Here's a great example of a black mage macro book I'd recommend for people who don't want to cheat and want a vanilla in game alternative. IE console players and more importantly, PC players who don't want to suddenly be dead fish in barrel for the first 2 days after a new patch from SE. It's totally worth the work!
Blm book
Set 1: The selection set
Ctrl 1 "Fire": /set 2
Ctrl 2 "Ice": /set 3
Ctrl 3 "Wind": /set 4
Ctrl 4 "Earth" /set 5
Ctrl 5 "Lightning" /set 6
Ctrl 6 "Water": /set 7
Ctrl 7 "Buffs": /set 8
Ctrl 8 "Debuffs" /set 9
Sets 2-6
Ctrl 1 "Element" (IE ctrl 2-1 would be "Fire")
Ctrl 2 "Element II"
Ctrl 3 "Element III"
Ctrl 4 "Element IV"
Ctrl 5 "Element V"
Ctrl 6 "Element VI"
Ctrl 7 "" - I like to leave this blank
Ctrl 8 "AM"
Ctrl 9 "AM II"
Ctrl 0 "Back"
Alt 1 -Aga (alt 2-1 is Firaga)
Alt 2 -Aga II
Alt 3 -Aga III
Alt 4 - Aja
Alt 5 - Blank
Alt 6 -Spikes (IE Alt 3-1 is Fire Spikes)
Alt 7 - DoT (IE Shock/Choke/Frost etc)
Alt 8 - Blank
Alt 9 - Buff (Specifically I put Stoneskin in the stone set, Aqueveil in the water set, Blink in the wind set, etc)
Alt 0 - Back
So for example the fire set, Set 2, would be:
Fire - Fire II - Fire III - Fire IV - Fire V - Fire VI - "" - Flare - Flare II - BACK
Firaga - Firaga II - Firaga III - Firaja - "" -Fire Spikes - Burn - "" - "" - BACK
Each spell macro is the following:
/macro set 1 (this means as soon as I hit a spell, I go right back to the start asap.
/equipset Precastset# <wait 1> where precastset is the right number
/ma "SpellName" <wait #> Make sure <wait is the right amount of time so the next line goes off about 2 secs before spell ends.
/equipset Aftercastset# <wait 3>
/equipset Idleset#
/echo <<Ready To Go!>
And Alt 0 and Ctrl 0 are just the line /macro set 0 to go back to the base set
This means I can do the following:
Currently at base set, if not for some odd reason (I messed up before and am fixing mistake) I can hit ctrl 0 to go to it.
If I want to cast Frost, I would hit Ctrl 2 to go to my Ice macro set, then Alt 6 for the DoT, the same macro also sends me right back to set 1 as well.
Set 8 and 9, the debuff set, is where I keep poison/bio/slow/bind etc, and Set 9 is my buff set, where I generally put Cures, protectra, etc, depending on the job.
This will generally completely negate the need for any third party software for doing gearswaps. Its way WAY faster than navigating the magic menu anyways, so its actually better than any third party software you would want to use /anyways/
So you don't need to cheat AND this works better and cleaner AND it wont break on you whenever SE drops a patch.
Cheers!
If you are all curious as to how I set up my dancer macros, feel free to ask. My dancer macros are even dynamic enough that I can swap what my combat Idling sets are between 6 different sets (turtle - defensive - Balanced - accuracy - zerg - mdef)
Its pretty self explanatory though.
Ctrl 1 cycles me up a set, alt 1 cycles me down.
However ctrl 1-1 sends me to set 6, and alt 6-1 sends me to set 1, not set 7. Thus I cycle between 6 sets.
Each set is identicle otherwise:
/equipset gearforthedance <wait 1>
/ja Dance <t> <wait 1>
/equipset ThisSetsIdleSet
Thats pretty much it :|
I have it as such
Up - HW - CW3 - CW4 - DW - DW2 - QS - BS - SS - FS
Down - VF - RF - WF - CF - Rudras - HS - DS3 - SD - FD
HW/CW/DW - Healing/Curing/Divine Waltz
QS/BS/SS/FS - Steps (all of which have presto macroed in to them, if presto isnt up itll just step without presto)
VF/RF/WF/CF - Flourishes
HS/DS - Sambas
SD/FD - Fan/Saber Dance
Thats all there is to it![]()

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