Summon macros with pet-specific automatic crossbar update

/micon "Dreadwyrm Trance"
/ac "Dreadwyrm Trance"
/ac "Deathflare"

trust me, this is the best exploitable macro.
the only problem is that it takes delay to use it

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Originally Posted by Zorzi

I don't think having Trance and Deathflare on the same macro is a good idea at all. Even the first one without the wait has a chance of ending your Trance early if you spam it. The last one, with the wait between Trance and Deathflare definitely will.

I think the OP is actually talking about putting Trance and Deathflare on separate macros that switch between two hotbar setups. The one to activate Trance places Ruin 3 on their hotbar (making it an "in Trance" hotbar switch) and another for Deathflare that removes Ruin 3 (an "out of Trance" switch.) If I'm understanding it right, this will mean that if something goes wrong and, for some reason, Trance doesn't activate but their hotbars switch to "in Trance", simply hitting the Deathflare macro will revert it (and not use Deathflare because, in this scenario, Trance was never used.) And of course in the scenario where everything goes as planned, their hotbars are rearranged on the fly with whatever skills they need at the moment.

If this is what they mean then I can't see much dangerous about it. The only thing I can think of is if activating Trance while already in Trance deactivates it; then you might run into problems if you hit the macro to go into Trance but your hotbars don't switch. But I don't know if that's what happens, and I assume since it has a 15s cooldown it will just error out and do nothing.

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You got it, that's exactly what I mean. I'm simply using these macros to transform my crossbar upon the activation of a certain skill; macros such as these aren't intended to be used for automatically activating Ability B after using Ability A... rather it's for when using Ability A means immediately after you'd want to have Ability B and C in a much more accessible place on your crossbar.

Here is what I have set up for when using trance and seems to be working pretty well for me so far.

/macroicon "Dreadwyrm Trance"
/ac "Dreadwyrm Trance" <me>
/crosshotbar set "Deathflare" 1 LDU
/wait 15
/crosshotbar set "Shadow Flare" 1 LDU

I have heard that using Shadow Flare while in trance is always a DPS loss compared to using a single Ruin III so this macro replaces Shadow Flare with Deathflare while trance is up

Don't you have trouble using this during oGCD, comparing to the DWT spell without macro ?

Anyway the macro is ok.
Which spell you want to replace is up to you and your keybind set up.

About DWT, we should never use SF during DWT, and about other dots it's not a good idea to clip them without Tri-D.
You would also replace Ruin 1 by Ruin 3 if you don't have enought key.

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Originally Posted by Koyuki38

You would also replace Ruin 1 by Ruin 3 if you don't have enought key.

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I have Ruin 3 set up anyway. I use it over Ruin 1 on shorter trash pulls even outside DWT when MP isn't an issue