Help With Macros, Please!

So, I've never used any macros before and I finally got my RDM levelled up enough to use Verraise. I don't plan on using it often of course, but I figure it might be good to set up a macro to automatically let the party know when I'm going to rez someone. I've seen regular healers do it before, but I'm not totally sure how to set up a macro for that. I'm also playing on PS4, if that matters for anything. Thanks in advance!

In macro, select a slot

/micon "Verraise"
/ac "Verraise" <t>
/p [your text] <t> [more text if you want]

You can also, as you play on PS4, and not being a healer you don't target often the team, use a little trick to rez without selecting a target by introducing a priority:
If I say Tank 1 is 2, Tank 2 is 3, heal 1 is 4 in party list, etc.., parenthesis are an explanation

/micon "Verraise"
/ac "Verraise" <t> (always prioritize control just in case, if you didn't select a target in party : )
/ac "Verraise" <4> (rezzing heal 1 in priority, if not dead then : )
/ac "Verraise" <5> (heal 2)
/ac "Verraise" <2> (tank 1)
/ac "Verraise" <3> (tank 2)
/ac "Verraise" <8> (a SMN or RDM, ie another raiser, is most likely in 8)
rest as you please

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Originally Posted by Karshan

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Ah, okay that doesn't seem so bad! Would there be a practical way to set it to use Swiftcast before Verraise while it's available, too? I'm guessing you could probably just put /ac "Swiftcast" before the line to cast Verraise, right?

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Originally Posted by ChaoticCrimson

Ah, okay that doesn't seem so bad! Would there be a practical way to set it to use Swiftcast before Verraise while it's available, too? I'm guessing you could probably just put /ac "Swiftcast" before the line to cast Verraise, right?

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Correct, however macros can get wonky sometimes and if you try to use it when Swiftcast is on CD, you won't be able to cast Verraise with the macro and have to resort to the normal action. Personally I don't include Swiftcast in the macro and just manually use it before using my Raise macro, in case I need to raise when Swiftcast is still on CD.

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Originally Posted by CelestialWyrm

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That makes sense. I wasn't sure how practical it'd be to add it in, but it's not a big deal to just pop Swiftcast manually first before using the macro. Thanks for the input everyone!

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Originally Posted by ChaoticCrimson

Ah, okay that doesn't seem so bad! Would there be a practical way to set it to use Swiftcast before Verraise while it's available, too? I'm guessing you could probably just put /ac "Swiftcast" before the line to cast Verraise, right?

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Why do you need swiftcast when you can proc dualcast and that's instant too?

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Originally Posted by ULoki

Why do you need swiftcast when you can proc dualcast and that's instant too?

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Well, that is true. The thing is if a situation has deteriorated to the point where I'm going to need to do any resurrecting I'm probably going to need to act as fast as possible, especially given that I'm probably saving a healer. With Dualcast, that's still at least a two second delay for me to Vercure someone before Dualcast gets its proc. With Swiftcast, I can immediately rez and then heal or rez someone else as needed. At least that's my figuring.

/mlock
/ac "swiftcast" <wait.1>
/ac "Verraise" <t>
/p "what ever text you want in the comma" <t>
/micon "Verraise"

1st line is a macro lock. This makes it so the macros are locked in order and have to activate before you can do anything else.
2nd line is to autocast swiftcast then wait for 1 second after. Unfortunately, the 1 second delay is the lowest you can go with a macro.
3rd is to raise the target
4th is to send out a message to the party. (if you're going to macro a rez message, please keep it short and simple, ie "Raising Nessa L'Venne")
5th is short for macro icon which shows what icon you want to use

I would't recommend using a swift cast rez macro as it can get wonky and not always work as intended.

Same, would not recommend to add swiftcast in it. If it fails, you lost swiftcast and raised no one
Just put the two next to each other in a sub bar

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Originally Posted by Karshan

You can also, as you play on PS4, and not being a healer you don't target often the team, use a little trick to rez without selecting a target by introducing a priority:
If I say Tank 1 is 2, Tank 2 is 3, heal 1 is 4 in party list, etc.., parenthesis are an explanation

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Karshan's macro is excellent and is almost identical to the one I use as a RDM main. It allows you to Jolt/Verfastspell > Verraise > Jolt/Verfastspell without changing target.

One suggestion though, if you're going to include a message, do it after all the Verraise lines, and after a full line /wait.

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/ac Verraise <mo>
/ac Verraise <t>
/ac Verraise <tt>
/ac Verraise <4>
/ac Verraise <5>
/ac Verraise <2>
/ac Verraise <3>
/ac Verraise <8>
/ac Verraise <7>
/ac Verraise <6>
/wait 1
/p Verraise  Just used it.  [ <<< My macro uses auto translate phrases here]
/micon Verraise

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Then you can spam the button near the end of the previous cast and it won't spam the party with your raise message. It'll wait until after the last press.

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Originally Posted by CelestialWyrm

Correct, however macros can get wonky sometimes and if you try to use it when Swiftcast is on CD, you won't be able to cast Verraise with the macro and have to resort to the normal action. Personally I don't include Swiftcast in the macro and just manually use it before using my Raise macro, in case I need to raise when Swiftcast is still on CD.

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It will still cast Verraise even if Swiftcast is on cool down. In fact, I know tanks that use this fact to place all their defensive buffs in one macro to rotate their abilities that’s not on cool down. The issue might have to do with latency for some.

I actually had another quick question: When setting up the multi-line target code, is there a certain way to have the party message specify who's getting rezzed, or is it better to just make a generic message with no character name?

Ex: Verraise ends up cycling through the priority to party member 4 since no one was specifically targeted. The macro is set as "/p (message start) <t> (message end)". In this situation, it probably won't print a name in the message, correct? Basically I just want to know if there's a sort of wildcard character to display the rezzed character regardless of where they are in the priority list.

As for Swiftcast, I've already decided to leave it out of the macro altogether. At first I was curious if there was a practical way of adding it in for convenience, but the consensus seems to be that it's more trouble than help. Which I suspected, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask lol.

If you're doing multiple targets, there's no reliable way to print the recipient, which can lead to overlapping raises if multiple people are down and the other raiser can't read your mind, especially when everyone agrees about the priorities. You can work around it by letting the other person cast first, then using a manual target; or agreeing beforehand who casts first.

For reference, there's a <lt> or <lasttarget> tag that will print the name of the last thing you untargeted (by deselecting or by targeting something else). Sadfacedly, it won't print the name of the last target you performed an action on, unless you also hard targeted that person, which would defeat the convenience of a RaiseAnyoneWithoutChangingTarget macro.

Rezz macros don't do anything beneficial most of the times.

Usually both healers use their Swiftcasts+rezz at the same time anyway.
You notice that quite easy if both use such macros, lol.

Before casting a rezz people should look if the person has a rezz-buff. That simple.
That isn't harder than scanning the chat for whatever caused that annoying <se.8>. ;)

For hard rezzes on healers I got a text macro I can press, I mean, we have about 5+s casting anyway.

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The thing is if a situation has deteriorated to the point where I'm going to need to do any resurrecting I'm probably going to need to act as fast as possible, especially given that I'm probably saving a healer. With Dualcast, that's still at least a two second delay for me to Vercure someone before Dualcast gets its proc. With Swiftcast, I can immediately rez and then heal or rez someone else as needed. At least that's my figuring.

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And how do you want to monitor the chat for names if rezzing is an 'asap' thing? A healer might be busy, too.

When someone dies, select him while you cast, hit rezz if no buff yet applied, select enemy and continue attacking.
And don't wait for healers, SC might be on CD.

That also prevents things like hitting the macro, then realizing you don't have the MP for a rezz. Do you have a macro to retract your statement, too?

I'm not a rdm, so this might be useless to you. but my favorite "oh shit" raise macro is

/macroicon "Raise"
/ac "Resurrection" <t>
/ac "Resurrection" <2>
/ac "Resurrection" <3>
/ac "Resurrection" <4>
/ac "Resurrection" <5>
/ac "Resurrection" <6>
/ac "Resurrection" <7>
/ac "Resurrection" <8>
/p I've got your Res
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/p Raise

I have another macro that's literally just /p You Heal, I'll Raise <se.7>

and I have a single target res macro that's funnier and for when I need to specify exactly who I'm raising. But the above is when things are dire and people are dropping like flies. It has saved many a party.