Macros!

Just curious what kind of macros everybody uses!

I could use more SCH macros :^)

SCH Macros that I use:

1. Enhanced
/ac "Adloquium" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <t>

2. Enhanced Physick
/ac "Physick" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <t>

3. Enhanced Lustrate
/ac "Lustrate" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <t>

4. Focused Virus
/ac "Virus" <f>

5. Swiftres
/ac "Swiftcast" <me><wait.1>
/ac "Resurrection" <t>
/p Raising <t>! <se.13>

6. Medica II ~ish
/ac "Rouse" <me><wait.2>
/pac "Fey Illumination"
/ac "Succor"
/pac "Whispering Dawn"

I think that's all the ones I use.

my most used macro is:

/focustarget <tt>

while i'm healing the tank. yeah, a bit lazy^^

I know some people dislike it, but I do recommend a raise macro. It really helps your healing partner to know where resses are going.

I like my dps-skills to be a bit versatile by using macros like this:

/micon Ruin
/ac Ruin <tt>
/ac Ruin <t>


And for heals, 'cause using mostly mouse-over:

/micon Physik
/ac Physik <mo>
/ac Physik <t>


And of course the announcements of Virus, EfaE and Rezzes.

Hm, thinking of making a macro for ranting about ppl who use their virus (especially BLM and WHM :D) without thinking about the 70s immunity or hard-hitting attacks where it would be more appropriate to use it.

I like to have my dots/nukes tied to embrace since I prefer if my fairy already has the heal going before the tank gets hit.

/micon "Bio II"
/ac "Bio II" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <focus>

Where I focus the tank, same basic thing for bio/miasma/aero/ruin/ruin2.

If anyone else gets hit either drop cleric and heal them if its big damage or just back off dps for a second until fairy starts healing them, or target them and force an embrace.

It's not recommended to use any macros on either healer because you can't queue macro abilities which causes them to be used a bit slower than they would be without macros (for example, if you're chain casting Physick without a macro, you can queue the second cast 0,5 seconds before the first one finishes, and the second cast will start as soon as the first one lands, while when you try the same with a macro, you need to start casting the second one after the first one has landed which will cause a small break between the casts). This is a problem with macros in general and applies to all actions. Additionally, Embrace has a different recast time than your heals, which means trying to cast them always at the same time (in same macro) will cause you to skip some Embraces.

The only macro I've used on my healers is Virus on focus target when I want to use it on a boss or another monster while I need to stay focused on healing a tank, for example. But I haven't used it either since Turn 8.

Macroing Embrace to other actions seems genius when you first try it, but avoid it if you're using a keyboard. A hotkey for mouseover Embrace is amazing and should be used so that you can pump out fairy heals without securing a hard target and while doing anything you want.

Also avoid tying Eos' cooldowns together or with Rouse; hitting buffs as you require them isn't difficult, while automatically lumping everything together can be wasteful.

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Originally Posted by Taika

It's not recommended to use any macros on either healer because you can't queue macro abilities

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I totally agree that anyone should use macros for those queueing abilities. Especially on PC. On PS4 you have limited visible space, so you have to rely on some tricks to stay optimal. Unfortunately I'm not at this optimal level, so I still rely on some macros:

There's some skills that only activate when target is under 20% health, I macro them with my combo starter so i can use them more efficiently, since they are off GCD:

/ac assassinate <t>
/ac "spinning edge" <t>

(the optimal would have it separated because some of these skills give bonus when you kill the target, such as hp heal, and you would want to control the timing. But I just hit buttons like crazy and press any proc that i see in front of me, so it wouldn't make that much of a difference)

I also have a macro for
/ac swiftcast
/ac "shadow flare"

(I used to have a wait on this macro because of the animation of swiftcast, but I found out that your selection gliph appears during the cast of swiftcast. As you position it, the cast of SF will be instant. Swiftcast-Flare is also good. You spam that button and have a flare faster that you would do on a controller - well in my case, I say)

I agree with topic above that every healer should have a macro for raise, and you should warn your healer partner who you're Rezzing. My macro is:

/ac swiftcast
/ac presence of mind
/ac surecast
/wait 1.5
/ac raise <t>
/p Rezzin <t> <se.8>

(As you can see, you use whatever you can to speed up the rezzing process. The skills won't be cast all at once, they will be cast as they are available. SCH doesn't have presence or surecast - at least mine doesn't - so its just swift-wait-rezz-warn. If i take the wait off the macro, you would need to spam the button and you would be spammin the /p thing and getting kicked off in an instant)

Last but not least I don't recomend macroing embrace, at least to your physick. Leave your fairy so she can heal other target as needed. If no other target is below 80%, she will heal the same target as you're healing - if he's below 80%, if he's not, you dont need her to heal anyway - but i like the lustrate-embrace combo, I use it a lot.

The only macros I really use are dps targeting ones, and healing macros to simulate a habit from years of healing on wow that I WISH this game would just let me set but it doesn't so I use macros and extra hotbar space. Oh and o course the res macro0- though I don't macro swiftcast to res, I just have the /p announcement tied to my res directly since I often use SC for other things or may res when SC is on CD.

My old wow thing was to set tank as my focus and have alt as my focus-cast key. so now I just made a macro for my heals that is cast heal on the focus target and they are on another hotbar with alt+key as the hotkey for it >.> example-cure is on5 tank cure is alt+5. then I use the alt space that would not be a heal for more spells, or for similar things when the heal is centered on me. example- 8 is medica, alt+8 is medica2

As for not queueing macros, I have NEVER had this problem with my method when having to spam tank heal. Plays very smoothly.

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Originally Posted by Taika

It's not recommended to use any macros on either healer because you can't queue macro abilities which causes them to be used a bit slower than they would be without macros ....

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This is because the "wait" value is integer seconds, where as damn near everything we can cast is not solid integers and is affected by spell speed.

I don't use a lot of healing macros for the same reason as everyone else, queuing up abilities.

But my most used macros on the PC are my summons, so I can hotbar their individual abilities (primarily Embrace). Same with my SMN. Not at my PC, so syntax might be off:

/macroicon "Summon"
/ac "Summon"
/hotbar pet "Embrace" Eos (hotbar#) (slot#)
/hotbar pet "Whispering Wind" (#) (#)
etc...

and

/macroicon "Summon II"
/ac "Summon II"
/hotbar pet "Embrace" Selene (hotbar#) (slot#)
etc...

You need to specify Selene on the Embrace line, or it will default to Eos's Embrace. If I need a cure bomb, I can hotbar Embrace next to Physick/Adlo and just space 1,2,1,2,1,2 for example. I hotbar Whispering Wind next to Succor for the same reason.

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Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi

This is because the "wait" value is integer seconds, where as damn near everything we can cast is not solid integers and is affected by spell speed.

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I don't think he's referring to <wait> or /wait. Skill queuing, as he described, is something that can only happen with non-macro'd items on the hotbar.

All my dps skills have <tt> attached so i can keep my target on the tank and rinse through my lustrates as needed. I also make use of a rouse whispering dawn macro, a pet placement macro and pet summoning macros with some /emote motion flair.

And of course 2 raise macros so i can call all non dragoons, dragoons and compliment all dragoons on the correct implementation of death into their rotation... Cause I'm nice like that.

On SCH I have this one:

/micon "Physik"
/ac "Physik" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <t>
/ac "Physik" <me>
/pac "Physik" <me>

I have the Physik and Embrace skill separeted as well in the hotbar.

On both healers I have all the DPS skill and Virus macroed with <t> and <tt>, Raise/Resurrection with the /p <t> announcement.

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Originally Posted by UOdhn

SCH Macros that I use:

1. Enhanced
/ac "Adloquium" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <t>

2. Enhanced Physick
/ac "Physick" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <t>

3. Enhanced Lustrate
/ac "Lustrate" <t>
/pac "Embrace" <t>

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Honestly, Stay away from these. Macroing your healing spells with Embrace is bad. It gives you less freedom and can cause either annoyance because you can't queue your healing spells or laziness in not actually controlling your embraces.

I would also not use Succor in his Fey Illumination -> Whispering Dawn Macro. If you need it you can cast it yourself, otherwise you are restricting yourself again.

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Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi

This is because the "wait" value is integer seconds, where as damn near everything we can cast is not solid integers and is affected by spell speed.

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He wasn't talking about that. He was referring to the fact that macros can't be queued up for cast, while nonmacro spells can be. Nothing to do with "/wait".

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Originally Posted by VanilleFang

Honestly, Stay away from these. Macroing your healing spells with Embrace is bad. It gives you less freedom and can cause either annoyance because you can't queue your healing spells or laziness in not actually controlling your embraces.

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All this. People seem to forget you can use eos/selene skills while your casting your own as they work on 2 completely separate cool downs.

So it's more effective to just embrace as an ability on your bar than macro it to other abilities.

I never use any healing macros. However, I know I definitely need to for at least Raises, Eye for an Eye and Virus.

This morning I was just thinking about if it will be possible to get a good macro for when AST's card buffs come out. To notify via chat who is getting the buff.

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Originally Posted by VanilleFang

I would also not use Succor in his Fey Illumination -> Whispering Dawn Macro. If you need it you can cast it yourself, otherwise you are restricting yourself again.

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I have this macro:
/ac "fey illumination"
/ac succor
I think it works wonders. Specially in the beginning of the fight when I cast a powerfull succor. People told me before that fey illumination is best to be used situationally, but this way I think it's best like this is, cause I will use it as soon as ready. I use Whispering down more situationally than fey illumination and I want to know your thoughts about that. What do you think?

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

This morning I was just thinking about if it will be possible to get a good macro for when AST's card buffs come out. To notify via chat who is getting the buff.

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/p Casting buff on <t>, good luck with the effect! ... ^.^ (lol)

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Originally Posted by VanilleFang

Honestly, Stay away from these. Macroing your healing spells with Embrace is bad. It gives you less freedom and can cause either annoyance because you can't queue your healing spells or laziness in not actually controlling your embraces.

I would also not use Succor in his Fey Illumination -> Whispering Dawn Macro. If you need it you can cast it yourself, otherwise you are restricting yourself again.



He wasn't talking about that. He was referring to the fact that macros can't be queued up for cast, while nonmacro spells can be. Nothing to do with "/wait".

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Eh, it's gotten me through t13 fine on the ps4 enough before it was DF-able (I now play on PC). He asked for macros, I was just providing what I used to use. Most of my stuff is unlinked now, unless I'm feeling lazy (shift 6 - hotbar 6 is all these macros). I main WHM, so eh.

I don't use macro's. I don't advise the use of them either unless it's for announcing purposes. But perhaps what I have might be suitable for you. This does require a gaming mouse with multiple buttons, though. Although this game does not support any gaming mice with more than 5 buttons, you can keybind them with the software of the mouse yourself to a specific button. Such as [, ] and \ or configure them to have the last couple of numbers on the hotbar: 8, 9, 0, - and =.

So here's what I have:
Basically, 1-6 (with and without ctrl/alt) are scholar specific abilities. Anything I have bound on my mouse are fairy and emergency abilities. I do this in favour of muscle memory. My left hand controls my character's movement, spells cast and abilities used. My right hand controls my fairy and some emergency abilities such as Lustrate and Sprint. I placed Lustrate and Sprint on my mouse so I have zero chances of butterfingering them with my left hand.

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Specifically on my mouse:
All 4 fairy abilities
Lustrate
Sprint
Place

Heel is on my left hand side, as I call the fairy towards me, rather than away (left hand -> retrieve, right hand -> position)

My list because I failed to provide. All SCH.

Enhanced Whispering Dawn
/ac Rouse
/pac steady
/pac "Whispering Dawn"
/wait 3.5
/pac guard

Lustrate + Embrace
/pac steady
/pac Embrace <t>
/ac Lustrate <t>
/wait 2.5 sec
/pac guard

Sacred Soil + Fey Covenant
/ac "Sacred Soil"
/pac steady
/pac "Fey Covenant"
/wait 1 sec
/pac guard

^ All of these clear Eos' que, and will cause her to do the action immediately. After completed, she will be able to do her own embraces again.

Virus
/ac Virus <f>
/party Virus'ed <f>.

The only macros SCH should be using are pure Embrace macros, most often <tt>, so you can spam it where you want, and some <tt> or <mo> versions of the non-GCDs like <tt> Virus or E4E. Most other macros you could want would be for communication, like having a Ballad macro or other forms of communication in a PUG setting where you're not in voice chat.

I'll be honest most of the macros in this thread are either giving up control of Embrace in favor of laziness/less nimble fingers/cross hotbar space, or are just plain goofy.

For WHM there are no helpful macros outside of <tt> and <mo> versions of Virus/E4E or communication macros.

As a healer, I personally use the below macro for all of my dps skills as well as Virus :

/micon "skill"
/ac "skill" <t>
/ac "skill" <f>

With bosses focus targeted, this allow me to both heal and dps without switching targets, the inability to queue dps skills as a healer is a small price to pay compared to pressing T repeatedly to switch between MT and boss.

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Originally Posted by Lyrica_Ashtine

. Although this game does not support any gaming mice with more than 5 buttons, you can keybind them with the software of the mouse yourself to a specific button.


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Didn't realize this was a thing...I have never had issues with mine although mine has a switch on the bottom to consider the buttons on it as the numpad on the keyboard or the normal number bar on top. Was funny when I got my new laptop which doesn't have a numpad, I had to connect a separate keyboard JUST to hit numlock on it so my mouse would work properly, and then never touch it again.

It is so hard not to cringe when I read these kind of threads. I don't have time to write a long post here. I have quite a few macros and some very in-depth info in my faerie guide I wrote (see my signature for the link). In my not-so-humble opinion, I am fairly confident my pet macros are about as good as possible. My healing and attack macros are very good as well, although there is a lot more room for "different styles" instead of "better or worse" in that department than with pet control macros.

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Originally Posted by DreamWeaver

As a healer, I personally use the below macro for all of my dps skills as well as Virus :

/micon "skill"
/ac "skill" <t>
/ac "skill" <f>

With bosses focus targeted, this allow me to both heal and dps without switching targets, the inability to queue dps skills as a healer is a small price to pay compared to pressing T repeatedly to switch between MT and boss.

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I like how you think. Add a third line for <tt> and you will have the same macros I use.

Speed read, apologies if someone has already mentioned, but I thought these are worth sharing regarding macros for SCH. Two in one macros that swap hotbars when switching Faeries

/ac Summon
/chotbar copy X4 X1
/hotbar copy X4 X1

/ac Summon II
/hotbar copy x5 x1
/chotbar copy x5 x1

Replace pet actions and summon action depending on which faerie is active.

When Eos is out:
http://i.imgur.com/YFU0vtD.jpg

When Selene is out:
http://i.imgur.com/Pdm9Bs0.jpg

I heard of some people who swear by unique hotbars for cleric stance too.

Macro cleric stance with a hotbar swap and dps focus bar for CS and healer focus bar when without.

Edit: it's probably buried now, but there was a great thread somewhere on pet management macros. Summon + pet stance that makes it so pets are default to Obey etc

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Originally Posted by giantslayer

(see my signature for the link)

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You are exactly whom I recalled~~
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ehensive-Guide+1

only really using <tt> macros for dmg skills

for example:
/micon "Stone"
/ac "Stone" <t>
/ac "Stone" <tt>

if i have a valid target that target gets attacked, if not the targets target gets attacked if possible which is useful to keep the tank focused while doing dmg to the tanks target (mostly a boss)

The only macro I need and will ever use is:

/macroicon "Embrace" pet action
/pac "Embrace" <mo>
/pac "Embrace" <t>

All other skills tied to macros usually cause misclicks for me and I'm generally not a big fan of macros

Summon macro but that's usually not while in combat so it's ok

/macroicon "summon"
/ac "summon" <wait.2>
/pac "obey" <wait.7>
/pac "obey

i have a south park inspired revive macro that i use with my SCH. i cant remember the exact code for it but its something like this:

/ac swiftcast
/ac "revive spell"
/p Oh my god, they killed <t> !!!
/p {EOS: you bastards {revive}
<wait.3>
/em scolds eos for swearing