War Macros for Stance Dancing

Greetings

Here are a couple of helpful macros for Defiance / Deliverance stance dancing:

Per Sirdanile

Deliverance
/merror off
/micon "Deliverance"
/ac "Deliverance" <me>
/hotbar Action "Fell Cleave" 1 7
/hotbar Action "Decimate" 2 7

Defiance
/merror off
/micon "Defiance"
/ac "Defiance" <me>
/hotbar Action "Inner Beast" 1 7
/hotbar Action "Steel Cyclone" 2 7

Note that the #'s are your hotbar# and the related # in the slot you wish to replace.

Here is what I use for cross hotbar (this is slightly different in that it uses 2 hotbars instead of replacing the skill on the hotbar)

(old main hotbar is #2, new hotbar with basically the same skills sub Deliverance abilities instead of Defiance is #3)

Deliverance
/micon Deliverance
/ac Deliverance <me>
/chotbar change 3

Defiance
/micon Defiance
/ac Defiance <me>
/chotbar change 2

Either way will work for stance dancing,

Have fun!

Thanks !

Using a controller this is definitely helpful!
Although I have 32 available buttons, as a level 60 (WAR) I still miss one more ability :(

Currently leaving out Unchained, due to its uselessness :|

Edit: I duplicate 4 (Defensive cooldowns) to make them appear on the same position if I press L2>R2 and R2>L2; for oh snap moments.

Now with /chotbar I can retain my Unchained !

Unchained is OP, for tank stance at least.

I think I'll switch to using the first set that Sirdanile come up with. I thought that Raw Intuition was an "uncontrollable" ability and that it would assume the same position as Unchained on my DPS stance hotbar. Since it's a regular CD it makes more sense to just swap the abilities around instead of swap hotbars.

I like duplicating the expanded hotbars too, in a crunch it's helpful not having to worry about which trigger you pull first. That's changing tho, gotta break the habit because there's too many actions now ; ;

True.. I am afraid of whats coming in the next expansion !! 5 more abilities ;O

Anyways, Switching hotbars macro is good for me because I am going to get two free spot.
Here is my pseudo-macro (not on PS4 atm):

DPS-macro:
/micon Deliverance
/ac Deliverance <me>
/chotbar change DPS-bar

TANK-macro:
/micon Defiance
/ac Defiance <me>
/chotbar change TANK-bar

x-bars(mains):
TANK-bar will have all tanking abilities, and a single stance macro, which is DPS-macro.
DPS-bar will have all dps abilities, and a single stance macro, which is TANK-macro.

This is very helpful as it will make you auto-focus on which stance you are using. Also sometimes I hit Deliverance or Defiance while I am on the same stance, due to lag issues and lose all my stacks :(

Neat, i'm glad people are getting use out of my macros, I even saw a reddit thread with the same information made shortly after I posted.

The macros do still work even when level synced/pre level 60, it just won't swap in the abilities that you don't have yet.

I had no idea you could switch actions on a slot using macros. Does it not work with the Cross Hotbar setup? That sounds so useful for a variety of situations. (Switching between fairies on scholar, for example.)

Oh thank you so much for this. Didnt know/chotbar was a thing!

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Originally Posted by Zoey

I had no idea you could switch actions on a slot using macros. Does it not work with the Cross Hotbar setup? That sounds so useful for a variety of situations. (Switching between fairies on scholar, for example.)

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Yes it works the same way but the names are different. Withuot being in game to check mine, I think it goes something like this:

/crosshotbar action set "Fell Cleave" 1 LD1

1 being the crosshotbar set and LD1 being the L2 + button designation map name

I believe you can check the button map names to plug into your macro line by using the command /? crosshotbar

Good tip, anything to clear up a couple slots and make things easier.
Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Danko

Yes it works the same way but the names are different. Withuot being in game to check mine, I think it goes something like this:

/crosshotbar action set "Fell Cleave" 1 LD1

1 being the crosshotbar set and LD1 being the L2 + button designation map name

I believe you can check the button map names to plug into your macro line by using the command /? crosshotbar

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Yes, look in the macro command list under /crosshotbar command, it will list the appropriate letters/names to use for the slot.

FYI: You don't need the word "action" in the above, something like this works fine:

/chotbar set "Fell Cleave" 2 LDL

Where "2" is the corresponding cross hotbar #, and LDL is L2 trigger, D pad, Left

The full list of button names is in the macro command list :)

Anyone knows Gladiator macros

I'm low lv I've tried having Fight or Flight and Fast Blade in a macro skill but got 2 hit it twice 4 it to work and buff just works once CD might be long.

Also is it possible to do Fast Blade ???? Blade or Gut Blade combo in a macros to not have so many skills.


Posting here since 2 low lv create a thread.

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Originally Posted by Nator316

Anyone knows Gladiator macros

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Macros are like that, if you have multiple "actions" you'll pretty much have to spam the button until however many actions in the macro go off.

In general, you'll want to avoid scripting attack combos like that. I'd say a Fight or Flight macro with one skill is OK, but the timing will get messed up if you start trying to macro the whole combo. And it will limit your ability to adapt on the fly to various battle conditions. As few macros as possible is a good rule of thumb. I personally only use one macro on Paladin so far, and that's Foresight + Awareness + Bloodbath. There are plenty of spots for the rest of the skills using the expanded hotbar controls (if using controller that's when you hold L2+R2 to bring up another hotbar, found in character config -> hotbar settings)

Thanks for the tip, I'll have to do this when I get home. I was using Inner Beast and Fell Cleave on a macro together, and was planning to do the same with Steel Cyclone and Decimate. It was annoying, and I had it fail to go off as a macro when it would have as a skill several times.

What is /merror off meant?

WAR - discovering SMN macros since 2015.

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Originally Posted by LionKing

What is /merror off meant?

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It is to prevent error to appear in your log. Assuming your level is below 60 and Decimate is not unlocked. This macro should not tell you that an error occured because Decimate could not be set on the hotbar.

Bump for this very handy topic

The only thing I dislike about these macros is that if I press either too early in a GCD, the hotbar will change but Defiance/Deliverance aren't activated. Other than that, these are ace and free up a lot of hotbar space.

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Originally Posted by SpookyGhost

The only thing I dislike about these macros is that if I press either too early in a GCD, the hotbar will change but Defiance/Deliverance aren't activated. Other than that, these are ace and free up a lot of hotbar space.

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I had this happen a lot when on WHM stance dancing.

This was driving me nuts, ty so much for this. I don't understand why SE made the skills separate in the first place. Still though, this fixes the keybind problem i had.

For the issue when pressing to early I have individual icons for abilities on my Ui that I use to monitor cooldowns for abilities on 2nd tab since I play on ps4. For control mapping on this macro it would be LA(U,D,L,R).

La being left analog, U= triangle D= X L=square, etc

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Originally Posted by SpookyGhost

The only thing I dislike about these macros is that if I press either too early in a GCD, the hotbar will change but Defiance/Deliverance aren't activated. Other than that, these are ace and free up a lot of hotbar space.

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Yea, I've had it happen a handful of times. As long as you are withing the 10 sec cd it's easy enough to just press the button a few times to make sure the macro goes off. What sucks is when you don't catch it within the 10 sec, and pressing either one again turns the stance off and you lose stacks. Only happened a few times but that's especially annoying.

I read at one point that using skills in macro is bad. Can someone explain why it is? I was basically thinking of doing something similar but with DRK and it's branching from hard slash

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Originally Posted by SpecialKK

I read at one point that using skills in macro is bad. Can someone explain why it is? I was basically thinking of doing something similar but with DRK and it's branching from hard slash

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Because if you stack up skills in a single macro, every skill after the 1st one is delayed by a little bit. If would net you a slight performance loss, but it's acceptable if you are not trying to min-max everything and need to make space for hotkeys.

It can also be a problem if you are using oGCDs before using the macro, it seems that the system doesnt queue up the macro for execution if you press the oGCD and the macro simultaneously. Just spam the macro a few times to be sure.

Would macro using Spinning Slash and following that with chotbar command be ok then since there's no skill stacking?

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Originally Posted by SpecialKK

Would macro using Spinning Slash and following that with chotbar command be ok then since there's no skill stacking?

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General rule of thumb is to not macro any skills on the GCD as you cannot queue macros one after another and you'll end up losing out of DPS this way. It's very noticeable. Most of the time I would still advise against any ability macros outside several circumstances (WAR stance macro, SCH/SMN pet macros)

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Originally Posted by whiskeybravo

Yea, I've had it happen a handful of times. As long as you are withing the 10 sec cd it's easy enough to just press the button a few times to make sure the macro goes off. What sucks is when you don't catch it within the 10 sec, and pressing either one again turns the stance off and you lose stacks. Only happened a few times but that's especially annoying.

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Yeah since you cannot queue up macros the only thing you can really do here is mash it until the stance actually switches. If your hotbar change replaces your Deliverance macro with your defiance macro, you'll need to also put in a wait command before swapping hotbars.