Quote Originally Posted by Venks View Post
So I'm still very new to macros and was trying one out in M1N.
https://youtu.be/ebS7LZc7cs4

So the macro I'm using is:

/micon "Fast Blade"
/ac "Fast Blade"
/hotbar copy PLD 1 GLA 1
/hotbar set "Fast Blade" 1 1 <wait.1>
/hotbar set "Riot Blade" 1 1 <wait.3>
/hotbar set "Royal Authority" 1 1 <wait.3>
/hotbar copy GLA 1 PLD 1

Essentially this cycles between all of my 1-2-3 combo actions and ends back on the 1st. I personally find it nice to be able to have all of that on one button, it's less to think about mid-fight and potentially could reduce the actions on my hotbar. Oh and it's worth noting the actions cycling around on my bar are technically not macros themselves, so I get a larger queue window compared to other macros.

There are two things to look out for when using a macro like this:
1) If the boss becomes untargetable it can potentially mess up the combo.

2) Simply with how PLD's combo structure works there will be times where higher priority actions should be pressed first, which will lead to the macro resetting to Fast Blade even though I haven't finished the 1-2-3 combo.

So how useful this type of macro is definitely depends on the type of content you're doing and what your job's rotation is like.

It was fun giving this a go. I made a few rotation mistakes and had some issues with clipping with my oGCDs, but those were all on normal actions, had nothing to do with the macro. And even with those mistakes I was still the highest performing person in the party by a large margin.

There is a lot of talk about optimization in this thread, but this fight is another reminder to me that the most important aspects to dealing high damage are:
1) Not dying (aka doing mechanics correctly)
2) Having good gear

Doesn't really matter how tight your rotation is if your gear is worse or you're dying throughout the fight cus you got snapshotted going for some uptime positional.

Edit: Oh! That also reminds me. Another issue is building the correct muscle memory. I'm so accustomed to my rotation being on particular keybinds that using macros to do something new does take time to adapt to and improve at. I'm likely gonna try out different macros in the future so it'll be a lot of learning as I go.
Wow, this post delights me; thank you so much for sharing this! It's cool to see that even though you're still getting accustomed to the muscle memory of your macro that you're able to perform well with it. ^^

And you even seem to have gone a step beyond with your macro and developed a new kind of 1-button combo macro (or at least one that I haven't seen before). I had been passively wondering whether a macro like that might work, but I never sat down to actually figure out what the timing of the /wait statements would have to be, or whether the integer waits wouldn't be enough to let it function well. But you've saved me the effort by breaking new ground yourself, and that excites me. ^^

One small suggestion for your macro that probably won't make a huge difference is to put the /micon on the last line; from what I've seen there's a tendency for macro writers to put /micon as the first line, but it actually functions just the same regardless of what line you put it on! With this specific macro, putting it at the bottom will make everything else in your macro run 1 frame sooner; in particular, you'll get that initial Fast Blade 1 frame sooner if you're pressing the macro from a stand-still.

And thanks for even going so far as to share a video of you doing the new raids! On your channel with 1.21k subscribers, no less! (congrats on that achievement, I can't imagine finding so many people who are interested in something I do!)