Macros combo

hey!! is there a way to have a macro like this? or is there a way to make your skill combo together? (picture below), so that way I can save a few keybind? :)

https://imgur.com/a/4E9Pheb

https://imgur.com/a/4E9Pheb

No you can't :/

No .

There is, but it's suboptimal so you're going to get a lot of pushback for doing it. Good for solo play or dungeoneering (losing a GCD here or there won't affect the outcome), definitely DON"T do it in any high level play (EX or higher).

You'll lose a GCD every 2-3 rotations, so while it's not game breaking, if people are parsing, they'll definitely notice.

You can use tab to auto generate the abilities so you don't have to worry about typing them if you don't want to copy and paste.

/macroicon "Keen Edge"
/ac "Keen Edge" <t> <wait.3>
/ac "Brutal Shell" <t> <wait.3>
/ac "Solid Barrel" <t> <wait.3>

In that longer GCD it gives you a good opportunity to practice using your OGCD's like Rough Divide.

Teeeeeeechnically you could do it the PVP way, but you'd have to macro in unused hotbars and use multiple macros and such and it's a pain. It's also super inefficient in the end, as mentioned, because macros don't queue up like normal abilities meaning you might have to mash the same one a few times to go off. But it is doable, just a lot of setup and taking up like 3 or more macro slots for one 1-2-3 combo. I mostly only use it for BLU to reset my hotbars to include the macro commands I use, since I have to change my whole loadout sometime.

As stated above, I don't recommend you macroing it as opposed to just the standard 1-2-3; it's more effective to have control over your GCD actions to weave between them better.

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Originally Posted by Jilliebeans

hey!! is there a way to have a macro like this? or is there a way to make your skill combo together? (picture below), so that way I can save a few keybind? :)

https://imgur.com/a/4E9Pheb

https://imgur.com/a/4E9Pheb

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Since everybody already answered about the issues with macro

may i ask one question ? Why would you put them in a macro instead of just pressing 1-2-3 ?

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Originally Posted by Masked-dingus

Since everybody already answered about the issues with macro

may i ask one question ? Why would you put them in a macro instead of just pressing 1-2-3 ?

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I imagine they're playing on controller and GNB has a lot of buttons.
I often don't have LB on my bars as GNB.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

I imagine they're playing on controller and GNB has a lot of buttons.
I often don't have LB on my bars as GNB.

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Can confirm, GNB has at least one button too many to neatly fit on cross hotbars. And that's with separate single-target and AoE hotbars. It would be even worse if I had to somehow fit those on the same hotbar. As it is, Bloodfest is tucked away on a different hotbar since I can mostly keep track of its status, and I don't have LB on hotbars because I don't tank the content that requires a tank LB.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

I imagine they're playing on controller and GNB has a lot of buttons.
I often don't have LB on my bars as GNB.

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Problem with tanks in general. They have a sh!t ton of buttons.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

Problem with tanks in general. They have a sh!t ton of buttons.

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Naw, im on ps4 and I fit everything on 2 cross bars and track all my CDs with a hotbar.

To the OP. Don't use macros for combat. Only small occasions like rez or aoe ground placement macros work relatively ok.

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Originally Posted by Jilliebeans

hey!! is there a way to have a macro like this? or is there a way to make your skill combo together? (picture below), so that way I can save a few keybind? :)

https://imgur.com/a/4E9Pheb

https://imgur.com/a/4E9Pheb

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Try custom FFXIV launcher. It has optional plugins for that if you wish. To make them work like in PvP

Just be aware that anything that modifies the game is against the TOS. You probably won't get banned for small things like that, but if you do it's no one's fault but your own.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

Problem with tanks in general. They have a sh!t ton of buttons.

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DRK is ok though.

Except for the fact that we lost our god damn scourge animation. D:

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Originally Posted by tdb

Just be aware that anything that modifies the game is against the TOS. You probably won't get banned for small things like that, but if you do it's no one's fault but your own.

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Yeeh, external macros will often be counted as botting if/when detected.

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Originally Posted by Jin-

Try custom FFXIV launcher. It has optional plugins for that if you wish. To make them work like in PvP

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Doesn't that break all sorts of rules?
I wouldn't be telling people to do this.

Never use any macros with the "wait" command in them for combat. The closest you'll get is using macros to replace skills in the hotbar position instead of actually using them.

I.E. Use GCD 1 & it'll replace itself with GCD 2, Use GCD 2 & it'll replace itself with GCD 3, Use GCD 3 & it'll replace itself with GCD. It suffers from macro issues though so I personally dislike doing this. The other problem is that you can't use a macro to replace itself with another macro which is what you're using to swap the GCDs to begin with and that's why you can't truly do what they do in pvp.

It also causes problems for skills/abilities that allow you to skip certain steps in your GCDs.

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Originally Posted by Nethereal

Never use any macros with the "wait" command in them for combat. The closest you'll get is using macros to replace skills in the hotbar position instead of actually using them.

I.E. Use GCD 1 & it'll replace itself with GCD 2, Use GCD 2 & it'll replace itself with GCD 3, Use GCD 3 & it'll replace itself with GCD. It suffers from macro issues though so I personally dislike doing this. The other problem is that you can't use a macro to replace itself with another macro which is what you're using to swap the GCDs to begin with and that's why you can't truly do what they do in pvp.

It also causes problems for skills/abilities that allow you to skip certain steps in your GCDs.

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Swiftcast rez is the only commonly accepted wait macro so....

I wouldn't even use that.
Being a macro it won't use the skill queue. You can swiftcast and raise someone ...swifter by executing it manually.

Even single line macros without wait will have this issue, and it's by design.

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Originally Posted by Bsrking5

Swiftcast rez is the only commonly accepted wait macro so....

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wouldn't recommend
i have seen to many time the situation happen when your would use your macro, even lose your swifcast CD and the raise would never be sent