Macro/Crossbar layout help needed

[Seezur_Undies]

OK, so i leveled my my PLD to 50, and i have been playing around with the cross bar setup (got a controller for my PC for christmas) and i tried placing a Macro in it

/ac "Fast Blade" <t>
/ac "Savage Blade" <t>
/ac "Rage of Halone" <t>

THinking this would help with bar space, seeing i am now going down from 6 bars to 3, but it doesnt work. am i doing something wrong?

Also if anyone has some advice on Macros or PLD cross bar setups, that would be appreciated as well

[Truefaith87]

I'm a warrior, but macros are the same in any case. the reason its not firing off is your GCD, or Global Cool Downs. You need to add a /wait 3 between the lines of the actions, to counteract the GCD. and here is a very useful link to several macros some people like, and another post on the forums. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post1598601
A macro i would reccomend is one i use for my heavy swing though. i use the items listed in a specific order to place them to activate correctly. For a paladin, try this.. line 1: /micon "Fast Blade" line 2: /ac "Spirits Within" <t>
line 3: /ac "Fast Blade" <t> line 4: /ac "Shield Lob" <t> This macro will allow you to reactive all in 1. if SW is up, it will use it first. if youre in melee range it will Fast Blade, if youre out of melee range it will Shield Lob. Then make your second macro for the rest of your combo line 1: /micon "Rage of Halone" line 2: /ac "Savage Blade" <t> line 3: /wait 3 line 4: /ac "Rage of Halone" <t>
As for actions other than ones on GCD, depending on the length of the animation, will require /wait 1 or /wait 2 between them

[Tieffy]

Refer to the paladin tanking compendium it had a ton of good info.
Putting waits in never seems to work quite right. The only thing I have macroed is fight of flight and fast blade together. Savage and rage are by themselves. Getting the rage combo is the most important thing for keeping hate. You don't want to put anything it that will jeopardize that.

[Seezur_Undies]

I understand about the waits, I learned my lesson with healer macros, but when i was using mouse and keyboard, i could set a macro like the one i put in the OP, and would them be able to click the keybind three times to hit all three skills, but this one isnt working and idk why

[Vodd]

/macroicon "Rage of Halone"
/ac "Fast Blade" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Savage Blade" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Rage of Halone" <t>
Press the button once it will fire all 3 off in order

[Bixby]

I understand about the waits, I learned my lesson with healer macros, but when i was using mouse and keyboard, i could set a macro like the one i put in the OP, and would them be able to click the keybind three times to hit all three skills, but this one isnt working and idk why

Macros like that work for CDs or abilities with conditions that keep them from being spammed (procs, monk stances, etc.), because they'll skip any skills you can't actually use when you press the button. Since Fast Blade is always available when the GCD comes up, there's nothing for the macro to skip. You're asking the game to use Fast Blade first, and that's what it does.

Reversing the order wouldn't help, either. All three skills are always available (except during GCD). You can SB or RoH at any time, they just won't be combos if you use them out of order.

[Ehayte]

All three skills are always available (except during GCD). You can SB or RoH at any time, they just won't be combos if you use them out of order.

^^ Exactly - in other words, when you are hitting your macro, it is checking to see if you can use Fast Blade before it checks for anything else. Since Savage Blade and Rage will only be available only if Fast Blade is as well, the macro never reaches those checks.

I would strongly advise against a /wait command for this as well, you are locking yourself into something you may not want, and skill speed will change the /waits as you change gear. You will have to micro manage the crap out of them to get any good use out of it.

[Simurgi]

It sounds like you are looking to save space on your x-bar. As a game pad user myself who has cleared turn 5 as a Paladin, I can say that you really only need two sets of skills. Share skill bars 7/8 for all classes for skills like your chochobo and return. Also make skill bars 7 and 8 available for when you sheathe your weapon. When you unsheathe your weapon, use skill bars 1/2. This gives you 4 bars, but only having to have to switch between 2 at any given time.

[Truefaith87]

/macroicon "Rage of Halone"
/ac "Fast Blade" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Savage Blade" <t>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Rage of Halone" <t>
Press the button once it will fire all 3 off in order

Its been tested and proven btw that the game doesnt support fractional wait times. a /wait 2.1 automatically gets bumped to wait 3, for example.

[PiedPiper]

I play PS3, PLD main, exp on all game content. You need only your one top bar, one R2+L2 bar, and one macro to fit every pld tool onto your bars with ready access.

Do not macro your roh combo to a single button. Even if the game accepted fractional waits (which it doesnt') it would still be nearly impossible to get it dialed in to going as fast as you can manually (owing to latency and the small gains from skill speed, etc). If you go with the /wait 3... god your combo will be so slow! You'd have such low threat and damage per second.

First, enable the new R2+L2 option. Stick your oaths, stone skin, fracture, stun & fast blade to mana drain combo here. I would also suggest putting flash here so you can use it in aoe situations where you'd want to cycle draining mana and using flash without having to enter and re-enter the sub menu. Alternatively, you can put tempered will in here and just revert back to flash on your top bar. (TW is the only skill left over from top bar and this one sub bar if you put flash here).

Decided how you want to do it, but I suggest dividing all of your offensives skills to one trigger, and defensive skills to the other trigger. For me, I placed offense on R2 (you hold your sword in your right hand, so it seemed more intuitive to me) and defensive to L2 (shield side).

L2:
---------Mark Target 1--------|||-----------Hallowed------
Sentinel------------ Awareness|||Convalesce--------Bulwark
-------------Flash------------|||------------Rampart-------

R2:
---------Spirits Within----------- --|||-------Rage of H-----------
Shield Lob------------Circle of Scorn|||Savage---------Shield Swipe
-----------Provoke-----------------|||-------Fast Blade-----------

Keen eyes will notice that Fight or Flight, Foresight and Mercy Stroke are missing. IMO, foresight is so weak it cannot be used as a cd for emergencies or even big hits. The only real use for it is to keep it on cool down to help level your damage down over time. Similarly, Mercy Stroke isn't really useful for specific situations but rather something to keep on cool down to max your dps. Fight or Flight is also another tool for maxing your dps and threat over time, and there are only a very few places int he game you would want to hold it for. IMO, even these places (conflag, certain dreads in T2, etc) the pld using FOF isn't going to make the difference. If your group is so close you have to be usign FOF every time to get through it... you've got bigger problems. Accordingly, I'd rather use it to max my threat and keep it on cd. As such, I use one macro for pld:

/macroicon "Fast Blade'
/ac "Fast Blade" <t>
/ac "Mercy Stroke" <t>
/ac "Flight or Fight" <me>
/ac "Foresight" <me>

You'll naturally use up these skills while wailing on the button during the gcd after ROH. If you notice one go of, stop hitting it and wait for the gcd to finish (that way you don't clip your rotation by using more than one off gcd skill during a gcd). You can keep hitting it after you land Fast for a moment before moving onto Savage to get max chances to proc these skills and keep them as close to perma-cd as possible.

You really only need one target mark. Throw it up, and right before the target dies put it on the next thing you want the party to pewpew. Since its right there on your top bar its no trouble at all to use.