Astrologian Macros

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Originally Posted by Dayala

Plus, unless you're in a full RP group, spamming ability macros in pt chat is really distracting if the other people aren't in that line of thinking. Especially those that add sounds to them...

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Oh please, spare the rest of the community with those. I've seen my share of sailor moon raise macro's

The only things I Macro as an AST are:
- Swiftcast + Ascend and a message saying who I am using it on
- Disable to affect my target or my target's target
- All of my damaging spells to affect my target or my target's target

Your card macros have problems for gamepad players using temporary targets with the target circle. Because <t> returns to the initial target after actions, two <t>s are not always the same. They can be fixed by exchanging the second line with the third line. It causes delay of actions by one frame, though.

AST macros I use are:
- <mo> macros for each single-target healing or buff action
- Discard macro (combined with Shuffle)
- /aaction macro (toggle cross-class actions)

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Originally Posted by Leigaon

That and it can break the ice in parties. My benediction one is "Using Benediction on <t>: I better not have wasted it on a #$% DRG!" and we all laugh. It lets also everyone know I have used that, so in a Tanks mind they will know "Okay he doesn't have bene..well..good for him."

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I actually tried something similar for a time. I can see when people are slacking, and I thought this would be a polite way of nudging them. But as I continuously edited my macros, the comments became increasingly sarcastic and verbose...

/party Using Balance on <t>, who needs more help dealing damage than even I can provide.
/party Using Bole on <t>, who couldn't avoid an AOE puddle if it gave 24 hours notice.
/party Hi <t>, I just used Spire on you. As you probably noticed, Spire isn't contributing in any meaningful fashion. You and Spire probably have a lot to talk about.

I stopped doing it. Mostly.

Ah man. Wait til you join my group in dungeon finders. I channel cheese one liners from captain planet. The power is yours. ....

The only macros I use are timer macros for Draw, Shuffle and Spread so I get an echo alert of when I can next draw a card. Otherwise...yea, AST doesn't really need party-macros outside of Disable and Ascend.

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Originally Posted by technole

Yep, discard is the is the only macro I use, aside from a standard Disable <t> <tt> target macro.

Ideally one can click-off a "bad" card but having one button to trash it is way simpler to use. (/statusoff)

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For the longest time i was clicking off the "bad" cards myself ,despite being on PS4, but it was always a risky thing in the middle of action (say, the chances of clicking off a buff, etc) so the discard macro is a blessing.

The only macros I ever use for AST are as follows:

raise macro, with <t>
Macro with double sfx for when I drop bubble
Time Dilation macro to let the other AST know who's getting their 1 minute 20sec Balance / Arrow buff.
(insert cheesy Yu-Gi-Oh! one liner here)

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Originally Posted by Archvile78

For the longest time i was clicking off the "bad" cards myself ,despite being on PS4, but it was always a risky thing in the middle of action (say, the chances of clicking off a buff, etc) so the discard macro is a blessing.

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I had once a macro to remove every card. Today, the only card I remove using the macro is spire. I can find a good use for every card, but spire, sometimes, is so useless that I have to remove it... T^T

every single raise macro that isn't just saying raising <t> makes me roll my eyes so much. none of them are remotely funny and make me cringe hard.