/ignoremacro

[FrankReynolds]

I used to have a separate set of cure macros for dnc, that said who I was curing, and what waltz level. I would use it once in a while to help keep the whm from casting cure V for 0 hp. But I would never full time that.

I've noticed summoners seem to do this the most. WTF is that about?

[Finuve]

I used to do this about 5 years ago or so, I thought they were awesome, kinda felt like comments characters would make in offline RPGs during certain attacks, but then i realized how stupidly annoying they were

the worst though was always
/p Provoking <t>
/ja Provoke <t>
/wait 15
/p Provoke ready in 15 seconds
/wait 15
/p Provoke ready

most annoying thing I had ever seen

[Babekeke]

I've noticed summoners seem to do this the most. WTF is that about?

Yeah, a lot of SMN like to have a little story for the rest of the party about 'goddess of whatever' when they cast the avatar, then 'I command you to attack' in /assault and 'I draw upon your strength' in BP macros.
The other common ones are utsusemi, often using '/jobemote ninja' or something about calling forth shadows.

My worst one recently was when duoing some NM in abyssea as blm/brd with a nin/dnc, his utsusemi ni macro had what I can only describe as a pre-37 macro for utsusemi ichi: "Casting spell Utsusemi please provoke"... seriously, aside from the fact that anyoneone who can't cast utsu ni without needing someone to provoke should retire from melee class completely, THERE WAS NO ONE TO PROVOKE!

I used to do this about 5 years ago or so, I thought they were awesome, kinda felt like comments characters would make in offline RPGs during certain attacks, but then i realized how stupidly annoying they were

the worst though was always
/p Provoking <t>
/ja Provoke <t>
/wait 15
/p Provoke ready in 15 seconds
/wait 15
/p Provoke ready

most annoying thing I had ever seen

I think we have the brady guide to thank for this one...
... in fact, thinking about it, that guide has a lot to answer for. Not only did it suggest about 3 stupid /p macros for every job, but it also killed off BST in parties for 5+ years >.>

[Greatguardian]

I've noticed summoners seem to do this the most. WTF is that about?

Think about what it must take to still play Summoner in this day and age.

You pretty much have to be a loon.

[Babekeke]

Think about what it must take to still play Summoner in this day and age.

You pretty much have to be a loon.

>< I still play SMN... unfortunately it's generally only in WoE, and as such I'm not skilling up the fecking magic ><

[FrankReynolds]

Think about what it must take to still play Summoner in this day and age.

You pretty much have to be a loon.

I just leveled it to 90 the other day lol. Thought it might be nice for when I'm feeling antisocial. Damn it.... I am becoming a loon.

[SpankWustler]

Back when the vile tendency to put /party or /emote or even /say stuff in macros was far more common, I really hated it and put together the most annoying countermeasure I could manage in four seconds.

A Cure I macro with three lines of chat in shout. At first it was about how I was about to cast Cure I, casting Cure I, and had just cast Cure I. That didn't seem to get the point across, because I still found myself being informed that the Ever-Emerald Goddess of Ill-Winds was using Provoke in 15 seconds to recast Utsesumi or maybe Regen so she could survive cutting her life into pieces by using her Last Resort.

So, consulted my inner-child and changed the text to a vivid description of the most difficult of my recent bowel movements. Something about pushing a live scorpion through a coffee stirrer. It still didn't get the point across, but a guy doing something else half-way across the zone had some very interesting input on how squatting to poop is much healthier.

The moral of this story is that you can't always fight fire with fire and you should squat when you poop.

[Tamoa]

That ^ is the funniest thing I have read in a long time

[FrankReynolds]

The moral of this story is that you can't always fight fire with fire and you should squat when you poop.

I am putting that in my signature, because I think there are way too many uninformed people out there who need to know this sort of thing.

[Babekeke]

The moral of this story is that you can't always fight fire with fire and you should squat when you poop.

I'm interested to see the dev's take on this.