Kicked by scrubs

[Foxkid]

I always cast Protect, so I can't say that I have. People like having it. Would I kick while I'm on another role if the healer didn't cast it? No, especially if we were clearing just fine. Results matter, in the end.

That said, copy this macro:

/macroicon Protect
/macroerror off
/aaction Largesse off
/aaction Protect on
/ac "Protect" <me>
/wait 3
/aaction Protect off
/aaction Largesse on

That will remove Largesse, add Protect, cast Protect, remove Protect, and add Largesse all with one button press. Hit it at the start of the dungeon. Everyone now has Protect, and you don't have to keep it as a role skill.

Is that how macros work on console or only on PC? I've been wondering on if I should use them or not but I'm not very privy to the system and just make extra skill bars to manage everything (currently a "healer" bar and a "dps" bar, but they're static unless I find skills that I actually need or want).

[Tridus]

Is that how macros work on console or only on PC? I've been wondering on if I should use them or not but I'm not very privy to the system and just make extra skill bars to manage everything (currently a "healer" bar and a "dps" bar, but they're static unless I find skills that I actually need or want).

I don't have a PS4 to test, but AFAIK macros run the same on both. Creating them in the first place is a lot easier if you plug a keyboard into your PS4, of course.

[Pence]

I don't have a PS4 to test, but AFAIK macros run the same on both. Creating them in the first place is a lot easier if you plug a keyboard into your PS4, of course.

Correct, they're exactly the same on both.

[Foxkid]

I don't have a PS4 to test, but AFAIK macros run the same on both. Creating them in the first place is a lot easier if you plug a keyboard into your PS4, of course.

So you enter the commands individually/in sequence or you enter them all at once?

[MoroMurasaki]

So you enter the commands individually/in sequence or you enter them all at once?

You would enter them exactly as Tridus typed them, almost like copy and pasting them from here but I know thats basically not possible on console. I'm a ps4 user as well.

In terms of using macros you just want to be careful about using them in battle. Macro'd abilities don't "queue" like other casts. Like if you're chaincasting Cure II's to keep a squishy tank up instead of being able to hit each one a bit early so it starts casting as soon as your current cast ends with macro'd abilities you need to hit them when you aren't doing a thing already.

[Tridus]

So you enter the commands individually/in sequence or you enter them all at once?

You go into the macro editor (System > User Macros on PC), create a new macro, and type all of that in exactly as I have it. That will give you a button you can drag onto a bar, similar to a spell. When you press that button, all the commands in the macro happen in order.

Note that while some macros do work in combat (with the caveat that Moro mentioned), this one will not. You can't swap abilities in combat, so if you push the button there it'll simply give an error in the chat log and nothing will happen. Out of combat it works fine, so I use it at the start of the instance (or between pulls if I had to raise someone). Swiftcast *does* work with it if you need to do it on the run.