How Gear Swapping Works: Simple Macros for the Simple Minded

[Kensagaku]

I aim impressed by this guide, just looking at it. It's nice to see someone really trying to help educate folks without shoving it down their throats! You put out a guide that offers suggestions, as well as pertinent examples, and honestly it's very well written out.

I would like to make my own suggestion though, just to supplement it.

Don't waste a slot with a WS macro. Gear? Sure, go for it. For a controller I can see it a bit more but as a keyboard player I think it's silly. Honestly, it's easier to ctrl+w for your weapon skill menu, select the weapon skill and boom. Best part is that the cursor works on a "memory" function, so you can just hit it and hit enter rather than scrolling to the weapon skill every time. For a controller it's a bit more complicated since I imagine you have to navigate to Abilities -> Weapon Skills -> WS Name but that's a guess as I don't use one. :P

The only reason I say this is because sometimes macro palettes get full quite quickly (I'm looking at you, my RDM/BLM/BRD/SMN ;~; ) and as a result every saved slot helps.

[Pharaun]

Don't waste a slot with a WS macro. Gear? Sure, go for it. For a controller I can see it a bit more but as a keyboard player I think it's silly.

Another suggestion is that if you have empty space in the macro just add the weapon skill on to the end of that.

Line 1 - Gear change
Line 2 - Gear change
Line 3 - Gear change
Line 4 - Gear change
Line 5 - /wait 1
Line 6 - /ws "Ukko's Fury" <t>

The wait line isn't even strictly necessary, I just prefer to have it in there to make sure all the gear swaps are reqistered.