How Gear Swapping Works: Simple Macros for the Simple Minded

[Aver]

Do you have any idea what you're talking about? People die instantly, it isn't like there's a timer that counts down from 10 when they hit 0 hp before they die. If their HP is 0 then they are dead and you can no longer cure them. Anything at all, including using up/down arrows, that slows your cures down can cause people to die. Controller is garbage and always will be when compared to keybinds.

Sup, WHM since late 03 chiming in. Yeah, I have every idea what I'm talking about, since I've done it all from ground HNMs all the way to lolAbyssea and everything in between.

So I second my previous post. If you're slacking in your curing, gtfo whm. I don't want to see you on it.

(Yes, I know people get one-shotted and lag spikes happen. That IS beyond your control. Everything else is not. Stop eating your cheese sandwich and focus.)

[Kimara]

Sup, WHM since late 03 chiming in. Yeah, I have every idea what I'm talking about, since I've done it all from ground HNMs all the way to lolAbyssea and everything in between.

So I second my previous post. If you're slacking in your curing, gtfo whm. I don't want to see you on it.

(Yes, I know people get one-shotted and lag spikes happen. That IS beyond your control. Everything else is not. Stop eating your cheese sandwich and focus.)

I agree with this, besides if someone is getting "One-shotted" No WHM was gonna be able to save them anyways.

[Romanova]

Sup, WHM since late 03 chiming in. Yeah, I have every idea what I'm talking about, since I've done it all from ground HNMs all the way to lolAbyssea and everything in between.

So I second my previous post. If you're slacking in your curing, gtfo whm. I don't want to see you on it.

(Yes, I know people get one-shotted and lag spikes happen. That IS beyond your control. Everything else is not. Stop eating your cheese sandwich and focus.)

^ I have always used a controller in ffxi and have healed just fine with it.

Heck at one point in my ffxi life I decided it would be a good idea to do the whole dual box madness (F THAT NEVAR AGAIN, and not 'cause I sucked it just gave me headaches trying to split my brain especially since at the time I was main assist in dynamis), and I would use the keyboard (on the pc) for my melee, and a controller (on ps2) for my healer.

Controller is not that bad. I think people assume the opposite when they just simply aren't used to it. When I first started on the keyboard for my melee dualboxing it was a nightmare for me 'cause I wasn't used to it. But I was patient until it became insanely easy.

[DebbieGibson]

^ I have always used a controller in ffxi and have healed just fine with it.

But you'd still be better on keyboard.

[Rosina]

But you'd still be better on keyboard.

not if they have faster relexes. I out cured whms before it is all on what you're looking at, lag and for fast you react. But thanks for the heads up, just do not force us into play styles we are not confortable with. And by that i mean insulting us over 2 seconds. It is a game the hole "slacking in cures" mindset is trashy to read when it comes to this being a game.

Remember this is a video game, not a work place. Being anel over silly things makes the game unfun.

[DebbieGibson]

not if they have faster relexes.

Assuming equal reflexes obviously, direct keybinds are going to be faster than stal and stpt. Not by much of course, but every little bit counts.

[DebbieGibson]

Sup, WHM since late 03 chiming in. Yeah, I have every idea what I'm talking about, since I've done it all from ground HNMs all the way to lolAbyssea and everything in between.

So I second my previous post. If you're slacking in your curing, gtfo whm. I don't want to see you on it.

(Yes, I know people get one-shotted and lag spikes happen. That IS beyond your control. Everything else is not. Stop eating your cheese sandwich and focus.)

How does targeting someone directly instead of using stal or stpt have anything to do with slacking on curing? Targeting them directly is faster than stpt or stal. Are you saying you never have anyone die mid-cure ever?

Just clarify for me here, how does the way you target someone have anything to do with "slacking on your cures". Also please clarify, HOW exactly do you slack on cures? If you aren't curing someone instantly when it's necessary then you are failing.

[Aver]

How does targeting someone directly instead of using stal or stpt have anything to do with slacking on curing? Targeting them directly is faster than stpt or stal. Are you saying you never have anyone die mid-cure ever?

Just clarify for me here, how does the way you target someone have anything to do with "slacking on your cures". Also please clarify, HOW exactly do you slack on cures? If you aren't curing someone instantly when it's necessary then you are failing.

I'm saying if you keep people topped off and pay attention to HP, after a certain point in the game that situation should never come to light. I'm not talking about Kazham and a goblin coming in and DA'ing your junk to the ground, because that's not where we are in the game anymore. Solace+Cure3/4*/5/6/Regens/Cura if you so happen to be in range (which you really shouldn't, but that's another story). With the amount of EZMode thrown at whms these days, short of an instacast meteor wiping your face, there's really no reason to have someone die.

CIV* italicized because I'll leave that up to the user. For trash mobs, who cares. If it counts and we're not in abyssea where Allure/MM is gonna save you, please use discretion.

edit: Hay, G510 ftw