Protect Macro

Hi, I'm not sure if many people created this but I'll just post it here.

Quote:

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/micon "Protect"
/aaction "Cleric Stance" off
/wait .5
/aaction "Protect" on
/ac "Protect" <me>
/wait 3
/aaction "Protect" off
/wait .5
/aaction "Cleric Stance" on

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This was posted in early 4.0: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ealers-Protect

Fractional waits aren't a real thing. Your pointfives are really just ones.

Also, you can save lines by appending wait tags to the previous line, instead of dedicating whole lines to the wait. Not a big deal in this particular case but could make a difference in the case of special long sequence macros.

/somecommand <wait.1>
performs /somecommand, then waits 1s before continuing.

Also use /micon at the end of the macro. Effect doesn't change and it's one less command for the game to read before doing wht you want it to do...

Um, why do we need this macro exactly?

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Originally Posted by LathusWHM

Um, why do we need this macro exactly?

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It gives you a 6th roleskill outside of battle. A better macro would be:

/macrolock
/macroicon Protect
/echo You are now switching to Protect.
/aaction Esuna off
/aaction Protect on
/ac Protect <wait.3>
/aaction Protect off
/aaction Esuna on
/echo Protect has been disabled. The following skill has been restored:
/recast Esuna


That way the ability won't mess up the swap if it's on cd. I made the macro during 4.0 launch maint so i didn't know that you couldn't swap out a skill on cd and used swiftcast in my example.