Thread: macro icon system of 2.2

Originally Posted by Camate

Additionally we’ll be making it so the icon list in the user macros window will display the icons you indicated with the /micon command.

Thank you! I was just about to post my support for this. My excessive macros will thank you. Now if only the macro text will be across the button, this will be perfect system.

What a wonderful development team. So different from before.

Been searching for a solution to this problem since 2.2 started. Finally, traction! I was hoping for an advancement on what Xairuz found:

Originally Posted by Xairuz

Edit: I guess I have to use /macroicon "Change Pose" emote. I guess I have to use /? more often.

There DOES seem to be a way to locate selections of those hidden macro icons using modifier terms like 'emote'. I have a macro which calls for raid party members to focus on balloons/napalms in CT which I wished to use the Cherry Bomb minion icon on. Based on this I had to write /micon "Cherry Bomb" minion in order to get it to properly show that minion icon.

However, macros using icons from other classes (such as using a Summoner-job icon when I'm a Black Mage) eludes me; specifying Actions or Summoner as the modifier does not work.

Has anyone else had any luck gleaning the modifiers to get these to work, at least until Squenix refines the system's clarity in 2.3?

So here's something that's bugging me. When I use an icon of an ability I can't use, for e.g.; Using /macroicon "Shroud of Saints" on Warrior, The icon is forever darkened. Will this be ever addressed? It's not like the macro is trying to cast Shroud of Saints, I just want the specific icon.

Originally Posted by Camate

Hello, everyone.

The macro icon user interface is by no means in its final form at the moment and we will continue to make gradual updates to it.

In patch 2.3 we'll be making it so that when you set macros to the hotbar, the icons you specify will be displayed regardless of your class. Additionally we’ll be making it so the icon list in the user macros window will display the icons you indicated with the /micon command.

We're planning on making it so you'll be able to easily find the appropriate macros based on their icon in the future.

I just going to say this.

2015 and it's still crap.

Why do I need to waste a line of code for a /macroicon just for it to be greyed out?
The greyed out /macroicon works. but it just makes it looks like it is unusable the entire time(Like when you level sync.)
Sometimes we need all 15 lines for our macros and /macroicon prevents that.
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/macroicon is great for when we need to see the cooldown and stuff.
I still have some of my old macro icons, thankfully. If I knew you were going to delete every icon and put 4 tabs; I would have make 100 blanks macros.

It's 2015 and that comment is 2011, why haven't it been improved like you said it was?

I know this thread is probably dead, but I'm sure everyone that uses macros would like an answer.
So I'm going to try and revive this thread.