Astrologian Macros

Hi all,

Relatively new to the game and also new to Astro healing. First thing that I noticed is a lot of people were confused about why I was throwing cards at them, and what the purpose of each one was. I was a bit confused at first too!

I use a lot of macros on my SCH so wanted to add some to AST too that would help raise awareness of the buffs that were going out. I've shared them here in a Google Drive file for anyone that's interested.

Have fun healing!

http://i.imgur.com/Ve5Y8q1.jpg

Novak

What a waste of 6 hotbar slots <_>

If people are still confused by cards nowadays, after what? Six months?, then it's their fault. There is absolutely no reason to macro cards and raise awareness. People should be aware of any buffs/debuffs they have on at all times. And the AST ones are hard to miss.

I commend you for your effort, but I strongly advise people to NOT do this. People already believe that healers should babysit them enough as it is, and there's no need to add more fuel to the flame.

I couldnt agree more but if we do nothing we still would'nt benefit to those clueless to the divine power. I personally have thought to do this but we'll see. Im sure everyone knows what the balance is, but may now take advantage of other cards, I already have to estimate the time some dps pop CDS because not all like to listen.

Outside of raids, where you should be communicating through voice chat, why does it matter that people may or may not know what card is being played on them?

A nice idea perhaps for newer AST. I only use a single macro on AST though and its a discard macro.

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Originally Posted by Dractonis

Relatively new to the game...

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I think what you're doing is great. But I also think people should know by themselves what buffs they have and what these buffs do.
Despite that, if you use balance on a DPS who's actually DPSing, he/she might not notice it, but the effect will still apply, so is a gain the same way... Spear may be tricky, but then you save it for yourself, XD

And a tip: use your /micon commands at the end of the macro to avoid queueing one more command line when you press the button ^.^

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Originally Posted by Archvile78

A nice idea perhaps for newer AST. I only use a single macro on AST though and its a discard macro.

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Yep, discard is the is the only macro I use, aside from a standard Disable <t> <tt> target macro.

Ideally one can click-off a "bad" card but having one button to trash it is way simpler to use. (/statusoff)

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Originally Posted by Nosphuratu

I couldnt agree more but if we do nothing we still would'nt benefit to those clueless to the divine power. I personally have thought to do this but we'll see. Im sure everyone knows what the balance is.

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This is what I was thinking. A bit ago there was a post for tips for new AST thread. It actually was helpful, and I did make macros. Just the general one to let people know what to do, or what it could do. What they do after that is up to them.

It came down to a mixture of people who need to be educated but also you expect them to have a bit of trial and error. It was a bit difficult to try to cover all the bases. By now I would expect people to know what the cards are but DPS and Tanks have so much to do I like letting them know a bit more.

Communication is important, not just to complete a trial or raid but to help people understand what is going on. Maybe you're teaching things they didn't even knew they had to understand. I've taught so many people about wtf Spear does, because it's usually thrown back in our deck or used for a buff sometimes. That and it can break the ice in parties. My benediction one is "Using Benediction on <t>: I better not have wasted it on a #$% DRG!" and we all laugh. It lets also everyone know I have used that, so in a Tanks mind they will know "Okay he doesn't have bene..well..good for him."

The only macros I use are target of target <tt > for the dots and attacks so I never have to click off the tank. I had echo macros when I first started ast so I could read the text in larger font than what was on the tool tip until I got used to what the cards did.

Echoes stay invisible to party but they're lines of text you can read privately in your own text box. Personally I don't think anyone in the party cares what you're giving them, most barely notice unless they run a parser to see what your actions were during the battles and how often you drew a card ability.

Plus, unless you're in a full RP group, spamming ability macros in pt chat is really distracting if the other people aren't in that line of thinking. Especially those that add sounds to them...

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Originally Posted by Dayala

Plus, unless you're in a full RP group, spamming ability macros in pt chat is really distracting if the other people aren't in that line of thinking. Especially those that add sounds to them...

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Oh please, spare the rest of the community with those. I've seen my share of sailor moon raise macro's

The only things I Macro as an AST are:
- Swiftcast + Ascend and a message saying who I am using it on
- Disable to affect my target or my target's target
- All of my damaging spells to affect my target or my target's target

Your card macros have problems for gamepad players using temporary targets with the target circle. Because <t> returns to the initial target after actions, two <t>s are not always the same. They can be fixed by exchanging the second line with the third line. It causes delay of actions by one frame, though.

AST macros I use are:
- <mo> macros for each single-target healing or buff action
- Discard macro (combined with Shuffle)
- /aaction macro (toggle cross-class actions)

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Originally Posted by Leigaon

That and it can break the ice in parties. My benediction one is "Using Benediction on <t>: I better not have wasted it on a #$% DRG!" and we all laugh. It lets also everyone know I have used that, so in a Tanks mind they will know "Okay he doesn't have bene..well..good for him."

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I actually tried something similar for a time. I can see when people are slacking, and I thought this would be a polite way of nudging them. But as I continuously edited my macros, the comments became increasingly sarcastic and verbose...

/party Using Balance on <t>, who needs more help dealing damage than even I can provide.
/party Using Bole on <t>, who couldn't avoid an AOE puddle if it gave 24 hours notice.
/party Hi <t>, I just used Spire on you. As you probably noticed, Spire isn't contributing in any meaningful fashion. You and Spire probably have a lot to talk about.

I stopped doing it. Mostly.

Ah man. Wait til you join my group in dungeon finders. I channel cheese one liners from captain planet. The power is yours. ....

The only macros I use are timer macros for Draw, Shuffle and Spread so I get an echo alert of when I can next draw a card. Otherwise...yea, AST doesn't really need party-macros outside of Disable and Ascend.

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Originally Posted by technole

Yep, discard is the is the only macro I use, aside from a standard Disable <t> <tt> target macro.

Ideally one can click-off a "bad" card but having one button to trash it is way simpler to use. (/statusoff)

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For the longest time i was clicking off the "bad" cards myself ,despite being on PS4, but it was always a risky thing in the middle of action (say, the chances of clicking off a buff, etc) so the discard macro is a blessing.

The only macros I ever use for AST are as follows:

raise macro, with <t>
Macro with double sfx for when I drop bubble
Time Dilation macro to let the other AST know who's getting their 1 minute 20sec Balance / Arrow buff.
(insert cheesy Yu-Gi-Oh! one liner here)

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Originally Posted by Archvile78

For the longest time i was clicking off the "bad" cards myself ,despite being on PS4, but it was always a risky thing in the middle of action (say, the chances of clicking off a buff, etc) so the discard macro is a blessing.

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I had once a macro to remove every card. Today, the only card I remove using the macro is spire. I can find a good use for every card, but spire, sometimes, is so useless that I have to remove it... T^T

every single raise macro that isn't just saying raising <t> makes me roll my eyes so much. none of them are remotely funny and make me cringe hard.

the only macros i use for astro is a modification of my virus macro

/macroicon Disable
/ac Disable <f>
/ac Disable <t>

since the boss is always focused to see what the heck it's doing anyways, why not remove the need to target it manually?

and of course the

/statusoff "Balance Drawn"
/statusoff "Bole Drawn"
/statusoff "Arrow Drawn"
/statusoff "Spear Drawn"
/statusoff "Ewer Drawn"
/statusoff "Spire Drawn"

because being stuck with a card that will completely waste a royal road is nowhere near as uncommon as it should be and gotta get that cooldown reset asap
(admittedly a couple of those cards are only there because "perfectionist" but it does the job i need it to)

personally i find the chatty macros to be kind of annoying though but that's just me

Those status off macros seem helpful, might have to use them, ta.o/