Macro/Crossbar layout help needed

[SirTaint]

I'm a game pad user. When I get a second I'll take some pics of my cross bars.

I have all my "soft" actions plus ForF tied to one macro.

/macroicon "fight or flight"
/AC ForF
/AC foresight
/AC convalescence
/AC awareness
/AC bloodbath

I don't like ForF on tied to fast blade because on harder content you sometimes need to save it for snap threat.

I also have shield lob and voke on the same macro.

My R2 has
Circle fast
Triangle swift
Square rage
X shield lob/voke

Up shield swipe
Left spirits
Down shield bask
Right riot blade

That allows me to stay in R2 for combos stun silence and swipe of applicable.

L2 has our 4 hard damage down actions on Shapes.

Then stone skin, ForF macro, flash and CofS for the directions.

I use a standard action bar for oaths, tempered and cover. You could easily put those on r2+l2.


Typed this out of my phone so I hope it's clear.

[Gardes]

Making it simpler is nice but I think macros are untrustworthy in this game. Even with stacking non gcds or stacking non gcd with gcd, hence I dont macro my stuns and silences even with announce macros (there's no complicated rotation anyway since it's always just a 2 person pass)

I think it's best use is branching and skillbar changing with /hotbar change X or /chotbar change X:

Bar1:
Fast blade (1), Savage Blade (2), Riot blade (3)

Bar5 (hidden):
Fast blade (1), Savage Blade (2), Rage of halone (3)

On bar1, the savage blade is a macro that executes the savage blade and changes active bar from bar 1 to bar 5 that uses the same key bind (riot blade gets 'replaced' by halone since you just used savage blade). Then on bar 5, the fast blade is a macro that executes fast blade and changes the active bar back to bar 1 (select between savage or riot). Sounds like a lot of work to 'compress' 4 skills into 3 slots but it's alot more precise than /waits and more convenient than manual switching and it works great on controllers and should work on keyboards too. I've also managed to compress alot more with this on war's BB/Storm combos.

[Vodd]

the 2.5 works just fine for this, I dont recommend playing with this macro as the game is already dull enough but this will work just fine.

[Killabye]

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.

I've tested it multiple times and if not it doesn't matter, I have all my Pali macros set for 2.5 and they hit

[Killabye]

[QUOTE=Seezur_Undies;1723364]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>

My macros, I test them and they work for me but lag can play a factor
/ac "fast blade" <t>
/wait 1.5
/ac fight or flight
/ac bloodbath
/wait 1.0
/ac "savage blade"
/wait 1
/ac "spirits within"
/ac " circle of scorn"
/ac "mercy stroke"
/wait 1.5
/ac rage of halone
Takes two rotations but should buff you

Then I have
Ac fast blade
Wait 1
Ac rampart
Ac awareness
Wait 1.5
Ac savage blade
Wait 1
Ac tempered will
Ac foresight
Ac roh

Buffs in combo and gives buffs I don't really use, takes two rotations but with cool down gives a combo and two buffs in 7 seconds then I have just an roh combo for when I'm saving buffs

[StouterTaru]

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.

I tested with crafting macros, and /wait 2.5 always works for me, /wait 2.1 failed consistently.