anybody know how to do 30 WHM macros?

i need help with some 30 WHM macros to tide me while i level from 30 to 50 and i don't even know how to do macros in the first place and am beyond the opposite of computer saavy.

WHM has mostly no macros. Maybe an announcement for raise is useful or that you used bene (level 50 skill tho) you can macro Eye for an Eye and Virus as well to announce usement and to use while DPSing (<t> <tt>) but think thats it.

You can use a macro to umm tell your party member that you are raising them, so that they don't release.

/micon "raise"
/ac "raise"
/p ((Whatever you wanna say in party chat that automatically goes off when you use this macro. For me, i just put)) Raising <t>, hang in there. <se.1>

Let me explain. /micon is used for the icon of the macro, you want the raise icon on this macro so you put raise there. Or if you want some other icon, there are some default icons when you click on the icon in macro tab. /ac is short for /action, so yeah, it lets you to cast raise on the target. /p is used when you wanna say something in party whenever you use this macro. <t> is your target. <se.#>(# here being a number from 1~15) is a sound effect that will goes off when you use the macro.

So same thing with the virus macro. You want the Virus ability as crossclass from Arcanist.

/micon "virus"
/ac "virus"
/p ((again, whatever you wanna put in here))Virus is casted on <t>. <se.1>

Last for me but not least, it's a "oh shit this mob is attacking me and i need to save myself since tank is busy" macro

/micon "fluid aura"((noted here that i use fluid aura instead of repose is because i wanna see fluid aura's cd, since repose is built into global cool down.))
/ac "fluid aura"
/wait 0.5
/ac "repose" <t>
/mk ignore1 <t>
/p ((warning your party that you are putting this mob to sleep))Casting repose on <t>, please don't wake it up.<se.1>


[FFxiv macro full commands]
http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Macro

[A pretty good guide i found online about whm macro]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5KxnldINww

[A good guide on macro in general]
https://katella.wordpress.com/katell.../ffxiv-macros/

Oh, one last thing. The most important of them all.

/micon "benediction"
/ac "benediction" <t>

This ensures that if your target is prematurely dead while you are under animation lock, it will NOT be casted on you, which is a waste of cooldown and large amount of unwanted hate on yourself. You probaly have noticed, if you are targeting a mob that is attacking you, and casting Cure for instance, it will not be casted upon that mob. The game will know that it's an enemy so it will goes back to the caster. Benediction is like this.

I use mouse overs to heal (always have) and thus this is what I do in my marco's.

/micon will put the spell picture of whatever spell you want (like for cure or cure II or whatever.)
/ac will be what you use to cast whatever spell you want with the spell name in quotation marks.
<mo> is for mouseover.

So for my cure macro:

/micon "Cure"
/ac "Cure" <mo>

You'll get an error if you don't use hover your mouse over the side party nameplates or your target's target.

Macros I use:

Used to "stance dance" DPS: Do this when u have ur focus on tank. after Stone is casted u can just tab to target the boss as you won't have <tt>(target's target) anymore. follow up with DPS.
/macroicon “Cleric Stance”
/ac “Cleric Stance” <me>
/ac “Aero” <tt>
/wait 1
/ac “Stone” <tt>

Other side of "stance dance" Heal: follow it up with cure.
/micon "Cure II"
/ac "Cleric Stance" <me>
/ac "Cure II" <mo>

/micon "Raise"
/ac "Swiftcast" <me>
/wait 1
/ac "Raise" <mo>

I will warn you that anything you put onto a Macro is now partial to Macro skill-lock. Which is to say, normally, when you activate an ability, if you're busying finishing up another ability (eg you're in the last .5 seconds of Cure and you hit Raise), then the game will 'queue' that new ability to automatically start afterwards (So you'll finish up that cure and go straight into the Raise cast). However, with macros, this doesn't happen. If you can't activate the action in the macro at that exact moment, it's simply lost. This is really important to get used to, especially with Swiftcast > Raise - you want to be very careful to ensure your Raise actually casts!

One set of macros that is often used, using Virus as an example:
/micon "Virus"
/ac "Virus" <t>
/ac "Virus" <tt>

This attempts to cast Virus, first on whatever you're targetting directly, and second on whatever that target is targetting. This is a very useful one, because you don't have to swap targets from your tank. It'll auto-target whoever the tank's attacking, which will generally be the boss. You can do this macro with your targetted DPS spells as well, if you want; but be aware that the 'unable to queue' does negatively impact your ability to cast spells back to back.

You generally shouldn't use macros to chain together multiple skills. It's an overall efficiency loss, and easy to disrupt with any accidental twitch of movement, susceptible to being disrupted by lag, and relying on those doesn't allow for flexibility or improvising.
The above Macros for linking action to speech...
/ac "Raise" <t> <wait.1>
/p Get up, <t>! <se.5>
... or for making sure something like Benediction isn't wasted, or Virus is a one-click deal regardless of target, are good examples of what healers can really utilize. It's all about helping make sure people know what assistance is providing so they don't panic that attention isn't being given for something like a Virused Mountain Buster.

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Originally Posted by RylaiBluecrow

Last for me but not least, it's a "oh shit this mob is attacking me and i need to save myself since tank is busy" macro

/micon "fluid aura"((noted here that i use fluid aura instead of repose is because i wanna see fluid aura's cd, since repose is built into global cool down.))
/ac "fluid aura"
/wait 0.5
/ac "repose" <t>
/mk ignore1 <t>
/p ((warning your party that you are putting this mob to sleep))Casting repose on <t>, please don't wake it up.<se.1>


[FFxiv macro full commands]
http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Macro

[A pretty good guide i found online about whm macro]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5KxnldINww

[A good guide on macro in general]
https://katella.wordpress.com/katell.../ffxiv-macros/

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Don't use this macro, if a monster is on you, bring it to the tank.

For some reason, the <se> tag at end of macro irks me to no end everytime I see it in my groups. Probably since it just seems so out of place.

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Originally Posted by Cakekizy

For some reason, the <se> tag at end of macro irks me to no end everytime I see it in my groups. Probably since it just seems so out of place.

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It's a bit heavy handed, but many people barely pay attention to the chat when they don't have a specific reason to do so, and it gets attention.

Or at least occasional attention.

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

Don't use this macro, if a monster is on you, bring it to the tank.

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Better yet position yourself so that if a monster is going after you, you can fluid aura right at the tank - this takes a bit of practice but eventually you get used to always positioning that way and saves a lot of movement from you and the tank.

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Originally Posted by ruskie

Better yet position yourself so that if a monster is going after you, you can fluid aura right at the tank - this takes a bit of practice but eventually you get used to always positioning that way and saves a lot of movement from you and the tank.

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This can be tricky if the tank has quick enough reflexes to get the enmity back before it reaches you. Depending on positioning, this could still end up sending the thing sailing past the tank. It's not a bad idea, and definitely comes in handy when a tank has clearly lost track of that mob, but is as useful as it is situational.
Running the monsters back towards the tank is at least a stable method with less room for error all around.

Honestly, macros aren't reliable for healers, even for a SCH who could macro their pet actions and other buffs. There is a slight delay between when you press a macro and when it goes off so I don't really recommend using them aside from the standard "Swiftcast + Raise + "insert text alert for <t>" w/ (or w/o) a sound effect" and I usually also have a text macro alerting my co-healer/casters that I used Eye4Eye or Virus so they don't waste theirs. Tho I do have issues with my "Swiftcast + Raise" macro not working due to lag so Swiftcast will go off but the Raise will not so I have to manually press Raise, hence one of the reasons macros aren't reliable. So basically just text macros are really the only things you need.