BLM macros

[EvianEverdeen]

Is this black mage serious?

You need to run with better healers. That's a period at the end of that sentence.

[YanderePrincess]

You need to run with better healers. That's a period at the end of that sentence.

That's like saying "tanks don't need to use their damage mitigation cooldowns; they just need to run with better healers." Better hope you never get me as your healer, because I won't heal you when you have such an asinine attitude.

[xEscaflownex]

You need to run with better healers. That's a period at the end of that sentence.

It has nothing to do with healers lol...it's about utility and maximizing DPS.

You use them to minimize or completely negate high damage, one-shot, or knockback attacks so that you can simply stand in place and continue DPSing.

The only macro I use on BLM is /ac "Aetherial Manipulation <4> (healer), keybound to one of my mouse buttons, so I don't have to mouse over anyone, I don't have to click anything, I just push the button, and it zooms be back into the stack on t8 after mines or tower activations, makes you immune to leviathan slam/deck slide so you can keep DPSing, pretty much anything and everything.

[blackermage]

LOL @ people thinking AM is useless. This is <THE> spell that separates good and bad BLMs.

[NyneAlexander]

LOL @ people thinking AM is useless. This is <THE> spell that separates good and bad BLMs.

This all day. If you think Aetherial Manip is useless then please play another DPS job. Because chances are that blm is making the rest of us look bad.

[EvianEverdeen]

This all day. If you think Aetherial Manip is useless then please play another DPS job. Because chances are that blm is making the rest of us look bad.

So instead of helping me understand the usefulness of the action, you just bring your elitism and are basically telling me to naturally understand it or GTFO. Look I didn't come out of the womb knowing all about BLM or AM, I'm learning!

[EvianEverdeen]

LOL @ people thinking AM is useless. This is <THE> spell that separates good and bad BLMs.

That's why I was asking about it, mind explaining?

[Halloween]

agreed with others, Evian. The macros you're using now are unnecessary at best. The "defensive" one is just plain ridiculous. There's almost never a time you'll need to cast more than 2 of those spells at once.

And Swiftcast macro'd almost negates itself due to having to set a working /wait time that doesn't interfere with lag issues and just not cast. I'm sure a lot of us have been in your shoes at some point and realized the error of our ways (except for that defensive macro...still /facepalming). I had a swift-sleep macro that I kept having to adjust due to the sleep sometimes not being cast. It's best to keep it separated.

The only macros I use are the Aetherial Manipulation and the party spells on an alert macro.

[Argentt]

Setting up AM as a mouseover macro improves its usability a lot.

I would suggest setting up Apocostasis and Eye for an Eye with <tt> then <t> macros, which is pretty standard for a BLM. You should already have Virus set up the same way on WHM/SCH.

Past that I'm not sure if I'd recommend any additional macros. Maybe the thunder 3/2/1 macro mentioned earlier, though I've found that it can be unreliable in consistently casting T3 when you should have the mana for it. I'm not a big fan of macro'ing a ton of on-GCD skills anyway, as I see too many bards gimping their dps this way already.

[electricblues42]

I only use 2 macros currently, though I'm thinking about trying that fire/bliz one with the mouseovers posted on the previous page, looks promising.

/macroicon "Thunder II"
/ac "Thunder II"
/ac "Thunder"

That one will cast thunder 1 if you don't have enough mana for thunder 2. Very useful as the dots tick the same (and yes thundercloud procs from thunder 1 ticks). I don't see the need for thunder 3 because of it's extremely long cast time.

For AM I use this

/macroicon "Aetherial Manipulation"
/ac "Aetherial Manipulation" <2>

That way I always put my white mage, who I trust completely, to be my target. The mouseover one works very good as well, but I find just smacking that gets me out of where I don't want to be faster. If I Don't have that whm to play with then I would use the mouseover one. Don't put manaward and manawall in the same ones, different types of damage and you could very easily need them at different times. Say you want to give healers a break for conflags in t5 then get a few extra casts in during dive bombs, you'd need the separately. Though the one with both in with a limit break does sound nice, I'm gonna try that later.