How Gear Swapping Works: Simple Macros for the Simple Minded

[cidbahamut]

I'd like to point out that you can also "stack" macros so they're all layered on one position in the macro palette by making use of the follow syntax: /macro set #

This lets you jump around to different lines in your macro book, so you can have a setup that looks like this:

CTRL 1 (first line in macro book):
/equip stuff x5
/macro set 2
CTRL 1 (second line in macro book):
/equip stuff x5
/macro set 3
CTRL 1 (third line in macro book):
/equip stuff x5
/Ja MurderTown <t>

This lets you swap out a full 15 pieces of gear and execute your spell, Weaponskill or whatever with 3 keystrokes. If you run out of space in a single macro book you can switch between them using: /macro book #

Happy macro building.

[Zatias]

I'd like to point out that you can also "stack" macros so they're all layered on one position in the macro palette by making use of the follow syntax: /macro set #

This lets you jump around to different lines in your macro book, so you can have a setup that looks like this:

CTRL 1 (first line in macro book):
/equip stuff x5
/macro set 2
CTRL 1 (second line in macro book):
/equip stuff x5
/macro set 3
CTRL 1 (third line in macro book):
/equip stuff x5
/Ja MurderTown <t>

This lets you swap out a full 15 pieces of gear and execute your spell, Weaponskill or whatever with 3 keystrokes. If you run out of space in a single macro book you can switch between them using: /macro book #

Happy macro building.

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 ^^;

[cidbahamut]

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 ^^;

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*

[Nala]

I'd like to point out that you can also "stack" macros so they're all layered on one position in the macro palette by making use of the follow syntax: /macro set #

This lets you jump around to different lines in your macro book, so you can have a setup that looks like this:

CTRL 1 (first line in macro book):
/equip stuff x5
/macro set 2
CTRL 1 (second line in macro book):
/equip stuff x5
/macro set 3
CTRL 1 (third line in macro book):
/equip stuff x5
/Ja MurderTown <t>

holy cow... i was beginning to think i was the only person that used em that way, in the past ive tried explaining that type of application to others but they never got it...

[Malacite]

I'd like to point out that you can also "stack" macros so they're all layered on one position in the macro palette by making use of the follow syntax: /macro set #

This lets you jump around to different lines in your macro book, so you can have a setup that looks like this:

CTRL 1 (first line in macro book):
/equip stuff x5
/macro set 2
CTRL 1 (second line in macro book):
/equip stuff x5
/macro set 3
CTRL 1 (third line in macro book):
/equip stuff x5
/Ja MurderTown <t>

This lets you swap out a full 15 pieces of gear and execute your spell, Weaponskill or whatever with 3 keystrokes. If you run out of space in a single macro book you can switch between them using: /macro book #

Happy macro building.

Cool, I was aware of that feature but never thought to actually set up macros in that way.


I'd like to add my own tip as well for my fellow summoners.


Rather than macro individual pacts, it's better to group them all.

For example, I have "Celestial" for CTRL 1 on my 2nd pallete with the following.

/pet "Predator Claws" <t>
/pet "Rush" <t>
/pet "Chaotic Strike" <t>"


and so on, and I end it with a /recast just in case I miss the little blue numbers telling me how much time is left. Same deal goes for the Terrestial Avatars, Healing Wards, Defensive/Offensive Wards blah blah blah.

It's also very handy for some jobs to make 1 or more /recast macros (unless you use windower - I consider it cheating personally but w/e, not here to judge people) that does nothing but /recast for all your relevant JAs.


For example on my main SAM I would have:

/recast "Mediate"
/recast "Sekkanoki"
/recast "Sengikori"
/recast "Konzen-Ittai"


etc etc. It's a good idea to have a different one for different subjobs too, like for /DNC I would have included /recast "Curing Waltz III" or Bergressor for /WAR.


The only things I hate are that you can't force one macro to directly trigger another, and that regardless of what you name your Macro Books, you can never use /macro book command and input the name of the book - it always must be the corresponding number.

For that reason, I have them labelled 01WAR 02MNK 03WHM and so on, going on the order they appear (from left to right, top to bottom) in the Jobs menu.