Macros

Love them, but don't use them. We should be able to tell the Icon what it's cooldown is,

E.g. give us a
/set cooldown 30

We use that one time in the macro and the icon on our hotbar will show the CD for 30 seconds and move down to 0 and be grayed out (not disabled) until it counts down to 0.

That would make my day, please add something like this SE.

I have a stun macro I like to use but don't because I can't see the cooldown of it on the hotbar and I don't like relying on /echo to tell me it's off cooldown

If it is a one-line macro you can use /micon

But you are right, this is a really good idea. I think it would be really nice to be able to have a cooldown that worked for multiple steps, including wait times.

Maybe you should add this to the quality of life thread or the website feedback and suggestions forum. :)

/micon "Action Name" as the first line in the macro shows the icon & cooldown of the action in question.

/micon "Brutal Swing"
/ac "Brutal Swing"
/p Annoying macro text y'all!
/whateverelse

I started playing around with the macros and was loving it, but then it started to act all funky every now and then. Like this one crafting synth macro I got , I originally had 3sec waits on it , it was working good and then it started to "skip" steps, I guess because it figured enough time hadn't passed. So I then went with 3.5 seconds , it improved for awhile. And then it started skipping steps again and breaking synths :\ so to furhter my laziness, I pushed it to 4 seconds lol. It worked great after that for awhile and then it started skipping steps again , so I'm all like ughhhhhh stupid macro!!!

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ve-Performance!

Here's a bunch of useful macros I made for the public and also has the /macroicon "Ability" shown as you would naturally have them set. Hope it helps. :)

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Originally Posted by Anakhu

I started playing around with the macros and was loving it, but then it started to act all funky every now and then. Like this one crafting synth macro I got , I originally had 3sec waits on it , it was working good and then it started to "skip" steps, I guess because it figured enough time hadn't passed. So I then went with 3.5 seconds , it improved for awhile. And then it started skipping steps again and breaking synths :\ so to furhter my laziness, I pushed it to 4 seconds lol. It worked great after that for awhile and then it started skipping steps again , so I'm all like ughhhhhh stupid macro!!!

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The problem you have is not with the macro its with your latency in other words your having lag problems during the time your using your macros, /wait 3 between touches and /wait 2 between buffs is enough.

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Originally Posted by Accolades

The problem you have is not with the macro its with your latency in other words your having lag problems during the time your using your macros, /wait 3 between touches and /wait 2 between buffs is enough.

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yeh I figured as much , probably didn't help I was using them in market area during peak time also