Theres not enough macro space to play Ninja.

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Originally Posted by Smells

1. Spinning Edge
2. Gust Slash
3. Mutilate
4. Throwing Dagger
5. Mug
6. Sneak Attack
7. Dancing Edge
8. Death Blossom
9. Shadow Fang
10. Trick Attack
11. Ninjutsu
12. Fuma Shuriken
13. There could be more because of Mudras.



There! Its clearly not enough space in the macro window.

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They gave ninja redmages death blossom from FFXI?

Lol, this guy has got a macro for Regen. Regen I am telling you!
Why, instead of asking SE to create more space, don't you get rid of your obviously useless macros.

Also: if you need macros to play the game for you I very much doubt square enix is going to even bother looking into this matter.

I can understand using macros for notifying people about the second set of Divebombs in T5, "loud" Provokes for tank swapping, or letting the rest of the party know it's okay to pick up orbs in Ramuh EX, but for any of your abilities be they GCD or not? And that many? I truly do not know what to make of this farce.

Why do you need to Macro every single attack? I can understand things that combo or burst, but there really is no point if it doesn't.

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Originally Posted by Sensu

Lol, this guy has got a macro for Regen. Regen I am telling you!
Why, instead of asking SE to create more space, don't you get rid of your obviously useless macros.

Also: if you need macros to play the game for you I very much doubt square enix is going to even bother looking into this matter.

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needs to be /ac regen <mo>

you need mouseover heals

good news, macros dont/wont work "correctly" with mudras. the recast time on mudras is .5 seconds, and macros have an auto wait of 1 second. they really wont work for people that mash buttons too.

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Originally Posted by Kaze3434

good news, macros dont/wont work "correctly" with mudras. the recast time on mudras is .5 seconds, and macros have an auto wait of 1 second. they really wont work for people that mash buttons too.

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Good news indeed :-)

If people actually took the time to learn to play, they would realize that the manual mudra casting actually works really well with the ninja playstyle. With so many oGCD abilities, they play very fast. If you take the time to get accustomed to each skill as you acquire it while you're leveling instead of just blindly grinding to 50, you'll be so adept at using the skills that the mudras become second nature. It's actually very fluid.

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Originally Posted by ShaolinMike

Good news indeed :-)

If people actually took the time to learn to play, they would realize that the manual mudra casting actually works really well with the ninja playstyle. With so many oGCD abilities, they play very fast. If you take the time to get accustomed to each skill as you acquire it while you're leveling instead of just blindly grinding to 50, you'll be so adept at using the skills that the mudras become second nature. It's actually very fluid.

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Which is why I prefer DF even with the que time over FATE parties

Why don't you just put your skill rotation into a macro and keep repeating it after the rotation is over? I'm just going by your logic right here.

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Originally Posted by lbz1983

Which is why I prefer DF even with the que time over FATE parties

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Agreed. However, in this ninja armageddon that we are dealing with, what I've been doing is working on my rotation while doing the boss FATEs. You can improve your skills just as much in FATEs as you can in dungeons, provided that you actually try to apply the techniques. Doesn't work nearly as well when you have 8 ninjas in the "kill 1000 enemies" FATEs, but for the the high-HP ones, it's just like fighting a dungeon boss.

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Originally Posted by Smells

needs to be /ac regen <mo>

you need mouseover heals

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Can't you just click on the name in the party list member instead if you are using mouse? Or using the up-down button to move on the party list if you are using controller? That way, it is more accurate instead of mouse over thingy. And that, my friend, saves you one space for more macro.... And you are welcomed by the way.

I definitely agree with that. They should create 10 tabs and include 100 macros in each of them.
I love macros and feel really limited.
You can make different macros depending on solo or team play.

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Originally Posted by Neyasa

They gave ninja redmages death blossom from FFXI?

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if only , is the jump throwing kunai on aoe

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Originally Posted by LionKing

Can't you just click on the name in the party list member instead if you are using mouse? Or using the up-down button to move on the party list if you are using controller? That way, it is more accurate instead of mouse over thingy. And that, my friend, saves you one space for more macro.... And you are welcomed by the way.

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well I can just click on targets BUT Id rather have the enemy targeted so I can see them use their specials

I am not talking about Focus Target @-@.... You can still doing all that with your focus target on da bos.....

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Originally Posted by Magnesium02

When I started 2.0 Bard, I had 3 macros - 2 putting bloodletter and misery's end in front of Straight and Heavy Shots, and one with all the buffs in one macro.

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I tried a buffing macro and never liked it. I tried the other one and dropped heavy and straight out of them and left Misery and Bloodletter in that order. So in the end I'm just pushing that one button to trigger both. All my other macros are utility that will spew something into party as well.

I still manage to outdps a higher ilvl bard - not by much but still.

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Originally Posted by Judge_Xero

"I have all skills on a single macro button" Said no Raider ever.

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Well.

There used to be some single button macro's used by a Rogue spec or two in Rifts.
Hoko spec comes to mind. If I remember correctly it was for movement heavy fights.

haven't used a single macro in this game... I can't imagine that you actually NEED all of those.. >.>

Macros in XI HELPED with DPS because they allowed for you to gear swap. It is also the only way to keybind abilities, so if you don't have an ability macroed you have to navigate the menus to trigger it. XIV puts all your abilities right in front of you in a clickable and bindable fashion and has no gear swapping. Even XI had the /wait limitations but you couldn't always manually trigger abilities that fast anyways due to long cast times or needing to jump to a different menu.

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Originally Posted by Smells

the benefit of have assassinate on every attack so it fires off as soon as it can

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The downside is if you macro Assassinate to everything you can and will fire off an Assassinate at the wrong time; such as while the mob is casting a deadly AoE - you'll take that damage right to the face because you have no control over Assassinate...


Macros are good tools but they can't play for you...

I Smells a troll. lol

I don't understand why this thread is even a thing. You know how many macros I have on my ninja? ONE. It's a mouse over Goad macro that's legitimately the only macro I use. The only good macros in FFXIV are utility macros such as mouseovers for things like apocistatis, goad, and target of target macros for things like virus and eye for an eye. This game isn't FFXI stop using macros STOP SUCKING AT THE GAME!!!!

You can easily put similar actions in the same macro. For example the basic 3 GCD combo from each class could be in their own macro each. So for example:

/ac "Dragoon Combo #1" <t>
/ac "Ninja Combo #1" <t>
/ac "Monk Combo #1" <t>

The macro will fire off whatever macro is available as long as there is no wait in between them.

at level 30 when you become a ninja, you wont have mercys stroke, or miserys end...so what's the point...

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Originally Posted by SeraviEdalborez

Your problem in the first place is macroing GCD skills.

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This. The only GCD macros are mouseovers are made for fun/pratice. And outside of the WHM macros don't even have that much GCD macros.

Shame we can;t macro a therapist, you clearly have a problem OP

This guy is trolling.

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Originally Posted by Yoku_Shi

This guy is trolling.

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Precisely
Using macros does not lower dps, lol
/Clueless

square enix give us another macro window

My reaction to this entire thread:

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/...42/623/e4b.png

it's not there isn't enough Marcos, it's that you are using too many macros. I am willing to bet 70% of the macros you are using would be better off dumped.

also you only use 12 buttons on your gamepad? how lazy are you? and how bad of a player are you that you use so many macros? I use all 16 buttons and sometimes more. I also have all jobs to lv 110 and I only have maybe 15 macros and the ones I have are things like "swiftcast/res" for sch and whm. or to announce when I use certain skills.

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Originally Posted by Smells

No! its SE's fault for not expanding the macro list. They will have to do it sooner or later because there will be even more new classes to level up in the future.

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It's SE's fault for not adjusting to one particular person's playstyle?


....ok.

Why do you guys need to use soo many macros ?

Kudos for having people still believe in this op :P

I did use some macro on SMN and SCH to co-ordinate what pet will do with me, tell whom I am rising, but for ninja umm... playing it till 44 now and so far have no idea what should be macro down

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Originally Posted by Puwarh

I did use some macro on SMN and SCH to co-ordinate what pet will do with me, tell whom I am rising, but for ninja umm... playing it till 44 now and so far have no idea what should be macro down

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I like to stack my oGCD buffs into one macro, it's more of an issue with rogue/ninja before 45. Up til that point, it's a decent DEX boost and shuriken vs raging strikes/hawk's eye/mercy stroke/straight shot, so I stuck with rogue.

In the end I just have one macro with several attack boosts and one with several defense boosts shared across all jobs, most of them can't be used by the job and just error out.

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Originally Posted by Smells

12 is the most ill ever button.

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There's your problem. 12 buttons isn't nearly enough for an MMO. If you stop putting bizarre, impractical limitations on yourself you'll be fine.

this thread still going ....
You should not use macros at all for your attacks as dps unless of course you don't care about maxing your dps

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Originally Posted by Maero

this thread still going ....
You should not use macros at all for your attacks as dps unless of course you don't care about maxing your dps

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I know right? The fact that this thread is still going is a feat in and of itself.

You don't need macro's to play ninja. I use a controller (as i always have since beta 3) and i can play it just fine. Takes a bit of getting used to though.