PLD MACROS - PS4

Hey all,

New to the forums, but have been playing FFXIV for awhile now and thought I'd share some MACROS that really made the experience more enjoyable for me. These really cleared up some space in my cross-hotbar, so if this is an issue for you give these a try!

MACROS

Paladin's Oath - used to switch between Sword Oath and Shield Oath with a single button.

/micon "Sword Oath"
/ac "Sword Oath"
/ac "Shield Oath"

Fast Blade

/micon "Fast Blade"
/ac "Mercy Stroke"
/ac "Shield Swipe"
/ac "Spirits Within"
/ac "Fast Blade"
/ac "Circle of Scorn"

Savage Blade

/micon "Savage Blade"
/ac "Mercy Stroke"
/ac "Sheltron"
/ac "Shield Swipe"
/ac "Spirits Within"
/ac "Savage Blade"
/ac "Circle of Scorn"

Rage of Halone

/micon "Rage of Halone"
/ac "Mercy Stroke"
/ac "Shield Swipe"
/ac "Spirits Within"
/ac "Rage of Halone"
/ac "Circle of Scorn"

MACROS


Riot Blade

/micon "Riot Blade"
/ac "Sheltron"
/ac "Shield Swipe"
/ac "Spirits Within"
/ac "Riot Blade"
/ac "Mercy Stroke"
/ac "Circle of Scorn"

Goring Blade - fracture is added as an additional DoT. If in an instance where Goring Blade isn't available, Fracture will come out instead. Fracture can also be used by inputting the MACRO again when the GCD timer is just over halfway recovered.

/micon "Goring Blade"
/ac "Goring Blade"
/ac "Mercy Stroke"
/ac "Spirits Within"
/ac "Circle of Scorn"
/ac "Goring Blade"
/ac "Fracture"
/wait
/ac "Fracture"

Flight of Blood - 90s Cooldown ATK buff

/micon "Fight or Flight"
/ac "Fight or Flight"
/ac "Bloodbath"

Holy Respite - 120s Damage Reduction Cooldowns plus Cover

/micon "Convalescence"
/ac "Convalescence"
/ac "Awareness"
/ac "Foresight"
/ac "Cover"

MACROS

Sentinel - 180s Damage Reduction Cooldowns plus Cover

/micon "Bulwark"
/ac "Bulwark"
/ac "Sentinel"
/ac "Cover"

Flash of Scorn

/micon "Flash"
/ac "Flash"
/ac "Circle of Scorn"

Hallowed Ground - The effects of Hallowed Ground are Shared with the target of Cover, pretty useful as a panic button if your healer is in trouble.

/micon "Hallowed Ground"
/ac "Hallowed Ground"
/ac "Cover"

Good ideas but the macro system is not intended for making macros for battle classes or jobs and will mess up your control over your skills
In general:
1) skills in macros are not queueing. You have to push the button perfect on the end of the GCD/animation lock to get the next skill off properly. This leads to button mashing and timeloss.
2) less control of what skill will really go off. This macros are working more like a checklist for skills you want to use and the first available will be used per button push. If you are unlucky you will see 3 oGCDs before your "Fast Blade" and "Rage of Halone" and up to 4 before "Savage Blade"

specific to your macros
3) never macro utility skills into a macro to spam it, some of this skills have to be used in specific situations in the harder fights:
- "Sheltron": extra mitigation for physical Tankbusters and hardprocing "Shield Swipe"
- "Spirits Within": Silence for specific mechanics in Extreme Trials and Raid content
- "Circle of Scorn": support for easier tank swapping, wastet on last seconds of a trash pull

Sorry, but since you have obviously never played any end game content, you wouldn't know these kinds of macro are useless.

sry but none of these would work in any content there is a Delay of macros in ps4

Thanks for the reply!

As the others have stated, I have yet to do much end game content, but could you inform me of specific Raids/trials where I need to use Sheltron, Spirits Within, etc. I plan on participating in these eventually and would like to do my job better.

spirits within should be use when its up its a dps increase but if a fight needs a slience use it. Sheltron should be use whenever unless you know your not going to take a big physical damage hit

Can you tell me which instances specifically these situations occur? I feel like I could just have a separate hotbar with those specific skills removed from the macro just for those specific raids/trials. Otherwise they are being used between GCDs whenever they are up like you suggested.

Macros have a bit of delay based on my experience, and once you play in a high level (savage raids, ex trials) you don't want that delay if possible. For example hallowed ground may have to be double weaved with another off gcd skill in order to not disturb your optimal dps rotation (something like fast blade > hallowed > fof > savage blade), and double weaving macro'd off gcds carries the risk of them not going off (which may either be fatal if it's a defensive cd, or a huge dps loss if it's offensive).

Another thing is that those 120s/180s buffs you grouped may actually be better used separately or together with buffs of different cd length. For example sentinel is sometimes used as a stand alone cd due to its strength, while bulwark and awareness are often used together since crit attacks can't be blocked/parried. Circle of scorn is also used in your single target rotation since it's off gcd, so you shouldn't macro it together with flash. And your sword/shield oath macro seems odd to me. If you're on sword oath and you use that macro, wouldn't it deactivate sword oath first before activating shield oath? That'd put an unnecessary 0.5s delay compared to activating shield oath immediately.

It's good that you did your own research about these macros but unfortunately in this game the most optimal play relies on little to no macro at all.