On PS3 need help setting Arcanist Marco's

[distant-cubix]

I have just started playing this game, and although I have a keyboard hooked in for my PS3 - I recall how easy it was to use macros for anything I needed in ffxi.

I have checked a few of the other macro posts but they were not written out for noobs > so I will soon have Tcarby and would like macros that work for that also, but if anyone has time to give detailed descriptions of what to type I would be in your debt.

Didn't see much with regards to pet commands on other threads also?
i.e. obey > sic > etc?

In ffxi I had macros that would change my gear for certain spells then re-equip my gear to take a hit after spell was done > no one seems to have those set here? are they no longer needed?

Thanks

[Bixby]

The command for pet actions is /petaction, abbreviated /pac. So for Obey and Sic, it's:

/pac "Obey"

/pac "Sic"

Although those can optionally take a target, so you could also use placeholders, so you could have something like:

/pac "Sic" <f>

or something similar if you don't want it to just use your current target (which is the default).

You can't change gear mid-combat in FFXIV. There's the /gearset command to interface with gearsets (which you'll unlock at level 10), but unless you want to do something else at the same time as changing a gear set (e.g. turn the helmet display on or off), you can just put the gear set itself on an action bar. And regardless, you won't be doing that for single actions or anything like that.

[distant-cubix]

sweet thanks a lot!

I just lvled a bit and noticed that the partys are set up very different?
So with regards to partying, I have searched for duties and chosen some of those, but do partys not form like ffxi? As in the partys seem to do one run and disban > do partys not form for the all day lvl binge like they did in ffxi?

I can see the benefit to searching for a party while doing quests or crafting to be teleported to the new location of one run get your quick party one match done and go back to your quest while searching again but is there a party bingeing system that i should look into or keep doing what i have found so far?

[Bixby]

The Duty Finder puts you with random people from any server among those in your data center's server group for a single instance. If you want to stick with a more permanent group, you can form a party beforehand and do whatever you're going to do together (grind overworld mobs, spam FATEs together, queue for instance after instance). You can use the DF even with a pre-formed party, though. Any empty spots in the roster will be filled in by someone random. So if you're missing a healer, you can queue and get a random healer. For most instances, if you form a party with enough members, you don't need to meet the role requirements (e.g., you can run Sastasha with an arcanist as a healer).

You can try getting a party together by shouting, or you can use the Party Finder. With the Party Finder, you can set up whatever requirements you're interested in (levels, classes, goals, etc.) and people can find that entry and choose to join.

For the most part, sticking with a single party for a long time the way we did back in the day on XI is not very popular. Even with preformed parties, people will get together for a single dungeon or boss fight or what-have-you, then often split up. Sometimes FATE parties stick together for longer, or groups that are spamming the same fight over and over for loot (e.g., primals), but even then, you'll have people leave and rejoin and so on.

[Niwashi]

do partys not form like ffxi? As in the partys seem to do one run and disban > do partys not form for the all day lvl binge like they did in ffxi?

The majority of groups form for a single dungeon run and that's it. Most people solo landscape questing, leves, and so on unless they've got a friend they always group with more for the social aspect than anything else.

The only common exception that gets people to group up for landscape content is FATE grinding. Sometimes people will form parties and just keep going from one FATE to the next. This used to be quite popular as for a while that was considered the fastest way to gain XP. In the 2.1 update, however, SE increased the XP available through dungeons, so not nearly as many FATE grinding parties show up as there used to be. (It's still a really good way of earning XP. It's just that it's no longer the only really good way of earning XP.)

is there a party bingeing system that i should look into or keep doing what i have found so far?

There's a Party Finder feature (found under the Social section of the main menu). There too, however, the majority of people putting groups together are doing so for single dungeon runs, with occasionally a FATE grinding party in there as well. Also, the majority of groups don't use it. (I suspect this has to do with the fact that it wasn't available when the game launched, and by the time it was added people were already used to putting groups together without it.) More often people ask their FC or linkshell if other members want to join them for whatever content they're doing, or people will ask in the /shout channel if anyone wants to join their FATE grinding party.

And there's the Duty Finder, which is exclusively for instanced content like dungeons or guildhests, and for which the game itself can find people to team you up with (which can include players from other servers — whom you couldn't team up with on your own without the Duty Finder). (Having the DF find you a party is optional. You can also form a party yourself and then just use DF to enter the dungeon, or form a partial party and have DF find additional members to complete it.)

[distant-cubix]

ok thanks guys will post more noob questions when i come across them