Paladin Macros - For PS4

My Paladin Macros - P
R1+X = Button
or First
Macro -
/micon "Fast Attack"
/ac "Fast Attack" <t>
/wait
/ac "Fight or Flight"
/ac "Sheltron"
/chotbar change 2 (for joystick)
/hotbar change 2 (for pc)

R1+X Button (Put on Page 2)
/micon "Savage Blade"
/wait
/ac "Bloodbath"
/ac "Sheltron"
/chotbar change 1 (for joystick)
/hotbar change 1 (for pc)

R1+Y Button (put on Page 2)
/Micon "Riot Blade"
/wait
/ac "Bloodbath"
/ac "Sheltron"
/chotbar change 1
/hotbar change 1

Reason why have Bloodbath, Fight an Flight And Sheltron up all time kinda need to have them up moment you their up rest of your skills not so i wouldn't suggest putting your defensive cds in a combat macro

on page 1
Y Goring Blade
Squire - Royal Authority
Triangle - Rage of Halone

on page one you want to put combo finishers on Squire, Triangle and O so what will happen is

all this only 4 giving you more space to work with

you rapidly switch between page 1 and page 2. watch the cooldown dont spam the abilites wait GBC is finished their you go

Defensive Cool-downs
/micon "Bulwick"
/ac "Rampart"
/ac "Foresight"
/ac "Awareness"
/ac "Sentinel"
/wait
/ac "Stoneskin"

Flash/Scorn
/micon "Circle of Scorn"
/ac "Circle of Scorn"
/ac "Flash"

Provoke/Shield Lob
/micon "Shield Lob"
/ac "Provoke"<t>
/ac "Cover" <tt>
/ac "Shield Lob"<t>

Swipe/Silence/Stun
/micon "Shield Swipe"
/ac "Shield Swipe" <t>
/ac "Spirits Within" <t>

Power Healer-
/micon "Clemency"
/ac "Convalence"
/ac "Divine Veil"
/ac "Clemency"

if you see error messages it means you don't have the skills yet. most likely some of these skills by level15 and it should work proparly

pls do not macro your stun. its very important learn when how to stun on your character ability needs active . if your gonna make macro for lets make it let everyone know you party used your stun. or your using very important abilites. in fact i would make another Convalence macro to let your healer know its up.

Instead of using macros, you should learn to use extended crossbars.

theirs nothing wrong with macros. don't hate on me cause "Your Not tactically advanced enough. use them correctly"

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Originally Posted by Zodathria123

theirs nothing wrong with macros. don't hate on me cause "Your Not tactically advanced enough. use them correctly"

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I'm not hating on you. The reason you would want to avoid macros is to have more control and efficiency in your CD use and rotations. You need the control to adapt to different fights with different damage profiles. You also increase your Action Per Minute and DPS slightly because macros don't queue the abilities like they normally would. Here's a side by side example of MNK: https://youtu.be/czzLF4IfFaM?t=258

still use macros anyway. not all of them are bad onces i use don't slow me dont at all

People who are actually advanced don't use macros for their skills. PLD's gotta be the simplest and easiest tank to fit everything with extended crosshotbars. If I can find a way as WAR to play on a controller without the use of macros on my skills, so can you.

Just looking at the stuff you've lumped together in your macros... Just what. What if you want to hold on to a cooldown but still use your combos? What happens then? What if you want to use one cooldown and not the other? Where's all the fine control?

I mean, on a PS4 controller you have ridiculously easy access to 32 crossbar slots and almost as easy access to loads more with R1. Just learn to play the game as it was intended and don't cripple yourself with these.

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Originally Posted by Zodathria123

Defensive Cool-downs
/micon "Bulwick"
/ac "Rampart"
/ac "Foresight"
/ac "Awareness"
/ac "Sentinel"
/wait
/ac "Stoneskin"

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All at once?! What? Why? xD

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Originally Posted by Zodathria123

Flash/Scorn
/micon "Circle of Scorn"
/ac "Circle of Scorn"
/ac "Flash"

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Why should someone want to use Circle of Scorn AND Flash right afterwards?! xD


Using macros on a PLD is limiting you too much. It's a really simple class and you shouldn't limit yourself so much, but stay flexibel to get the best out of your toolkit.

I made a thread on PLD macros recently, you can check it out. Although it really matters how you use your hotbars and extended hotbar. You can change a setting to access hotbar 2 by double tapping the right or left trigger, and also another hotbar by holding both triggers.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/f...threads/314048

Macros will slow you down. ~.1 sec per skill doesn't seem like much. But 30 seconds of that is a GCD and over a 20 min fight, that's 10-12 skills.

Yeah it's really bad macroing all the skills together as macro's in this game aint the best as it may skip some lines so when a TB is coming up you press it but nothing happens due to latency and lag issues etc.

It is far better to not macro skills together.

The only Macro I've got for my Tank class's are the ones what swap skills in and out.

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Originally Posted by Zodathria123

pls do not macro your stun. its very important learn when how to stun on your character ability needs active.

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So, we can't say that it's tactically bad to use that much macros, yet you seem to be aware of that nonetheless...
But if you say that for Stun, you could say the same for...basically every other skill.

In particular, using Fight of Flight just after Fast Blade is a really bad idea. You want FoF to cover your most powerful weapon skills, so it's wiser to use it right before a combo finisher, mainly Goring Blade.

Guessing you didn't like the responses on General Discussion when you posted this there so you posted it here as well. Don't expect a different result.

okay that Marco list looked like hell & I was barly reading it to see that. I'm on PS4 & I can say I only use 3 macro's for PLD which are NOT based around my combo's at all (1's macro'd to a shield lob after a wait1 but thats Provoke's Macro only & I only use the wait1 cause I'm using it when my GCD is rdy so the lob comes intantly, other 2 are Convelecence/Forsight & FoF/Bloodbath both without a wait timer for ease of use myself during a combo) thats it 3 MAX for PLD is all I need, I just use R1 to manage between 2 cross-bars (Extended cross-bars threw me off enouf I have sworn of them)

my WHM as more but their ONLY tied to my offencive crap due to me always having an ally targeted at all times (so I use <tt> & <t> in the macro for 1 skill) MCH has 1 & MNK "HAD" 1 tied to featherfoot/bloodbath but that macro is gone now

No. Just no. People, please don't do this.

Please stop trying to encourage macro use, especially on a pld of all things.

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Originally Posted by Lone-wolfe-02

Please stop trying to encourage macro use, especially on a pld of all things.

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You can use macros on PLD...
A party message for Provoke...or Divine Veil...and maybe Hallowed Ground...that's pretty much all :p

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Originally Posted by Reynhart

You can use macros on PLD...
A party message for Provoke...or Divine Veil...and maybe Hallowed Ground...that's pretty much all :p

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Would not recommend, since they dont queue, if you dont mash the macro, it wont go off.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Would not recommend, since they dont queue, if you dont mash the macro, it wont go off.

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I mash them...that's why there is a /wait 1 between the action itself and the party message :p

I like this one I use....

/macroicon "Cover"
/party Get behind me <t>, I will be your shield.... COVER!!!
/ac "Cover" <t> <se.2>

You got to tell them sometimes or they run off lol.

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Originally Posted by ErikMynhier

I like this one I use....

/macroicon "Cover"
/party Get behind me <t>, I will be your shield.... COVER!!!
/ac "Cover" <t> <se.2>

You got to tell them sometimes or they run off lol.

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The Mob ignores the aggro table and choose the healer as it's target? eh....no worries I'll just cov........wait.........where are you going? Healer? HEALER! Get back here, no stop running away from me.

*Healer dies*

Healer: Noob tank doesn't take aggro.
Tank:.......fuck this shit I'm out.

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Originally Posted by AmeliaVerves

All at once?! What? Why? xD


Why should someone want to use Circle of Scorn AND Flash right afterwards?! xD


Using macros on a PLD is limiting you too much. It's a really simple class and you shouldn't limit yourself so much, but stay flexibel to get the best out of your toolkit.

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If you don't use a wait command between cool downs, the macro will just use the ability at the top until you press it again. It saves space on bars and saves you swapping between bars as much. This is a godsend when using a pad and often can save you from that panic moment where you're not sure which bar you are on and which you need to swap to. I'm pretty sure the .1 of a second delay won't be missed by most players.

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Originally Posted by craized

If you don't use a wait command between cool downs, the macro will just use the ability at the top until you press it again. It saves space on bars and saves you swapping between bars as much. This is a godsend when using a pad and often can save you from that panic moment where you're not sure which bar you are on and which you need to swap to. I'm pretty sure the .1 of a second delay won't be missed by most players.

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You have enough room in the cross-hotbars to place every usefull skill on PLD while still keeping full control on what you use and when.

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Originally Posted by Reynhart

You have enough room in the cross-hotbars to place every usefull skill on PLD while still keeping full control on what you use and when.

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By cross hotbars I'm assuming you mean where you change from one 16 button configuration to another. Well it's that swapping process that macros help to avoid, if you press a wrong combination it can put you on the wrong page, do that at an inoportune moment and it can lead to that oh shit moment I was talking about. If you can have all of your main buttons on on bar, this is less likely to happen. Maybe you are perfectly confidant with swapping out, but I prefer the knowledge that everything important I need is there on one bar

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Originally Posted by craized

By cross hotbars I'm assuming you mean where you change from one 16 button configuration to another. Well it's that swapping process that macros help to avoid, if you press a wrong combination it can put you on the wrong page, do that at an inoportune moment and it can lead to that oh shit moment I was talking about. If you can have all of your main buttons on on bar, this is less likely to happen. Maybe you are perfectly confidant with swapping out, but I prefer the knowledge that everything important I need is there on one bar

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You get 32 slots without changing pages with extended cross hotbars.

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Originally Posted by craized

By cross hotbars I'm assuming you mean where you change from one 16 button configuration to another

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No, "cross-hotbars" as "hotbars for controllers".

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Originally Posted by craized

Well it's that swapping process that macros help to avoid, if you press a wrong combination it can put you on the wrong page

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Left trigger = 8 slots
Right trigger = 8 slots
Left+Right = 8 slots
Right+Left = 8 slots

With this, you have 32 slots without any real swapping. 17 class skills, 10 jobs skills, 5 cross-class skills.
Personally, I also set my x-hotbars so that the swapping button only switch between two of them, and the second one is where I put skills I don't need rapidly, like Protect or Raise, or the Limit Break...

Yeah, pretty much all jobs except SMN and SCH get away with just the 32 slots from crossbar 1 and the extended crossbar. Even then, it's not like hardswitching between bars the regular way is difficult after a bit of practice - it becomes muscle memory.

This is what I mean. I've noticed that occasionally when things are getting a bit hectic if I miss press a hot bar switch I lose track of where I am and which bar I need to swap to and the panic sets in. With all important buttons on one page this isn't a problem. Macros help with this if I have to take a very minor dps hit as the price for this, it's a price I can live with