How Gear Swapping Works: Simple Macros for the Simple Minded

[Myrrh]

Ya, I'd like to really state one thing about macro usage. Please, please, please, for the love of god, do not fill your macros with /p crap. No one wants to hear your Naruto quotes, your stupid phrases for summons, ect. It's annoying and adds nothing. You want to enjoy that stuff? Put it in /echo like it was suggested.

[cidbahamut]

Ya, I'd like to really state one thing about macro usage. Please, please, please, for the love of god, do not fill your macros with /p crap. No one wants to hear your Naruto quotes, your stupid phrases for summons, ect. It's annoying and adds nothing. You want to enjoy that stuff? Put it in /echo like it was suggested.

This. So very much.

Your mages do not appreciate you spamming their chatlog with noise. They're already filtering out a ton of stuff so they can do their jobs properly, so why would you undermine that? We don't need to see what you're doing in the chatlog twice. The only exceptions would be for Stun rotations and announcing Pro/Shell.

I can't even begin to tell you how many people I've blacklisted simply to shut their /party macros up.

[Tamoa]

/p Provoke <insertmobhere>!
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/p Provoke @ 15 seconds!
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/p Provoke ready!



or the utsusemi /p macros...

Please. Don't. Just don't.

[Rayik]

Was in a xp ally with a PUP who kept spamming /p messages, but didn't even make any reference to what JA he was using. It was literally just him repeating himself in some character tone over and over. Over half the ally was telling him to stop, so he started whining, calling us whiners(irony). I really don't like to /blist people, but man, some are just asking for it.

So yeah, if at all possible, maybe in the guide have a special mention of just don't /p things and why. RP on your own time with friends, not in pick up groups.

[Rosina]

You guys are taking things way to seriously, and really have no idea how much better the guide can read w/o the clutter. You guys also know nothing about me, and really should keep the trashy comments to yourself. This is a forum about a video game not your personal blogs to "complain" about how other people play.

If you wanna help people, do it the right way. Take that condencending attitude down a notch. No one needs to read/ hear it. This is a video game, and most of you guys lost what that REALLY means. I personaly think gear swaping, number crunching and the like make this game more complicated then needed. If you guys reread 1/2 of your posts, you should notice how many insults you dish out daily. I personally have a hard time reading the guide. And I did try the tab + enter button on the spoilers, still don't work.

Assumption can be an insult. Like assuming gear swaping = playing your class. And no gear swap= lazy. I'm sorry but that is rude. Also comments like "go fail elsewhere" ruin the thread.

[Tamoa]

because I have the right to comment on the guide. And on the replies you guys give. Which in most cases are rude, condencending, full of a unfounded supriority complex that ruins the feeling of this being a game. The guide is a help and as I stated I honor good work. But honestly do not sit there and assume I started anything, you guys did. All i did was make suggestion to improve the readability of the guide. All i got was insults on for it. (repeatedly) And again do not contradict yourself, you obviousely care how I play if you keep insulting how everyone plays.

I haven't insulted you or anyone else on how you or anyone else play this game. I've stated a fact - by not gear swapping you're being less efficient at your chosen job in every aspect of it, be it spells, job abilities, melee damage, weaponskill damage, etc etc. And if you chose a lazy playstyle - which it seems that you do - don't insult those of us that find it fun to be efficient in this game.

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[Ertai]

because I have the right to comment on the guide. And on the replies you guys give. Which in most cases are rude, condencending, full of a unfounded supriority complex that ruins the feeling of this being a game. The guide is a help and as I stated I honor good work. But honestly do not sit there and assume I started anything, you guys did. All i did was make suggestion to improve the readability of the guide. All i got was insults on for it. (repeatedly) And again do not contradict yourself, you obviousely care how I play if you keep insulting how everyone plays.

You seem to love to fall back on the "This is a game I'll play how I want!" argument quite a bit. However, games have certain guidelines and rules and aren't just a free-for-all to interpret however you wish. The fact is that gear-swapping is a fundamental part of this game, and by not doing so, you're ignoring one of these rules or guidelines. If we were playing a team game of Yahtzee and I decided that I wanted to play with 4 dice instead of 5, I would be fundamentally gimping myself simply because, simply because I wanted to only have to count 4 dice instead of 5. It would be fully within everyone else playing's right to tell me to play properly.

Clearly this is a slight exaggeration, but you also keep saying that you can perform better than others who "use 5 dice". Sure, this might occasionally happen just based on pure coincidence, but the vast majority of the time, you will be outperformed. If you simply didn't claim to be good and only played by yourself (which is seeming more and more likely in all honesty) then I would most likely be able to overlook this. But you're posting misinformation on these forums by saying that gear-swaps aren't necessary to reach your full potential, when that is simply not the case. Sure, you go ahead and don't type a few lines into your macros one time because its too complicated. But this is how the game is set up. People reading this thread might see your comments and decide that hey, if this person performs at maximum capacity without gear-swapping, I can ignore the quality information in this thread. No. Don't play Yahtzee with 4 dice, and don't try to get others to do it, either.

On topic. Excellent beginner's guide to macros. The layout is excellent, also! I found it very easy to read with the spoilers not making everything completely cluttered and separating the information to make comprehension of the information much simpler.