Macro Help

[Maero]

Doing Titan i noticed a Bard was i guess using a Macro everytime he would use silence and i have seen other players use such macros. So my question(s) would be how would one go about creating a macro along with a comment? Also can the abilities be applied while using macros?

On PS3 so macros are still very new to me
Any help or links to threads would be appreciated

[Bixby]

Complete macro command reference.

/ac "Some kind of arrow" <t>
/p (Some Kind of Arrow) <t> <se.7>

Or /a instead of /p if you want to tell your alliance instead of your party. No idea what the ARC silence ability is really named. The <se.7> adds a sound effect for added emphasis.

[Sagittarian]

See the link above.
To set up a macro, go to the System menu. There is an option for User Macros.
Having a keyboard really helps. Each command goes on a separate line. You are limited to 15 lines per macro. Macros cannot call other macros. Use /micon "action name" to show the cool down for that action.

[Maero]

Ah thanks for the replies both of you
The silence from a Bard is actually Blunt Arrow
So perhaps i can use this
/micon "Silence"
/ac "Blunt Arrow" <t>
/p Blunt Arrow Applied <t> <se.7>

The player that was using it during Titan it seemed helpful but wonder if in general people get annoyed by it?
Primals and perhaps coil i can see it's uses

Also to test them so others do not hear i will use party chat with my chocobo, lol

[Sagittarian]

Ah thanks for the replies both of you
The silence from a Bard is actually Blunt Arrow
So perhaps i can use this
/micon "Silence"
/ac "Blunt Arrow" <t>
/p Blunt Arrow Applied <t> <se.7>

The player that was using it during Titan it seemed helpful but wonder if in general people get annoyed by it?
Primals and perhaps coil i can see it's uses

Also to test them so others do not hear i will use party chat with my chocobo, lol

I think you want the first line to be /micon "Blunt Arrow". That makes the cooldown timer on the macro show the cooldown for Blunt Arrow. Not really needed for actions that don't have a long cooldown, but really helpful for longer ones.

For sound effects, I normally have the sound off so I don't mind. I think most other players are okay with them occasionally .. just don't spam it.

[Maero]

Ok i will give that a try. Thanks for the info

[Demi_Goldheart]

Since Maero started this thread, I might as well ask stuff about macros in here.
As a PS3 player, I noticed that healer jobs are very unfriendly to gamepad + keypad setups. I know, some people will say "get a mouse + keyboard", but the whole point of playing on a PS3 is the gamepad, at least to me. Being as it is, I have some doubts:

I have a Scholar and I want to make a "buff" macro that works for my full party. Now, I can't cast protect and stoneskin on all party members, I don't have enough macro lines to add the last member, nor the pets.

This is command I use:

/ac "Protect" <me>
/wait 2.5
/ac "Stoneskin" <1>
/wait 4.0

And so on till member number 7.

Is there a way to cast that on all party members using less lines? Like a <1> - <8> sort of command?
15 lines are, aparently, not enough to make healers a friendly job for PS3 users to play on their gamepads. It's not pratical to change cross hotkeys and 16 buttons is simply not enough.

[Sagittarian]

In the next patch they are reportedly removing the ability to need a separate line for wait. A single macro line could look like:
/ac "Protect" <me> <wait.3>
Until then .. no.

By the way, "/wait 2.5" is the same as "/wait 3"- the game rounds. That is intentional to gimp macros so they don't/can't outperform a person.

[Demi_Goldheart]

That's awsome to hear! That'll help a lot! <3
Thank you!

[Bixby]

It's not pratical to change cross hotkeys and 16 buttons is simply not enough.

Have you tried the R2+L2 option(s)? It lets you have other bar(s) set to both buttons at once. I wouldn't think that would be too hard to handle for pre-fight buff things like this at the least, if not in-combat abilities. 15 lines would be enough to SS the whole party even before the <wait.X> patch, and you could put Protect on its own button. You'll want to be able to re-protect a resurrected player mid-combat anyway.