Combining SMN Pet Spells

[Neophyte]

The most comfortable way so far are macros like these:

/ac "Summon"
/hotbar pet "Contagion" "Garuda-Egi" 1 1
/hotbar pet "Aerial Slash" "Garuda-Egi" 1 2
[...]

/ac "Summon II"
/hotbar pet "Mountain buster" "Titan-Egi" 1 1
/hotbar pet "Earthen Ward" "Titan-Egi" 1 2
[...]

etc.

Those switch out the abilites on your hotbar (first number) in the named slot (second number), whenever you summon an egi.

Since you don't summon mid-fight very often they're not very 'dangerous' in terms of losing those fractions of a second because they don't queue as normal GCDS do. If you have to, you propably died half a minute before and your rotation is screwed anyway. :3



Since pet abilities have their own "queue" alongside the players ability-queue, I also tried macros like this to let the game do the "triggering":

/micon "Contagion" pet Garuda-Egi
/pac "Contation" <t>
/pac "Contation" <t>
/pac "Contation" <t>
/pac "Contation" <t>
/pac "Contation" <t>
/pac "Contation" <t>
/pac "Contation" <t>
/pac "Contation" <t>
[...]


They work absolutly fine, it acts like you are clicking x times on the skill yourself while doing your normal rotation without delays or problems. That is, as long as you fight one target. Switching targets when the macro runs leads to you not knowing on which target Garuda will use its skill eventually.
So, in the end a funny (and button preserving) experiment, but nothing you wanna really use.

[Leigaon]

/micon "Contagion" pet Garuda-Egi
/pac "Contation" <t>
/pac "Contation" <t>
/pac "Contation" <t>
/pac "Contation" <t>
/pac "Contation" <t>
/pac "Contation" <t>
/pac "Contation" <t>
/pac "Contation" <t>
[...]


They work absolutly fine, it acts like you are clicking x times on the skill yourself while doing your normal rotation without delays or problems. That is, as long as you fight one target. Switching targets when the macro runs leads to you not knowing on which target Garuda will use its skill eventually.

Now that i'll have to add. I use copy chotbar and need to re-do it like my other jobs, but I am not fond of having to click that move 20 times....and that's the only one that wants to do that for me.