Turning off cleric stance. Macro?

Is there a macro that turns off cleric stance? If not it should be an inbuilt ability.

Sometimes key presses don't register. If you need cleric stance to turn off fast you really don't want to spam it, for reasons that should be obvious to anyone who has used it.

It makes turning it on a little nerve wracking. What if you can't turn it off in an unexpected 'oops' moment? And lets face it we all have them...

Anyway, any suggestions for a macro?

I don't think there is a way to specifically just turn off Cleric Stance, since it's a toggle, where activating the skill turns it off if it is on, or on if it is off etc.

Best bet is if you don't feel you can risk it, leave it off. If you know there will be a time of respite, turn it on and DPS. It would be useful if there was a command to check what active buffs you have, but I would imagine that would go a step too far in automating gameplay opposed to macro's just making things easier.

Macro is down below but you can hear me explain how I handle cleric stance in this video (should go straight to the cleric stance portion but if not its at 15:45)
White Mage Macros and Intro to stance dancing


Cleric Stance Hotbar changing macro (remember reverse version uses 1 in place of 5:

/macroicon "Cleric Stance"
/ac "Cleric Stance" <me>
/wait 0.1
/hotbar change 5

Pharazon I love you (^.^) This is a perfect solution.
For anyone who is reading the thread for an answer, do check her video.

I just have it in front of my DoTs on my Quickslots. My basic use is , mob is almost dead, I cast stoneskin on the tank, once that is done I pop Cleric. Once tank pulls new mobs I start to DoT them, once DoT placement is done I turn Clerics off and cast regen. Sometimes I cast regen while I am placing DoT's, it's weaker yes but something is better than nothing. Then once DoT's are on I remove Clerics and go back into heal mode starting with the stronger Regen.

Just my 2g

Syn

There's no way to make a macro to turn on/off CS automatically. Reason being it would have to have a /wait time and if you were to use any other ability (ie dps spells) it would break that /wait time and basically nullify the CS macro. If it were possible you would simply do:

/macroicon "Cleric's Stance"
/ac "Cleric's Stance" <me>
/wait (#)
/ac "Cleric's Stance <me>

You're better off toggling it on/off yourself. Stance Dancing is a great skill to master.

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Use it in your DPS macros. There's a good thread on here somewhere that gives you nice ones.
/ac "Cleric Stance"
/ac "Stone 2"
/ac "Cleric Stance"

This way, Cleric Stance will turn on when you need it and turn off after you are done attacking. I've been using it for 2 weeks now and it has made it much easier.

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Originally Posted by gehrtalert

Use it in your DPS macros. There's a good thread on here somewhere that gives you nice ones.
/ac "Cleric Stance"
/ac "Stone 2"
/ac "Cleric Stance"

This way, Cleric Stance will turn on when you need it and turn off after you are done attacking. I've been using it for 2 weeks now and it has made it much easier.

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Would that work? I don't think you can hit CS again until it comes around, so you'd need a delay there, though I don't know what it would be. It's not a long delay, but you can't even manually click CS and click it again immediately.

That was just a generic macro example to show you what I was talking about. You would have to put in your /waits to make it actually work ingame.

IIRC, you only suffer GCD duration when you turn it on, once it is on you can turn it off right after a cast.

Syn

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Originally Posted by Synestr

IIRC, you only suffer GCD duration when you turn it on, once it is on you can turn it off right after a cast.

Syn

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other way around. It has a recast of 5 secs when you turn it on but you can turn it on right after turning it off. If they just put the recast one both on/off it would solve the spamming problem.

Also don't put it in a DPS macro. You will end up standing there waiting for it to shut off since 1 cast will no be long enough for the recast. Not to mention you will end up getting ability delay due to the slight animation from putting it on so chain casting Stone would be slower since your switching it on and off each time.

Even the hotbar change macro can end up screwing up and then your screwed if you end up in clerics stance but your curing hotbar. I really wish they changed the icon when you had it on so you can tell from looking at your bar since I miss having it on at times.

The suggestion for macroing it twice also wouldn't work since you would end up turning it off and then back on if it was on already.

TLDR: there is no easy way to macro this and ensure that it will be off when you click a macro.

The easiest way to use Cleric Stance is to press your bind for it "while" you are casting something. Even if you hit cleric stance mid-cast it will activate once the cast is over.

Solution to stop it from automatically recasting? Stop spamming the button. Just hit it one time whenever you actually intend to use it.

Ex. Activate Cleric Stance ---> Start casting Stone II ----> ClericStance (when stone II is in mid cast) ----> Cleric Stance will turn itself off when the stone cast finishes. It will work 100% of the time. No macro needed. Practice it a few times to gwt used to the timing. You wont be dissatisfied.