Monk rotation macros

[Allyrion]

1) Monk doesn't have a rotation
2) use Gamepad and have room for every ability and a few dozen more
3) Monk dosen't have a rotation
4) Monk doesn't have a rotation
5) One button macros are bad
6) Monk doesn't have a rotation

EDIT: Forgot to mention Monk doesn't have a rotation

These macros aren't based on the rotation. Just looking at them, you can see they you can memorize the abilities that each button has listed and use them while still saving space.
All it does is condense the buttons, not force you into a rotation. If I understand it correctly that is.
This is only possible due to our stances.

To the OP, I believe it'd be better if you controlled your cooldowns (BfB and IR). Also I've heard that these macros suffer from a delay or something.

[Nonlinear314]

for situational stuff I remove the off GCD abilities from all my macros and have other bars for that but for a majority of content CDs less than 2 min can be blown on demand and not doing so just makes it so they don't get used as often.

[Gardes]

for situational stuff I remove the off GCD abilities from all my macros and have other bars for that but for a majority of content CDs less than 2 min can be blown on demand and not doing so just makes it so they don't get used as often.

So you'd rather just blow through gcds 'randomly' instead getting yourself used to blow gcds constantly manually and then halt when you sense that having these gcds available soon for a particular fight and profit much more from it? And to that end you'd constantly swap macros in and out of your hotbar/chotbar and maybe even prepare multiple sets just for this instead of having a simpler manual-but-do-it-all set up?

Okay.

[Babylyn90]

I've never macro'ed a monk rotation because it just never seemed feasible given that a rotation is simultaneously mob and positionally dependent. At the end of the day you're sacrificing dmg/efficiency for simplicity.

[Gardes]

If the FF14 client/macro/ability execution were clean (like RIFT's for example)

Oh believe me, I know. Which is why I mentioned that you can end up doing dragon kicks in succession because the latency and macro couldn't agree with each other and you run the risk of losing GL.

you could simulate this effectively by having, say, two macros:
1: SP - TW - DK
2: DM - TR - BS
And you could simply not press all 3 steps of each sequence. E.g. to BS-TR-SP, you would press 221.

I've tried this. I love macroing and I can waste hours trying to figure out the perfect one for me. For this particular one, again, from my experience, latency can interfere (combo glow/stance progress is based on server acknowledgement). I've even tried set1 for stance1 attacks, set2 for stance 2 attacks, set3 for stance attacks (on controller but on keyboard it's basically putting other bars into your bar with macros so you dont have to press 1 then c1, then s1 if you set up your stance combo in a 3x3 manner) and then have all of the attacks as macros with a hotbar change command attached to each that will make the bar display proceed along the stances as you. This one has a problem with pressing too early before skill can activate. Like you want to do dragon kick, but you pressed the macro before the gcd is up and the macro kicks you forward to stance 2 set. None of the stance 2 sets are activate-able because you didnt do the stance 1 attack. You can keep mashing the buttons to kick you again to stance 1 set but in the end, it can just confuse you.

It can be somewhat remedied with adding a /wait 1 before the stance bar switch command but a macro press will interrupt the previous macro press, including the /wait, if you keep pressing it trying to get a skill out, eventually you can overlap with the gcd and waste even more time

[EasymodeX]

Hmm ... Iknowyouknow; I was merely commenting on your particular comment related to the "rigidity" of said macros.

[Lemon8or]

Why would you want macros for monk? I play on gamepad and a shoulder button hit to switch page is not a lot of work.... I would rather figure out how to play the class correctly than trying to remember which skill is in which macro...

[pandabearcat]

I don't see the need, but then again I don't know a gamepad.

How I would set it up, assuming you have like, 4 buttons on the pad, and like a bunch of triggers right?

Assuming you could trigger to change the attack all you need is, 3 buttons no mod for a base rotation, 3 buttons triggered for the 2nd set of attacks per stance.

Another 4 buttons with another trigger for your two common cooldowns and your oGCDs.

And another trigger with aoe abilities.

[Oblit]

Is there a thread for these? -snip

Total waste, buffs will be going off randomly. Dragon Kick or Bootshine will sometimes go off when you are trying to execute Raptor or Ceourl stance abilites etc.

I only use macros like these:

/macroicon "Steel Peak" <t>
/ac "Steel Peak" <t>
/ac "Shoulder Tackle" <t>
*Only one skill will get activated depending on your distance from your target.

/macroicon "Mantra" <me>
/ac "Mantra" <me>
/ac "Second Wind" <me>
/ac "Featherfoot" <me>
*can even add Keen Flurry and/or Foresight if you use those abilites. This is my "Oh sh*t" macro.


/macroicon "Blood for Blood" <me>
/ac "Blood for Blood" <me>
/ac "Internal Release" <me>
/ac "Bloodbath" <me>

/macroicon "Mercy Stroke" <t>
/ac "Mercy Stroke" <t>
/ac "Haymaker" <t>

The reason why I don't like Mercy Stroke with my combo is I dont want it randomly going. It can mess up my GL stacks.

[Rochetm]

you have convinced me of nothing, your logic and persuasion skills need a lot of work.

There is no persuading you. You think you are right and will never change. But here let me win...

Perfect Balance...

Game over, I win.