I need macro help ^^;

I'm trying to make a macro for protect, telling my party to gather and then to actually cast it. I've got saying it down. I just can't get the action part to work! I've looked at the macros at a few sites but I can't seem to plug it in right. I just want it to cast on the currently targeted player.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

/p Party Gather together for Protect in 5!
/wait 5
/ac "Protect" <me>

for anything yo u wanna do u put /ac infront of the action and you need to put the name of the spell or ability in quotes and than use <me> to cast it on yourself <st> to select the target etc..... also what i use for my stoneskin macro i put in a echo to remind me when i can recast it on my party members that would look like this

/p Stoneskin <------ tells the party im gonna cast stoneskin
/wait 2 <---- the system will wait 2 seconds until executing the next line
/ac "Sacred Prism" <me> <---- casts Sacred Prism to make stone skin AoE
/wait 2 <----- wait 2 or maybe ever more because of system lag you wont be able to cast stoneskin right after casting sacred prism, if you put your /wait to low of a number and theres alot of lag the system will scip over your next line and go straight to the /wait 60 line so stoneskin wont go off, if this happens just update that line to be /wait 3 or /wait 4 which ever you find to work the best
/ac "Stoneskin" <me> <------ /ac (use the action) Stoneskin on myself
/wait 60 <----- wait 60 seconds until executing the next line, (this will be to set the echo reminder i forget whta the recast time on stoneskin is but just pretend its 60 seconds like I did here. the max u can /wait is 60 so if you had a recast time of something that was 90 seconds you could do this, (/wait 60, than on the next line do /wait 30)
/echo Stoneskin macro is ready! <----- will send you a system message that only you see saying "Stoneskin macro is ready!"

Hope this helped you

If you want it to cast on the target instead of yourself, use the commands listed above, but with <t>, e.g.

/p (Gather together!) (Protect) <t>
/wait 4
/ac "Protect" <t>

Usually I just type /p Gath[tab] and that'll do "Gather together!" I think, but I see how that could be inconvenient. I do have a macro for Stoneskin which I've reproduced below. Helps the other players know if you're using Stoneskin or Regen. Note that I'm using auto-translate for all of these.

/p (Sacred Prism) (Stoneskin) <t>
/ac "Sacred Prism" <me>
/wait 1
/ac "Stoneskin" <t>

I've thought about using /wait and /echo to give myself a cooldown notification, but I think only one macro can be running at once, so if you started using another macro you would never get your echo.

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Originally Posted by REDace0

I've thought about using /wait and /echo to give myself a cooldown notification, but I think only one macro can be running at once, so if you started using another macro you would never get your echo.

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O dang really? hmm i guess i never really noticed lol i only really use the notification on my WHM when i am soloing or doing a light party when i can see. during dungeons and stuff things get so hectic im hardly ever able to even look at my logs.

I could be wrong. I think this is the case because I used to (before my macro palette got so full), use one empty macro to cancel a running macro. I'm missing that function, so I'll probably reorganize my macros so that Alt+0 or something is always macro cancel. Hopefully it still works!

It works! Thanks so much for your help! :D