nonetheless. I've run into a lot of folks who do heavy gearswapping who don't know about it and I thought I'd try to spread the knowledge around. Also it's just a pain in the butt to have a bunch of gearswap macros next to each other and then the WS/JA/Spell on yet another, so this lets those who care know that yes they can indeed set things up so they just have to keep whacking the same button, rather than running all over their macro palette.

*shrug*

You could use <stnpc> in your step macro instead of <st>. STNPC will only target enemies and NPCs, so you don't have to click through every player to get to the mob you want.